About
About us
A student-led volunteer group. High school students teach older adults in their own towns how to handle money safely and recognise a scam.
A note from the founder
It started with my grandmother.
More of what she needed to do each week moved onto a screen, and the calls kept coming — the ones that sound official and want something done right now. I watched her hesitate over things she had handled on her own for years.
Most of her questions took me a few minutes to answer. That is the part that stuck with me: the problem was not complicated, it was that nobody had sat down and gone through it with her.
Plenty of people are in that position without a grandchild to ask. So in 2025 I started Future Finance for Seniors, to do for other people's grandparents what I was already doing for mine.
Why we do this
Scams aimed at older adults have got better, and banking, bills, benefits and prescriptions all moved onto a screen. If you did not grow up with that it is a lot to pick up alone — and the people most willing to "help" over the phone are often the ones to trust least.
High school students did grow up with those screens. So we give that away: free, in person, in our own towns.
How it works
Future Finance for Seniors is organised into local chapters, each run by a high school student in that area with a team of volunteers around them. The chapter finds host sites nearby — a library, a senior center, a church — and runs sessions there.
How we are set up
Future Finance for Seniors is a nonprofit corporation, formed and incorporated in the State of Arizona.
That is the whole of it. We are not a registered 501(c)(3) charity, we hold no IRS determination letter, and nothing given to us would be tax-deductible. None of which changes a session: we do not fundraise, we do not accept donations, and nobody is charged.
What we do not do
- We explain how financial products work. We do not give personal financial advice — we are students, not licensed advisers.
- We sell nothing, and represent no bank, insurer, or company.
- We never ask anyone who attends for money, account numbers, card numbers, Social Security numbers, or passwords.
- We collect no contact details from attendees, and there is no sign-up form anywhere on this site.
About our volunteers
Our volunteers are high school students and many are minors. Apart from the founder, who has put his name to the note above, we publish no volunteer's or chapter lead's name, school, age, photograph, or personal contact details anywhere on this site. Chapters are identified by town only, and every message goes to one shared address rather than to a student directly.
High school age is our minimum, and two volunteers run each session on their own. Where a host site has its own requirements for visiting volunteers — a form, a code of conduct, a background check — we complete whatever they ask for.
Get in touch
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