Community & Contests

Student Loan Solutions
In this workshop we teach you how to manage your student loan debt and qualify for federal loan forgiveness so that you can direct those savings towards other life goals.  We can assist you with your options and how to navigate them along with helping you calculate your potential savings.  Don’t pay someone else for this service when we can offer it to you for free.

Donorschoose.org
Our partnership with Donorschoose.org helps us to give back to the local schools by helping teachers get funding for classroom supplies and projects.  We walk you through the history of Donorschoose and show you how to setup a project.  We also go over tips and tricks to help you get funded faster.

State Teacher’s Retirement Systems
Our STRS workshops are customized specifically for each state.  We provide you crucial information to help you with understanding your STRS benefits.  We discuss the options you have available and review the pros and cons of those options.  We recommend attending our STRS workshops multiple times.  You will learn something new every time!

Financial Success
Our Financial Success workshop is designed with the new educator in mind.  We teach you some of the basics on sound finances including budgeting, establishing good credit, protecting assets, and saving for retirement.  This is a great workshop for those who are wanting to get on the right track.

Teacher of the Month
Our team loves to reward local teachers and staff with different gift cards and gift bags.  We can tailor the program to fit your school or just sponsor what you already have in place.

Crystal Apple Award
This award is typically set aside for recognizing staff member for their outstanding work or a significant achievement.

PASS Program (Perfect Attendance Spells Success)
Our PASS Program is one of our programs specifically for students.  We create an attendance requirement that the school recommends.  Each marking period, sometimes for the year, we come in a provide an award for all student who meet those qualifications.  We’ve done gift cards, prizes, ice cream parties and even pizza parties.

Staff Appreciation
We spend many days in the schools sponsoring staff appreciation breakfasts, lunches, parties, etc.  Being an educator today is harder than it has ever been.  From the long hours, constant curriculum changes, and feeling underappreciated at times, we love being able to brighten the day for educators and staff of our local schools.

Don’t let student loans keep holding you back.  There are multiple programs available to help you.  Sit down with one of our staff members today.

Audobon  – Activities, videos, games, DIY and lessons to inspire children to explore and connect with nature.

TeachersPayTeachers  – TPT provides thousands of resources and allows teachers to share their knowledge and make money doing it.

Amazon Ignite  – An open collaboration service for K-12 teachers to discover and share quality educational content.

EVERFI  – EVERFI helps teachers, schools, and districts bring real-world skills to students.