Organizations Filed Purposes:
Young Americans Center for Financial Education is committed to developing the financial literacy of young people through real-life experiences and hands-on programs purposefully designed to enable them to prosper in our free enterprise system.
To develop financial literacy of young people through real-life experiences and hands-on programs.Young Americans Center for Financial Education is committed to developing the financial literacy of young people through real-life experiences and hands-on programs purposefully designed to enable them to prosper in the free enterprise system. Since 1989, more than 797,030 youth have benefited from these nonprofit programs that build life skills, work skills, and financial self-sufficiency.
Young AmeriTowne is a hands-on program that introduces 5th graders from elementary schools throughout Colorado to our free enterprise system. The thirty-seven lesson curriculum taught in the school by the teacher culminates when the students run a life-like town of 17 businesses for a day, bringing their learning to life and experiencing free enterprise first-hand. Participation: 33,344 during 2019.
Young Americans Center for Financial Education also offers a variety of entrepreneurship training programs through our YouthBiz division. Serving Denver-area youth ages 11 to 18 with targeted focus on those from low-income, underserved schools and neighborhoods, youth learn the foundations of business and entrepreneurship enabling them to identify opportunities and to develop products and services that create value. YouthBiz offers two programs, StartUp and Out-of-the-Box. StartUp is an entry level program designed to teach youth the basics of entrepreneurship including need identification, prototype development and business pitch. YouthBiz Out-of-the-Box takes students further into the production and sales cycles with real retail opportunities, such as our YouthBiz Marketplace. In 2019, YouthBiz served 2,178 students.
International Towne is a one-of-a-kind program that introduces middle school students to the financial realities of the global marketplace. After weeks of classroom lessons and activities, the students-turned-world-citizens come to International Towne to run the sixteen-country world for a day, experiencing the economic concepts of global trading, currency exchange, importing and exporting, and cultural values. Participation: 11,449 students during 2019.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Jane Sklar | VP Business Partnerships | 36 | $105,587 |
| Richard Martinez Jr | President & CEO, Treasurer | 13.33 | $85,224 |
| Sue Euser | Secretary | 22.3 | $54,865 |
| Rebecca Slattery | VP Finance, Treasurer until 11/2019 | 13.33 | $33,677 |
| Lauren Brozinski | Controller | 17.2 | $30,781 |
| Chris Andrea | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Jacob Payne | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Avi Loewenstein | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Taylor Smith | Director until 10/2019 | 2 | $0 |
| Aubrey Thacker | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Erin Simmons | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Shannon Lemmon | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Jerry Maglio | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Steve Hills | Director until 9/2019 | 2 | $0 |
| Heather White | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Susie Roh | Director until 9/2019 | 2 | $0 |
| Erin Passen | Director until 3/2019 | 2 | $0 |
| Stephanie Bendrick | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Christopher Picardi | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Bo Peretto | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Michael Gersack | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Dave Burlage | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Charlie Maguire | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Nancy Wigton | Director | 2 | $0 |
| David Wolf | Chair | 2 | $0 |
| Tamara Doi Beck | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Richard Jennings | Director | 2 | $0 |
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