In 2014, Tim Ranzetta and Jessica Endlich founded Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) as a non-profit organization to partner with personal finance teachers. NGPF provides FREE up-to-date curriculum, engaging professional development and advocacy resources to increase access to financial education. In addition to providing free curriculum and PD, NGPF issues various grants and sponsorships to schools, teachers, students, and like-minded organizations. As of 2020, NGPF's curriculum and professional development has extended to 43,000 middle and high school teachers reaching more than 2 million students.
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Tim Ranzetta Co-founder, Next Gen Personal Finance Member, CNBC Financial Wellness Advisory Council |
Tim Ranzetta co-founded the nonprofit, Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) in 2014 after seeing the impact of financial education while teaching a course he developed at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, California. The engagement level of the first-gen students, and the interest coming from their parents, convinced him of the transformative effect of this education both inside and outside of the classroom. In addition, he has established an endowment so the organization can provide all of its curriculum and professional development at no cost to schools. NGPF provides free curriculum, professional development and advocacy tools to more than 40,000 teachers who reach 75% of high school students in the U.S. In 2020, 6,000 educators sharpened their content knowledge and their teaching practices by participating in more than 110,000 hours of NGPF’s online professional development. This confident and highly qualified teaching corps will be critical to achieving the community’s shared goal of Mission 2030 a program to ensure that ALL high school students will cross the graduation stage with the financial skills they need to thrive in the future. Prior to founding NGPF, Tim co-founded several companies including an information security company acquired by Recall Secure Destruction Services, the nation’s leading compensation and corporate governance research firm (Equilar) and a student loan research firm (Student Lending Analytics). He began his career as a management consultant at Bain and Company. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor of science degree in commerce with distinction and received his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
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Yanley Espinal Director of Educational Outreach, Next Gen Personal Finance Member, CNBC Financial Wellness Advisory Council |
Born and raised by Dominican immigrant parents in Brooklyn, Yanely is a proud product of NYC public schools. She received a full scholarship to Brown University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2011. As a Teach For America corps member, Yanely taught third and fourth grade in Canarsie, Brooklyn, and later received her master’s degree from Relay Graduate School of Education in 2013. After paying off $20,000 of credit card debt, she discovered a passion for financial literacy and created an educational YouTube channel, called MissBeHelpful. Yanely currently serves as the director of educational outreach at Next Gen Personal Finance. In her spare time, Yanely loves to listen to audio books and podcasts, dance, sew, and babysit her eight nieces and nephews. |