Impact

We are all about making a positive impact on students' lives through financial education. Check out the information below to see how we've done the past few fiscal years.

The number of contacts we've made through digital campaigns or activities, Money Mentors referrals, or live webinars over the last several fiscal years have varied. For reference, our fiscal years start July 1 and run through June 30th of the following calendar year.

Fiscal Year	Digital Campaign or Activity	Money Mentors Referrals	Webinar Attendance
2020	3,287	1	186
2021	4,452	61	743
2022	4,336	37	620
2023	2,424	32	526
2024	2,600	37	494

We send bi-weekly enewsletters to students, employees, and parents who subscribe. The graph above shows the number of e-newsletters sent to individuals across our three subscription groups throughout FY2024 which runs from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024.

As of November of 2024, we have the following number of subscribers for each enewsletter group:

Students: 28,258
Parents: 1,052
Employees: 243

We've been facilitating the University of Illinois Financial Literacy Digital Badges Program since fall 2014. Quizzes completed during fiscal year 2024 were distributed across the Badges courses as follows:

Borrow Badge: 521
Earn Badge: 109
Protect Badge: 53
Save Badge: 55
Spend Badge: 58

*The Borrow Badge course does not include quizzes for our semiannual campaigns: Understand Your Refund and Know What You Owe. Because the Borrow course includes campaign-based, targeted educational interventions, this increases enrollment and exposure to all of the other quizzes in the course. This is why there are so many more completed quizzes for the Borrow course compared to other courses in the Financial Literacy Digital Badges Program.

Completed quizzes for fiscal year 2024 for the Understand Your Refund and Know What You Owe campaigns included:

Understand Your Refund: 1,663
Know What You Owe: 206

These results include unique individual responses for campaigns run in the fall and spring semesters.