CAREER & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENTMoney Checkup
Identify one spending habit, one savings goal, and one action you can take this week.
Start Challenge →Money, careers, jobs, and investing can feel complicated. Start with what matters to you right now and use free CFMNY activities to practice real-world decisions.
Search student activities in the CFMNY Resource Library.
You don’t need to know the name of a CFM topic. Choose the situation that sounds most like you.
Budgeting, banking, credit, paychecks, saving, taxes, and everyday money decisions.
71 matching resourcesBuild Money Skills →Explore career interests, pathways, education choices, work values, and future opportunities.
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Identify one spending habit, one savings goal, and one action you can take this week.
Start Challenge →Compare your interests and work values with possible career directions.
Start Challenge →Read a realistic pay statement and check gross pay, deductions, and take-home pay.
Start Challenge →Analyze choices that can strengthen or weaken a credit profile over time.
Start Challenge →Use these practical activities to practice decisions you’ll actually face.
Use Balanced Monthly Budget to make budgeting and money management concrete through a focused task, discussion, and a takeaway students can connect to real life.
Turn student interests into possible career directions. This is an easy entry point for reflection, discussion, and next-step exploration.
Turn job search and application into a hands-on classroom decision with enough structure to keep students moving and enough choice to keep the task meaningful.
Give students an active way to explore saving and investing, make a choice, and explain why their reasoning makes sense.
Match careers to clusters, then use the patterns students notice to open a conversation about interests, skills, and possible pathways.
Start with something you genuinely want to understand.
Use a worksheet, activity, scenario, or project to work it out.
Turn the activity into a next step for school, work, or your money.