Mahogany and Friends Tiny Investors Club turns finance into enjoyable for teenagers

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – Mahogany and Friends Tiny Investors Club is rewriting the playbook on monetary schooling, by making it enjoyable, accessible and unforgettable.

“Mahogany is a strong representation of a beautiful brown wood that can endure anything and still shines,” mentioned CEO, founder and creator Janasha Bradford.

That’s the guts of Mahogany and Friends Tiny Investors Club – a kids’s model instructing children the best way to funds, save, and dream huge via daring characters and magical adventures.

“Representation is key, right? It tells kids, and it gives a nod to them that if you look like this you can also do this,” Bradford mentioned. “It empowers them, it gives them a sense of confidence.”

It’s monetary literacy dressed up in enjoyable, colourful tales children can relate to.

Each story is a deposit of information, every character an funding sooner or later.

“It’s just the foundations that we’re teaching these kids, that then lead them into making confident empowering decisions around money,” mentioned Jasiyah Ruiz, Mahogany & Friends’ Operations Manager and Bradford’s sister.

For Janasha Bradford, the mission began early.

“This work for me is definitely personal, because at the age of 7, my father passed away, leaving my mother with a large insurance payout. I watched her firsthand navigate her finances without the proper financial tools or education and that ultimately led to us losing our family home, and me having to pull out of college,” Bradford mentioned.

Ruiz says the assistance of a monetary schooling program again then may have made an enormous distinction.

“If Mahogany and Friends was around when we were children, I know that the outcome would have been much different. My mom is a smart woman, and she just needed those tools to be presented to her,” Ruiz mentioned.

And it’s not simply kids studying from Janasha Bradford’s mission, the neighborhood of Charlottesville itself has taken discover in an enormous means with two awards, Best Published Book Author & Best Financial Advisor, for the second yr in a row.

“We have big things on the horizon, and we’re just happy to have started here in a community that’s so dear to my heart,” Bradford mentioned.

Mahogany and Friends are investing in one thing priceless, success for the following subsequent technology of tiny traders.

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