Funding Opportunity · 2026

This is what
$600,000
builds.

The curriculum is written. The tools are built. California AB 2927 mandates personal finance education in every high school by 2027. The need is law. What's missing is the software layer that turns a finished curriculum into a fully deployed, testable program , available to every school in the country.

18-month build. October 2026 start.

The Mandate

California just made financial literacy a graduation requirement. The curriculum to meet that need exists. Right now.

AB 2927 requires every California public high school to offer a personal finance course by 2027 to 2028. A graduation requirement follows in 2030 to 2031. That's every public high school student in the state, with a legal obligation to provide this education, and a narrow window to find a curriculum that's actually ready.

The Crescara//Project is the only comprehensive, fully digital, personalized financial literacy curriculum that can meet that standard. The content is complete. Funding activates the platform.

2027
Every California public high school must offer a personal finance course. AB 2927 is law.
2030
Personal finance becomes a graduation requirement. Every student. Every school. No exceptions.
Now
The window to build, pilot, and deploy is open. Funding today means a tested, proven program ready when the mandate hits.
What Exists Today

This isn't a pitch deck.
It's a finished curriculum.

The Crescara//Project is not seeking funding to write content.

The content is ready.

Funding builds the software layer that deploys it.

3
Complete curriculum units
27 chapters. Budgeting, banking, negotiating, insurance, credit, investing, real estate. Written, designed, and ready to deploy.
1st
Interactive Consequence Engine
Students manipulate real financial decisions and watch consequences play out in real time. The first tool of its kind in any financial literacy curriculum.
5
Brokerage simulations
Real brokerage platform simulations, built and functional. Students practice investing decisions in realistic environments before real money is ever involved.
The founder holds a Master's in Financial Management.
This curriculum was built by someone who has lived financial hardship, studied the solution academically, and designed every lesson from both ends of that experience. This is not a textbook written by committee. It's a curriculum built with purpose.
The Investment

$600,000 · 18 months · October 2026

Every dollar is accounted for. Here's exactly what it builds:

Phase 1 · Oct 2026
The ARC Life Dashboard
A personalized financial life dashboard that tracks a student's trajectory from age 28 to retirement. Completed across every age point and integrated with the full curriculum.
Phase 2 · Early 2027
The Marketplace
A full financial life simulation where students search for jobs, negotiate salary, compare housing, and navigate real financial decisions in a structured, consequence-driven environment.
Phase 3 · Mid 2027
Platform Infrastructure
Multi-user, persistent platform hosting. Student progress tracked across sessions, teachers have dashboards, administrators have reporting. Built to scale from a single school to a district to a state.
The Outcome
A fully deployed program, ready for California's 2027 mandate.
At the end of 18 months: a tested, live, multi-user platform. A piloted curriculum with real students. A program positioned to meet every California school's legal requirement , and scale nationally.
The Landscape

What else exists. And what it's missing.

California schools currently get financial education support through a patchwork: a state curriculum guide that outlines standards but isn't a teachable course, free digital modules built to supplement a course rather than be one, resource libraries that teachers still have to assemble into lesson plans themselves, and one-day simulations.

None of these hand a district a finished, sequenced, ready-to-teach course. The Crescara//Project does.

IQC Guide
State standards outline. Not a teachable course. Teachers still have to build the curriculum themselves.
EverFi
Free digital modules built to supplement a course, not be one. Designed for compliance, not comprehension.
NGPF / CCEE
Resource libraries. Teachers still have to assemble lesson plans. No sequencing, no system, no accountability.
JA Finance Park
A one-day simulation. Memorable, but not a curriculum. Students leave having had an experience, not an education.
The Crescara//Project
3 complete units. 27 chapters. A working interactive learning tool. Ready to deploy before a single district has to design a syllabus.
Impact Projections

From one classroom to a state mandate.

150
Year 1 · Pilot
Students across 3 classrooms in 1 California high school. The full junior year course delivered start to finish. Pre and post assessment data collected to measure knowledge gain.
750
Year 2 · Expansion
Students across 5 schools adopt the course. First senior year simulation pilots as an elective for returning students who completed the junior year course.
3,000
Year 3 · Scale
Students across 15 school districts. Course fully adopted. Positioned ahead of California's 2027 mandate deadline — a proven program ready when the law requires it.
Use of Funds

$600,000. Here's exactly where it goes.

60%
Developer Build
Completing the senior year financial life simulation, the full Marketplace tool, and the ARC life dashboard across all age points.
$360,000
20%
Founder Compensation and Operations
Covering the full build period so this work gets the focus it requires.
$120,000
5%
Infrastructure and Hosting
Platform infrastructure for a multi-user system handling sensitive student financial data.
$30,000
5%
Student Data Privacy and Security
Security architecture for a platform that stores student financial reflections and progress data.
$30,000
10%
Contingency
Reserved for scope adjustments, compliance requirements, and unforeseen build complexity.
$60,000
The Founder

Built from the inside out.

The Crescara//Project exists because I lived the exact cycle it's built to break. Nobody handed me a manual for money, and I spent years learning the hard way what this curriculum now teaches in full.

I went on to earn a Master's in Financial Management , not to distance myself from where I started, but so I could go back and build the thing I needed at sixteen.

This isn't a curriculum built by someone studying poverty from the outside. It's built by someone who knows exactly what it costs when nobody teaches you early enough to make a difference.

Founder
Credentials
Master's in Financial Management
Lived experience with financial hardship, exclusion, and recovery
Sole architect of the entire program: curriculum and technology both, built before asking for a dollar
Years spent inside the system itself, at Prudential and Citadel, before choosing to teach kids to see through it
The Ask

Support This Work.

$600,000.
18 months.
A deployed platform in students' hands before California's mandate hits.
Want to talk?

Want to talk through a partnership, a grant, or a pilot conversation? Reach out directly at hello@crescaraproject.org and we'll set up a call. This is a founder-led organization — you'll be talking to the person who built it, not a form that disappears into an inbox.

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