EIN: 81-1552430
Mission Statement
Our mission is to expand access to financial literacy and entrepreneurship education for underserved K-12 students to empower them to build brighter futures.
Program Summary
Empowering Enrichment offers high-impact after-school enrichment programs and summer camps that equip underserved K–12 students in Arlington Public Schools with practical life and career skills often unavailable in traditional classrooms. Our core programs focus on financial literacy, entrepreneurship, leadership and career exploration, helping students build confidence, critical thinking and real-world readiness.
Through engaging, age-appropriate activities, students learn key concepts such as budgeting, saving, investing and business creation, as well as transferrable soft skills like teamwork, public speaking and adaptability. Programs are customized for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.
Our goal is to close opportunity gaps by ensuring that students in low-income and underserved communities gain access to the same future-shaping enrichment experiences often available only in better-resourced schools. By making these programs free to partner schools and families, Empowering Enrichment helps level the playing field and prepares students to become financially capable, entrepreneurial and empowered future leaders.
Impact Statement
Empowering Enrichment creates measurable, lasting impact by expanding access to transformative enrichment opportunities for students who are too often excluded from them. Our programs equip underserved K–12 students with practical financial literacy, entrepreneurship knowledge, and critical soft skills—such as communication, leadership, teamwork, problem-solving, and confidence—that strengthen both academic and life outcomes.
By exposing students to real-world concepts like budgeting, business creation and career pathways, Empowering Enrichment helps broaden aspirations, unlock potential, and build a stronger sense of future possibility. Students gain not only knowledge, but also the self-belief and decision-making skills needed to navigate school, work, and adulthood more successfully.
Our impact extends beyond individual students: schools and community partners are able to offer high-quality enrichment without added financial strain. In this way, Empowering Enrichment helps close opportunity gaps, while empowering communities to create positive long-term change.
What ways can the public get involved?
The public can support Empowering Enrichment in several meaningful ways. Individuals and organizations can make financial contributions to help fund free programming for underserved students, sponsor a specific school or community-based initiatives, or introduce Empowering Enrichment to potential donors, corporate partners and grantmakers.
Community members can also volunteer by helping connect Empowering Enrichment with schools, youth-serving organizations, and local leaders who can benefit from our programs. In addition, members of the public can volunteer as facilitators/instructors to be trained, mentors, or advocates who help expand access to our financial literacy and entrepreneurship programs in their communities.
How are charitable dollars spent? Where does my donation go?
Charitable donations directly support the delivery of free educational programs promoting financial literacy and entrepreneurship for underserved students. Funds are used to subsidize program access for low-income schools and families, develop and adapt curriculum materials, train facilitators, provide instructional resources, and support program coordination and outreach.
Empowering Enrichment operates with a lean leadership structure designed to maximize program impact. The Executive Director and Board of Directors serve on a volunteer basis, minimizing administrative overhead to virtually zero (besides IT and banking/accounting/financial reporting expenses) so that the greatest possible share of donated funds goes directly toward student programs and services. Every dollar is stewarded carefully to create meaningful, lasting opportunities for the children and communities we serve.
Information provided April 2026