Meanwhile, we're creating new curriculum for the expanded 11-day program. We'll give teens grounding in the basics of entrepreneurship, budgeting, investing, and saving. They'll also work in teams to form a mock startup, produce a business plan, create a stock portfolio.

The IMI Vision: To help raise a new generation with skills that ensure financial self-reliance and well being, and values that support lives of purpose and passion.

Mission Statement: Independent Means strives to be the ultimate source of financial education and information.

The IMI Principles:

*Financial competence is at the heart of true independence and self-reliance.

*Financial education is economic self defense. An ability to make sound decisions throughout life requires basic skills and financial wisdom acquired through practice and experience.

*Financial education is about character and values, not just the money. Mindful self-management of desires and values is essential to the stewardship of social, family, and capital assets.

*Financial fluency begins in childhood and is a lifelong process, acquired through the iterative learning of the Ten Basic Money Skills.