AUSTIN, Texas · July 2026
Cashy was a platinum sponsor of the 2026 Texas Financial Literacy Summit, held July 16 and 17 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
The Summit is hosted by the Texas Bankers Foundation in collaboration with the Texas Jump$tart Coalition, and 2026 marked its twentieth year. It is one of the few events that puts bankers and classroom teachers in the same room for two days. The Foundation describes the program as a chance for both groups to “exchange ideas, share award-winning financial education success stories.” Sponsorship is what keeps attendance free for educators.
“The question bankers bring to this Summit is how to walk into a room of fifteen year olds and hold it for forty minutes. Cashy is built to answer that, so a volunteer picks a topic and a length and the session carries itself.”
Mart Vainu, CEO, CashyThe hardest part of a financial education program has never been the curriculum. It is finding staff willing to deliver it. Cashy is built so a first-time volunteer can pick a topic, an audience, and a length, then run a full session with no preparation and no presenting experience. Institutions using the platform report a 54 percent increase in events hosted and a 32 percent increase in volunteer hours.
For a bank, community financial education is both a CRA obligation and a staffing problem. Sessions have to be delivered, counted, and evidenced, and the people asked to deliver them are branch and lending staff with day jobs. When each workshop needs a bespoke deck, volume is capped by whoever builds the materials.
Removing the preparation step moves that cap. EverBank rebuilt its community education program on Cashy and doubled its CRA service hours within six months. Cost per workshop typically falls from roughly $240 to $300 down to $60 to $90.
The Summit has run for two decades on a simple structure: bring the bankers who fund and deliver community financial education into the same two days as the teachers who do it for a living, and let them compare notes. Sessions cover practical program design, business literacy, and community bank partnerships that have worked.
Because sponsors carry the cost, educators attend at no charge. That is the part of the model Cashy sponsors, and it is why the teacher turnout is what makes the event useful.
Cashy works with banks and credit unions to make financial education engaging, so the communities they serve get money lessons they actually remember.
More than 45 banks and credit unions use Cashy to deepen their community impact and grow alongside the people they serve. Learn more at cashygame.com.
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