Danny Dollar Academy
Danny Dollar Academy is a revolutionary financial literacy program created for elementary school students to learn the basics of Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Economics. The program is based on Ty’s book Danny Dollar Millionaire Extraordinaire. Throughout the program, students learn the principles of credit, debt, banking, entrepreneurship, marketing and so much more. Students enrolled in the Danny Dollar Academy program will start their own business and can keep or donate their profits.
Ty worked with Dr. Abdullah Al-Bahrani, Professor of Economics at Northern Kentucky University’s Center for Economic Education, to develop Danny Dollar Academy. At the beginning of the week-long program, students are given a pre-assessment about their knowledge of finance and entrepreneurship. After reading Danny Dollar, students are lead by their teachers through a financial curriculum. At the end of the week, students transform the concepts they’ve learned into creative projects, including business plans, career projects, financial powerpoint presentations, visual art, dance and music composition. Ty visits the students and gets to personally see their projects and performances. Finally, the students take a post-assessment to see how much they retained.
Danny Dollar Academy has been successfully implemented at ___ schools and was recently funded by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The program will soon be implemented at Lebron James’ I Promise School.
Read or Else
Ty also co-founded the Read Or Else movement, a program created to shine a light on illiteracy and how it impacts our country. With each purchase of a Read Or Else garment, a a copy of Ty’s book Danny Dollar Millionaire Extraordinaire: The Lemonade Escapade is sent to a child in a homeless shelter or Title 1 school. By putting this book into the hands of more children, Ty hopes to spark a love for reading while simultaneously teaching about financial literacy.