About Moneyweave® Academy
Significant Steps Forward
The financial gains by American women are nothing short of remarkable – especially considering that, just over a century ago, females could not own property in all U.S. states.
Some estimate that most privately held assets in the United States will be in the hands of women in the next 10 to 20 years. McKinsey predicts that, by 2030, American women will control much of the $30 trillion of baby boomers’ financial assets. That number approaches the annual GDP of the United States.
Persistent Financial Challenges for Women
The bad news is that women are far more vulnerable to financial challenges than men—and this includes professional, educated women.
- Women live longer than men, potentially outliving their retirement savings
- They underearn compared to their male peers
- Women are more likely to provide caregiving to family members
- Study after study shows that women lack financial confidence
- Women have competing financial priorities
- Women are more likely to suffer from time poverty
- Because they tend to outlive their partners, women are more likely to have a single income
- They have a higher likelihood of becoming disabled
It’s this tension between the increasing affluence of professional women and their continued financial fragility that inspired the idea for Moneyweave® Academy.
Our mission is to provide trustworthy, comprehensive, and competent financial planning education for women that inspires sound decision-making, purposeful action, and philanthropy.
Expert-Led Financial Planning Classes
Inspiration
We draw inspiration from Mark Nepo’s meditation in The Book of Awakening, “The only true purpose of money is to make love work.” What a beautiful thought. We believe effective financial planning can increase the capacity and joy of giving.
These activities fulfill our purpose to:
- Foster self-care and caring for others through financial planning education for women that informs, engages, inspires confidence and motivates purposeful action
- Seek opportunities to achieve a “multiplier effect,” with the purpose of extending our beneficial impact.
- Inspire intentional philanthropy giving across a wide range of female professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, and Moneyweave® Academy Board Certified Experts.
We believe that by doing this, we’ll realize our vision of enhancing financial literacy and thus, the economic security of women and girls in the United States.
Moneyweave® Academy Board of Directors
Program Goals
To address these economic challenges and gaps, our program goals are as follows:
- Deliver objective, trustworthy and robust financial education targeted to the generally more complex financial planning needs of female professionals.
- Establish an easily understood framework for the systematic process and comprehensive scope of financial planning.
- Set clear and unambiguously high standards for Moneyweave® Academy Board Certified Experts that we feature as instructors, speakers, writers, interviewees. (See Expert Qualifications below.)
Multiplier Effect
While our content focuses on the needs of educated, professional women with some level of financial sophistication, there are non-profit providers of basic, unbiased financial education that we like. They are listed in our resource page linked here. And, by partnering with other non-profits with aligned missions, we achieve a “multiplier effect” in our beneficial impact.
