WealthRYTS Fellowship
A professional fellowship advancing financial inclusion for young adults.
The WealthRYTS Fellowship is MyPath’s response to the growing need for trusted, culturally responsive financial guidance for young adults. By developing nonprofit leaders as financial coaches and mentors, we invest in both individual growth and the sustained strength of the organizations and communities they serve. Fellows’ organizations receive tailored guidance from MyPath on integrating youth financial capability into their programs, ensuring the fellowship builds lasting institutional capacity alongside individual expertise and helping organizations expand access to high-quality financial mentoring for the young adults they serve.
WealthRYTS will support fellows as they earn their Money Management Essentials certification through the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE), a nationally recognized organization that sets the standards for financial counseling, coaching, and education. Through the fellowship, MyPath provides space for a supportive learning community among fellows, one-on-one support, and comprehensive training on youth and young adult financial goal-setting and action planning, credit building, saving, debt management, and establishing the foundations for wealth-building.
Why This Fellowship Matters
BIPOC young adults often navigate the transition into adulthood without financial guidance, paying billions in fees and interest that could have gone toward savings, goals, establishing the foundations of wealth-building and other opportunities. While this need exists, the field of financial coaching is not equipped to address it, with far too few financial coaches across the country boasting lived experience that boosts trust, engagement and impact. WealthRYTS bridges that gap by preparing nonprofit professionals with lived experience who are already working with young adults to rewrite financial futures in their communities. In other words, the WealthRYTS Fellowship prepares youth workers and their organizations to build their capacity to deliver financial mentoring that has the potential to close that gap, supporting young adults to build strong financial foundations and real economic power.
Strengthen Your Impact. Expand Your Credentials.
- Money Management Essentials Certification
- MyPath’s Youth Financial Mentoring Framework & Approach to Impact Measurement
- Learning community among other fellows
- One-on-one support from MyPath
- Exposure to other financial experts with lived experience
- Advanced training in financial coaching and workshop facilitation
- Tailored guidance for fellows’ organizations on implementing youth financial capability programming using MyPath’s Financial Capability Toolkit
- Support integrating financial coaching and mentoring into existing youth program
- Hands-on field experience
- $1,500 Completion Stipend
The fellowship combines two powerful and complementary sources to provide a unique applied approach to becoming a young adult Financial Capability Trainer and Mentor. Fellows complete the Money Management Essentials certification through the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE), the national standard-setting organization for financial counseling and education. Fellows and their organizations also receive important training in MyPath’s framework for youth financial capability, critical to applying the certification concepts within the reality of young people’s lives. MyPath’s financial capability models center youth development and healing and have demonstrated impact on youth financial capability outcomes. In addition to fellows’ professional development, MyPath works alongside participating organizations to embed financial capability into their youth programs using our Financial Capability Toolkit, ensuring fellows can immediately apply their new skills within their organizations and expand sustainable financial capability supports for the young adults they serve.
