Founded in 2016, 8 Cents in a Jar, Inc. is an award-winning 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization serving the Central Florida community to create opportunities for students in marginalized communities to achieve intergenerational mobility through financial education. 8 Cents in a Jar represents a new beginning for students to save money and eradicate the cycle of generational poverty. Our objective is to equip the greatest possible number of students to transition as a role models for fiscal responsibility, measured in economic and demographic improvement behaviors consistent with those in a financially sound community.

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To increase economic mobility, we aim to provide students in marginalized communities of color with engaging resources and capital to become financially capable. Each day we accomplish our mission, we achieve our vision of diminishing generational poverty using economic education and financial capability measures as a catalyst to increase upward mobility.

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A product of poverty, our founder, Lashea Reaves, saw firsthand the increasing percentage of children born to parents in poverty, welfare, and marginalized communities, perpetuating a generational cycle of welfare use.