National Financial Educators Council – MENA Region

As an IACET Accredited Provider, the NFEC offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.

As a Certified B Corporation, the NFEC meets the highest standards for socially responsible commerce, using the power of business to build more sustainable economies.

The NFEC set industry standards for the financial education and financial coaching industry These standards are used to review and recognize programs that align with these standards.

We are proudly 100% independent – no national sponsors, no financial products, and no government affiliations – ensuring that our materials are purely educational and free from external influence.

The NFEC’s Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI) program has empowered more than 5,000 trained and certified educators worldwide. Collectively, our graduates have invested more than 300,000 hours in professional development and delivered financial education to 1.4 million learners across 71+ countries and every U.S. state.

At the heart of our mission is the standards framework we created to elevate the field of financial education. The Framework for Teaching Personal Finance – developed with the Danielson Group and aligned to InTASC principles – outlines the essential knowledge, skills, and observable practices that define exceptional financial educators. Earning the CFEI designation demonstrates that an instructor meets these benchmarks and brings a high level of rigor, ethical conduct, and instructional mastery to every learning experience they lead.

Empower your organization to deliver financial education that truly moves the needle. The NFEC’s Launch to Impact Support gives you a full-service partner dedicated to designing, staffing, and scaling programs that create measurable, lasting change. Whether you’re building a new initiative or elevating an existing one, we streamline the entire process so you can stay focused on what matters most – driving real impact in your community.

We remove the heavy lifting by reducing time, cost, and staffing demands, while boosting program quality and outcomes. Our team helps you deploy high performing financial education solutions that are built to grow.

Financial education is a grassroots movement – and we’re committed to making it accessible to all. Through turnkey resources, expert training, funding guidance, and local partnership development, we help organizations of every size deliver practical, empowering education that builds financial capability, confidence, and long term resilience.

Our country chapters are where the real momentum happens. They take instructor training and turn it into hands on action – advocating for local needs, supporting communities, and rolling out financial wellness programs that actually scale. Whether it’s teaching life changing money skills or teaming up with local leaders, NFEC chapters show up for community organizations and celebrate their wins through award events that honor standout students, educators, and community champions.

Each chapter is guided by a local Advisory Board that focuses on three major priorities: 1) Empowerment means giving individuals and families the confidence and know how to make smart financial decisions. 2) Advocacy is about running campaigns that influence policy and secure funding. And 3) Relationships center on building strong partnerships with schools, employers, media, and policymakers to drive adoption and long term sustainability. Together, these pillars help turn classroom learning into real, measurable change in people’s lives.

The NFEC is igniting a nationwide movement to ensure that every student graduates from high school equipped with the money skills that power lifelong independence. Through a bold, multi-dimensional advocacy strategy, we’re raising expectations, shifting public perception, influencing policy, and transforming the systems that allow financial illiteracy to persist. By uniting mission aligned partners, establishing rigorous national standards, and driving legislative progress, we’re positioning financial wellness as a top priority across the education, health, and economic sectors.

Our United for Financial Literacy Advocacy Committee brings together passionate champions who are ready to take action. Each quarter, we rally around a high impact campaign designed to advance financial wellness and accelerate meaningful change.