About First Investor Project

First Investor Project is a free bilingual financial education platform built to help families understand and act on the new federal child investment accounts before most families know they exist.

The site was built by a high school student in Los Angeles. The idea came from a simple observation: the families who stand to benefit most from this program — lower-income families, immigrant families, families with no prior investment experience — are the least likely to hear about it, understand it, or know what to do with it. Financial information like this has historically traveled through networks that those families are not part of. This site is an attempt to change that.

The interactive flow, the calculator, the reference pages, and the Learn More section were all built with one audience in mind: a parent who has never invested before, who may be navigating this in a second language, and who deserves a clear and honest explanation of what their child is entitled to and what it could become.

This project was inspired by years of presenting financial education across Los Angeles — at high schools, homeless shelters, and community organizations — on budgeting, saving, credit, and fraud prevention. Those presentations made one thing abundantly clear: the gap between what people know and what they need to know is a gap in access, not interest or intelligence. This site was built to address that educational disparity.

We know the name of the accounts gives some families pause. That is part of why we built this. The political branding of a program should not prevent families from claiming something the law already guarantees them.

If this was useful to you, share it with someone it could help. That is how this reaches the families it was built for.

Learn More: Topic 6 — Why this account matters beyond your family →