Rule Breaker Investing × Fool Community FoundationWelcome, Rule Breakers.
You found us through Rule Breaker Investing, which means you already think in decades, not days. Stick around and help us hand that head start to a lot more people, a lot earlier.
David Gardner has spent decades teaching people to invest like owners, hold like optimists, and laugh a little along the way. The Fool Community Foundation takes that spirit somewhere new: classrooms, kitchen tables, and anyone still wondering whether financial freedom was built with them in mind. (It was.)
If you came from Rule Breaker Investing, you already get it.
The best returns in life, financial and otherwise, find people who start early, think long, and stay curious. The Motley Fool has spent decades making people smarter, happier, and richer. We put that same work to use in two places: with young people deciding how their financial lives will go, and with the nonprofits reaching families who rarely get a head start at all.
A portfolio should reflect your best vision for our future. We think a foundation should, too.
The Freedometer
A free, interactive simulation that lets young people feel the difference an early start makes. This fall it heads into high school classrooms through our partnership with Next Gen Personal Finance, handing more students the kind of head start that usually goes to whoever learns these lessons first.
The ImpactFool Fund
We back high-potential nonprofits serving families who live paycheck to paycheck. We find them, fund them with unrestricted support, and stay in their corner, picking them the way a Rule Breaker picks companies: for outsized, lasting impact.
A little, started early, becomes a lot.
That head start is the whole idea behind the Freedometer, our classroom simulation that lets students see what happens when they start investing at 18 instead of 28.
Ask David about financial freedom.
Every so often, David opens the mailbag on Rule Breaker Investing. Send a question about financial freedom that makes him stop and think, and yours might be the one he reads on the air. No pressure. (Okay, a little pressure.)
Need a nudge? People have asked things like:
- What does financial freedom really mean, beyond having enough money?
- How do you teach young people to think like owners?
- Which investing lessons should we all learn earlier?
- How do purpose, generosity, and independence fit together?
Good things, now and then.
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