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Make a Lasting Impact — Volunteer at the Gus A. Stavros Institute
Located at 12100 Starkey Road in Largo, the Gus A. Stavros Institute is home to Enterprise Village and Finance Park—two innovative educational programs that teach financial literacy and real-world skills to thousands of students each year.
As a volunteer, you’ll play a vital role in guiding students through a hands-on, engaging day as citizens of Enterprise Village or Finance Park. With over 20 simulated businesses, you’ll help students take on real-world roles and responsibilities, empowering them to become confident, capable, and financially savvy individuals.
No experience is necessary. We provide all the training you need on the day of your visit, before students arrive. Whether you can give just one day or choose to come back again and again, your time makes a meaningful difference.
Interested in volunteering? Please contact Katie Hilton at (727) 588-3746 x 2257 or hiltonk@pcsb.org

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Enterprise Village is a self-contained economic education program that provides a hands-on learning experience for 5th grade students. Students spend time in their classrooms learning about writing checks, using a debit card, keeping a checkbook register, applying for a job and working as a business team. These lessons are put into action as the students spend one day at the village. The layout of Enterprise Village is similar to a shopping mall. During their business day, students work in one of the 20+ businesses, receive paychecks and have the opportunity to be consumers by making purchases throughout the business-sponsored storefronts.

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Finance Park is a reality based, hands-on simulation for 7th & 8th grade students that enables them to build foundations for making intelligent lifelong personal finance decisions. It also allows them to develop a realistic understanding of the economic issues they must deal with upon graduation from high school and in the development of a budget. At the culmination of a two week, integrated unit in school classrooms, students visit Finance Park to study different financial decisions to be made, consider the options available to them and actually construct a personal budget. To facilitate the simulation, Finance Park focuses on decisions about transportation, investment, home improvement, banking, housing, entertainment, healthcare, utilities, food, home furnishings, clothing and education.