It’s Your Money
A practical six-part series covering financial planning, taxes, healthcare planning, investments, and charitable giving.
Financial & Estate Literacy
Learn how to make informed financial, estate, healthcare, and charitable giving decisions through clear, free educational workshops.
Educate
Financial & Estate Literacy provides unbiased workshops that help participants understand key planning choices before they meet with their own advisers or make decisions for their families.
Workshops
Choose the series that matches the questions you want to answer next.
A practical six-part series covering financial planning, taxes, healthcare planning, investments, and charitable giving.
A plain-English six-part series about estate planning, healthcare directives, wills, trusts, philanthropy, and estate administration.
Schedule
Start with online workshops, in-person workshops, or the printable schedule.
Register for a webinar series and receive the details needed to join each session.
Use the printable schedule to confirm current dates, session details, and locations.
Use the schedule page for workshop series, session titles, dates, and locations.
Register
Registration is simple. Pick the series you want, or contact the organization if you need help choosing.
For questions about money, taxes, healthcare planning, investments, and giving.
For questions about estate planning, healthcare directives, wills, trusts, philanthropy, and administration.
Connect
The Ask First concept helps people ask clear questions before engaging a professional. It encourages transparency, practical guidance, and better conversations with advisers.
Before making an important planning decision, pause, ask direct questions, and make sure the professional relationship is clear.
Tax-Wise Giving
Charitable giving can be part of financial and estate planning. The workshops help explain how giving decisions may connect with taxes, family goals, and the causes people care about.
Understand where giving may fit into an overall financial plan.
Learn why timing, assets, and documentation can matter.
Connect giving choices with personal values and long-term plans.
Sponsors
Community sponsors support the free educational workshops and help make planning education easier to access.
American Heart AssociationCharitable sponsor
Chapman UniversityCharitable sponsor
CHOC FoundationCharitable sponsor
Library Foundation of Newport BeachCharitable sponsor
Providence Mission Hospital FoundationCharitable sponsor
Segerstrom Center for the ArtsCharitable sponsorSee sponsor organizations or learn how an organization can support future workshops.
Resources
Use these simple topics as starting points for handouts, articles, videos, and useful links.
Budgeting, cash flow, taxes, and investments.
Planning documents, probate basics, and family conversations.
Directives, powers of attorney, and planning conversations.
Contact
Send a note about workshops, registration, schedules, resources, sponsorship, or the organization.
Send a Message
Financial and Estate Literacy, Inc.
26440 La Alameda Suite 250
Mission Viejo, CA 92691
EIN/Tax ID: 46-1117177