About Us
Our Story
Fostering a New Legacy was founded from a simple belief: financial stability should not be reserved for people who were fortunate enough to learn about money early in life.
Too many individuals and families work hard to change their circumstances but lack access to the financial knowledge, practical skills, resources, and opportunities that can help create a different path. FANL was created to help close those gaps by meeting people where they are and helping them build greater confidence, stability, independence, and opportunity.
We believe wealth does not have one definition. It may mean building assets and generational prosperity, but it can also mean financial security, caring for your family, having choices, or simply experiencing greater peace of mind.
Our commitment extends across generations—from helping young people, including youth transitioning from foster care, build a stronger foundation to supporting adults who are learning, rebuilding, or changing course. We also believe building a new legacy includes helping families protect, preserve, and pass forward what previous generations worked to create.
At Fostering a New Legacy, we believe where you start does not have to determine how you finish.
A New Legacy Begins When You Have the Courage to Choose Differently.
Our Mission
Fostering a New Legacy, Inc. provides financial literacy education, vocational skills training, workforce readiness development, housing stability resources, and supportive services to individuals and families facing systemic barriers and economic adversity. Through education, experiential learning, mentorship, and community partnerships, we equip people of all generations with the tools necessary to achieve economic self-sufficiency, create pathways to generational wealth, and build lasting legacies for themselves and future generations.
Our Vision
To foster new legacies by empowering individuals and families to transform adversity into opportunity, achieve economic empowerment, and build the knowledge, confidence, and resources necessary to improve their lives, strengthen their families, and create generational wealth and lasting prosperity for future generations.
Pathways to a Stronger Future
Education & Mentorship
Educational achievement, personal development, mentoring relationships, and opportunities that encourage continued growth.
Financial Literacy
Mastering essential money management skills from budgeting to understanding credit systems.
Financial Empowerment
Providing tools and resources that enable individuals to take control of their economic futures.
Workforce Readiness
Practical professional development skills to navigate and succeed in the modern job market.
Life Skills & Independence
Fostering the autonomy needed for a sustainable and self-sufficient lifestyle.
Who We Serve
Fostering a New Legacy serves people across generations and life stages.
Our work is designed to support:
• Foster youth and young adults transitioning toward independence and building financial knowledge early
• Adults of all ages seeking greater financial stability or a new direction
• Individuals and families seeking financial independence, to build, preserve, and pass forward assets and generational wealth
• Parents and caregivers who want to strengthen financial knowledge within their families
Whether someone is learning how to manage money for the first time, preparing to enter the workforce, rebuilding after a financial setback, developing new skills, changing course later in life, or preparing the next generation to steward what their family has built, FANL believes there should be a pathway forward.
Community Partners
FANL believes meaningful change is strengthened through collaboration. We seek relationships with schools, community organizations, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, businesses, funders, and other partners that share our commitment to expanding knowledge, opportunity, financial stability, and independence across generations.
Schools & Educational Institutions
FANL seeks to partner with schools and educational institutions to support opportunities that strengthen financial literacy, workforce readiness, mentorship, and other skills that help young people prepare for their futures.
Community Organizations
FANL seeks to work with community organizations to expand access to education, mentorship, life skills, workforce preparation, and resources that support greater stability and independence among youth and adults.
Nonprofit & Faith-Based Groups
Our mission is built on collective impact. We welcome partnerships with groups that share our vision for a future where intentional choices lead to generational growth.
Join Our Mission
We welcome you to reach out and learn more about how we can work together to foster a new legacy in our community. Please fill out the form below to get started.
Meet Our Founder
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Cynthia Moore
Founder and Board President, Fostering a New Legacy
Fostering a New Legacy was founded by Cynthia Moore from a commitment to making financial knowledge, opportunity, and practical resources more accessible to people and communities that have not always had equal access to them.
With more than three decades of experience spanning accounting, technology, education, business operations, and organizational leadership, Cynthia has spent much of her career helping people and organizations understand complex information, strengthen their decision-making, and build systems that support better outcomes.
Her experience as an educator and financial professional reinforced a recurring lesson: information can change outcomes—but only when people have access to it, understand it, and have the confidence and opportunity to use it.
That philosophy became part of the foundation for FANL.
Cynthia's vision for the organization extends from helping young people develop financial knowledge early to supporting adults who are changing course later in life, strengthening pathways for foster youth transitioning toward independence, and helping families preserve and pass forward what previous generations have worked to build.
At the center of that vision is a simple conviction:
People should have the opportunity to build a legacy defined by where they are going—not simply by where they started.
Board of Directors
Fostering a New Legacy is governed by a Board of Directors committed to responsible stewardship, sound governance, and advancing the organization's mission.
Board Leadership, Cynthia Moore, Founder & President
Darlene Hinton, Vice President
Priscilla Morgan, Treasurer
