Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 Platform Acquires Assets from Leading Financial Literacy Company

AUSTIN, Texas - Oct. 6, 2015 - PRLog -- Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 Platform Acquires Assets from Leading Financial Literacy Company and Brings on Notable Key Executive

(Austin, TX October 5, 2015) In celebration of the 2015 She Summit gathering in NYC, and on the heels of completing its last acquisition, EBW2020’s Founder Ingrid Vanderveldt and “Think & Grow Rich for Women” author and #1 financial literacy expert Sharon Lechter announce they have joined forces to deliver “the world’s #1 money & growth solution for women entrepreneurs worldwide.”

EBW2020 has confirmed that it just completed the acquisition of select assets of Lechter’s Pay Your Family First company and that Lechter will become the first-ever “Chief Abundance Officer” for EBW2020. Lechter has been ranked “The #1 Financial Literacy Expert” in the US, served on the President’s Advisory Council for Financial Literacy under Presidents Bush and Obama, and is the author of more than 20 bestselling books including Rich Dad Poor Dad, Think & Grow Rich for Women, Three Feet from Gold, and Outwitting the Devil.

The acquisition includes the purchase of a proprietary “Thrive Time” financial literacy game for women, “It’s Your Biz” business building workbook, and customized money mastery course for business women of EBW2020.

“When I launched EBW2020 I said that we will be the world’s leading experts for women in three key areas:  mentorship, mobile [tech], and money [financial literacy],” said EBW2020’s CEO and founder, Ingrid Vanderveldt. “Sharon Lechter is the world’s best teacher and mentor for women around abundance thinking and having a strong money mindset.  The acquisition of Pay Your Family First’s products for women and bringing on Sharon as Chief Abundance Officer was something I knew we had to make happen to be able to provide women globally with the world’s best financial literacy solutions.  There is no one better than Sharon in the money mastery space. I am enormously proud and humbled to announce we have achieved that goal for women worldwide”

Starting, growing, and scaling a business, while exciting, can be challenging at best and intimidating and expensive at worst.  EBW2020’s business, finance, and technology solutions provide a curated one-stop-shop to help entrepreneurs and innovators simplify, ease and lessen the expense of the process.

“Continuing to reach women globally to help them succeed as leaders and entrepreneurs is a priority for me,” Lechter shares. “I have known and watched Ingrid’s work impacting entrepreneurs, innovators and women worldwide for years first while she was at Dell and now, with EBW2020.  Her vision of combining mentorship, financial literacy, hands on business tools and systems, mobility [tech] and to galvanize resources in a big way to reach women around the globe is something I knew I wanted to be a part of as a win-win to continue reaching my own goals of helping women succeed to their fullest potential. By collaborating and working together we can reach even more women.”

EBW2020 has been working on a “top secret” product offering since its launch that Vanderveldt suggests “is a game changer for any entrepreneur building their business, but especially for women.”  She adds the collaboration with Sharon and Sharon’s content, products and expertise are “definitely part of that”.

Pay Your Family First was founded in 2008 and has small to medium business clients worldwide.  Lechter created Pay Your Family First, with a mission to empower children, women and families with the confidence to tackle the complexities of fiscal responsibility and entrepreneurship while building stronger communities and a more secure future.  Award winning tools created by Pay Your Family First include the ThriveTime for Teens board game, recipient of Dr. Toy, Creative Child Magazine’s Game of the Year and Mom’s Choice Gold awards and Your Financial Mastery, a college level financial mastery curriculum that was named Book of the Year for 2015 by the Institute of Financial Literacy’s Excellence in Financial Literacy Education awards program, while Lechter was recognized as the #1 Financial Literacy Educator of the Year by the National Financial Literacy Educators Council.  Lechter has also worked on local and national levels to effect legislation requiring financial education in high school and for college students receiving Federally Backed Student Loans.  www.payyourfamilyfirst.com

Terms of the deal are confidential.

About EBW2020 LLC: Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020) is the world's #1 empowerment community and back-end support platform created by and for businesses that cater to and support women.  EBW2020's mission is to provide tools, tech and resources to power the success of women leaders & entrepreneurs.  We focus primarily around three areas critical to business success including access to: mentorship, financial literacy and mobile technology.  EBW curates the best solutions from corporations we trust are authentically trying to help women succeed.  Through our $100M IV Credit Fund and "Business-in-a-Box" solutions we provide the first-ever start-to finish process enabling entrepreneurs to start, grow and scale their ventures in partnership with the corporations seeking to support them.  Open to men and women, the EBW2020 community offers year round opportunities to engage.  A percentage of profits goes to fund The EBW Foundation giving cell phone access, financial literacy and mentorship to women in developing countries.  www.ebw2020.com