Community College Partnership

Your community is asking for retirement guidance. We help you deliver it.

A live, virtual retirement planning course for your community. Professionally taught, fully managed, and offered at no cost to your department.

Live & Virtual  ·  Two Evening Sessions  ·  CFP® Professionals  ·  Designed for Ages 55+
Bring This to Your College No fees. No curriculum development. No lift from your team.
Couple in their 50s planning retirement together
The challenge

Retirement planning is one of the most requested topics. It's also one of the hardest to deliver.

  • Qualified instructors are hard to find
    Retirement planning requires current, credentialed expertise, not just a willing volunteer with a general finance background.
  • Curriculum development takes time you don't have
    Building a polished, accurate course from scratch is a significant investment on top of everything else your department manages.
  • Enrollment logistics stretch a lean team even thinner
    Student follow-up, reminders, and course communication all add up, even for courses you didn't build.
  • Budget approvals demand clear community value
    Adding a new course means justifying the spend, which is harder when you're also covering instructor and development costs.
Our answer

We built Retirement Intelligence specifically to remove every one of these barriers.

We provide the instructor, the curriculum, and the student communication. Your department adds a high-value course to its catalog without adding workload or cost.

Your community gets access to expert retirement guidance. Your students leave with real clarity. And your department earns the credit for making it happen.

What we provide

Everything your department needs. Nothing it doesn't.

A fully managed partnership designed to respect your time, your budget, and your reputation.

No cost to your college

There is no fee to host the course. Not for the curriculum, not for the instruction, not for any of the logistics.

We own student communication

Once a student registers, we handle every touchpoint: confirmation, reminders, pre-class materials, and follow-up. Your team stays focused on what matters to them.

Live virtual instruction, every session

Classes are delivered live over video across two evening sessions. Students attend from home and can ask questions in real time. No recordings, no passive content.

A polished, field-tested curriculum

We've taught this course to hundreds of students. The content is refined, well-paced, and consistently rated as one of the most practical classes people have taken.

A direct mailer, on us

For colleges open to it, we'll coordinate and cover the cost of a direct mailer to your community. Your college promotes the course through its normal channels; we layer on the mailer to help drive enrollment.

Your college keeps the relationship

Students enroll through your catalog. Your college's name is on the course. The goodwill your community feels goes back to your department.

The course

What your students will actually learn.

This isn't a general financial literacy course. Every topic is chosen because it directly affects decisions your students are facing right now or will face in the next few years.

  • Estimating what retirement actually costs

    Students build a realistic picture of their retirement expenses: healthcare, housing, lifestyle, inflation, so they know the number they're actually planning toward.

  • Creating a retirement income plan

    How to turn savings into sustainable income, coordinating Social Security, pensions, investments, and other sources into a plan that lasts.

  • Social Security: timing and strategy

    When to claim, how to maximize lifetime benefits, and what most people get wrong about this decision.

  • How to take more from retirement accounts, smartly

    Which accounts to draw from first, how to sequence withdrawals to reduce lifetime taxes, and how to avoid the mistakes that quietly erode retirement savings.

  • Medicare and healthcare planning

    Navigating Medicare enrollment, understanding coverage gaps, and building a realistic plan for one of retirement's largest and most unpredictable expenses.

  • Estate planning essentials

    The documents everyone needs, how beneficiary designations work, and how to make sure the right people are protected.

Format

Two live virtual evening sessions, structured so students can attend from home without taking time off work. All instruction is delivered in real time, with Q&A built into each session.

Taught by CFP® professionals

Every session is led by a Certified Financial Planner®, active practitioners who bring real-world experience into the classroom and can answer the questions that actually matter to your students.

CFP® designation held by all course instructors

What students leave with

A personalized action plan and a clear sense of exactly what to do next. Not just concepts, but concrete next steps they can act on.

How it works

From first conversation to first class in five steps.

Most of our college partners are up and running within a few weeks of our first call.

1

We connect

A 20-minute call to learn about your department and see if the partnership is a good fit for your community.

2

We align on scheduling

We work around your catalog calendar to find cohort dates that make sense for your enrollment cycle.

3

We promote

You promote through your normal channels. For colleges open to it, we coordinate and cover the cost of a community direct mailer.

4

We run the class

Instruction, student communication, and all logistics are on us. You're kept informed, not involved.

5

Your community wins

Students leave with real clarity. Your department earns the credit for making it possible.

Student feedback

The people in your community will thank you for this.

These are the kinds of responses your students will write about a course your department made possible.

It was a really good class, great value, and genuinely helpful. Just being able to have the coaching session was worth it on its own.

— Karl, Seattle

This class made a real difference in my life. It's assumed that as you change life stages, you just know things. But sometimes you don't. This filled the gap.

— Carol, PDX

Great class. It takes all the big topics and puts them in a logical order so everything makes sense together, not just a list of facts.

— Bruce, Seattle
Who this is for

The right fit is straightforward.

This partnership works best for community education and continuing education departments who are looking to grow their course catalog without growing their workload.

  • You coordinate community education, workforce development, or continuing ed at a community or city college

  • You want to offer a high-demand course without hiring an instructor or developing curriculum

  • You're looking to serve the segment of your community approaching or in retirement

  • You need a partner who will show up professionally and reflect well on your college

  • Budget approval is easier when the course costs the department nothing to add

This is probably not the right fit if
  • Your college is looking to license or own the curriculum
  • You need an in-person course (we're currently live virtual only)
  • Your department prefers to manage all student communication internally
From our college partners
"LCC's Florence Center has been partnering with Retirement Intelligence for more than 6 years, and their team has always been a pleasure to work with. I personally attended a recent class and was wholly impressed with the amount of knowledge shared. It was delivered in an easy-to-follow manner, with ample time for questions to be addressed."
— Beth Habian, Project Coordinator, LCC Florence Center
"The instructors do a great job. I appreciated how they made everything feel approachable without dumbing it down."
— Class participant, community college partner program
Why we do this

We have a financial planning firm. This is how we choose to grow it.

We believe that educated people make better financial decisions, and that if we teach well and do right by your students, some of them will reach out when they're ready for professional guidance.

We don't sell during the class. We don't pitch products. We don't pressure anyone. What we do is teach, thoroughly, honestly, and without an agenda beyond giving people clarity.

For the students who finish the class and want to go deeper with a financial planner, we're available. For everyone else, they leave with a stronger foundation than they came in with. That's a good outcome either way.

Our commitment to your students

The class is education. Nothing more.

We're happy to provide recordings of actual class sessions to any college that wants to see exactly what their students will experience before committing to the partnership.

No products are promoted or sold during the class

No pressure to work with us after the class ends

Recordings available upon request so you can see exactly what your students will experience

Students who want professional guidance after the class can reach out. That choice is entirely theirs

Common questions

Questions we hear from department coordinators.

Is there really no cost to the college?

Correct, there is no fee to your department at any stage. We don't charge for the instructor, the curriculum, or the logistics. The course can be offered at a low student registration fee set by your college. We cover our costs separately.

Do you promote your financial planning services during the class?

No. The class is education, full stop. We don't pitch, sell, or promote during any session. Students learn, ask questions, and leave with a clearer picture of their retirement. If someone wants to connect with us afterward, that door is open, but we don't open it during the class. We're happy to share recordings of actual sessions so you can see this for yourself before committing to the partnership.

How much time will this require from our staff?

Very little. Once the course is listed in your catalog and enrollment opens, we manage everything with students directly. Your team's involvement is essentially limited to the initial setup conversation and adding the course to your schedule.

Can we see a sample class before committing?

Absolutely. We can provide recordings of actual class sessions so you can see exactly what your students will experience: the instruction style, the topics covered, and the tone of the class. We think this is a reasonable ask and encourage it.

What technology do students need?

The course is delivered via Microsoft Teams, which most students can access through a browser without installing anything. We send clear instructions in advance and are available to help any student who runs into technical issues before the class begins.

Who are the instructors?

All sessions are led by Certified Financial Planners® (CFP®) who are active practitioners, not just educators. They bring current, real-world experience to every class and are comfortable making complex topics accessible to a general audience.

Can we offer this course multiple times per year?

Yes, and many of our college partners do. We can structure multiple cohorts per year to serve different enrollment windows and reach more of your community throughout the academic calendar.

Is there a long-term commitment required?

No. We believe the partnership should earn its place in your catalog by delivering results. Most colleges start with one or two cohorts, see how their community responds, and grow from there, on their own schedule.
Get started

Let's see if this is the right fit for your college.

Fill out the form and we'll reach out within one business day to schedule a 20-minute call.

20-minute call. Pick a time that works for you
No obligation. Just a conversation to see if it's the right fit
Recordings of actual class sessions available upon request

Select a time that works for you. No pitch. No pressure. Just a conversation to see if this makes sense for your college.