About ISFS

ISFS conducts benchmark studies, evaluation research, policy research, and financial education research for corporations and other organizations. It performs feasibility, business, startup and strategic planning that promotes social entrepreneurship in the area of consumer financial education, health finances education, and financial planning. It has created the concept of "Mattering in Health Care" as a means of measuring whether and how much people feel valued by their employers, health care providers, HMOs and the insurers they patronize as consumers.

Through its research, cooperative programs, and The Middleburg Institute, ISFS assists leaders in business, academia and the public sector in meeting today's socio-financial challenges. Since its inception in 1991, ISFS has had a far-reaching impact. The results of ISFS research have been presented in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, and China, and have been translated into at least three languages. Inter-disciplinary curricula in financial sociology and financial gerontology were introduced and taught at universities, and a Certificate Program in Financial Gerontology has been created for universities having gerontology institutes and programs.