Robinhood - Social

Education

We believe that offering educational resources is critical to advancing our mission. The more financial education people receive, the better equipped, and thus more empowered they will be to make personal investment decisions that meet their long-term goals. We offer a variety of ways for our customers to grow their financial knowledge:

Robinhood Learn

An online collection of feature tutorials and more designed to provide our customers with a breadth of financial education to learn and grow.

In-app education

Resources cover investing fundamentals, which allows customers to understand the basics of investing before making their first trade.

Newsfeeds

Our customers have access to free, premium news from sites such as Barron’s, Reuters, and Dow Jones.

Sherwood Snacks

Read the latest market-moving news without all of the complicated financial jargon.

Community Engagement

We live our values at Robinhood through meaningful community engagement and partnerships with mission-aligned organizations. Our work focuses on financial inclusion and financial education.

Student-Athlete Financial Education

We created Robinhood Money Drills, a first of its kind financial education program for students and student-athletes to develop the skills and confidence to manage their financial futures. This four-year program provides funding for financial education, including courses and speaker series, for students and student-athletes. Programs are in place at Coastal Carolina University, Duke University, Florida State University, Kansas State University, Texas Christian University, University of California Berkeley, University of Memphis, and West Virginia University.

Teacher Training

Robinhood partners with the Council on Economic Education and several of its state chapters, including Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Montana, and Nebraska. We hosted Family Financial Fun Nights to help train teachers how to educate their students on personal finance and aided schools to set up in-school savings programs.

Retirement Education Workshops

Robinhood developed a retirement education curriculum for independent workers, small business owners, and entrepreneurs. We established partnerships to serve distinct communities with this programming: Bunker Labs, an organization that supports entrepreneurs from the veteran and military spouse communities; the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc., known as the “National Voice of Black Businesses”; and Creative Ladder, a nonprofit that supports early- and mid-career creative professionals.

Financial Inclusion

Robinhood was founded on the belief that everyone should be able to participate in the financial markets, developing a platform with products that enable individuals to participate in our financial system regardless of wealth, income, or background. We engage in thoughtful partnerships with organizations who are similarly committed to financial inclusion such as the National Association of Securities Professionals, National Bankers Association, and Operation HOPE.

“Operation HOPE remains committed to forging transformative partnerships with leading innovators, like Robinhood… Together, we can harness the power of innovation to empower individuals and communities with the knowledge and tools they need for a brighter, more financially secure future."

John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Operation HOPE

Growth, Motivation & Retention

We strive to build an inclusive and equitable working environment for every single team member. To that end, we create the programs, tools, and resources that enable our employees to do their best work, lead exceptional teams, and realize their full potential. Our efforts include:

Offering sessions for all employees on critical topics, including giving and receiving feedback, how to have meaningful performance conversations, and self-led career development, to name a few;
Offering role-specific training, particularly for customer support associates and engineering roles;
Offering a variety of formal and informal development opportunities to our managers;
Coaching for our tenured leaders; and
Providing opportunities to increase belonging, apply leadership skills, and drive career development through our Employee Resource Groups (“ERGs”). Our ERGs have executive sponsors.