Category Archives: Grant announcements

JA-ROCKY MOUNTAIN, INC. WINS $25,000 AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM

JA-Rocky Mountain, Inc. won a 2011 MetLife Foundation Entrepreneurial Award and a $25,000 grant for developing and demonstrating an outstanding innovation to inspire the entrepreneurial spirit in young people. JA-Rocky Mountain, Inc. was one of six to receive this honor at the recent Junior Achievement USA™ National Leadership Conference held in Boston. JA Worldwide® (JA) [...]

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Thank you for supporting Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement is grateful for the support of the individuals, foundations and companies who help us achieve our goal of creating generations of young people who are financially literate, workforce ready, and entrepreneurial. The following organizations provided significant program support in January 2011:

The Better Business Bureau is a proud sponsor of the JA Business Week [...]

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Walmart Foundation Announces $75,000 Grant to Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain

The Walmart Foundation’s Colorado State Giving Program announces a $75,000 grant for Junior Achievement - Rocky Mountain Inc. (JA) to support its mission of inspiring and preparing young people to succeed in a global economy. This grant will help provide JA programs and volunteers to 150 high school classrooms throughout the state of Colorado in [...]

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New York Life Foundation helps JA prepare students for success in high school

This summer, Junior Achievement will once again participate in Denver Public Schools’ Ninth Grade Summer Academy, taking place in eleven local high schools July 28th through August 8th. JA has received generous support from the New York Life Foundation to participate in this year’s program, which will reach approximately 2,000 ninth grade students.
The Academy is [...]

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King Soopers awards grant to Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement - Rocky Mountain Inc. (JA) announced today that it has received a $9,917 grant from King Soopers. The funds were raised through King Sooper’s Coin Canister Program, and will be used to support JA programs for K-12th grade students in metro Denver and Northern Colorado.
The check was presented this afternoon to coincide with [...]

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