Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

Viewpoints for U.S. High School Juniors

By JScott | September 20, 2011

Today, Junior Achievement and the National Chamber Foundation released findings from the Free Enterprise National Survey. High school juniors across the U.S. revealed their knowledge and perceptions of entrepreneurship, free enterprise and capitalism and how these factors will influence their future career choices. Not unlike many Americans, high school students are concerned with the state [...]

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Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain Asks Denver to Get Out the Vote For $1 Million Grant

By Angie | April 9, 2010

Sam’s Club Selects JA as one of eight nonprofits who could win big during “Giving Made Simple” Campaign
Junior Achievement – Rocky Mountain (JA) has been selected to participate in the Sam’s Club Giving Made Simple campaign, with the chance to win a $1 million grant.
Giving Made Simple is an online voting campaign in which Sam’s [...]

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164 Qwest Employees Volunteer with Junior Achievement on April 9

By Steve Davis | April 8, 2009

2,150 STUDENTS
+ 164 VOLUNTEERS
+ 90 CLASSROOMS
+ 1 DAY

= A LIFETIME OF LEARNING
In school, as in life, the numbers say it all.
That mantra will certainly ring true today, April 9, as Qwest celebrates “financial literacy month” and adopts five schools through Junior Achievement and the “JA in a Day” program.
On that day, over the span of [...]

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King Soopers awards grant to Junior Achievement

By Sara Jankowiak | June 8, 2008

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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JA Business Week students experience Good Times & great success

By Sara Jankowiak | December 12, 2007

What could be sweeter than doing something really fun, learning a lot, and then getting paid for it? That’s exactly what seven enterprising local high school students are experiencing right now, as they reap the rewards for their entrepreneurial efforts put forth during the 2007 JA Business Week.  
Business Week is JA’sannual week-long business and [...]

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