As of February 11, 600,000 volunteers have already participated in the Give A Day – Get A Disney Day program. It’s anticipated that the goal of celebrating one million volunteers will occur very soon. Once Disney reaches its one-million ticket goal, the program ends and we won’t be able to post new [...]
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Help JA win $25,000!!!
Chase is giving away $5 million to various charities and needs your help to pick which ones. Vote for JA and help us teach self-sufficiency to 95,000 students this year!
JA’s Impact in the Community
On December 1 2009, the Junior Achievement of Rock River Valley in IL will close because of the challenging economic conditions. One volunteer from the area shared his thoughts about the importance of JA on his blog…
“And that’s the importance of Junior Achievement. It’s not to turn them into instant entrepreneurs or to save them, [...]
New Colorado Personal Financial Literacy Standards
In an address earlier today to the Colorado State Board of Education in support of the new Personal Financial Literacy standards…
Thank you for allowing me to speak today. And I’d also like to thank the CDE for including me in the standards rewrite process and asking me to represent the work of the Personal Financial [...]
Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge a Success!!!
Sponsored by the Allstate Foundation, the event not only raised a record amount of funds to support JA programs, but also allowed 511 high students the opportunity to experience the excitement of Wall Street. The winners for both high school events and the corporate event are listed below. Also available is a brief segment from [...]