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Transforming Students into Ideal Employees
Blog from JA USA
By Hannah Henry
Work Readiness
According to a 2015 survey by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, 27 percent of Kentucky employers find it difficult to find workers with adequate "soft" skills. These soft skills include everything from effective communication to one's ability to work in a team...
United Bank Foundation Supports JA’s Financial Literacy Efforts
By JAWM
Corporate Responsibility
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UPS Foundation Grant Helps Junior Achievement
By JAWM
Corporate Responsibility
Junior Achievement (JA) of Western Massachusetts received a $7,200 grant from the UPS Foundation to implement JA “Be Entrepreneurial”...
The Present Teaching the Future
Blog from JA USA
By Hannah Henry
Work Readiness
How would you feel standing in a class of 30 students teaching them principles they would use for the rest of their lives? Honored? Nervous? Excited? Empowered? In the 2015-2016 school year, a total of 237,680 volunteers across the nation stepped up to teach 4,803,046 students from kindergarten to high school real-world concepts in areas of financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship...
Junior Achievement program encourages entrepreneurship in young people
By JAWM
Corporate Responsibility
Starting your own business can be a challenge for anyone, but success can be especially rewarding when the entrepreneurs are 11 and...
Western Mass. Junior Achievement students pitch innovative creations to investors (photos, video)
By JAWM
Corporate Responsibility
The pitches weren’t fastballs or sliders. They were sales pitches aimed at winning over...
Giving Kids a Sense of Purpose
Blog from JA USA
By Lina Bois
Work Readiness
This note was sent from the President of Junior Achievement of Northeastern New York (Albany, NY) to their Board of Directors. "Today just epitomized our JA mission and the Proof of Impact. I genuinely left inspired after National Grid hosted a tremendous Job Shadow to over 20 Freshman students from Watervliet HS. This is what JA is all about... Giving Kids a Sense of Purpose. Our dedicated...
JA 3rd Annual EnTEENpreneur Challenge – a Great Success
By JAWM
Corporate Responsibility
On March 3, 2017 JA of Western MA held its 3rd annual JA EnTEENpreneur Challenge hosted by the UMASS Springfield...
Positive Female Role Models Impacting the Future Generations
Blog from JA USA
By Lina Bois
Corporate Responsibility
Original Story from Junior Achievement of South Central Kentucky in Bowling Green, Kentucky. On March 8th, JA of South Central Kentucky hosted their first JA Girl$ event. Sponsored by Citizens First Bank and in partnership with the Young Athenas, they brought in 125 7th grade girls from the local middle schools for a JA in a Day using the JA It's My Future" curriculum. The girls were surrounded...
Junior Achievement Rock Star
Blog from JA USA
By Lina Bois
Work Readiness
Original Story from Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana. When the Lauri Wade, Counselor at Kerrick Elementary School in Louisville, tweeted "Best day ever!" along with her student's photo, she could never have imagined the chain of events that would occur. The photo of her 5th-grade student, Dallas, dressed as the JA BizTown utility Meter Reader, showed a young man whose face just beamed from the...
