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JA Company Program Student Entrepreneurs Launch Delivery Box Service to Bring Hope to Teens Suffering From Anxiety, Depression
By JA of Greater Washington
Entrepreneurship
According to the 2016 Fairfax Youth Survey Report, over 60,000 Fairfax County students face depressive symptoms every year, and over one-third of the students reported experiencing a high level of stress in the past month.
When the five students participating in Junior Achievement of Greater Washington’s 2017 JA Company Program, sponsored by the Hartford Foundation, came across this statistic,...
Robinson Secondary School Senior named JA Company Program CEO, chronicles entrepreneurial journey in “The Company” podcast
By JA of Greater Washington
Corporate Responsibility
For Robinson Secondary School senior Kurien Thomas, signing up for JA Company Program was about achieving a lifelong goal: to be a part of a startup project at an early age.
For a natural leader and go-getter like Kurien, the JA Company Program seemed like the logical next step in his JA...
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...
Five Steps Toward Financial Wellness: Junior Achievement of Greater Washington Offers Actionable Tips for Improving Finances
By JA of Greater Washington
Financial Literacy
April is National Financial Literacy Month, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Consumers are feeling more pinched each week with rapidly increasing gas and food prices and sluggish economic...
JA USA TEENS & PERSONAL FINANCE SURVEY 2017: 70% of Teens Don’t Have Basic Understanding of 401Ks
By JA of Greater Washington
Corporate Responsibility
According to Junior Achievement’s 2017 Teens & Personal Finance Survey, a large disconnect exists between young people and a basic understanding of 401Ks. Although thirty percent of teens know that a 401K is a retirement plan where the employee contributes a certain amount and the employer matches, the majority (70%) of teens don’t know what a 401K is based on anything that they have read or...
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...
TD Ameritrade Reaffirms Commitment to Youth, Donates $10k in programatic support to JA of Greater Washington
By JA of Greater Washington
Corporate Responsibility
TD Ameritrade and JA USA are partnering once again to invest in America’s youth. By continuing their support for 22 JA Areas they supported last year, TD Ameritrade has reaffirmed their commitment to empowering future...
The Power of a Mentor
Blog from JA USA
By Lina Bois
Work Readiness
Our JA Business Challenge was held on February 16, 2017. Haley Gandara, one of our student team mentors, shared this story about her experience with Junior Achievement: "I was involved with JA as a student at Memorial High School in Madison, Wisconsin. Dan Pacetti was a JA volunteer in our personal finance class and came each week to speak. He and my personal finance teacher, Mr. Thomas, were the...
HAG: Sixth graders learn financial responsibility
By JA of Greater Washington
Financial Literacy
A group of volunteers is teaching students lessons that they'll use their entire...
Amy Marcenaro Named 2017 Washington Executive Management Award Winner by Washington SmartCEO
By JA of Greater Washington
Community Involvement
Over the course of her 15 years at Junior Achievement of Greater Washington, Amy Marcenaro’s role has continued to expand. Today, she is EVP and COO, a role that was created specifically for her. “During my tenure, one of the major strategic growth initiatives I have spearheaded is the JA Finance Park program, which begins with 14 in-classroom sessions during which thousands of eighth-graders each...