Junior Achievement

Why volunteer for Junior Achievement...

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Updated: 07 Oct 2012

Junior Achievement's mission is to inspire and prepare young people to embrace free enterprise and succeed in a global economy. Focusing on workforce readiness, entrpreneurship, and financial literacy, JA brings the real world to students.

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Junior Achievement is Making a Difference

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Updated: 30 Oct 2012

View the video and get a better understanding of something that's often difficult to convey in words: students' excitement over Junior Achievement learning and volunteer mentorship—and the reciprocal feeling of reward and satisfaction that volunteers experience. While JA empowers young people to own their economic success, it also inspires JA volunteers to help students connect with education, develop life skills and discover their potential. Junior Achievement makes a difference—along with a lot of fun!

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What is Junior Achievement's JA Day?

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Updated: 11 Sep 2012

Participate in a JA Day Program! This team-building, morale-boosting experience gives volunteers the opportunity to be a role model for today's youth. For more info call 609.419.0404 or log on to nj.ja.org (Produced by Shutterbug Productions)

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Junior Achievement Biztown

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Updated: 22 May 2012

Junior Achievement Biztown is a place where elementary school aged children can come and run the town for a day. Students prepare in their classes for the big day, then come to JA Biztown and each have their own responsibility to help run the town.

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Junior Achievement - feat. Volunteer Centre of Guelph/Wellington

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Updated: 20 Apr 2011

Volunteer Centre of Guelph/Wellington celebrates National Volunteer Week 2009 with a short film about the volunteers at Junior Achievement.

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Junior Achievement Inspires Kids to Succeed

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Updated: 27 Aug 2010

Junior Achievement programs teach kids about entrepreneurship, work readiness, and financial literacy. Learn more at www.ja.org.

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Junior Achievement Marks 90 Years of Business Education

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Updated: 07 Nov 2012

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com In two thousand nine, Junior Achievement marked its ninetieth anniversary of educating young people about business and economics. The nonprofit organization is the largest of its kind. Jack Kosakowsky is executive vice president. He says "We are the oldest business and economic education organization in the world. Were now serving nine-point-two million young people around the globe in one hundred twenty-three different countries." Programs begin in elementary school and continue through middle and high school. The education is based on the ideas of market-based economics and entrepreneurship. Junior Achievement began in nineteen nineteen in Springfield, Massachusetts. Two business leaders, Horace Moses and Theodore Vail, joined with Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts to start the group. For more than fifty years, Junior Achievement programs operated through clubs that met after school. But in nineteen seventy-five, JA also began to teach business skills during the school day. Volunteers from the community teach about businesses, how they are organized, and how products are made and sold. The volunteers also teach about the American and world economies and about industry and trade. The Junior Achievement Company Program teaches young people how entrepreneurship works. They learn about business by operating their own companies. Students develop a product and sell shares in their company. They ...

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Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter fala sobre empreendedorismo - Junior Achievement Brasil

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Duration: 4:59
Updated: 01 Nov 2012

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MECU - Junior Achievement Biztown

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Updated: 14 Dec 2010

Highlighting our commitment to the community - Junior Achievement Biztown.

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2012 Junior Achievement Essay Competition

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Updated: 06 Sep 2012

David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, introduces the 2012 Junior Achievement Essay Competition. The competition will award $110000 in scholarships to ten high school students for writing a 1000 to 1500 word essay on the topic, "How Can the Country Readily and Realistically Tackle Growing Income Disparity?" It will also award $18000 in grants to three local high schools. The competition is open until October 31, 2012. To learn more and apply online, please visit www.myJA.org/students/essay/.

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Sherri Elliott - Junior Achievement You're Hired Event - March 2010

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Updated: 06 Jul 2010

Sherri Elliott - Junior Achievement You're Hired Event - March 2010

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Capital One Junior Achievement Mobile Finance Park

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Updated: 25 May 2010

Capital One / Junior Achievement Finance Park allows students the opportunity to experience life as an "adult for a day" through interactive learning. Finance Park marries Capital Ones long-standing commitment to life-phase financial education with a comprehensive, hands-on curriculum developed by Junior Achievement. The program begins in the classroom where students undergo a four-week financial education program. During the fourth week, students visit the Capital One / Junior Achievement Finance Park where their knowledge and skills are put to the test. In a vibrant community setting, assisted by their teachers and trained volunteers, students experience first-hand the challenges of making financial decisions that are within their means.

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JA BizTown - A Junior Achievement Experience

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Updated: 02 Nov 2012

Junior Achievement uses hands-on experiential programs to bring the "real world" to students around the world. Learn more at www.ja.org.

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Junior Achievement SP - Empreendedorismo Juvenil - Programa Ação - Comentários Dr. Jorge Gerdau

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Updated: 10 May 2012

Quer entender o que faz a Junior Achievement? Veja como o Serginho Groisman explica no programa Ação! Não deixe de ver o comentário do Dr. Jorge Gerdau! Vamos lá, vamos ver!

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Anadarko: Junior Achievement

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Updated: 29 Mar 2012

For well over a decade, Anadarko has partnered with Junior Achievement, an organization dedicated to teaching students about the real-world work environment. Anadarko's most recent Junior Achievement program included more than 100 of the company's engineers, geo-scientists, information-technology experts, as well as legal, finance and accounting profesionals located in the Houston and Denver. These employees volunteered their time to provide hands-on lessons and experiences that enhance students' understanding of finance, workforce readiness, creative problem-solving and entrepreneurship.

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Junior Achievement of Chicago - Creating Success for Youth!

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Updated: 01 May 2012

Learn more about Junior Achievement of Chicago and the work we're doing to benefit youth in the Chicago area!

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Junior Achievement

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Updated: 04 May 2012

Peter Hugh Pocklington talks about his relationship with the Junior Achievement program which is the largest youth education organization in Canada. Through the program Peter Pocklington taught the fundamentals of a successful business through capitalism to children.

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Teaching Tips for Junior Achievement programs

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Updated: 27 Aug 2010

These are a few tips for volunteers teaching Junior Achievement. JA's purpose is to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business and economics to improve the quality of their lives. JA uses hands-on experiences to help students understand the "economics of life." Focusing on workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy, JA brings the real world to students, opening their minds to their potential.

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Junior Achievement Worldwide - Company of the Year Competition.mov

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Updated: 24 May 2012

www.jaum.org The annual North American JA Company of the Year Competition is a contest of business skills, ingenuity and innovation that focuses on the accomplishments of US and Canadian JA Company Program© students, ages 15-19, during the 2009-2010 academic year. Currently impacting more than 360000 young people a year globally, JA Company Program guides students to start and run their own business, developing and marketing a product or service with help of a local business volunteer. Through qualification rounds, finalists ultimately are selected to showcase their business acumen before a panel of independent judges who evaluate each student company's annual report, business presentation, trade booth display and interview performance. "The North American JA Company of the Year Competition is an exciting opportunity for Junior Achievement students to demonstrate the teamwork, leadership and innovative thinking that will help them drive success in the business world," said Sean C. Rush, president and chief executive officer of JA Worldwide®. "Through this competition, Junior Achievement and sponsors Best Buy, FedEx and HP are enhancing the relevancy of education and igniting the spark in young people to experience and realize the opportunities and realities of work in a 21st-century global marketplace. As a stakeholder in the future, I am inspired and reassured by the passion and professionalism demonstrated by these young entrepreneurs." This video was produced ...

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Junior Achievement of Arizona - Interview with The UPS Store

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Updated: 16 Aug 2010

Brian Vial and Ginger Kuzo, independent owners of various UPS Stores in Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe, sit down with JA and discuss their sponsorship of The UPS Store in JABizTown and why it's an important piece of their community involvement.

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Junior Achievement - HP Social Innovation Mashup

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Updated: 29 Mar 2011

Learn More: www.janorcal.org High school students from around Northern California share their experiences of participating in the 2010 Junior Achievement Social Innovation Camp hosted by Hewlett-Packard.

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Festival Junior Achievement 2009 "La Compañia"

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Updated: 03 Jun 2012

Festival Junior Achievement 2009 "La Compañia"

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Stretch Photography Documents Junior Achievement's "Company Program," Sangihe, Indonesia

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Updated: 27 Apr 2012

Junior Achievement's Company Program changes the lives of young people on the remote Indonesian Island of Sangihe.

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Founder(s)	Theodore Vail, Horace A. Moses, Winthrop M. Crane
Type	501c3
Founded	1919
Location	Colorado Springs, Colorado
Area served	Worldwide
Mission	To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Website	http://www.ja.org

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