Agency Details:

Junior Achievement Of Wisconsin - Dane County

JA is a worldwide organization that inspires and prepares young people for a global economy by bringing volunteer business and community leaders into the classroom to teach work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy to young people.

Description:
Junior Achievement is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students in grades K-12 about entrepreneurship, work readiness, and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.

Our programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action, and learn the value of contributing to their communities.

JA’s unique approach allows volunteers from the community to deliver our curriculum while sharing their experiences with students. Embodying the heart of JA, our classroom volunteers transform the key concepts of our lessons into a message that inspires and empowers students to believe in themselves, showing them they can make a difference in the world.

History:
We are the passionate people behind a movement that seeks to educate and inspire young people to succeed in a global economy. Located in Colorado Springs, the JA Worldwide® Headquarters provides support for JA operations throughout the U.S., and in nearly 100 countries around the world that carry out the mission.

JA Worldwide annually reaches approximately 8 million students worldwide. Through age-appropriate curricula, JA programs begin at the elementary school level, teaching children how they can impact the world around them as individuals, workers and consumers. JA programs continue through the middle grades and high school, focusing on the key content areas of entrepreneurship, work readiness, and financial literacy.

We do all this with the help of our volunteers. Volunteers who so care about our youth they take time out of their day to make a difference. How do we know this? We have external evaluators measure the impact of our programs. For more information on JA's effectiveness, see the JA Programs section.

JA Worldwide is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization sponsored by corporate and individual contributors.

Contact person: Beth Tomscak, Program Manager, (608) 354-6798

Address:

4230 East Towne. #331 Madison , WI 53704 (See a map)

Web Site: http://wisconsin.ja.org

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Last updated on June 1, 2009