Inspire and Prepare Young People to Succeed
Junior Achievement of Northern California
Helps Prepare Today's Students for a Bright Future
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JA of Northern California's volunteer-delivered, kindergarten-12th grade programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire students in our community to dream big and reach their potential.
Why Junior Achievement?
JA helps students realize that the education they are getting today will help them to have a bright future tomorrow. JA's unique, volunteer delivered programs, show them all of the possibilities that lay before them. They realize they can choose different paths; College? A specific trade? Start their own business? Through your participation as an organization or as an individual, these statistics below can begin to change in your community:
- 20% of U.S. students will not complete high school on time and earn a diploma.
- 49% of U.S. employers recognize that talent shortages impact their ability to serve clients and customers.
- 36% of Americans say that they have at some point in their lives felt their financial situation was out of control.
- 91% of millennials wish they had greater access to entrepreneurial education programs.
Which Way To JA?
Corporate Donor
Your corporation can support the growing need for youth development in Northern California by helping today's students with the critical skills and the character necessary to succeed in your 21st century workplace.
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Individual Donor
Not affiliated with a corporation partnered with JA? You can make a donation directly to JA of Northern California!
CORPORATE VOLUNTEER
By volunteering for JA through your organization, you can be in the classroom during work hours and you can share your experience and inspire young people to pursue their dreams.
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INDIVIDUAL VOLUNTEER
Not affiliated with a corporation partnered with JA? You can volunteer in your community directly with JA of Northern California!
EDUCATOR
Quality volunteers from the community come into your classroom to deliver proven, hands-on programming that inspires students to understand the opportunities provided by education.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT JA PROGRAMS
Not an Educator? Find out how you can get JA programs into your Northern California school!
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JA of Northern California Spotlight
Job Shadow At Genentech
Thank you, Genentech for providing 140 students from South San Francisco & El Camino High Schools, such a wonderful, engaging, hands-on JA Job Shadow experience for the 20th consecutive year!
Meet Glenlyon Scholarship 2018 Recipient Dilraj Singh
Dilraj Singh, from DeAnza High School in West Contra Costa County participated in JA as a volunteer mentor in the JA High School Heroes program to students at Valley View Elementary School. Dilraj will be attending UC Berkeley in the fall, pursing a degree in Political Justice and Philosophy with a minor in Public Policy and plans to continue onto Bolt Law School. Congratulations, Dilraj!
Meet Glenlyon Scholarship 2018 Recipient Kubir Kapur
Kabir Kapur, from Northgate High School in Contra Costa County, participated in JA's Company Program for two consecutive years as VP of Supply Chain and VP of Finance, respectfully. He also attended the JA Company of the Year Competition in 2017 and 2018 and helped his team win Best Business Plan and then Best Commercial. Kabir plans to apply what he learned from JA at college in the fall where he will enter as a Business-Economics major at UC Santa Cruz and study Technology Information Management. Congratulations, Kabir!
JA NorCal team won third place at Nationals!
If you haven't already seen yet on JA's various social media channels, I would like to announce our NorCal team Silicube won 3rd place Company of the Year at the National Student Leadership Summit!
Congratulations Silicube, Co! The Santa Clara County students represent Ilumin Education and founded Silicube, Co. as part of their participation in JA Company Program®, in which high school students start and run a real business enterprise under the guidance of a volunteer from their local business community. Read the press release here.
