How you can get started

Junior Achievement of Chicago provides several ways that you can get involved whether you're someone looking to volunteer, part of a district or school looking for educational materials, or part of a business looking to help us expand the reach of our mission.

Volunteers

In-person or Virtual you can Volunteer with Junior Achievement and make a profound difference in the youth of our community.

Volunteers, begin here

Schools and Parents

Junior Achievement provides activities, guides, thought leadership and lots of additional resources to support learning.

Schools and Parents, begin here

Partners

Junior Achievement partners with corporations and individuals to fund the programs that are delivered to our local students.

Partners, begin here

JA of Chicago Spotlight

JA of Chicago's Transformation to Digital Programming

Junior Achievement is providing free online resources to teachers and parents. We are doing this so our kids can spend more time planning for and dreaming about tomorrow, and less time worrying about today. We are committed to doing this until we can all be certain again

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JA of Chicago's Transformation to Digital Programming

JA Inspire Virtual

JA Inspire Virtual is Junior Achievement’s capstone career development program for Middle and High School students brought to life by our region’s employers. Using virtual technology, JA Inspire 2023 features a mega online career event filled with hundreds of local business exhibits providing downloadable career information and exhibitor videos. We would like to invite educators to register their students for this event and we offer companies and organizations the opportunity to sponsor exhibit booths for students to explore future career options.

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JA Inspire Virtual

JA of Chicago 2023-2024 Scholarships

Each year, JA of Chicago offers scholarship opportunities to our college-bound JA seniors. Click "Learn More" to see all available scholarships for this year and to access the applications.

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JA of Chicago 2023-2024 Scholarships

Premier JA Wine Tasting

  Where: River Point

 When: Thursday, May 02, 2024 5:00 PM

Join Junior Achievement of Chicago for our Premier Wine Tasting Event. Enjoy a night of networking and fine wines as we celebrate and support the 350,000 Chicago-area youth JA reaches through financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship programming.

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Premier JA Wine Tasting

306822

Students Reached Locally
2022-2023

14780

Classes Locally
2022-2023

3132

Volunteers Locally
2022-2023

715

Schools Reached Locally
2022-2023

669137

Contact Hours Locally
2022-2023

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