Inspire and prepare young people to succeed

Junior Achievement Helps Prepare Today's Students for a Bright Future

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 an organization looking to help us move 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 2020-2021 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 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 2021 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 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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295157

Students Reached Locally
2019-2020

14174

Classes Locally
2019-2020

6500

Volunteers Locally
2019-2020

1215

Schools Reached Locally
2019-2020

979581

Contact Hours Locally
2019-2020

Select a button below to see how you or your organization can get involved with Junior Achievement of Chicago.

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