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School Partnerships

Company Benefits

Junior Achievement is the world's largest and fastest-growing organization dedicated to educating young people about business, economics, and free enterprise with proven effective curriculum outcomes. Classroom volunteers from the business community in the United States and 113 countries worldwide teach JA's programs. Locally JAUM is working with over 1,400 companies and is participating in 700 schools throughout the region. On a worldwide level, Junior Achievement reaches 7 million students each year and has over 200,000 corporate volunteers. Junior Achievement educates and inspires young people to value free enterprise, business, and economics to improve the quality of their lives.

Your decision to be a JA School Partner provides your company:

  • Opportunity to choose a school(s) to partner with to provide JA programming
  • Logo featured in communications between JAUM and school
  • In addition to company's financial support, company receives a $500 gift-in-kind credit for each class taught which is applied to your company's overall total giving level to JAUM
  • Involvement and publicity in public relations and recruitment materials.
  • JAUM will provide templates of materials for your company's use in promoting its volunteer activities. Possibilities include:
  • Article for inclusion in your company's newsletter, internal and external communications
  • Photographs of your employees in action
  • Work with public relations department on how to best garner awareness of your efforts
  • Company name and/or logo mentioned in School Partnership communication by JAUM:
  • Media Alerts
  • Annual Report
  • JAUM Newsletter
  • Print Media
  • Web Site exposure
  • Name and/or Logo recognition on JAUM website
  • Link to your company from the JAUM website
  • Recognition at and invitation to attend JAUM Annual Meeting
  • Recognition in JAUM annual public thank you efforts (example: Owatonna People's Press)
  • The association of your company with Junior Achievement, the world's leading non-profit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring young people to value business, economics, and the free enterprise system to improve the quality of their lives today and in the future