Junior Achievement USA announces President’s Volunteer Service Award honorees
Milwaukee, Wis. (WLAX/WEUX) -Junior Achievement USA is pleased to announce that it will honor 69 organizations across the United States with the U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Award for their support during the 2022-23 school year. Seven companies earned Gold Status, meaning their employees donated 10,000 hours or more to teach Junior Achievement financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and career readiness classes across the country. Twelve businesses are honored with Silver Status because their employees spent more than 5,000 hours as JA volunteers. Bronze status was achieved by 51 companies whose employees donated 1,500 hours or more to teach JA life lessons.
Two dozen of the honorees have employees in Wisconsin who contributed their time as JA volunteers around the state. They are:
ADP, Inc. The Home Depot
Amazon Huntington Bancshares
AT&T JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Bank of America KPMG LLP
BMO ManpowerGroup
Caterpillar, Inc. Morgan Stanley
Deloitte PwC
Edward Jones RSM US LLP
Ernst & Young LLP SAP America
FedEx State Farm
GE U.S. Bancorp
HP Inc. Wells Fargo
“Community volunteers are the reason JA programs have such an impact on Wisconsin students,” said Julie Granger, President of Junior Achievement of Wisconsin. “By serving as role models and connecting students with businesses in their own communities, JA volunteers open the world to students, helping them make smart academic and economic choices and pursue their dreams.”
In 2003, President George W. Bush established the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation (the Council) to recognize the valuable contributions volunteers make in communities and to encourage more people to serve. The Council created the President’s Volunteer Service Award program to thank and honor individuals who, by their demonstrated commitment and example, inspire others to engage in volunteer service. In 2006, Junior Achievement became an official certifying organization for this award, which recognizes corporations with a U.S. presence that provide volunteers to teach JA programs anywhere in the world.
The mission of Junior Achievement of Wisconsin is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed. JA teaches students how to begin building financial capability and career exploration early in elementary school by examining needs and wants, basic economic concepts, techniques for saving, basic budgeting, and the ways local businesses support their community. Early JA lessons instill habits of smart money management and career planning. JA helps older students dive deeper into the complexities of life planning such as living within one’s means, student debt, investment strategies, risk management, inflation, credit, and career goals.
Anyone interested in becoming a Junior Achievement supporter or volunteering to teach JA lessons can find information on the organization’s website at https://wisconsin.ja.org.
Junior Achievement is the world’s largest organization dedicated to providing young people with the skills and confidence to own their economic future and contribute to the economic viability of their families, communities, and country. Junior Achievement’s programs – in the critical pathways of career readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy – ignite the spark in young people to realize the opportunities and realities of tomorrow’s workplace. The eleven Junior Achievement of Wisconsin offices reached 121,606 students across the state in the 2022-23 school year.
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