Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana

ACG Kentucky Presents $7,500 to JA.

Bill Probus of Crowe Horwath and President of ACG Kentucky (far left), presents a check for $7,500 to Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana in Sam Swope JA BizTown.

Junior Achievement Announces Grants from Southern Indiana Foundations

Volunteers are Needed to Teach JA to Southern Indiana Students

Junior Achievement has much to be thankful for during this holiday season. Six of Southern Indiana’s foundations have recently announced extraordinary support to ensure that our children learn the economics of life this year:

First Savings Charitable Foundation Grant

Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana served 3,163 students from Clark, Crawford and Washington County schools with its financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship programs this year thanks to a $54,115 grant from First Savings Bank’s First Savings Charitable Foundation.

Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Grant Goal Surpassed!

The Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County helped JA served 1,075 students this year in Floyd County!

Southern Indiana Community Foundation Grant for Summer Programs

The Community Foundation of Southern Indiana helped JA serve 577 students with after-school financial literacy programs!

Junior Achievement Receives Highest National Award

Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana was recently awarded the Platinum Summit Award, the highest honor a JA chapter can receive from the organization's national office.

Making A Striking Difference

The Junior Achievement Bowling Classic is quickly approaching. Ashley Roberts, Banking Officer for Republic Bank, serves as a Team Captain for the Bowling Classic. She shares the company's experience with JA's high-energy fundraiser.

Harrison County Community Foundation Grant Provides Valuable Economics Programs for 1,879 Students

Thanks to a generous grant from the Harrison County Community Foundation 1,879 Harrison County students experienced Junior Achievement's financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship programs!

Junior Achievement Surpasses Goal for Walmart Foundation Grant

The Walmart Foundation awarded Junior Achievement area offices with a $75,000 grant to provide 8,000 Kentucky middle and high school students with JA's financial literacy programs. The six JA offices participating (JA of Kentuckiana included) served 8,230 Kentucky students!

Walmart Foundation makes $75,000 donation towards Junior Achievement's financial literacy efforts

Junior Achievement area offices throughout Kentucky received a $75,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation for the organization's Middle and High School Financial Literacy Outreach program.

Sunny With A High Chance of Success!

The Gilbert Foundation has sponsored the new meteorologist job in Sam Swope JA BizTown^®!

Citi Foundation and Junior Achievement USA Provide JA Program to 130 Students

Citi Foundation and Junior Achievement USA^® have awarded Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana with a $7,500 grant to provide a JA program to 130 students!

A Flower in the Garden of Coolness

Our students are bright and eager to discover things about themselves. Programs like Real Jobs, Real World and Success Skills provides them with thought provoking self-assessments and access to professionals, allowing them to question themselves and others about various careers and experiences.

Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Donates to JA

Due to the continued partnership with One Southern Indiana and the Horseshoe Foundation, JA served 1,333 elementary and high school students in Floyd County classrooms with JA’s cutting-edge financial literacy education programs during the 2010-11 school year. We are thrilled to have been able to increase the number of students served by 60%, from 833 to 1,333 students!

CNN/HLN

Only 10 percent of kids 12-17 say they have a credit card, but 60 percent say people should get one after high school.

Not Just Any 55,000 Degrees

There is enormous justification for helping our kids learn to map out their future. The most compelling reason is summarized by the economics concept of “opportunity cost.” I like the definition found on Wikipedia best, “Opportunity Cost: The loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen.” When the career planning process is learned in high school, the opportunity costs are negligible. When kids learn by trial and error once leaving school, they often waste years of their lives and tens of thousands of their dollars by getting degrees that result in jobs they don’t like. Or, they never complete college and rush to find the first job that pops up. Additionally, the community suffers the opportunity cost of this lost human productivity.

Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Supports JA

Junior Achievement is proud to announce that we served 682 students in Southern Indiana with afterschool JA programs in the 2010-2011 school year. This was all made possible by the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana's grant of $3,600.

Bellarmine University Partners with JA

A unique day occurs on August 17, 2011, at Junior Achievement where more than 400 Bellarmine freshmen learn how to make smart financial decisions through a hands-on college budgeting simulation. This Junior Achievement program, Finance Park², offers lessons on budgeting, identity theft, credit cards and payday lending.

JA Successfully Meets Goals of Harrison County Grant

JA was given the opportunity to reach students in Harrison County this school year with a grant of $49,000 from the Harrison County Community Foundation. JA successfully reached 1748 students with JA programs.

Citi Grant: Banks In Action Program

After 8 consecutive volunteer-led lessons, the local Banks in Action competition was held on May 12^th. Teams from participating schools met online and competed against each other for scholarship opportunities. The first place team and second place team came from the junior class at Central High School.