Our Mission
Our Mission is to educate and inspire young people to succeed in a global economy.
Since its inception in 1919, Junior Achievement Worldwide has been steadfast in its commitment to ensuring that every child has a fundamental understanding of the free enterprise system. The practical business knowledge and personal economic skills taught by Junior Achievement help improve the quality of students' lives, facilitate workplace readiness, and encourage entrepreneurship.
Through a network of 140 affiliate offices in all 50 states and 113 international members throughout the world, Junior Achievement Worldwide delivers more than 22 richly diverse, integrated, and sequential economic education programs for school children in grades preK-12. Throughout its history, Junior Achievement Worldwide has developed meaningful and productive relationships with its partners, including schools, administrators, teachers, parents, volunteers, community members, and businesses.
Junior Achievement of the Desert Southwest, Inc. is a member of JA
Worldwide and a part of the global organization that operates in 123 countries
and reaches 9.7 million students. For more information please click on the
link below: http://www.ja.org/about/about_news_fact.shtml
Locally, Junior Achievement of The Desert Southwest, Inc. has been serving El Paso County since 1967, with effective hands-on financial literacy programs that reach out to young people with a diversity of racial and ethnic backgrounds in both urban and rural settings. Last year we served thousands of students within the Greater El Paso Area.
Since 1967, JADSW has served over 70,000 young people in the El Paso area.
The JADSW office serves anywhere between 3,700 to 10,000 students per year.
In 2008-2009, JADSW provided programs for 3759 students in the El Paso area.
JA programs are delivered by our dedicated and trained volunteers. The JADSW
office currently has over 157 volunteers who implement JA programs throughout
the city.
The local office is under the leadership and guidance of the JADSW Board of Directors. Twenty-three (23) of El Paso's premier businesses are represented on the JADSW Board and are dedicated to supporting the mission and programs of Junior Achievement. To view our Board of Directors, please click on the "Contact us/Board of Directors" tab at the top of the website.
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Our Vision
We believe it is vital that young people learn from business owners and other professionals, so our program is built on engaging community volunteers to INVEST in the city's future workforce.
By linking the world of work with El Paso Schools, we INVOLVE volunteers in preparing the leaders of the future to deliver high-quality, state-certified lesson plans and share real-life experiences with students.
The result: our ambassadors INSPIRE and leave a lasting impact on young El Pasoans.
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