Each year 1 of every 3 Baltimore City seniors drop out of school. Your support of Junior Achievement will help ignite a spark in Baltimore youth.
For every $40 worth of donations made Junior Achievement will help Baltimore youth experience and realize the opportunities and realities of work and life in the 21st century. JA believes in introducing youth as early as kindergarten how lessons such as the difference between a want and a need, basic money skills, and careers can posititvely affect their future.
About Junior Achievement of Central Maryland
Junior Achievement is dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic choices. Through its experential, hands-on programs, JA educates students about workforce readiness, entreprenuership and financial literacy. These early real world lessons translate into widely applicable, lifelong skills. The JA experience shows young people how to attain economic self-suffiency, how to create jobs to strengthen their communities, and how to apply entreprenurial thinking to the workplace.