Entrepreneurship Mentoring with Junior Achievement
ORGANIZATION: Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York
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Mentor our future generation to become entrepreneurs! Junior Achievement is collaborating with Ernie Davis Community Center to offer students ages 13-18 the opportunity to learn about running their own business. The students will participate in the JA It's My Business program. This program gives students an opportunity to experience the initial steps necessary to start a business. The program content provides an authentic entrepreneurial experience for students, with each session building up to a product-pitch competition. You, as the volunteer, will guide the students through the activities and engage them with your life experiences over the course of six weeks, meeting once a week for about an hour.
Junior Achievement's mission is to empower young people to own their economic success focusing on three pillars: Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship, Career-Readiness. Volunteers engage students using meaningful activities that strengthen students' knowledge on how to create their own business, understand money in today's marketplace and what careers are available for them to discover.
Today, JA reaches more than 4.8 million students per year in more than 100 markets across the United States.
For more information please visit www.jacuny.org
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About Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York
Location:
1 South Washington St, Rochester, NY 14614, US
Mission Statement
Junior Achievement (JA) empowers young people to own their economic success. Our volunteer-delivered, K-12 programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire kids to dream big and reach their potential.
Description
Since 1968, Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York, Inc. has helped local students learn about real life, real business and the real rewards of education. JA of Central Upstate New York currently serves a 25-county area.
JA's programs are predesigned, classroom or after-school based K-12 curriculums and are delivered by community volunteers to local students (our future employees) in 5 to 8 visits per program. Elementary students learn the basic concepts of business and economy. Middle grade students connect "learning with earning" through practical problem-solving activities and high school students are provided programs designed to help them be prepared for college and the world of work.
The goal of the volunteer dimension of Junior Achievement's programs has remained constant since our inception. That is to bring economic and business theory to life through the simplest of human interactions-sharing.
To do so we need your help. Our ability to reach more children is to a large part, predicted on our ability to secure more volunteers to go into the classroom and deliver JA programs.
Join the hundreds of local community members who assist Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York, Inc. help our children. Our classroom volunteers not only serve as excellent role models for students, they also provide the energy and personal observations and experiences that make learning fun!
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Junior AchievementElmira, NY 14901
DATE POSTED
November 7, 2017
SKILLS
- Mentoring
- Problem Solving
- Business Planning
- Critical Thinking
- Business Development
- Youth Services
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 45 minutes per session, 6 sessions. Hours = 5-6