Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida

Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida is a volunteer-led, Kindergarten-12th grade program that fosters work-readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy skills, and uses experiential learning to inspire students in our community to dream big and reach their potential.

JA helps students realize that the education they are getting today will help them to have a bright future tomorrow. JA's unique, volunteer-delivered programs, show them all of the possibilities that lay before them. They realize they can choose different paths; College? A specific trade? Start their own business? Through your participation as an organization or as an individual, these statistics below can begin to change in your community:

• 20% of U.S. students will not complete high school on time and earn a diploma.
• 49% of U.S. employers recognize that talent shortages impact their ability to serve clients and customers.
• 36% of Americans say that they have at some point in their lives felt their financial situation was out of control.
• 91% of millennials wish they had greater access to entrepreneurial education programs.