Junior Achievement awarded $60,000 Grant from State Farm
Funding Supports Junior Achievement Work Readiness & Financial Literacy programs for At-Risk Children
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Junior Achievement Florida Foundation has announced today that it has received a $60,000 grant from State Farm. The state-wide initiative will support Junior Achievement learning experiences in eight localities throughout Florida, enabling thousands of young people to participate in JA's nationally recognized financial literacy and work readiness learning experiences.
"The mission of State Farm remains committed to ensuring that young people receive financial literacy and work readiness education programs," said Jose Soto, Corporate Responsibility Analyst at State Farm. "Junior Achievement programs help all students improve their financial literacy, especially the low to moderate income students who derive greater benefits from the programs."
Each JA area will use the support to advance learning experiences most needed in their region. JA Tampa Bay will deliver JA Inspire Virtual Career Expo supplemented with the JA Digital Career App. The virtual platforms provide middle and high school students with a highly interactive virtual career fair, where they engage with over 100 businesses and educational institutions. JA Miami will advance the JA Stock Market Challenge, empowering students to visualize, first-hand, how the laws of economics unfold in the real world, encapsulated in a virtual competition. JA Space Coast will provide third and fourth grade students a virtual component of JA More Than Money; a learning experience designed to introduce concepts of money management, goods and services, and global markets. JA South Florida and JA Southwest Florida will provide the JA Personal Finance learning experience to high school students, educating young people on the relationship between today's financial decisions and future financial freedom. JA Central Florida, JA North Florida, and JA Palm Beaches will deliver the newly enhanced JA Finance Park Virtual; where students will build a foundation for making intelligent and informed personal finance decisions. JA Northwest Florida will provide JA Economics for Success through a virtual delivery platform, where students explore their skills, interests, values, and the world of work to make informed education, career, and life decisions.
"We are grateful to State Farm for this grant because it helps make what we do possible," said Claudia Kirk Barto, President. "Our K-12 programs on work-readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy are offered to schools and students completely virtually, and free of charge because of grants like this and State Farm grants from previous years."
About Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches & Treasure Coast
Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches & Treasure Coast is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire and prepare young people throughout Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, and Hendry counties to succeed in a global economy. Junior Achievement's over twenty K-12 programs are taught by volunteer mentors in the classroom, after school, and through on-site "adult for a day" simulations. Program funding comes through contributions from businesses, individuals, foundations, and special event fundraisers. For more information please visit http://www.JuniorAchievement.com.
The mission of State Farm is to help people manage the risks of everyday life, recover from the unexpected, and realize their dreams. State Farm and its affiliates are the largest providers of auto and home insurance in the United States. Its 19,200 agents and 59,000 employees serve approximately 84 million policies and accounts – over 81 million auto, fire, life, health and commercial policies and over 2 million financial services accounts. Commercial auto insurance, along with coverage for renters, business owners, boats and motorcycles, is available. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the parent of the State Farm family of companies. State Farm is ranked No. 36 on the 2020 Fortune 500 list of largest companies. For more information, please visit http://www.statefarm.com
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