Turkey Time!

We at JA would like to give thanks for having the privilege to work with so many amazing teachers, volunteers, and community leaders. It is through their hard work and sacrifices that we are able to advance the JA mission!

Junior Achievement would like to wish you a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

JA President on Fox Business!

Click here to see JA Worldwide President, Sean Rush, speak on Fox Business about helping children gain knowledge of business, the economy and financial literacy through volunteering!

Online Forms are Working!

Hey Volunteers!

The First Class Visit and Class Completion Forms are now working! To submit your form, please go to http://www.jafortworth.org/ and click on the appropriate link under the Volunteer Forms section (located on the left side of the Home page).

Please contact us if you have questions at jsenter@jafortworth.org.

First Annual Junior Achievement Breakfast

The first annual JA Breakfast will be held at the Fort Worth Club this Thursday, November 12^th. Junior Achievement’s Vice President of Development, Leslie Flanery, along with our board members, have worked hard to develop the pilot event. With over 200 expected attendees and a full one-hour program including local JA students and esteemed speakers – we are looking forward to a successful event!

It's November!

Hey volunteers - time is flyin by! Below are a few reminders as we enter the holiday season:

Many school districts will have the entire week of November 23rd off for Thanksgiving. If this is the case, you will need to skip this week and pick up where you left off the week of November 30th with your class.

It's a good idea to try to get your class completed by Friday, December 18th, which is the last day most schools are in session before the winter break. However, the Fall semester does carry over into January. If you find that you will need to complete your class in January, please start discussing this with your teacher now to get those dates on the calendar.

Please contact us at any time if you have questions about your class. Thank you so much for volunteering this Fall!

Attention Volunteers!

Our First Class Visit and Class Completion Forms are currently being updated. Please email us to let us know you have begun or (finished, if you have already) your class. We will let you know as soon as the forms are completed - we apologize for any inconvenience.

Questions? Please contact Jenny at jsenter@jafortworth.org.

Thank you for your participation and support of Junior Achievement!

Steve Jobs Bigger Than Oprah??

Well...that's what teens surveyed in the 2009 "Teens and Entrepreneurship" Survey say. This is the seventh year that Junior Achievement has conducted the "Teens and Entrepreneurship" poll, which attempts to gauge teens’ attitudes around business ownership. The survey was conducted by Opinion Research Corporation from August 20-24, 2009, and surveyed 1,000 U.S. teens ages 12-17 by telephone.

Click this link to check out the results - you may be surprised! http://www.ja.org/files/polls/Teens-Entrepreneurship-Part-2.pdf

Calling All Volunteers!

With the fall semester in full swing, we are currently placing volunteers in classrooms throughout Tarrant, Parker, Johnson and Wise counties. We still have many opportunities available in our local elementary, middle and high schools. Listed below are the schools in which we have classrooms in need of a volunteer:

Available Elementary Classes:

Cannon Elementary (Grapevine Colleyville ISD)

Tarver-Rendon Elementary (Mansfield ISD)

Westcliff Elementary (Fort Worth ISD)

Washington Heights (Fort Worth ISD)

Webb Elementary (Arlington ISD)

Northbrook (Eagle Mountain/Saginaw ISD)

We have middle school classes available in several Fort Worth schools.

We have high school classes available in classrooms just west of Texas Motor Speedway.

Please help us impact as many students as possible in North Texas during the 2009-2010 school year! For more information please contact Laura Clingman at Lclingman@jafortworth.org.

Penn State Welcomes Junior Achievement!

Randal Mays, President of JA of the Chisholm Trail, spent the week of September 14th at the Penn State Executive Education Center participating in Strategic Leadership in JA training. Randal and the other twenty participants were hand-selected by JA’s headquarters as leaders who will shape the future of the organization.

A major initiative of JA is to maintain its relevancy and cutting edge position in an ever changing education and social environment. The training for all the participants was paid for through a grant from the American Express Foundation.

NEW NATIONAL POLL: MORE THAN NINE-IN-TEN U.S. TEENS SAY ENTREPRENEURSHIP SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL

More than half surveyed would like to start their own businesses

Colorado Springs, Colo. — The results of a new national poll released today by Junior Achievement indicate that an overwhelming majority of U.S. teens-92 percent of those surveyed-believe that entrepreneurial skills should be taught in college or earlier. The "Junior Achievement Teens and Entrepreneurship Poll" defined entrepreneurial skills as "taking the initiative and assuming risk to create value for the company or business, either as an owner of your own business or in your place of work."

To read this entire article, please visit:

http://www.ja.org/about/releases/about_newsitem546.asp