JA Personal Finance®2.0 - 2024/25

Program and Description: Through JA Personal Finance 2.0, students experience the interrelationship between today's financial decisions and future financial freedom. To achieve financial health and wellness, they learn about money-management strategies, including earning, employment and income, budgeting, savings, credit and debt, consumer protection, smart shopping, risk management, investing, credit card usage, debt management, and net worth.

  • Start Dates: TBD

  • Time: 90 minutes (times TBD once school schedule is set)

JA IT’S MY BUSINESS® - 2024/25

  • Program and Description: JA It's My Business! provides students an opportunity to learn how to turn an idea into a business. The program introduces students to the process of design thinking as a problem-solving process and provides an authentic entrepreneurial experience for students, with each session building toward a product-pitch competition.

  • Duration: Each class is one hour long. Six-week program with a culminating pitch competition in November - welcome to attend but not required

  • Start Date: TBD

  • Volunteer need: 1 or 2 in-person volunteers per class.

  • Days and Times: TBD