How does volunteering to teach a Junior Achievement program benefit businesses and their employees?
Junior Achievement’s programs: • Provide volunteers with professional development experience by creating opportunities to practice and refine their public speaking and presentation skills. • Offer volunteers a fun and rewarding break in their typical work schedule. • Encourage camaraderie and cooperation between volunteers who team-teach their lessons and companies that participate in JA in a Day events. • Contain important lessons on business ethics and corporate responsiblity. • Help businesses prepare and train their future workforce. • Offer students the opportunity to learn more about local businesses. • Enable businesses to visibly give back to their local communities and meet their philanthropic goals.
