Junior Achievement and Skills-based Volunteerism

Skills-based volunteerism is service by individuals or groups that capitalizes on personal talents or core business skills, experience or education.

Junior Achievement utilizes skills based professionals in a unique way. JA is a non-profit organization that partners with volunteers from the community to teach elementary students about their roles as individuals, workers and consumers, and to prepare middle/high school students for key economic and workforce issues they will face. JA has served 42,660 students in Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Delaware, Grundy, Iowa, Johnson, Jones and Linn counties.

Junior Achievement’s unique approach allows volunteers from the community to deliver curriculum while sharing personal and professional experiences with students. Embodying the heart of Junior Achievement, classroom volunteers transform the key concepts of the lessons into a message that inspires and empowers students to believe in themselves, showing them they can make a difference in the world. 

Volunteers take a message of opportunity and boundless potential to a classroom in the community. No matter what your profession, Junior Achievement is your opportunity to inspire the next generation. 

By investing as little as 30-45 minutes a week for five-seven weeks, volunteers can impact an entire class and open a world of hope and opportunity. Join other business professionals and volunteer in your community today!