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Junior Achievement / Allstate Survey Reveals Disconnect Between Teens’ and Parents’ Views on Paying for College and Other Personal Finance Topics
NEW YORK, NY— Junior Achievement USA® (JA) and The Allstate Foundation released startling findings from the 2015 Teens & Personal Finance Survey, which expanded to…
Mobile Finance Park Returns to Prepare Long Island Students for Real World Financial Realities
NEW YORK, NY – Capital One / Junior Achievement Mobile Finance Park is moving to Hauppauge, Suffolk County, Long Island for an eighth season cycle after…
How Scouting Helped Prepare This Teen to Fight Cancer
Katie Casserly never knew how much the Scout Motto — “Be Prepared” — would apply to her life until she was diagnosed with cancer last…
Are We Creating a Lost Generation of Women in Our Workforce?
Throughout the past 16 years, I’ve seen many qualified women come through our doors who are simply passed over in the job market, judged on…
Thurgood Marshall College Fund Partnering with Apple to Inspire the Next Generation of Talent
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and Apple have announced a partnership to identify, develop and harness talent from the nation’s community of Historically Black…
Junior Achievement Teams-up With AT&T to Mentor Teens on Career Goals and Choices
What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? Such a simple question that is so hard to answer. Did you know what you wanted…
Why Engineers Should Apply to Teach For America
Vincent Mo is an engineering manager at Google and friend of TFA alum Gary Chen (Houston ’04). Vincent recently reached out to a prospective corps…
National Nutrition Month: Addressing Nutrition-related Issues
March is National Nutrition Month, a national campaign that focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.…
Coming to Our Senses in the Concrete Jungle
At Spoons Across America, we believe the best approach to nutrition education is to encourage children to lift up their spoons and excite all their…
Teaching Tolerance film about Selma march set to premiere amid 50th anniversary celebration
The SPLC’s new Teaching Tolerance film about the Selma voting rights march will premiere this week in Montgomery during the festivities marking the 50th anniversary of…
Talbots & Dress for Success: a Perfect Cause Marketing Fit
By Sarah Ford While sipping on my coffee this morning, I was flipping through the Talbots Spring magazine and was thrilled when I got to…
Project Scientist Girls Learn STEM: From Roller Coasters To Cable Jewelry
By Nichie Wilson, Events Manager On January 23, Time Warner Cable partnered with Project Scientist to teach more than 50 young girls about the science…