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Junior Achievement (also JA or JA Worldwide) is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane. Junior Achievement works with local businesses and organizations to deliver experiential programs on the topics of financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship to students in kindergarten through high school. == History == ''Boys' and Girls' Bureau of the Eastern States League'' was founded in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1919 to help educate young people moving from rural America to the country's booming cities about the means of production and free enterprise. The following year, the organization's name was changed to the Junior Achievement Bureau. The name was modified in 1926 to Junior Achievement, Inc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/special/collections/philanthropy/mss048 )〕 Following World War II, the organization grew from a regional into a national organization.〔 "Chapter 12. Impressive Growth, Impressive Quality in the 50s."〕 In the 1960s, it began to grow internationally, as well.〔"Chapter 14. Growth in Enrollment, Quality, and Leadership."〕 For more than 50 years, the organization was known mostly for the JA Company Program, an after-school program where teens formed student companies, sold stocks, produced a product and sold it in their communities. The student companies were overseen by volunteer advisers from the business community. In 1975, Junior Achievement introduced its first in-school program, Project Business, featuring volunteers from the local business community teaching middle school students about business and personal finance. Today, Junior Achievement annually reaches 4 million students with programs that teach financial literacy, entrepreneurship and workforce readiness in grades K-12. Programs are delivered by more than 178,000 Junior Achievement volunteers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ja.org/ )〕 Globally, JA Worldwide reaches 10.6 million students in 117 countries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jaworldwide.org/about/about_news_fact.shtml )〕 Today, Junior Achievement Worldwide has regional offices in (Junior Achievement USA ), (JA Middle East and Africa ) (INJAZ Al-Arab), (JA YE Europe ), (JA Asia Pacific ), (JA Americas ), and (JA Africa ). 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.jaworldwide.org/inside-ja/Pages/Our-Locations.aspx#geoMapListing )〕 Several other organizations have joined Junior Achievement, such as Vlajo in Belgium. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Junior Achievement」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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