Junior Achievement is the world's largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit economic education organization, reaching nearly four million elementary, middle and high school students in the United States annually. Since 1919, JA has been evolving to meet the demands of a complex, changing world, adapting new ideas and techniques to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business and economics and be workforce ready.

Junior Achievement of Central South Carolina was incorporated in 1968 to serve Richland County and now serves 22 counties: Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Fairfield, Florence, Greenwood, Kershaw, Laurens, Lee, Lexington, Marion, Newberry, Orangeburg, Richland, Saluda, Sumter, Williamsburg, Abbeville, Allendale, McCormick, and Cherokee counties.

For the past 20 years, your JA has met the criteria to earn our national office's highest honor, the Platinum Summit Award. This honor is based on performance in program growth, program quality, financial solvency, and management effectiveness. We are proud that ours in one of only four offices in the nation that has earned this award  every year since its inception in 1987.

Junior Achievement programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities.

P.O. Box 532 - 301 Greystone Boulevard - Columbia, SC 29202 - (803) 252-1974 - Fax: (803) 252-2720 - info@jacsc.org
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