Junior Achievement of Northern California Programs
Junior Achievement of Northern California, 1212 Broadway Plaza, Suite 2100, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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Junior Achievement of Northern California Programs include JA Finance Park, JA Company Program, and Career & Innovation Summits. In JA Finance Park, students take part in a volunteer-coached capstone simulation that uses interactive technology and 13 themed Launchpad Learning Pods to manage budgets. Through JA Company Program, student teams use market research and digital tools to launch real businesses, and Career & Innovation Summits are industry-led events that offer hands-on skilling and direct mentorship from corporate volunteers. JA Launchpad is described as a 16,231 sq. ft. center that reimagines career education as an immersive “Innovation Playground” and is guided by LEED-informed principles.
Junior Achievement of Northern California states that its mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy by becoming financially literate, workforce ready, and armed with an entrepreneurial mindset. All JA K–12th grade program curricula focus on financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship, and the lessons align with national and state educational standards. Junior Achievement has over 100 local JA Areas across the nation and is described as the nation’s largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their futures, and make smart academic and economic choices, and Junior Achievement of Northern California is now the 10th largest JA operation in the United States. Junior Achievement of Northern California first opened in 1950, and JA USA was founded in 1919 and has grown to be the nation’s largest organization dedicated to inspiring and preparing young people to succeed in the global economy.
Junior Achievement of Northern California partners with corporations and individuals to fund the programs that are delivered to local students, and through corporate, community, and educational partnerships, it brings together a trained force of passionate volunteers to teach and inspire generations of young people to manage their personal finances, be self-sufficient, and have a shared culture of optimism, grit, zeal, and enterprise. Junior Achievement is one of a few nonprofits to use independent, third-party evaluators to gauge the impact of its programs, and since 1993, independent evaluators have conducted studies on Junior Achievement’s effectiveness, with findings that state Junior Achievement has a positive impact in a number of critical areas. The leadership team includes Mr. Arnold B. Evans, Co-Head of Emerging Middle Market JPMorgan Chase, as Chairman of the Junior Achievement USA Board of Directors; Jack Harris as Chief Executive Officer of Junior Achievement; Tim Greinert as President of Junior Achievement; Adrian Dimech, Vice President of Delivery and Assurance at AT&T, as chairman of Junior Achievement of Northern California’s governing board of directors; and Cristene Burr as President and CEO of Junior Achievement of Northern California.
Last updated June 10, 2026.
Junior Achievement of Northern California states that its mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy by becoming financially literate, workforce ready, and armed with an entrepreneurial mindset. All JA K–12th grade program curricula focus on financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship, and the lessons align with national and state educational standards. Junior Achievement has over 100 local JA Areas across the nation and is described as the nation’s largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their futures, and make smart academic and economic choices, and Junior Achievement of Northern California is now the 10th largest JA operation in the United States. Junior Achievement of Northern California first opened in 1950, and JA USA was founded in 1919 and has grown to be the nation’s largest organization dedicated to inspiring and preparing young people to succeed in the global economy.
Junior Achievement of Northern California partners with corporations and individuals to fund the programs that are delivered to local students, and through corporate, community, and educational partnerships, it brings together a trained force of passionate volunteers to teach and inspire generations of young people to manage their personal finances, be self-sufficient, and have a shared culture of optimism, grit, zeal, and enterprise. Junior Achievement is one of a few nonprofits to use independent, third-party evaluators to gauge the impact of its programs, and since 1993, independent evaluators have conducted studies on Junior Achievement’s effectiveness, with findings that state Junior Achievement has a positive impact in a number of critical areas. The leadership team includes Mr. Arnold B. Evans, Co-Head of Emerging Middle Market JPMorgan Chase, as Chairman of the Junior Achievement USA Board of Directors; Jack Harris as Chief Executive Officer of Junior Achievement; Tim Greinert as President of Junior Achievement; Adrian Dimech, Vice President of Delivery and Assurance at AT&T, as chairman of Junior Achievement of Northern California’s governing board of directors; and Cristene Burr as President and CEO of Junior Achievement of Northern California.
Last updated June 10, 2026.
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