Junior Achievement of Northern California Programs

Junior Achievement of Northern California Programs offer grade-specific lessons that focus on financial literacy, work and career readiness, and entrepreneurship. The programs use interactive, blended-learning curricula that align with national and state educational standards and are taught by trained volunteers in inner cities, suburbs, and rural areas throughout the United States. In the most recent school year, Junior Achievement of Northern California engaged nearly 3,300 volunteers who provided 516,485 instructional hours to over 90,000 students, with volunteers sharing personal and professional experiences and using provided training, curriculum, ongoing support, and classroom resources.

• Schedule: Programs are delivered during the school year, with instruction provided through structured lessons and activities.
• Price: Information not provided.

Junior Achievement of Northern California is a nonprofit organization that inspires and prepares young people for success and is headquartered in Northern California. 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. Junior Achievement provides activities, guides, thought leadership, and additional resources to support learning, including post-high school programming that offers opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive.

Junior Achievement of Northern California first opened in 1950, and Junior Achievement USA, founded in 1919, 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 is now the 10th largest Junior Achievement operation in the United States. Junior Achievement is one of a few nonprofits that use independent, third-party evaluators to gauge the impact of its programs, and independent evaluators have conducted studies on Junior Achievement's effectiveness since 1993.

Junior Achievement of Northern California partners with corporations, community organizations, and schools, and works with volunteers from the local community to deliver its programs. Through these corporate, community, and educational partnerships, the organization brings together a trained group of volunteers to teach and encourage students to manage their personal finances, be self-sufficient, and share a culture of optimism, grit, zeal, and enterprise.

The leadership team connected to Junior Achievement includes Mr. Arnold B. Evans, Co-Head of Emerging Middle Market at JPMorgan Chase and Chairman of the Junior Achievement USA Board of Directors; Jack Harris, Chief Executive Officer of Junior Achievement; Tim Greinert, President of Junior Achievement; Adrian Dimech, Vice President of Delivery and Assurance at AT&T and chairman of Junior Achievement of Northern California's governing board of directors; and Cristene Burr, President and CEO of Junior Achievement of Northern California.

Last updated March 11, 2026.