Exciting News! The Achievement Foundation JASAN Scholarship!
We are delighted to share the news that The Achievement Foundation has agreed to a 3-year matching grant program to support the JASAN Scholarship to JA field professional staff to attend the JA National Leadership Conference.
For each of the next 3 years, The Achievement Foundation will provide up to $15,000 as a match to all donations to the NLC scholarship provided by JASAN members and friends. JASAN members can sponsor a full or a half scholarship, or designate a specific amount of your contribution to support this important program.
Additionally, we hope you will continue to contribute generously as you have to JASAN’s operating costs so we can continue to support JA’s mission through our various programs. We have updated both Contribution forms (links below) with this information.
One of the best rewards from our JA career was the relationships and friendships that were developed. JASAN builds on that reward by connecting, informing, and engaging JA alumni after they retire or leave JA for other pursuits.
We are 100% dependent on the generosity of our members to provide the financial resources to manage JASAN’s operations. This includes our website, newsletter, social media, and engagement activities, plus funding the annual Flemke, Sweeney, and Professional Staff Hall of Fame Awards, and providing scholarships to current JA staff associates to attend NLC, not to mention preserving our rich history. JASAN operates on a very lean and efficient budget, but we need your help to continue the quality service you have come to expect from this group.
Please consider a gift to JASAN to keep things going! Your financial support is very much appreciated.
Zea Khoja, a Senior at John Foster Dulles High School in Sugar Land, Texas, is the 2024 Jim Sweeny Award winner for Entrepreneurial Excellence. Zea is the CEO of the F.L.I.N. (Financial Literacy Interactive Notebook) company.
Funds also support the Jim Sweeny Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, which is awarded at the JA National Student Leadership Summit in June each year. This $2,000 scholarship is awarded to a JA Company Program student in recognition of his or her accomplishments, role in their JA Company, and entrepreneurial potential.
The Karl Flemke Pioneer Achievement Award is given annually at the JA National Leadership Conference. This award goes to a first-time Junior Achievement president who has demonstrated an outstanding contribution to and achievement with the organization.
The JA Professional Staff Hall of Fame consists of former JA staff professionals whose long-term dedication, commitment, and exceptional accomplishments made a significant impact on the organization and created a foundation for the current organization. Laureates are role models and set standards of accomplishment and behavior to which current and future JA staff should aspire. The process is managed by the JA Staff Alumni Network.
In 2023-24, we continued our support for JA area staff to attend the Kansas City, MO National Leadership Conference by awarding fifty $1,000 scholarships. See who earned a scholarship. Read the “Thank you” notes from many of the scholarship recipients.
In 2022-23, we continued our support for JA area staff to attend the Louisville, KY National Leadership Conference by awarding fifty $1,000 scholarships. See who earned a scholarship. Read the “Thank you” notes from many of the scholarship recipients.
In 2020-21, under the leadership of Marty Lee, Fund Development Chair, the JA Staff Alumni Network undertook an ambitious campaign to raise $50,000 to “Support Our Successors” (the SOS Campaign). Due to the generous responsiveness of 118 JASAN members and the Achievement Foundation, the campaign raised $175,00. In 2022, we awarded $1,000 Scholarships to seventy-five JA area staff to be applied toward their participation at the National Leadership Conference. Read a list of the recipients and what some shared regarding receiving this scholarship to attend NLC [Recipients Say “Thank you”].
