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JA WORLDWIDE

Preparing Youth for Employment and Entrepreneurship

JA WORLDWIDE is world ranked on thedotgood.
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Number of employeeS

3,943 (2025)

Year of Registration

2010

Number of Followers

1

Annual income

US$ 0.54 billion (FY2025)

Category of SGO

Non-profit

Country

United States

President and CEO
Asheesh Advani
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JA Worldwide: Scaling up while keeping it human

Few such social good organizations have reached their tipping point for scaling, though still growing in spirit and impact, and yet keeping it all human.

JA Worldwide operates and supports an international network of entities addressing the youth, with their hope and desire to contribute to their world. Creativity and innovation flow from every door and window. With JA Worldwide, we are at the heart of the Youth workshop of the planet, getting them ready to thrive in an entrepreneur world with more than a single bottom line in mind.

It is massive and impressive, and having a lasting and profound impact precisely because JA Worldwide is having a meaningful conversation with tomorrow’s adults.

 

It is No. 5 in thedotgood’s World...

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JA Worldwide: Scaling up while keeping it human

Few such social good organizations have reached their tipping point for scaling, though still growing in spirit and impact, and yet keeping it all human.

JA Worldwide operates and supports an international network of entities addressing the youth, with their hope and desire to contribute to their world. Creativity and innovation flow from every door and window. With JA Worldwide, we are at the heart of the Youth workshop of the planet, getting them ready to thrive in an entrepreneur world with more than a single bottom line in mind.

It is massive and impressive, and having a lasting and profound impact precisely because JA Worldwide is having a meaningful conversation with tomorrow’s adults.

 

It is No. 5 in thedotgood’s World Top 200 Social Good Organizations and No. 2 in its USA Top 100.

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Mission statement
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As one of the world’s largest and most-impactful youth-serving NGOs, JA delivers hands on, immersive learning in entrepreneurship, work readiness, financial health, economics, STEM, sustainability, citizenship, ethics, and more.

Delivering more than 23 million youth educational experiences each year through over 740,000 teachers and business volunteers, JA Worldwide is one of few organizations with the scale, experience, and passion to build a brighter future for the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders.

The impact of JA’s learning experiences goes beyond the lives of individual students. For over 100 years, JA has operated all over the world, even in areas of political instability and volatility, ready to help students through the unemployment, poverty, and hopelessness that stem from such conditions.

By helping youth develop the employment and entrepreneurial tools to find meaningful work and start sustainable companies, JA serves as...

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As one of the world’s largest and most-impactful youth-serving NGOs, JA delivers hands on, immersive learning in entrepreneurship, work readiness, financial health, economics, STEM, sustainability, citizenship, ethics, and more.

Delivering more than 23 million youth educational experiences each year through over 740,000 teachers and business volunteers, JA Worldwide is one of few organizations with the scale, experience, and passion to build a brighter future for the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders.

The impact of JA’s learning experiences goes beyond the lives of individual students. For over 100 years, JA has operated all over the world, even in areas of political instability and volatility, ready to help students through the unemployment, poverty, and hopelessness that stem from such conditions.

By helping youth develop the employment and entrepreneurial tools to find meaningful work and start sustainable companies, JA serves as conduit for peace and prosperity. Through JA, young people are equipped with the skillset and mindset to build thriving communities.

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Impact

LATEST ANNUAL INCOME
US$ 0.54 billion (FY2025)
Previous Annual Income
Unknown
Latest Surplus/Deficit
Unknown
Latest Net Assets
Unknown
Name of Auditing Firm

Forvis
111 S. Tejon Street
Suite 800
Colorado Springs, CO 80903-2286
United States

LATEST FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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Figures are shown in US$ or EUR. When an organization reports in another currency, DOT converts it using European Central Bank reference rates: the fiscal-year average for income and surplus or deficit, and the fiscal year-end rate (usually Dec. 31) for net assets.

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COUNTRY (OR COUNTRIES) WHERE ACTIVE
Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Austria and more
Latest ANNUAL REPORT

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TAX YEAR END
June 30

Governance

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President and CEO
Asheesh Advani
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Asheesh is a lifelong social innovator who has led JA Worldwide since 2015. During his leadership tenure, JA Worldwide has been recognized as one of the ten most impactful NGOs in the world in annual rankings. As an alumnus of JA, Asheesh recalls how participating in a JA program as a teenager stayed with him during his entrepreneurial endeavors, which have involved leading two businesses from start-up to acquisition. Asheesh’s first venture helped pioneer the business of peer-to-peer finance and was acquired by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group in 2007 and rebranded as Virgin Money. Prior to joining JA, he served as CEO of a financial technology company that was acquired by Interactive Brokers in 2015 and rebranded as Interactive Advisors. His experiences as an entrepreneur and founder have been chronicled in case studies at Harvard Business School and Babson College. While running his first venture, Asheesh served as a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine for five years and wrote two books about business finance, which received positive reviews in the Wall Street Journal and Business Week. More recently, his book Modern Achievement, co-authored with bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith, reconsiders the concept of achievement for aspiring leaders. Asheesh is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and is also actively involved in the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a stewardship board member of the Center for the New Economy and Society. He started his career as a consultant at Monitor Company (now Monitor Deloitte) and at the World Bank, where he conducted research on industrial clusters as a source of entrepreneurship and innovation in promoting economic growth. In 2021, Asheesh received the Tony Hsieh Award as recognition for his leadership of JA Worldwide. In 2022, Asheesh was selected as an honoree from the United States for the YPO Global Social Impact Award. Asheesh holds degrees from the Wharton School and Oxford University, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He and his family now live in the Boston area.
Has Held position since
2015
Board Gender balance
47% M | 53% F
Number of Employees
3,943 (2025)
Number of Volunteers
464,161 plus another 326,341 teachers delivering JA learning experiences (2025)

History

Junior Achievement (JA) was founded in 1919 by Theodore Vail, president of American Telephone & Telegraph; Horace Moses, president of Strathmore Paper Co.; and Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts. Our first offering, the JA Company Program, trained students to run their own small businesses through after-school clubs.
By 1955, JA had established a location in British Columbia, Canada, our first outside the United States. Twenty years later, we broadened our scope, moving from after-school programs into the classroom curriculum with the introduction of Project Business.
Since then, JA's hands-on, immersive educational programs—about half of which are taught in the classroom and the other half through after-school opportunities—have spread across the world, reaching more than 23 million young people each year.
Today, JA Worldwide is one of the world’s largest youth-serving NGOs, with 350 locations in 110+ countries...

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Junior Achievement (JA) was founded in 1919 by Theodore Vail, president of American Telephone & Telegraph; Horace Moses, president of Strathmore Paper Co.; and Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts. Our first offering, the JA Company Program, trained students to run their own small businesses through after-school clubs.
By 1955, JA had established a location in British Columbia, Canada, our first outside the United States. Twenty years later, we broadened our scope, moving from after-school programs into the classroom curriculum with the introduction of Project Business.
Since then, JA's hands-on, immersive educational programs—about half of which are taught in the classroom and the other half through after-school opportunities—have spread across the world, reaching more than 23 million young people each year.
Today, JA Worldwide is one of the world’s largest youth-serving NGOs, with 350 locations in 110+ countries that are served by six regional operating centers: JA Africa, JA Americas, JA Asia Pacific, JA Europe, INJAZ Al-Arab JA MENA, and Junior Achievement USA. Each region hosts our well-known Company of the Year competitions, which showcase the business acumen of young entrepreneurs around the world, and qualifies the winners for the De La Vega Global Entrepreneurship Award, which presents seed funding and global exposure to these young entrepreneurs.
Our global micro-credential, the Entrepreneurial Skills Pass (ESP), is a practical assessment and examination tool that responds to the needs of stakeholders in the education ecosystem: employers, students, educators, and parents. The ESP is available in 50+ countries and more than two dozen languages, allowing for standardized impact assessment of each student's progress, as well as for comparisons between schools, regions, and countries. The ESP also bridges the gap between the schools and the world of work, ensuring that our educational systems prepare youth to successfully enter the labor market.

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Legal Status
501(c)(3) in the U.S.
Year of registration
2010
BYLAWS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE
Yes
BYLAWS PROVIDED ON REQUEST
Yes

Contact

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HQ LOCATION ADDRESS
JA Worldwide
131 Dartmouth Street, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02116
USA
SOCIAL NETWORKS
WEBSITE
Visit official website
MAIN CONTACT EMAIL
tere.stouffer@jaworldwide.org
+1 212 641 0747