We couldn’t do what we do without volunteers. They bring the learning to life for our students, and provide invaluable exposure to career paths, experiences and adult life for the students. They help our students create connections from what they are learning in the classroom, to how it will be applied in real life. Volunteers serve as examples of what a student’s future could hold; a future they may have never considered before interacting with a volunteer during JA programming.

More than 15,000 corporate, community, parent and college volunteers helped us serve more than 176,000 students last year across the state. That is an incredible amount of support that we don’t take for granted.

This week we’ve been celebrating the impact of our volunteers by sharing messages of thanks from our staff. We miss seeing our volunteers’ faces in person, and look forward to seeing them again soon!

Check out what our staff has to say here:

During this virtual-heavy time, we reached out via email and phone to our volunteers to express our gratitude. Turns out, many of them miss us just as as much as we miss them!