This school year many local businesses embraced the concept of Employee Volunteer Programs (EVPs) by sending numerous workers into schools to teach financial literacy programs for Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore (JAES). Throughout the school year Junior Achievement recruits businesspersons to teach its financial literacy, job readiness, and entrepreneurship programs to children ages K-12.
Those businesses that dedicated time and human resources to ensure local youth have a head start on managing their futures included companies such as Capitol One; Avery Hall Insurance; Twilley, Rommel, and Stephens; Wilgus Insurance; Bank of Delmarva; Perdue; Cambridge International; Talbot Bank; Hebron Savings Bank; and M&T Bank. Each of these firms encouraged numerous employees to leave work daily for five days to teach forty-five minute financial literacy lessons to area elementary school students. As a result of this conjoined effort, many students who had never been exposed to these concepts received a firsthand lesson in becoming responsible, independent adults.
Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore is a nonprofit organization committed to giving young people in all communities the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. Through its hands-on, age-appropriate programs Junior Achievement inspires our youth to live within their means, prepare for the world of work, and understand the free enterprise system. Today, JAES teaches more than six thousand students across the Eastern Shore. For more information email JAES at info@easternshoreja.org, phone at 410.742.8112, or log on to http://www.ja.org/www.ja.org.
