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Learn With JA

Discover hands-on programs that build financial health, work readiness, and entrepreneurship skills. Browse JA programs by topic, grade level, and format, then register to join a learning experience that fits your goals.

Visit JA Campus

Visit JA’s digital Campus for bite-sized learning options through our open access modules, tools, videos and activities.

Students

Ready to launch your own business?

JA Company Program is a hands-on 15 week experience for students in Grades 9–12 where you’ll build a real company, work with a team, and learn skills in leadership, marketing, sales, and finance. No experience needed—just curiosity and creativity.

Complete the Expression of Interest Form below to get started.

Educators

Learn how to request a program, what delivery looks like, and how JA works with educators and schools to get started.

Community Organizations Serving Youth

Learn how to request a JA program for the youth you serve, what program delivery looks like, and how the train-the-trainer model works within your organization. JA partners with community organizations to provide accessible, no-cost programming that builds entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and work readiness skills.

Connect with us (info@jaottawa.org) to request a program.

Gather

Join Gather, the global JA alumni network, and explore a network full of opportunities!

Volunteer With JA

Inspire Youth in Your Community

Volunteers are at the core of JA’s impact across Canada. They come from many industries, united by a shared goal of educating and inspiring students.

Volunteers are at the heart of everything we do. Every day, our programs are brought to life for students by a very dedicated network of volunteers and mentors that help us deliver our programs.

Volunteers come to JA individually or through corporate groups and generously give their time to inspire and prepare youth for a successful future. Volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds, but all share a desire to help students achieve their highest potential.

Types of Volunteer Opportunities

Opportunities can include classroom or virtual program delivery, event support and judging, career talks and mentorship, and committee or governance roles.

Why Volunteer with JA?

In addition to positively impacting and inspiring young people, volunteering with JA is a professional development opportunity where your leadership, mentorship and public speaking skills are utilized. JA provides the program materials, training and support to make your experience fun, meaningful and easy to deliver.

In-Class Volunteers

An occasional commitment based on teacher program requests and your availability, you will be facilitating a program targeted to school-aged kids, engaging them to learn about financial literacy, work readiness or entrepreneurship. Here is your chance to share your knowledge and experience in topics such as creating a budget, developing long-term goals, exploring interests, developing skills for success, and about different types of investments and methods of payments (depending on grade level of the students).

JA Company Program Mentors/Advisors

This is your opportunity to mentor students as they experience the life cycle of a business; from building a business plan, creating a product, manufacturing, sales, marketing, financials, safety, technology and closing that business. This 15-week program hosts weekly meetings where you will provide guidance, foster group engagement, and help youth develop self-confidence and self-belief, while keeping it fun.

Ready to volunteer? Register here.

Donate

Your Gift = Impact

Your gift helps young people build skills and confidence. Choose a giving option to support students nationwide or in your community.

The impact of your gift and our donor promise

Mission-based donations allow us to be resilient, nimble, and flexible so we can pivot, manage change, scale initiatives and programming, and adapt to our ever-changing environment.

Philanthropic contributions are tax receiptable.
You may elect to designate your gift in support of a program, initiative or region.
Donors are recognized in JA’s annual report. Please let us know if you wish for your gift to remain anonymous.

Ways to Donate

Make a one-time or recurring donation
Host a corporate or community fundraising event in support of JA Canada.
Join our circle of donors who have pledged multi-year gifts
Gift of Securities
Legacy and Planned Gifts

Partner for Impact

Building brighter futures side-by-side

Through sponsorship, philanthropy, grants and employee engagement, your organization can support student outcomes and strengthen communities across the country.

Why Partner with JA Canada

JA-Canada is committed to building long-term, impact-based partnerships with organizations that share our commitment to youth skill development, inclusion, financial education, career readiness & entrepreneurship.

Partnering with JA will:

deliver on your CSR/ community investment goals
advance your workforce development, early talent and skilling ambitions
engage employees
activate your brand promise

We work with you to develop a partnership that fits your priorities and delivers clear, measurable impact.

Ways to Partner

Support JA through national or regional donations and sponsorships, through employee volunteer engagement, cause marketing campaigns, or donating event proceeds.

Your partnership investment can be directed to enable program development and innovation, provide support for direct program delivery and scaling, make possible dynamic student events, bring to life new custom initiatives.