Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio has been awarded one of Junior Achievement USA®’s highest honors: the 5 STAR Award. The award is given to local Junior Achievement (JA) offices that have reached outstanding success in financial health, program quality and management. Presented during the 2014 Junior Achievement National Leadership Conference in Pittsburgh, Penn., the award recognizes staff and boards in JA areas that meet JA USA’s operational standards for compliance, student impact, operational efficiency, financial stability and sustainability.
To be eligible for the 5 STAR Award, the highest tier of the award a JA area can receive, the organization must grow in student count or contact hours over the previous year, must end the year with a surplus and must meet or exceed standards for Debt Ratio, Current Ratio and Cash-on-hand.
“It’s a great honor to receive the 5 STAR Award,” said Michael Gaffney, president of Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio. “Every day, the staff and board of Junior Achievement demonstrate their dedication and passion to advance the JA mission. Our inspiration comes from the thousands of young people Junior Achievement reaches each year,” Gaffney continued. “We look forward to impacting an even greater number of students this school year and beyond.”
Junior Achievement of North Central has been operating locally since 1964 and has served more than 550,000 kindergarten through twelfth grade students through the implementation of JA’s financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship programs.
