Junior Achievement is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace Moses, Theodore Vail, and the late senator Murray Crane. They started the organization because they realized the importance of education of the enterprise system. It aims to assist in the transition from school to the business world.
Junior Achievement's world-wide headquarters is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. There are approximately 147 Junior Achievement offices throughout the nation, and even more JA's located throughout the world, expanding the impact that it has on the future of youth in the United States. It began as a collection of small, after-school business clubs for students on the East Coast of the United States.
Today Junior Achievement is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to teaching students about the importance of economics, business and the free market.