We are pleased to announce our merger with Economic Literacy Colorado (ELC), effective on September 1, 2024. Our combined organization will operate as Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain (JA-Rocky Mountain) (EIN: 84-0430495); ELC will become a program of JA-Rocky Mountain.

This is an exciting milestone for our well-established and well-regarded nonprofit organizations. JA-Rocky Mountain’s financial literacy, work and career readiness, and entrepreneurship programs bring learning to life, reinforce new concepts with hands-on experiences, and support the development of core competencies needed for an ever-changing economy. They align with national and state educational standards and are delivered to students with the help of education partners and volunteers from the local community.

The addition of ELC’s quality professional development for educators ensures that teachers embrace the concepts that students learn through JA programs, so that they can better educate their students. ELC’s university-accredited graduate-level continuing education will continue to be offered at low or no cost to teachers by raising sufficient funds. 

We decided to increase our impact through a merger so we can provide a more complete approach to meeting the growing and changing needs of our students, teachers, and schools.  Rest assured that JA-Rocky Mountain programs provided in the past will continue to be offered and that you will continue to work with the same people as you have in the past. 

ELC team members will work out of the JA Free Enterprise Center at 6500 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Greenwood Village, CO 80111. All the contact information for us will remain the same. ELC staff members will have new email addresses; the convention for those addresses is [first initial][last name]@jarockymountain.org.

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