Junior Achievement of Oregon & SW Washington Receives Grant for JA BizTown from the ON Semiconductor Foundation
February 24, 2021
Junior Achievement of Oregon & SW Washington (JA), an organization committed to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy, announced today that it has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the ON Semiconductor Foundation. The three-year grant will be used to help provide local students with JA BizTown, an upper-elementary program teaches work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills. The program experience includes 12 hours of classroom learning that culminates in a one-day economic simulation complete with “mini-businesses”, including ON Semiconductor.
“Our programs allow young people to connect critical classroom knowledge with real-life experiences. Teaching kids about STEM careers through the concrete example that ON Semiconductor provides can help bring these lessons full circle for the students of JA BizTown,” said Ryan Deckert, president of JA. “We’re grateful to partner with the ON Semiconductor Foundation to expand our resources and efforts for JA BizTown.”
The ON Semiconductor Foundation makes JA BizTown possible due to its commitment to serving the needs of communities across the globe through the investment of resources. The ON Semiconductor Foundation, which was launched in 2019, is overseen by an employee-based board of directors who manage its daily operations and approve recommendations from grant advisors globally. Since 2016, the company has funded more than $5 million in grants, employee matching and in-kind donations, as well as sponsorships and dollars-for-doers for employee volunteerism.
“Investing in the communities in which we operate and where our employees live is critical to our organization as we look to continue our legacy of giving and volunteering,” said Theresa Haywood-McCarley, senior director of corporate social responsibility at ON Semiconductor and board secretary for ON Semiconductor Foundation. “On behalf of the ON Semiconductor Foundation, we’re proud to support the work of Junior Achievement as we work toward making the world better together.”
For more information about JA BizTown, visit https://jaorswwa.org/ja-biztown. Click here to learn more about the ON Semiconductor Foundation.
About Junior Achievement of Oregon & SW Washington
Junior Achievement of Oregon and SW Washington (JA) inspires and prepares young people to succeed in a global economy through volunteer-delivered, experiential programs for K-12 students that promote work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Established locally in 1950, JA is an affiliate of Junior Achievement USA, which has worked for over a century to empower young people to own their economic success. Visit www.jaorswwa.org for more information.
JA of Oregon and SW Washington is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, and wholly reliant on the financial and volunteer support of individuals, foundations, and businesses. Their hands-on experiential programs served nearly 30,000 students from the region in 2019-20, 45% of which came from low-income families.
About ON Semiconductor Foundation
The ON Semiconductor Foundation is committed to serving the needs of communities through the investment of resources. After a conversion of ON Semiconductor’s global corporate giving and employee volunteer programs, the ON Semiconductor Foundation was established in February 2019 and became a nonprofit organization formed under the laws of the State of Arizona in January 2020, in an effort to continue the legacy of giving and volunteering in the communities where it does business and where its employees live. Its primary focus of giving is in the areas of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) Education, Health, Disaster Relief, Environment and Human Services. For further information about the ON Semiconductor Foundation, read more here.
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