The workforce skills gap has a significant impact on our nation's productivity, economy, and global competitiveness. Learn more about this issue and how Junior Achievement is addressing it by teaching students how to apply the knowledge they learn in the classroom to real-world problems and equipping them with the skills they need to be career- and college-ready.

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Thank3 You to Our Program Sponsors

Junior Achievement of South Texas would like to thank the following companies and foundations for their funding for program support. Your investment will go towards impacting the lives of 75,000 students this year by helping them to develop the competence, confidence, and character needed to compete in today's global economy.

- Capital Group Companies/American Funds

- Capital One Bank

- Citi

- Fay & William Cowden Charitable Foundation

- Genevieve and Ward Orsinger Foundation

- Harvey E. Najim Family Foundation

- H-E-B

- ITW Foundation

- Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation

- JPMorgan Chase Foundation

- Lange, Poteet & Co., L.L.P.

- Luke and Merle Soules Family Foundation

- Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation

- Myra Stafford Pryor Charitable Trust

- The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation

- V.H. McNutt Memorial Foundation