Charity for Change received a $15,000 grant from Arthrex for improving the emotional well-being and academic performance of at-risk students through its learning program. With the $15,000 grant, Charity for Change will produce new educational videos which will be used as teaching tools for students in grade levels pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. The program uses [...]
Charity for Change has received a $15,000 grant from The Arthrex Charitable Giving program. The grant will provide for the updating of curriculum which will support the transition from classrooms to eLearning. The social-emotional learning curriculum will connect children while they are out of school with updated social-emotional learning videos and content. The grant will [...]
Thirtieth annual celebration to induct Jeff Fridkin, Adria Starkey into Business Hall of Fame Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida has announced the sponsors for its 2018 Business Hall of Fame, Collier County event, which will be the 30th annual celebration recognizing Collier’s top entrepreneurs and business leaders. Encore Urology is the title sponsor for the event. [...]
Forty-five students in Guadalupe Center’s Tutor Corps Program were offered an exclusive tour of Arthrex Manufacturing Inc., seeing firsthand some of the innovative products being developed by the Naples-based company. Engineers led the Immokalee High School students on a tour of the Arthrex facility in Ave Maria, showing cutting-edge Computer Numerically Controlled machines that make [...]
Fundraising event to support student programs on financial literacy, work readiness, entrepreneurship It’s time to start figuring out which of your friends and co-workers can throw a hook, hit the 7-10 split and knows how to score a turkey. Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida is inviting all bowling enthusiasts and beginners to its seventh annual [...]
Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida turned the tables on its job shadow program, bringing distinguished professionals into schools for a day instead of students visiting the business leaders’ workplaces. Reverse Job Shadow Day on Feb. 22 brought more than a dozen community and corporate leaders to Barron Collier High School in Naples, where they shared [...]
Laureates Edward V. Staros and Mark Wilson inducted into Business Hall of Fame Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida recently raised $100,000 during its 2017 Business Hall of Fame, Collier County event at The Ritz-Carlton, Naples beach resort in Naples. Funds will benefit local Junior Achievement programs, which prepare students for business success through hands-on [...]
Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida is proud to announce the sponsors of the 2016 Business Hall of Fame, Collier County, to be held Wednesday, Oct. 26 with a cocktail reception at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the Naples Grande Beach Resort in Naples. This year’s event title sponsors are Mutual of Omaha [...]
Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida has announced that tickets and sponsorships are still available for the upcoming 2015 Business Hall of Fame, Collier County, to be held Thursday, Oct. 29 at the Naples Grande Beach Resort in Naples. Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida’s Business Hall of Fame recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who serve as role models [...]
JASWFL to induct laureates Reinhold Schmieding and Brian Stock into Hall of Fame Tickets and sponsorship opportunities are now available for the Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida 2015 Business Hall of Fame, Collier County to be held on Thursday, Oct. 29 with a cocktail reception at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the [...]
Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida will induct Reinhold D. Schmieding, president and founder of Arthrex, Inc., and Brian K. Stock, CEO of Stock Development, into the 2015 Business Hall of Fame, Collier County, at a dinner and awards ceremony on Oct. 29 at 5 p.m. at the Naples Grande Beach Resort. Mutual of Omaha and [...]
