Junior Achievement and Freemasonry

[AyrStrat]

Dear all,

I’ve not yet been initiated (but going though the investigation process aiming the beginning of 2019).

My question is related to the Junior Achievement program.

Is it related to Freemasonry as a volunteer program to help K-12 students or also as a service club?

Kind Regards

 

[Winter]

Do you have some more info on this program? Maybe a link or something? It sounds like a local program. I'd be interested to hear more about it. And good luck on your investigation.

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[AyrStrat]

Do you have some more info on this program? Maybe a link or something? It sounds like a local program. I'd be interested to hear more about it. And good luck on your investigation.

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https://www.juniorachievement.org/web/ja-usa/home

 

[Winter]

https://www.juniorachievement.org/web/ja-usa/home

Looks like an interesting program but I do not see any link to Freemasonry at all. There are a few youth programs specifically tied to Freemasonry, Rainbow, DeMolay, Job's Daughters, and others that local Lodges support in their area. JA may be one of the latter.

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[Warrior1256]

Looks like an interesting program but I do not see any link to Freemasonry at all. There are a few youth programs specifically tied to Freemasonry, Rainbow, DeMolay, Job's Daughters, and others that local Lodges support in their area. JA may be one of the latter.

Sounds like it.

 

[Bloke]

"Junior Achievement was founded in 1919 by Theodore Vail, president of American Telephone & Telegraph; Horace Moses, president of Strathmore Paper Co.; and Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts. Its first program, JA Company Program®, was offered to high school students on an after-school basis. In 1975, the organization entered the classroom with the introduction of Project Business for the middle grades. Over the last 39 years, Junior Achievement has expanded its activities and broadened its scope to include in-school and after-school students."
https://www.juniorachievement.org/web/ja-usa/about;jsessionid=930721B2E0A74DB29BC081CE9458F3D3

Doesn't sound very Masonic.... but I do love a good mystery, but this one is not for me... I would try and find out more about the History and if the two men mentioned above were Freemasons. However, even if they were, that does not mean they were establishing something "masonic" indeed we have two very famous groups here founded by Freemasons, but I would suggest they took them outside Freemasonry to engaged a wider audience. (oh and for Australian Freemasons, they best known of these is by far The Smith Family.)