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100 Lives: JA Alumni Develop Unique Avocado Products

With avocados ranking as the number-one crop in Michoacán, Mexico, five JA Michoacán alumni set out to turn their agricultural bounty into a bonafide business. Read about AvoProducts.

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100 Lives: Grupo Masari Finds Its Niche Producing Exceptional Tortilla Flour

We're proud to present JA Mexico's Grupo Masari as part of our 100 Lives series, which features JA alumni who are making a difference in the world.

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JA Canada Hosts Another Successful Next Generation Leaders Forum

JA Canada celebrated another successful Next Generation Leaders Forum! Watch an inspiring video that sums up the week-long intensive program.

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JA Next Generation Leaders Forum Begins August 8

Every year, JA Canada invites top JA Company Program participants from around the world to Toronto for the Next Generation Leaders Forum. The 2016 conference starts August 8!

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100 Lives: JA Mexico Alumnus Starts Concrete Business in Jalpan

A grant from FedEx allowed us to travel to Jalpan, Mexico, where Jonathan de Jesus Muñoz runs Blokera Muñoz, a concrete company.

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100 Lives: JA Alumnus Chooses Business Over Gang Life

Sixteen-year-old Italo Erazo first participated in a JA El Salvador program at ten years old. Get inspired by the rest of his story.

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World Bank Global Youth Forum Streams Live from D.C.

JA Americas' Development Director, Celia Deitz, is at the World Bank Global Youth Forum in Washington, D.C. Watch the livestream now.

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100 Lives: JA Alumnus Invents Environmentally Sustainable Resin

Thanks to FedEx, we traveled to Jamaica to meet Nicholas Kee, who started Plastato as a JA student in Kingston. 

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100 Lives: JA Alumnus Becomes Diplomat, Ambassador

What do foreign policy, diplomacy, and lava lamps have in common? Meet our featured alumnus, Luis G. Moreno, U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica.

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100 Lives: JA Alumna Starts Solar-Powered Dehydrating Company

As a student working with JA Bajío in San Juan del Río, Querétaro, México, Diana Martínez Mancilla saw a business opportunity.

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JA Americas Partner SAP Launches Social-Entrepreneurship MOOC

Sign up now for a free social-entrepreneurship MOOC from openSAP, the online learning platform from SAP, an important partner with JA Americas.

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Asheesh Advani Speaks at Canadian Business Hall of Fame Gala

Last night, our CEO, Asheesh Advani, spoke at the Canadian Business Hall of Fame Gala, which is presented in support of JA Canada. 

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100 Years | 100 Lives: Jerome Cowan

We traveled to Jamaica to meet JA alumnus Jerome Cowans—a youth-development consultant focused on youth leadership and empowerment—to find out how JA changed his life.

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100 Years | 100 Lives: Chocolovers

Thanks to a grant from FedEx to document the lives of 100 JA alumni, we get to take you to El Salvador to meet Cindy Jazmin Amaya Gomez, CEO of Chocolovers, a JA company she started in high school. 

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