Financial literacy organization handles pandemic shifts with aplomb

Like many others, Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida was forced into some seismic pandemic-related shifts — and learned a lot from it.


Stefania Pifferi. Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida President and CEO Angela Fisher says the organization got creative and used critical thinking to overcome some pandemic challenges.
Stefania Pifferi. Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida President and CEO Angela Fisher says the organization got creative and used critical thinking to overcome some pandemic challenges.
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For an organization with a prime mission carried out by volunteers who deliver in-person sessions — in schools, no less — the pandemic presented specific challenges for Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida

But like the many of the executives and businesspeople who volunteer for the nonprofit in the classrooms, the organization didn’t sit idle as pandemic-driven school closures crushed its model. Even schools that were opening significantly limited non-essential personnel from entering the building.

 

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