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Marketing, Communications, and Branding

Some key marketing materials are available in other places on this or other websites:

As always, we’d love to hear your JA stories. And keep scrolling, below, for additional resources!

Collateral for Global Holidays and Celebrations

A Worldwide has committed to creating and sharing collateral in advance of select global holidays and celebrations. These resources—designed to save you time and money—help showcase our impact and broaden the reach of our global story. Note that your ROC may also share regional-specific collateral in advance of these or other holidays and celebrations.

In order for you to plan for and utilize these shared materials, collateral will be available here one to two weeks in advance of the dates listed below, and you’ll find a mix of graphics, sample text, and campaign ideas. 

  • July 15: World Youth Skills Day graphic(s), messaging, or campaign

  • August 12: International Youth Day graphic(s), messaging, or campaign

    • Download JA Worldwide’s video for International Youth Day 2026 using the theme “Different Contexts, Common Aspirations. You’ll find a portrait version for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts, and a landscape version for YouTube and Vimeo. The toolkit also includes suggested social media copy that you can pair with your own graphics or the video.

  • August–October: Global Business Hall of Fame Laureates Announcement Toolkit

  • October 5: World Teachers' Day graphic(s), messaging, or campaign

  • October 11: International Day of the Girl graphic(s), messaging, or campaign

  • Early November: Holiday card graphics, including Western New Year

  • November 16–22, 2026 (Date varies annually): Global Entrepreneurship Week Toolkit

  • December 5: International Volunteer Day graphic(s), messaging, or campaign

thedotgood/NGO Advisor Global Rankings 2026: We’re Number 5 (Again!)

For the eighth year in a row, JA Worldwide has been ranked among the top ten NGOs/SGOs in the world, holding for the fourth year at the #5 spot.

We’ve created collateral that includes a messaging toolkit and various graphics. Here’s a link to the entire folder of collateral, described below:

Badges: We’ve provided badges for use on your website, in email signatures, on social-media channels, and more. These come in two different varieties: a gradient background, and a texture background. And both come in PNG (transparent background) and JPG (white background) options.

If your JA location is more commonly known as “Junior Achievement,” here are your badges.

Sample press release or blog post for you to use/edit/translate: In the toolkit, you find a sample press release or blog post, including a highly complimentary description of JA by thedotgood. You’ll also find the following quote from Asheesh:

“This recognition affirms our belief that fostering agency and initiative in young people is essential for society,” said Asheesh Advani, CEO of JA Worldwide. “In a world shaped by rapid technological shifts and economic uncertainty, JA is scaling up to meet the moment. We’re innovating how we teach entrepreneurship, work readiness, and financial capability, ensuring that young people everywhere gain the skillset and mindset to shape more inclusive, equitable, and thriving communities. Being named a top-ten SGO again this year reflects not only our history or our scale but also our ongoing commitment to future readiness and youth-centered impact.”

Social graphics and messaging: To promote this award on social media, you’re welcome to use the ones we designed for you (ready for your customization) and are also welcome to design your own. Sample social-media messaging is in the toolkit (starting on page 2), but how you decide to share this honor on your social channels is up to you.

Top Ten List: Here’s a screenshot of the top 10.

Design files are included for your localizing, translating, and other customization.

Help Design This Year’s JA Holiday Cards

We're giving our annual holiday cards a distinctly OneJA touch by inviting staff from across the global network to help shape this year's collection.

Whether you're an experienced designer or simply enjoy being creative, we encourage you to submit an original holiday card design for consideration. The JA Worldwide Brand-Marketing-Communications team will select the designs that best capture the spirit of the season—and the JA brand—to become this year's official JA holiday cards, giving the entire network the opportunity to share the creativity of our global community with partners, volunteers, educators, alumni, and friends.

Along the way, we'll celebrate the creativity and talent found throughout our JA community . . . and, yes, we'll have a little something special for the designers whose work is selected! Find submission guidelines, helpful hints, deadlines, and more below.

Who Can Participate?

Any staff member in the JA network, no matter your role, location, or design background.

Timeline

  • Showcase submissions open: August 5, 2026

  • Showcase submission deadline: September 30, 2026

  • Featured designs announced: October OneJA newsletter

Three Design Categories

We're looking for artwork across three design categories. To be part of the contest, participants need to submit a design for each category.

  • December holidays, including Hanukkah, Christmas, and more

  • Calendar New Year, welcoming 2027 on January 1

  • Lunar New Year, welcoming the Year of the Goat on February 6, 2027

What We're Looking For (the Fine Print)

Here’s what we have in mind:

  • Creativity: Fresh, out-of-the-box thinking that still holds the essence of JA's identity. To this end, it’s important that you not submit designs created by AI or that pull from stock images or templates.

  • Global relevance: Because we celebrate across the world, we’ve been trying to keep our imagery less location-specific. We already have a lot of snow, Santa, and other typical holiday motifs, so although we won’t outright discourage those submissions, we’re more interested in designs that use the JA symbol and the JA color palette in interesting ways. See examples, below.

  • Editable files: We’ll need to be able to fully edit your submission, so that the entire network can customize the cards for their own use. This means sending an editable Canva link, .svg file, or Adobe Illustrator file.

  • Standard-sized graphic: You’ll need to submit your design in 1200 x 675px size. We cannot accept submissions that use other sizes.

Submit Your Design

Need a Website?

If your website feels a little out of date, needs a fresher look, or still features the old JA branding, we have a great option for you: a Squarespace website that’s already branded and organized, ready for you to customize at your convenience.

Squarespace websites are inexpensive and offer a content-management system that's easy to learn. But the branding, menu structure, and layout can be time-consuming, so we've handled that part for you. 

Here’s how the process works:

  1. You attend a training session. (Sessions for 2026 are listed below.) Using Squarespace as your website platform is about as easy as creating and editing a Word doc or PowerPoint. There’s a learning curve, sure, but it requires no technical knowledge.

  2. After the session, you’ll be given permission to enter and edit the back end of your new site, which is branded and has a basic structure, but is not specific to your JA location.

  3. You’ll then customize the content that’s already there, add new content as needed, and upload photos and other collateral, all on your own schedule. We estimate the time requirement for this stage of the process at about 1 hour for every page of your current website. If your current website has 40 pages of content, and you want to transfer them all or most of them over to the new site, count on this process taking 40 hours. Smaller sites will take less time; larger sites will take more.

  4. Once your site is ready, we’ll do a quick proofread of your site, work with you to redirect your current URL to the site, and launch the site. JA Worldwide pays for your first year (about $350), and you take over the annual payment starting in year two. Squarespace accepts all major credit cards for payment.

  5. You’ll also have access to all of Squarespace’s add-on options, including ecommerce (for event registration or merch), a community/member space, a rudimentary LMS, a newsletter platform, and so much more. Those options cost extra, but they’re easy to add on and are still add up to a very reasonable cost for your website.

  6. Throughout your first year, we’ll check in on your site and be available as questions come up.

Ready to get started? Check out the 2026 training sessions.

If you need more information, complete the following form, and we’ll respond within 48 hours.

Share Your JA Location Milestone

In the monthly OneJA newsletter, we’re sharing government partnerships, awards, and anniversaries from JA locations. We’d love to include yours, too! Submit your member milestone using the form below:

Company of the Year Branding

We’re pleased to now offer two options for Company of the Year (COY) branding, available for your editing, translation, customization, and more. Remember: There are no fixed brand requirements for events and competitions. The designs here are offered for your use, but if you already have designs in place that match our global brand, by all means continue using them. 

COMPANY OF THE YEAR: BIRD

One option for your Company of the Year competition is a modern bird design, paired with a special font treatment for "COY."

COMPANY OF THE YEAR: STENCIL

Another option for your Company of the Year competition is to pair the JA Stencil font and with a six-sided graphical element (recalling the six birds in our global symbol).

DOWNLOAD COY COLLATERAL

JA Worldwide Nominated for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

We’re proud to share—internally—that JA Worldwide has been nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Congratulations to our entire global network: staff, board members, teachers, volunteers, alumni coordinators, and partners whose daily work contributes to this recognition.

In an increasingly polarized global environment, JA’s focus on entrepreneurship, economic empowerment, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and cross-cultural understanding continues to demonstrate what meaningful, durable contributions to peace can look like. As we’ve long believed, peace is sustained through opportunity, dignity, and shared prosperity, and through young people who are equipped to shape their futures and build thriving communities.

A Shared Decision on How We Steward This Nomination

As a network, we have collectively decided not to announce this nomination publicly. That means we will not be sharing it on social media, posting it on websites, or issuing press releases—and we ask you to follow the same approach.

This decision reflects two considerations:

  • The current political climate, particularly in the United States, has made Nobel nominations a public flashpoint in ways that do not serve the spirit of the award or our mission.

  • The Nobel Committee itself explicitly discourages public promotion by nominees. Given the current environment, public amplification will not increase our likelihood of selection.

Taken together, abstaining from a public announcement allows us to remain fully aligned with the Nobel Committee’s expectations while keeping the focus where it belongs: on advancing opportunity, prosperity, and peace through our mission.

Where and How the Nomination Can Be Used

Although we are not promoting the nomination publicly, there are appropriate and encouraged ways to acknowledge it:

  • Partner and funder conversations: You may reference the nomination—and include the provided slide—in presentations and decks used with current or prospective partners, funders, and institutional stakeholders.

  • Email signatures: You may include a discreet reference to the nomination in your email signature. Out of respect for the eventual winner, we ask that your signature(s) remove this reference once the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced in October 2026.

  • Organizational context: It is entirely appropriate to acknowledge and celebrate this nomination internally . . . for example, within staff meetings, board meetings, and other internal forums.

  • Ongoing credentials: You are welcome to refer “to JA as a five-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee” in perpetuity. This reflects our history and credibility and does not conflict with Nobel Committee guidance.

To support consistent and respectful use, we will provide:

What we ask you not to do:

To ensure consistency across the network and alignment with Nobel guidance, please:

  • Do not post about the nomination on social media.

  • Do not add the nomination to public-facing websites or blogs.

    • Note that if you have an existing page on your website about the nomination (here’s an example), you can absolutely update that page to reflect this year’s nomination. But please do not feature that page in a new blog post, via a website announcement bar, or through a pop-up.

  • Do not issue a press release or speak with reporters about the nomination.

  • Do not create new public-facing videos, infographics, or standalone materials focused on the 2026 nomination.

As always, you’re encouraged to continue communicating the connection between entrepreneurship, job creation, economic empowerment, prosperity, peace, and thriving communities, centering our work and impact rather than on the nomination.

Looking Ahead

The 2026 nomination period concludes when the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced the second Friday in October. As in past years, JA Worldwide will acknowledge and congratulate the winner at that time with a public post on our blog about his/her/their contribution to world peace.

Thank you for being a thoughtful steward of this recognition, and for the work you do every day to help young people build stronger, more peaceful communities around the world.

With gratitude and congratulations,

Asheesh and Tere

Global Business Hall of Fame

2025 Laureates Announced

We’re honored to induct five new laureates into the Global Business Hall of Fame, an interactive and inspiring collection of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs, innovators, and business leaders. The laureates hail from Bahrain, Canada, El Salvador, Palestine, and the United States.

We have social-media/web graphics and a social-media promotional plan (plus the design file) for the announcement, as well as a copy of the press release to use as a template, as desired.

Because of JA . . .

Educator and Volunteer Testimonials

Every JA story begins with a person, and we want to hear from you. Share your most compelling volunteer and educator testimonials using the "Because of JA . . ." format. Whether it's a volunteer who discovered a new purpose, a teacher who saw students grow in confidence, or an educator whose classroom was transformed through JA, these stories help illustrate the lasting impact of our network. Submit your strongest testimonials, and we'll amplify them across JA Worldwide's global communications and show how, because of JA, lives are changing in communities around the world.

“This Is JA” Video

The latest edition of the “This Is JA” video reflects our modernized branding and messaging. View the video below and on Vimeo, or download the video file.

Translations

Do you want “This Is JA” in your local language? Translate the on-screen text using this form and send it to Lorrie Noggle. You can also download the PremierePro files and add translated text in-house if you prefer.

“This Is JA” (1-minute version)

Access the 1-minute version of “This Is JA” on Vimeo or download the video file. Editable PremierePro files will be available soon!

“This Is JA” Translations

View and download translated versions of “This Is JA” below.

JA Slovensko provided the first translated script of “This Is JA.” In addition to adding their logo and URL, we also swapped some footage for local footage of JA Slovensko students.

JA Malta customized “This Is JA” by changing the ages of students served, in addition to adding their logo and URL.

JA Greece and JA Cyprus worked together to use the same translated script to create two versions of “This Is JA”—one with the JA Greece logo and URL, and one with the JA Cyprus logo and URL.

JA Brazil provided a Brazilian Portuguese translation to create a JA Brazil-branded version of “This Is JA.” They also plan to make another edition that includes a voiceover, recorded by a JA Brazil alumnus.

 

Celebrate Our JA History

December 2024 was our 105th anniversary, so we’re sharing JA history collateral, including an infographic and Powerpoint slides. We’ve also linking to older collateral (with our old brand) that was prepared for our Centennial celebration in 2019. Here’s what we have available: