JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT

2017-18 ANNUAL REPORT 1 For over 50 years, JA Northern Alberta & MESSAGE NWT has inspired and empowered youth in our communities through conversations around FROM THE work readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship. We have opened their eyes PRESIDENT to explore what is possible as they prepare for what the future holds. It is no secret that the economy has been tumultuous for many in our community whether you operate in the for profit or not for profit space. This leads to innovation and some- times doing things a little different. 2017/18 has been a year of growth for JA – a remarkable increase in Company Program participants, introduction of the JA Leadership Breakfast, launch of our women in leadership initiative, Leading Ladies, awarding our inaugural JA Innovator Award, expanding partnerships with other youth serving organizations and the list goes on. All of this was possible because of the incredible generosity of our community and we cannot thank you enough.

GIVE THEM THE POWER TO CHANGE THEIR WORLD!

2 Thanks to you, the incredible community We are entering an exciting time at JA as surrounding JA, we had the privilege of we disrupt our organization and look to pivot engaging and inspiring over 26,000 kids in the from an organization that is in the business of 2017/18 school year. This was possible thanks delivering programs, to an organization that is to our wonderful network of nearly 600 also a community connector. We look forward volunteers who lend their expertise and to sharing more details in the coming months experience throughout the school year, and are excited to partner with our JA family delivering over 1,000 programs to kids in grade on this journey. 3 through 12. Volunteers bring the ‘real world’ perspective into the classroom that helps to Whether you give of your time, talent, or prepare our kids to succeed, as they explore treasure, thank you for inspiring and what lies ahead. preparing over 26,000 youth this year to dream big and pursue their passions. With May featured our annual Alberta your support, we will continue to empower the Business Hall of Fame event, where we had future of our youth and economy. Your the opportunity to celebrate and recognize commitment, support and passion have made four incredible business leaders; Jim Carter, all the difference. Thank you! Dr. Ray Muzyka, Donald A. Wheaton and Dr. Greg Zeschuk. Each with an impressive list of accomplishments, our guests had the opportunity to hear about their journey Jen Panteluk through an intimate fire side chat. We also had the opportunity to celebrate our inaugural JA Innovator Award recipient, Angela Santiago for her valuable contributions to our community.

3 G7-12 INVESTMENT STRATEGIES: G9-12 Program BE 22 ENTREPRENEURIAL: Overview. G8-12 COMPANY PROGRAM: 54 In partnership with education and G7 industry, JA Northern Alberta & NWT G10-12 DIVERSITY has contributed to student success WORLD OF for over 50 years. 34 CHOICES: IN ACTION: G9-12 During the 2017/18 school year, PERSONAL Junior Achievement positivey 1 FINANCE: impacted over 26,000 students from grades 3-12 in classrooms G6 147 throughout Northern Alberta. BUSINESS OF OUR OWN: 23

4 38 G4 G5 OUR COUNTRY: G9-12 MORE THAN BE MONEY: ENTREPRENEURIAL: G8 81 DOLLARS G6 WITH SENSE: OUR BUSINESS 54 95 WORLD: G7 G9 DIVERSITY ECONOMICS 59 IN ACTION: 189 FOR SUCCESS: G3 G9-12 OUR SUCCESS 147 COMMUNITY: 149 SKILLS: 99 65

5 6 “Junior Achievement is an incredible organization that doesn’t just put a band-aid over a problem, but instead focuses on solutions that can help prevent the problem — financial literacy and business education. This is why I support JA. I want to feel like I am making a difference in a child’s life and in our community.”

Lisa Heerensperger, Program Volunteer

7 JobJob Shadow Day 2018.

Job Shadow Day gives JA’s SPECIAL THANKS Company Program students an opportunity to shadow • Angela Bennett Pride Festival Edmonton’s business executives, as well as gain • Arden Tse U of A/Prairie Noodle Shop a real life pespective on the day-to-day life of a business • Bob McGee ATB Financial leader. During this process, students are also taught • Brant Pylypa First Truck & Trailer Centre valuable leadership skills by their mentors.

8 Job Shadow Day 2018.

SPECIAL THANKS

• Angela Bennett • Darrell Friesen • Jillene Lakevold • Rebecka Smith Pride Festival Jet Label & Packaging All Weather JR Shaw School of Ltd. Windows Business • Arden Tse • Les Kozma U of A/Prairie Noodle Shop • Dave Lord & Dawn Vader • Tamara Greenwood Red Seal Financial Ledcor Construction Servus Credit Union • Bob McGee • Marg Leathem ATB Financial • David Janzen • Travis Grant Fountain Tire MacEwan University ev+ Agency • Brant Pylypa • Mike Stone First Truck & Trailer Centre • Ed Pilecki • Matt Schellenberger Shaw Conference Centre Cookie Love Edmonton Construction Association

9 10 “The single determining factor in my life was Junior Achievement. From it I formed my strongest friendships, and the path of my life was determined. I have spent most of my life self-employed, with the skills and courage I gained at Junior Achievement. Although I attended the program over 40 years ago, you will still find traces of the products I made and the friends I gained all over my house and office! Any person can benefit from this program, whether they get great marks in school, or can barely struggle through, and are failing at “NORMAL” school work. At Junior Achievement ANYONE can shine! I highly recommend this program to every student who wants their life enriched!”

Brenda Lynn Esplin, Former Achiever

11 Company Program.

Company Program is an exciting intiative run by JA for students in “THE COMPANY grades 8-12. This program gives students the chance to gain greater PROGRAM HELPED insights on the skills and processes ME IMPROVE AS A that are essential for running a business. PERSON BY TAKING ME OUT OF MY Company Program is a great opportunity for students to create, COMFORT ZONE.” produce and sell their own products. They are also tasked with PATRICK CERVANTES, establishing, managing and COMPANY PROGRAM STUDENT liquidating their very own company within 18 short weeks!

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34 STUDENT INITIATED COMPANIES 430 STUDENT PARTICIPANTS $25,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED

13 FUTURES INSPIRED

AND THE RECIPIENTS ARE... The Futures Inspired Awards & Celebration event was Allan D. Hardy Memorial Scholarship Nathan Juguilon held by JA to recognize and celebrate the hardwork and VP Production of the Year dedication of our students. Megan Kwan Manager of Health & Safety of the Year, supported by Alberta BC Safety Rosita Coneucar

14 VP Technology of the Year, supported by Rookie of the Year, supported by the Telus Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Manraj Singh Karine Chan

Most Valuable Achiever in a Non-Exec VP Finance of the Year, supported by Position, supported by the Edmonton AIMCo Chamber of Commerce Steven Tang Ethan Franz Northern Community Achiever Award, The Gary Silsbe Leadership Award supported by Ledcor John Cervantes Devshri Lala FUTURES INSPIRED VP Marketing of the Year Next Generation Leaders Forum, Trevor Trinh supported by CPA Cindy Liu; Teressa Yu; Christina Cervantes; VP Sales of the Year Evan Saunders Danial Hassan Reagan Williams Achiever of the Year VP HR of the Year Anita Petrovic Grace Wagram Teamwork Award Top Salesperson of the Year, supported by Bee Green the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Adam Jamal Social Entrepreneurship Award Clack President of the Year, supported by Fountain Tire Company of the Year Award Cindy Liu ProSeed 15 2018 JA ALBERTA BUSINESS HALL OF FAME

16 HIGHLIGHTS

2018 Inductees: •Mr. Jim Carter, former Syncrude Chief Operating Officer •Dr. Ray Muzyka, Co-founder of BioWare •Mr. Donald A. Wheaton, President and CEO of Wheaton Group of Companies On May 2, 938 people attended the 2018 •Dr. Greg Zeschuk, Co-founder of JA Alberta Business Hall 0f Fame at the Shaw BioWare Conference Centre to celebrate and honour the outstanding achievements of our four inductees, 2018 Innovator Award Recipient: as well as our inagural Innovator Award winner. The night also featured: •Angela Santiago, Co-founder of The JA’s Company Program students showcased Little Potato Company their products at the event, networking with Alberta’s business leaders. We trended on Twitter on the night of the Gala and reached more than 59,000 people through social media Rebeca Munoz Ortiz shared some inspiring words on the importance of JA and the Company Program in her life. . 17 World of Choices.

World of Choices is a JA program geared towards representing career choices to students. On March 1, 2018, JA held its second annual event in Grande Prairie. Students were exposed to different career mentors by having roundtable conversations with various career representatives.

The event allowed students to gain greater insight on the realities of the job field, as well as introduced them to notable jobs that they wouldn’t be ordinarily aware of. The careers being represented at the 2018 World of Choices were:

Adverstising – film production, Armed Forces, Automotive, Education, Engineering – civil and mechanical, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Firefighter, Health, Innovation – research and development, Insurance, Legal, Media & Communications, Oil and Gas, Surveying and Trades – Plumber/Gasfitter

18 World of Choices.

15 CAREERS REPRESENTED 188 STUDENTS ATENDEES 20 LOCAL MENTORS

19 FUTURE LEADERS WEEK & BIG PITCH. FUTURE LEADERS WEEK.

Hosted by JR Shaw School of Business, Future Leaders Week delivered programs in a post-secondary environment to provide students a grasp of how their future might look. Thank you to our sponsors and volunteers for making this event a suc- cess. Corporate partners: ATCO, Scotiabank, ServusCredit Union,NAIT, HSBC,ATB Financial,AIMCo and RBC. Keynote Speakers: Sarah Chan, Tony Williams, Sultan Yusefi, Roberta Giroux and Ryan Vestby.

20 ATTENDANCE REPORT

124 PROGRAMS

3,299 STUDENTS

5 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

175 VOLUNTEERS

21 BIG PITCH.

The Big Pitch is an exciting opportunity for the Achievers in Company Program to pitch their • 1st place: ProSeed products to the public and a panel of • 2nd place: Bee Green volunteer judges during the • annual West Edmonton Mall 3rd place: Just in Case • Tradeshow. In 2018, the five com- 4th & 5th place: iLumenation panies where chosen based on their and Dipped video commercials that were voted on by a group of JA’s stakeholders.

22 “JA gives you the confidence to achieve greatness. It pushes you out of your comfort zone and into a world where you can be the person y o u ’ v e a l w a y s d r e a m e d o f . ”

Sam Goertz, Past Achiever and Program Volunteer

23 Our Supporters. $50,000 - $99,999

• RBC FOUNDATION $20,000 - $49,999

• ALBERTA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT • LEDCOR GROUP CORPORATION (AIMCO) • MANCAP FOUNDATION • ALBERTA LABOUR • QUIKCARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION • ALLARD FOUNDATION • SERVUS CREDIT UNION • LARRY & JANET ANDERSON • JR SHAW PHILANTHROPIES • THE WHEATON FAMILY FOUNDATION • ATB FINANCIAL • WHEATON GROUP • BIOWARE • ZCL COMPOSITES INC • CANADIAN WESTERN BANK • DIANNE AND IRVING KIPNES FOUNDATION • JOHN HOKANSON • HSBC

*Every effort has been made to ensure that this is an accurate list of donors who have made charitable contributions to JA Northern Alberta & NWT between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018. If you notice an error or omission, please accept our apology and let us know so we can update our records. 24 Our Supporters. $10,000 - $19,999 • ALBERTA BC SAFETY INC. • GRANT THORNTON LLP • TD • ALBERTA INNOVATES • JET LABEL & TAPE • THRESHOLDIMPACT • CPA ALBERTA • LEDER CHARTIABLE FOUNDATION • RON & DOROTHY TRIFFO • FMAV • NAIT’S JR SHAW SCHOOL OF FAMILY FUND BUSINESS • WINE & BEYOND • ELLIS DON CONSTRUCTION SERVICES • NORQUEST COLLEGE • IAN MCDONALD • STANTEC

$5,000 - $9,999

• ALL WEATHER WINDOWS • ERNST & YOUNG • MELTON FOUNDATION • ATCO GROUP • JOHN FERGUSON • TIM MELTON • ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY • FOUNTAIN TIRE • AL & FRAN OLSON • BLACKBIRD ENERGY INC • FRESON BROS. • STICKS & STONES • CAMERON CORPORATION • KEERAN NETWORKS • STUART OLSON • CEO EVENTS • LEXUS OF EDMONTON • STUDIO POST • THE BILL COMRIE FAMILY • LINCOLNBERG MASTER BUILDER • SYNCRUDE CANADA LTD • CORE REAL ESTATE GROUP • JON AND NANCY LOVE • U OF A SCHOOL OF BUSINESS • DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP • MACLAB ENTERPRISES • WEST EDMONTON MALL • DENTONS CANADA LLP • MELCOR DEVELOPMENTS LTD. • GORD AND LINDA WIEBE

25 Our Volunteers.

In 2017/2018, we had 578 volunteers help us deliver 1,056 programs to 26,436 students. It is with the support from our volunteers that we are able to impact the lives of Alberta youth.

3+ PROGRAMS DELIVERED

AVERIL FINLAY ELLA CHUAN LIN

BRUNO MERCIER ERNIE PUDWILL

CRAIG BLACKMORE JADE BOXRUD

DANIEL ENGMAN JAN WACK

JASON WATT JENNIFER-ANNE EDMONDS

JOSHUA PAPKE LEKAN OLADOKUN

26 Our Volunteers.

MARKUS MUHS MATT EDWARDS

MELISSA PEELER RACHELLE ARVAY

RITA-ANNE FUSS SUSAN BENDLE

TASMIN HARTLEN TOM KOEP

VANESSA MEJIA THANK YOU!

27 2017-18 Governance. Bryan Kwan BOARD OF ADVISORY McLennan Ross LLP DIRECTORS COUNCIL David Olson Nicole Janssen Scott Alanen Lizotte & Associates Real Estate Stratus Holdings, Board Chair KV Capital Inc. Jill Sheward Dave Brown Rick Cammidge Brownlee LLP Core Realty & Management Pro-Source Warren Singh Group, Inc. Insurance and Risk NAIT Robert J. de Guzman Management Dentons Canada LLP Shad Smereka Terri Davis Ross M. Haffie Fountain Tire ProFound Talent Ernst & Young LLP Inc. Patty Taverner RMC Group of Companies Dan Lefaivre Jeremy Fearnley Stantec Grant Thornton LLP Ashley Thompson Daly Amanda Nielsen SureHire Sue Fitzsimmons Alberta Real Estate Association NAIT Ivana Tieu Brandon Park Student Representative Max Frank Melcor Developments Ltd. NAIT Marius Veldtman

Rishi Patel Rich Groom Stuart Olson Keeran Systems Vanta Group Jason Zaichkowsky 28 Canadian Western Bank 2017-18 Governance. Ian Reid BOARD OF Brenda Ricard GOVERNORS Harold Roozen David Ross Senior Relationship Manager, Servus Credit Union AND Ron Triffo LAUREATES Gord Wiebe Holly Sorgen Ralph Young Lyle Best Executive Director, Eveline Charles Community Futures Grande John Ferguson PEACE REGIONAL Prairie & Region Tony Franceschini LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Dan Wong, P.Eng. Ross Grieve Melanie Bell-Fournier Beairsto & Associates Linda Hughes BMO Engineering Ltd. Blaine MacMillan Chris King Ian McDonald Economic Development Tim Melton Stanley Milner Manager, County of Grande Jerry Naqvi Prairie Reza Nasseri Jerry Napier Eric Newell Retired Community Member Allan Olson at Large, Swan City Rotarian Fran Olson Larry Pollock Jeff Polovick 29