The Rotary Club of Fountain Hills will match up to $1,000 in community donations to Junior Achievement of Arizona made through the Rotary Club Foundation.

All contributions are tax deductible. Send checks payable to the Fountain Hills Rotary Club Foundation, P.O. Box 18188, Fountain Hills, AZ 85269. Note Junior Achievement on the check.

Junior Achievement is one of a number of community service organizations supported by the Rotary Club of Fountain Hills. Junior Achievement helps prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace.

Junior Achievement and its vast number of volunteers educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise and understand business and economics to improve the quality of their lives.

They do this by developing:

The desire in young people to value education and stay in school.

Positive attitudes in young people toward work.

Business and education partnerships that create a bridge between the classroom and the workplace.

Throughout JA’s sequential and integrated kindergarten through grade 12 programs, students use information, apply basic skills, think critically and solve complex problems to prepare them for life as adults.

Junior Achievement partners with corporate businesses to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in the global economy.

Community members are invited to attend lunch and learn more about Rotary International and the Fountain Hills Rotary Club. Members meet each Tuesday at 11:45 a.m. at the Fountain View Village dining room, 16455 E. Avenue of the Fountains.

For more information about Rotary service, contact club President Michelle Holcomb at 480-229-6400.