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The local chapter — BizTown, Finance Park, and 3DE
The documented record: Junior Achievement nationally dates to 1919, and its northern Indiana chapter is the region's classroom-economics charity: volunteers teaching work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy in schools across the Fort Wayne area. The chapter's permanent Fort Wayne installations are JA BizTown and JA Finance Park, the simulated-city and personal-finance programs through which local elementary and middle-school students pass. In 2022 the chapter joined Fort Wayne Community Schools and area businesses to launch the 3DE model in the district's high schools — Don Wolf, the Big Brothers founder, was a member of the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame, one of his several civic foundations and honors recorded in the Wealth section. The northern Indiana chapter's own founding year was not established from a solid source and is not asserted; the chapter's archives are the route.
Sources:
- Junior Achievement USA / Indiana University Indianapolis, JA records — national founding 1919.
- Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana and Fort Wayne Community Schools — JA BizTown and JA Finance Park in Fort Wayne; the 2022 3DE launch partnership.