JA Events

Get ready for the 2026 Regions Bowling Classic!

JA Take Stock in Your Future introduces students to basic concepts about how the stock market works and the impact of current events on the stock market.

From November 6-14th, accountant firms from across the Greater Birmingham area will compete to see who is the best of the best! They will have the opportunity to earn two trophies: Pay for JA and Play for JA. Get your company involved today!

WHAT IS PLAYFOREJA?
Motion Industries presents PlayForeJA, a Topgolf Birmingham event benefitting Junior Achievement of Alabama.

The Spirit of Free Enterprise Luncheon highlights the great work Junior Achievement is able to accomplish every day in grades K-12 thanks to the Birmingham area businesses.

The JA Business Plan Challenge is an opportunity that allows young people to demonstrate their understanding of business fundamentals, the importance of creative marketing to a target audience, and the power of persuading potential investors during a live pitch.

Get ready for the 2025 Regions Bowling Classic!

Groundbreaking coming in January 2025!

WHAT IS PLAYFOREJA?
Motion Industries presents PlayForeJA, a Topgolf Birmingham event benefitting Junior Achievement of Alabama.

The Spirit of Free Enterprise Luncheon highlights the great work Junior Achievement is able to accomplish every day in grades K-12 thanks to the Birmingham area businesses.

HOW DOES IT WORK?
Each team is issued $1,000,000 of "mock stock" and must buy and sell shares in fictitious companies throughout a simulated 60-day trading period. Trading is fast, fun, and furious with a new day starting every 60 seconds!

PlayFOREJA is an indoor golf fundraiser held at Topgolf Birmingham with Motion Industries as the Presenting Sponsor.

The Spirit of Free Enterprise Luncheon highlights the great work Junior Achievement is able to accomplish every day in grades K-12 thank to the Birmingham area businesses.

The JA Business Plan Challenge is an opportunity that allows young people to demonstrate their understanding of business fundamentals, the importance of creatively marketing to a target audience, and the power of persuading potential investors during a live pitch.

The Spirit of Free Enterprise Luncheon highlights the great work Junior Achievement is able to accomplish every day in grades K-12 thank to the Birmingham area businesses.

WHAT IS PLAYFOREJA?
PLAYFOREJA is an indoor golf fundraiser that is held at TopGolf in Birmingham.
Picture a 240-yard outfield with dartboard-like targets in the ground.
The closer to the “bulls-eye” you get or the farther out you hit your micro-chipped ball, the more points you receive.
Challenge you co-workers, clients, or friends to addictive point-scoring golf games that anyone from pro golfer to putt-putt champ can play in any weather.

The JA Bowling Classic is JA's single largest fundraising event to develop the resources necessary to provide this valuable programming for our youth. Thank you for your investment in the future.

The Bowling Classic provides a valuable team building activity for the office and coworkers enjoy bowling and having fun with their friends and colleagues while raising money for JA. Bowlers reach out to family, friends, coworkers and others to solicit donations on behalf of JA. In that way, it is like other activity-based fundraising events. We suggest a $150 goal for each participant or $750 per team.

* MOTION BOWLING - APRIL 2, 2022, 12:30pm-2:30pm @ BOWLERO RIVERVIEW*
* REGIONS BOWLING - APRIL 7 & 8, 2022, 2pm-4pm @ VESTAVIA BOWL*
* O'NEAL BOWLING - APRIL 22, 2022, 2pm - 4pm @ VESTAVIA BOWL*
* ALTEC BOWLING - MAY 5, 2022, 2pm - 4pm @ BOWLERO RIVERVIEW*

The JA Business Plan Challenge is an opportunity that allows young people to
demonstrate their understanding of business fundamentals, the importance of
creatively marketing to a target audience, and the power of persuading
potential investors during a live pitch.

JA programs deal with real issues like workforce readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship so that young people not only understand their opportunities in life but can also take advantage of those opportunities.
During the 2021 Accountants Classic companies recruit associates to participate in a series of events for prizes. The events are divided into two categories: Play for JA (4 Events) and Pay for JA (1 Event).

o Participating firms will choose one partner to be their JA Olympic Champion to compete head to head against other companies. Example 8 companies = 8 Champions.
o Questions will be derived from JA 5th grade curriculum
o The Champions will compete by using Zoom and Kahoot
o Associates are encouraged to log into Zoom to watch the partners
o Scoring will be based on a stack ranking system

The 4.01K in a Day event is where participants will run 4.01 kilometers anytime on November 10th to compete for the fastest time.

This is is the 2nd of 5 events that will take place during the JA Accountants Classic Olympics.

The Virtual Trivia event is 1st of 5 events that will take place during the JA Accountants Classic Olympics.

Typically Junior Achievement host our Summer Bowling Classic. These events bring together hundreds of business professional who represent Birmingham companies to raise awareness and funds for JA.

Due to COVID-19 and following social distancing guidelines the JA Team has come up with several alternative Virtual Fundraisers.