{"id":325105,"date":"2026-11-10T22:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T22:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/325105\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T22:12:14","slug":"junior-achievement-of-nepa-receives-15000-grant-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/325105\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Achievement of NEPA receives $15,000 grant \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Achievement of Northeastern Pennsylvania received a $15,000 grant from the Robert H. Spitz Foundation through the Scranton Area Community Foundation to support interactive learning experiences that prepare middle and high school students for future career success. During the 2025\u20132026 school year, funding from the Robert H. Spitz Foundation helped JA NEPA affect more than 12,000 students in schools across Lackawanna and surrounding counties by delivering hands-on learning experiences focused on career exploration, personal finance and real-world skills, at no cost to school districts. Programs supported by the grant include YES! (Your Economic Success), JA Company Insight and JA Inspire Career Exploration Experience. From left: attorney Jerry Musheno, R.Ph., SACF board member; Laura Ducceschi, SACF president and CEO; Susan Magnotta, president, JA NEPA; and Cathy Fitzpatrick, SACF vice president of grants and scholarships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Junior Achievement of Northeastern Pennsylvania received a $15,000 grant from the Robert H. Spitz Foundation through the Scranton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-325105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}