GLC Awards 2023

November 15, 2023

This story was updated on November 16, 2023, to reflect the winners.

We’ve been celebrating Boundless JA this week in Bangkok with JA leaders from around the world at our Global Leadership Conference (GLC). Hosted by JA Thailand—part of the JA Asia Pacific region—this is the first time our global JA staff has gathered in person since 2019. After four days of learning, we’ll cap off GLC Bangkok with the most prestigious awards in our network: the GLC Awards.

We're thrilled to celebrate so many impactful individuals, initiatives, designs, programs, efforts, and more. The GLC Awards Gala will stream live from Bangkok on Thursday, November 16. Take a look at our finalists and the achievements they’ve been nominated for below, and tune in to our Facebook and YouTube for the live event at 7amEST/1pmCET/8pmHKT.

GLC Awards Finalists

The JA Alumni Engagement Award recognizes a JA location that has developed robust alumni strategies, including tracking of, communication with, and engagement projects for JA alumni.

INJAZ Bahrain
Winner: JA Alumni Europe
JA Alumni Indonesia
JA Korea
Junior Achievement of Southwestern New England (USA)
Junior Achievement Uganda

The JA Activator Award recognizes the JA location that best activates learning experiences and ideas developed by others within JA.

JA Americas: Project Salesforce, a system to organize program management, fundraising processes, and impact measurement
INJAZ Bahrain: Implementation of the Entrepreneurial Skills Pass and INJAZ Campus, a digital learning experience delivery platform
JA Brazil: Inspira JA, a digital learning experiences delivery platform (development and implementation helmed by JA Brazil's product analyst Jonathan Barreto)
JA Europe: UPSHIFT project with UNICEF (integrating JA entrepreneurship materials into an existing UNICEF program)
Winner: JA Mexico: Cuentas Contigo digital personal finance learning experience

The JA Access Award recognizes JA locations that develop low-tech or no-tech learning experiences: students who don’t have reliable internet access.

Winner: JA Africa: The Cha-Ching Money Show
JA Americas: Conexión learning chatbot
JA Greece: The Game Changers documentary series on Greek National Public Television
Prestasi Junior Indonesia: Cha-Ching curriculum chatbot
JA Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil): The SLC project, which delivers JA learning experiences to remote areas of Brazil
JA Zimbabwe: The Athari Project, an initiative to improve the reach, impact, and quality of learning experiences delivered in Zimbabwe

The JA Brand Amplification Award recognizes JA locations that have extended and amplified the JA brand most effectively, through a marketing campaign, social-media post, ad, video, booklet, report, speech, article, website, poster, or other marketing collateral.

Due to the overwhelming number of submissions for the JA Brand Amplification Awards, we grouped the top submissions into three categories, each with five finalists.

The JA Brand Amplification Award for a Website, Publication, or Report:

INJAZ Bahrain: INJAZ Bahrain Company Program magazine The Company
Winner: JA Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): New website
tGELF/JA India: New website
Junior Achievement Isle of Man: New website
INJAZ Qatar: Use of the modernized brand in all collateral, including its 2022 annual report

The JA Brand Amplification Award for a Campaign, Co-Branding, Social Media, Video, or Podcast:

Winner: INJAZ Al-Arab JA MENA: Future Jobs initiative and campaign with TikTok
JA Greece: Inspirational Mentors campaign
Prestasi Junior Indonesia (JA Indonesia): Co-branding with Disney, HSBC, and PMIEF
INJAZ Oman: “Voice of INJAZ” podcast
Junior Achievement Serbia: JA Company Program video

The JA Brand Amplification Award for an Event, Building, Mascot, or Product:

Junior Achievement Argentina: Branded sustainable wallet
JA Malta: JA Company of the Year event
JA Mexico: JA mascot Junior
Winner: Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain (USA): Free Enterprise Center building
DESEM Junior Achievement (JA Uruguay): 2023 annual gala dinner

The JA Bold Tech Award recognizes a JA location that has developed bold-tech learning experiences: students, including virtual or augmented reality, artificial intelligence, an interactive website and app, and other immersive and innovative uses of technology.

INJAZ Al-Arab JA MENA: the INJAZ Campus digital learning experiences hub
JA Americas: the Latin Code Week regional app-building initiative
INJAZ Bahrain: an app for INJAZ volunteers
JA Brazil: the Elas Na Tech training initiative for women who want to work in web programming
Junior Achievement of Chicago (USA): Metaversity VR experience for K–5 students
JA Europe: the Gen-E virtual expo and job fair
JA Korea: the New City on the Block learning experience
Winner: JA Lithuania: virtual Innovation and Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

The Soraya Salti Award recognizes a JA leader who is a committed visionary and pushes the boundaries to move JA forward in a positive way, like bringing systematic change to a country or region. The winner also exemplifies the JA values of the boundless potential of young people, excellence, integrity, and respect in tangible ways.

Brenda Santos, JA Brazil

César Asiático

Diana Filip

Parry Diskul

Tania Daniel

Finalists:

Brenda Santos, Director of Operations, JA Brazil
Parry Diskul, Executive Director, JA Thailand
Diana Filip, Deputy CEO, JA Europe
César Asiático, Executive Director, JA Dominican Republic
Winner: Tania Daniel, Vice President of Entrepreneurship Initiatives, Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas (USA)

The JA Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a JA network CEO or Executive Director who has significantly contributed to the growth and impact of JA learning experiences in his or her country.