Grand Rapids Business Journal
Alexandra Crow works with Junior Achievement in the classroom to enhance financial literacy.
Courtesy Audrey Hutchinson
One United Bank of Michigan employee is on a mission to ensure children understand the value of money before they grow older.
Alexandra Crow, relationship manager for United Bank of Michigan, is volunteering with Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes (JAMGL). JA is an organization that uses volunteers to teach children in grades K-12 about jobs, entrepreneurship and financial literacy.
Laura Lutterbeck, district director and chief marketing officer for Junior Achievement of Southwest Michigan and Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes, said JAMGL was started in 1955 and now covers 50 counties in West Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. JA has been around for more than 100 years.
11 May 2021 UK workers are driving a digital revolution Paige Erickson, managing director EMEA at Workfront, discusses how UK workers are driving a digital-first revolution
Having up-to-date, functional digital tools is vital to maintaining productivity.
We’re now one year on from the ‘great home-working shift’ and in that time, much has been made about the accelerated digital transformation businesses have had to embrace, and how this might negatively impact a dispersed workforce. But has anyone stopped to gauge how those impacted individuals feel about this ever-growing proliferation of and reliance on technology? Well, they should, because in the UK at least, what you’re likely to find is that this digital revolution isn’t just being forced on companies by external factors, trends or pandemics. It’s a revolution being driven from the ground up, by the workers who are navigating digital solutions everyday to do t
OK, millennials!
Some of you are turning 40 this year and you aren t the youngest generation anymore. Let s face it, you are finally growing up. You re getting married, having kids and, gasp, buying your own houses.
So much for forever young. No, wait, that was Gen X s anthem.
Still, millennials have survived one challenge after another by adapting, and the latest adaptation seems to be trying to settle down, putting down roots and acting a little more like, dare we say it, boomers. What we are seeing is that millennials are approaching getting older with this sort of determination to continue to adapt, said Jason Dorsey, the president and lead researcher at the Center for Generational Kinetics, a research firm in Texas.