JA Worldwide Ranked as a Top Ten NGO/SGO for Six Years in a Row
July 16, 2024
Geneva-based thedotgood has announced that JA Worldwide remains among the ten most impactful social-good organization in the world, earning the #5 spot for the second straight year.
Ranking the world’s most impactful NGOs began in 2012, in an effort to showcase the best practices and newest ideas in the nonprofit sector. In 2021, recognizing that it was no longer possible to consider all the categories of not-for-profit organizations, NGO Advisor began paying greater tribute to the fast-growing Social Good Sphere by listing the top 200 SGOs (social good organizations). NGO Advisor rebranded as thedotgood with a mission to multiply opportunities for engagement and interaction in the social-good sphere and a vision of a cohesive energy that maximizes collective impact for the world: connecting the good dots. To that end, thedotgood focuses exclusively on organizations delivering a social profit and connects those who put positive impact and social profit first.
Highlighting impact, innovation, and governance in the Social Good Sphere, the rankings seek to showcase the global diversity, demonstrated impact, and scale of organizations; compare SGOs using criteria that transcend geography and field of activity; stimulate inquiry and debate about the impact, innovation, and sustainability of SGO activity; and present a wide range of exemplary SGO work so that sector-wide trends can be observed year to year and annual rankings adjusted over time. Read more about the methodology and criteria used for thedotgood’s annual rankings.
JA Worldwide is honored to be named to thedotgood World 200 SGOs for 2024, landing among the top ten for the sixth year in a row and climbing from #7 in 2019, 2020, and 2021 to #6 in 2022 and #5 in 2023 and 2024.
“We’re honored to be ranked among the world’s top SGOs,” said JA Worldwide CEO, Asheesh Advani, “particularly because the selection criteria for this recognition is based on impact, innovation, and governance. The last 12 months have been a year of continuous innovation in the way JA creates and delivers our hands-on, immersive, mentor-driven learning experiences, at a time when education is undergoing tremendous change. And were it not for the over 3,500 JA staff, 600,000+ teachers and business volunteers, and 6,000+ JA board members making a collective effort to govern our vast, global organization, we wouldn’t have the scale or experience to deliver over 17 million student learning experiences, each of which helps young people develop the skillset and mindset to build thriving communities.”
Read more about thedotgood and JA’s social impact.