Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson spoke at the March 12, 2009 meeting of the Active 20-30 Sacramento No.1 Club. Current and past members, as well as members from the Active 20-30 Greater Sacramento No.1032 Club were in attendance to hear Mayor Johnson speak about volunteerism and community involvement. Mayor Johnson held up 20-30 as a shining example of giving back to the community.

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At the March 9 Board Meeting, Active 20-30 Sacramento No.1 granted a total of $5,280 to two worthy organizations: Junior Achievement of Sacramento, and Motivating the Teen Spirit.

Junior Achievement is an educational, volunteer-driven, non-profit organization created in 1919. Junior Achievement of Sacramento came to the Board Meeting with a request to help fund their Elementary School Program at Oak Ridge Elementary. The Elementary School Program teaches students the basic concepts of business and economics. The sequential themes, each with five hands-on activities, build on lessons and learning standards across the school curriculum and from each preceding grade. Because research shows that truly effective education programs begin in the earliest years, the elementary grades are ideal for initiating an understanding of the basic principles of economics. The Board voted to approve $3,780 to fund 7 elementary school classes of up to 28 students in each class. Oak Ridge Elementary is a Title 1 school, where 98% of the students are socioeconomically disadvantaged.

Motivating the Teen Spirit programs teach teens how to better understand who they are and their full potential. A local facilitator is planning teen empowerment workshops in Sacramento, and will be holding a workshop for homeless teens in late March. The Board voted to fund $1,500 to help serve 75 homeless teens in a workshop that has proven successful to tens of thousands of teenagers.

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