History

JMG: helping students reach their potential, and strengthening Maine’s workforce since 1993.

In 1993, Maine's Legislature created Jobs for Maine's Graduates, Inc. (JMG) specifically to help high school seniors reconnect to school and successfully graduate and transition into the workforce. Since then, JMG has evolved into an organization that helps students in grades 6-12 achieve better grades, experience a connectedness to school, and provides them with an understanding of pathways and opportunities to future success.

JMG is modeled after America’s largest and most significant school-to-career organization, Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG). There are more than 30 JAG affiliates, like JMG, helping students reach their potential across the country.

Since its inception, JMG has helped more than 25,000 young people in middle school and high school, youth in foster care, and incarcerated youth overcome challenges and become reconnected and re-engaged in their schools, their communities, and the workforce.

JMG graduates earn 14% more money than all other workers their age.