Our Partners in Education impact the lives of students in our community in a variety of ways. Over the years, our Partners have worked alongside schools and other business leaders to change the paths of our students in these ways:
- Providing mentorships for students
- career mentoring
- personal mentoring
- America's Promise mentoring with reading or math assistance
- Serving as mentors for parents, encouraging and supporting involvement in school activities
- Advising students in project development
- Business teams working with students and school administrators
- Allowing students to participate in work-environment programs
- Making business departments available to schools
- Providing summer internships for teachers
- Providing job-shadowing sites for teachers and students
- Serving as a tour site for Teachers Touring Businesses Day
- Providing products of your business to schools
- Passing along surplus materials and supplies to schools
- Judging at science fairs, Academic Decathlon, and other academic competitions
- Providing awards or other incentives to promote academic excellence, good citizenship or attendance
- Working with your company's corporate foundation to provide funding for special school programs and projects
- Serving as a Career Day speaker
- Sharing talent or expertise in areas such as art, music, carpentry, history, travel or public speaking
- Reading stories to students or listening to students as they read
- Hosting field trips to businesses or cultural sites
- Assisting with production of school publications
- Assisting with the costs of educational materials and equipment
- Assisting with the funding for a variety of school or district wide activities, programs, or events
- Hosting special events such as testing-completion and end-of-the-year celebrations
- Display student work at business site