Identify | Educate | Persuade| Activate
This section contains resources to help you identify business engagement opportunities. Resources are organized by the five stages of education.
We invite users to add examples, protocols, and case studies to expand the knowledge base and share with your peers. Please click here to download the form and make a submission.
Community Needs Matrix (America’s Promise Alliance)
This tool, created for the America’s Promise Alliance, enables you to present specific needs within your community to a prospective partner during the initial meeting. You may want to further customize the Community Needs Matrix for each corporate partner highlighting specific needs you think they might be interested in addressing.
Partner Profile (America’s Promise Alliance)
This tool, created for the America’s Promise Alliance, enables you to present specific needs within your community to a prospective partner during the initial meeting. You may want to further customize the Community Needs Matrix for each corporate partner highlighting specific needs you think they might be interested in addressing.
Prospect Needs Matrix (America’s Promise Alliance)
This form, created for the America’s Promise Alliance, will help you record information and decisions about prospective partners, as you discuss them with your advisory board. The completed Prospect Matrix will provide you with a road map for further research.
Business Engagement Stakeholders Wheel: Identifying Leaders in Your Community(Corporate Voices for Working Families)
To engage business, nonprofits should have a strategy to ensure that they identify the right business partners, to utilize the strengths of those partners and to take the stepsnecessary to ensure successful long-term collaborations. The Business Engagement Stakeholders Wheel lists different business organizations and business leaders who could partner, as well as information on the roles business can play to ensure all youth are ready for college, work and life.
Call to Action: Ready by 21 Business Engagement Menu(Corporate Voices for Working Families)
Business leaders play a crucial role in community efforts to ensure that all youth are ready for college, work and life. This dual purpose Business Engagement Menu provides business leaders with the various ways they can be involved in communities. Nonprofit leaders can also use the menu to learn the array of options that exist to get business active in effectively meeting a community’s goals for youth. The document can be customized to include specific examples of involvement for a community.
Education Strategies and Approaches (United Way)
This document consists of the research and experience driven strategies and approaches that United Ways can take to reduce the high school drop out rate in their communities.
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