Identify | Educate | Persuade| Activate
Business leaders like facts—but not encyclopedias. They need a snapshot. What problems are facing children and youth in your community or state? What proof do you have that children are coming to school unprepared, not reading at grade level, disengaged, dropping out, and not entering or completing postsecondary education or job training? How do these issues affect business? What are the solutions to these problems?
This section contains resources to help you educate business partners by making the case about their issues and clearly stating what is at stake in order to gain buy-in from business leaders. Resources are organized by the five stages of education.
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Community Champion Endorsement Letter (America’s Promise Alliance)
This sample letter, created for the America’s Promise Alliance, can be used as an introduction/endorsement of your organization from a community champion. The letter can be tailored quickly to reflect your community and what your organization is doing that would interest the company.
Corporate Partner Endorsement Letter (America’s Promise Alliance)
This sample letter, created for the America’s Promise Alliance, is designed to introduce and endorse your organization. It should be sent from a current corporate partner to a prospective business partner before you call to schedule the initial meeting.
Letter of Introduction (America’s Promise Alliance)
This sample letter, created for the America’s Promise Alliance, can be used as an introduction of your organization to a prospective corporate partner.
Phone Call Script (America’s Promise Alliance)
This sample phone call script, created for the America’s Promise Alliance, can be used to make initial contact with a company by phone. The script provides language that will help you introduce your local organization, as well as schedule a meeting.
Common Goals, Unique Strengths: Education and Business Partnerships (Corporate Voices for Working Families)
Corporate Voices for Working Families and the American Association of School Administrators are working together to help communities build broader partnerships across the public and private sectors. In this brief, Corporate Voices and AASA highlight the benefits of business and education partnerships, tips for engaging educators and business leaders and a case study illustrating these partnerships in action.
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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