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