Identify | Educate | Persuade| Activate
Now that you have given your target businesses reason to become involved in your initiative, you have to demonstrate that their involvement will benefit their bottom line.
You have to be sure you know what you have to offer businesses. What opportunity are you “selling” them? Is it a chance to be identified with an issue that is important to them? Will it boost their sales? Could it help them to build their workforce pipelines, retain employees, or make their places of business and their employees’ homes a safer place?
This section contains resources to help you persuade business partners that their involvement will benefit their bottom line. 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.
Business Presentation (America’s Promise Alliance)
This PowerPoint presentation, created for the America’s Promise Alliance, provides a template for you to use when meeting with a potential business partner.
Meeting Agenda (America’s Promise Alliance)
This agenda, created for the America’s Promise Alliance, will help you plan and conduct the initial meeting with each prospective corporate partner.
Meeting Checklist (America’s Promise Alliance)
This checklist, created for the America’s Promise Alliance, outlines the steps and materials needed to prepare for a successful initial meeting with a prospective corporate partner.
Thank You Letter (America’s Promise Alliance)
This letter, created for the America’s Promise Alliance, should be customized and sent as soon as possible after your meeting with each prospective partner. The document includes messaging options to use based on the meeting’s outcomes.
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.
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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