Best Practices, Volume VII, 2005

Summary of School Business Partnerships

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• Started in 1991
• Supported by the Anchorage School District (ASD) Chamber of Commerce and the business community
• Current financial support from ASD and business grants
• Chamber role is encouragement to it’s membership to participate and recognition of all programs
• Advisory Board became a 501 C-3 non-profit Board of Directors February 1997
• Fourteenth year of the School Business Partnership Program
• Provides enhancement programs for on-going educational programs
• All types of School Business Partnerships - no parameters other than positive educational involvement
• Currently over 400 Partnerships - 53 District Wide; 171 Elementary; 148 Secondary; 78 Gifted Mentorships
• Worth an estimated annual $2,000,000. - mostly in-kind - based on hard copy evaluation
• 5% cash; 13% service; 7% donated equipment; 75% time
• Each partnership is worth an average of $5,000
• 260 businesses, non-profits, and governmental agencies involved
• 49,000 students affected/involved
• 900 + School Staff involved
• 1000 + Business people involved
• Overall rating is Very Good
• Growth rate is averaging 3 new Partnerships each month
• Every Anchorage School District school has at least one Partnership
• Host of the 2001 Partners in Education Symposium
• Annual growth and economic worth
  • 1991/92 - 28 Partnerships - $140,000
  • 1991/92 - 28 Partnerships - $140,000
  • 1992/93 - 54 Partnerships - $270,000
  • 1993/94 - 90 Partnerships - $350,000
  • 1994/95 - 120 Partnerships - $500,000
  • 1995/96 - 190 Partnerships - $900,000
  • 1996/97 - 260 Partnerships - $1,225,000
  • 1997/98 - 360 Partnerships - $1,750,000
  • 1998/99 - 400 Partnerships - $2,000,000
  • 1999/00 - 450 Partnerships - $2,250,000
  • 2000/01 - 475 Partnerships - $2,300,000
  • 2004/05 – Evaluation in process to determine size of the program, results will be distributed in the spring of 2005
• The Goal - Continue to offer quality programs for the benefit of all Anchorage School District students and staff, to develop positive working relationships, a quality work force, to continue building bridges of understanding between the business and education community to their mutual benefit.

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