Best Practices, Volume VII, 2005

School Business Partnerships Opening

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The Anchorage School Business Partnership program continues to grow and prosper. In our continuing effort to provide recognition, support and encouragement for both the business and the school involved in these programs, we present the VII edition of Best Practices.

To be involved in a successful Partnership program takes time, effort, commitment, caring, organization, relationship building, understanding, and planning. The schools and businesses represented in this publication truly represent all of these characteristics plus they have stretched themselves by getting out of their normal role and walking a different path finding ways to positively build their Partnership.

We have come a long way since 1991 when this program began. With the support of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce as a partner, we ended that year with 28 Partnerships. This school year we end with more than 400 active Partnerships representing all forms of programs for students and staff districtwide. The business community has responded to the needs of the schools and continues to search for new ways to support education and provide opportunities for students that would otherwise not be available to them. The economic value is in excess of 2 million dollars annually. The breakdown of that figure is 75 percent time, 13 percent service, 7 percent donated equipment and 5 percent cash.

Our Partnerships are both small and large. They range from the one person business involved with a school to the large corporations involved with many schools.

Thanks for all that you do for the students in the Anchorage School District and know that through your efforts, we are working together to build bridges of understanding between the business and education community, establishing positive working relationships, and creating educational enhancement opportunities for our students.

School Business Partnership Board of Directors Officers

Co Chairs

Barbara Stallone, Municipality of Anchorage
Karla Korman, Alaska Airlines

Vice Chair

Chris Wilson, Subway of Alaska

Secretary

Kathleen Barrows, Providence Health System

Treasurer

Bessie Doral, Northrim Bank

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Please note: The information on this page is from the 2005 edition of Best Practices. The people, programs and contact information included were current at the time of publication, but may have since changed.