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The Corporate Imperative:

A Business Guide for Implementing Strategic
Education Partnerships

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Table of Contents

Title page

• Acknowledgments

• How to Use the Business Guide

• Step 1: Create a Corporate Environment that Supports Educational Involvement

• Step 2: Assess Your Company's Involvement in Business-Education Partnerships

• Step 3: Link to Business and School Objectives

• Step 4: Build Coalitions

• Step 5: Plan, Implement and Evaluate

• Business Guide Addendum

• Background: Business Case for Corporate Educational Approaches
• Case Examples: Employee Involvement
• Case Examples: Resource Donation
• Case Examples: Business-Education Programs
• Case Examples: Stakeholder/Community-wide Collaborations
• Designing Strategic Educational Approaches
• Case Examples: Strategic Educational Approaches
• Documenting Added Business Value
• Resources
• Bibliography

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