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Supporting the Education Pipeline: A Business Engagement Toolkit for Community-Based Organizations
 

When leaders in education, business, and government align resources, build on existing high-quality supports, and work together, outcomes improve for children and youth. This toolkit may help Head Start programs enhance collaborative efforts in their communities.

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Business people talkingIdentify
Find resources, including publications and toolkits, to help your program identify business engagement opportunities.

Educate
These resources may help you inform business partners on how issues facing children affect their business goals. This section offers tools to help identify solutions and clearly communicate to business leaders the importance of collaboration.

Persuade
Find resources to help you persuade business partners to participate in your collaborative effort. This section may help you communicate how their involvement in issues affecting children and youth will benefit their bottom line—whether that line is boosting sales, building workforce pipelines, or making their places of business safer spaces.

Activate
Use these resources to develop a request suitable for the the business partner. The business might be a general supporter of child and youth issues or an advocate for a specific policy.

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Supporting the Education Pipeline: A Business Engagement Toolkit for Community-Based Organizations. Corporate Voices for Working Families/United Way Worldwide/Ready by 21 National Partnership/Workforce Strategy Center. 2011. English.

Last Reviewed: February 2011