Entrepreneurs Foundation

June 15, 2006

09.14.05 Case study for EF2

Education Can Be Hard To Do

• Principal fiefdoms and teacher turf battles

• Low funding leads to chasing dollars so initiatives can turn on a dime

• Federal, state, county, city/district rules regulate every minute in the classroom

• Politics (superintendents are elected!)

• You will see and hear things that are very frustrating from the for-profit perspective and from the taxpayer perspective

• A lot of big MNCs still struggle with how to do this

09.14.05 Case study for EF3

Going Big

•Teach to the Future

•Intel Computer Clubhouse Network

•Volunteer Matching Gift Program– For every 20 hours volunteered in a

school for academic purposes, the school gets $200 unrestricted cash

•Matching Gift to Education– Every dollar donated by an Intel

employee/retiree can be matched dollar for dollar up to $10,000 per employee.

09.14.05 Case study for EF4

Small But Mighty

•Get into the classroom: Business of Reading

•Bring the classroom in: Interns

•Augment learning outside the classroom: Science Buddies

• Improve environment outside the classroom: Donating surplus office supplies to RAFT

• Improve learning environment outside the classroom: Backpack drive through Family Giving Tree and RAFT; book drive and give them to local school library to send home with students

09.14.05 Case study for EF5

Ease vs. Need

• Don't invent their solutions. See them as a partner.

• Be creative and make suggestions, find out what they need – Ex: Volunteers for Back to School Night

• Offer your employees expertise, they won’t know until you tell them what you’ve got.– Ex: Volunteers to teach teachers how to use power point

• High need communities might not be where your business is located

09.14.05 Case study for EF6

Links

education.intel.com

Sciencebuddies.org

Raft.net

Familygivingtree.org