Entrepreneurs Foundation

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Entrepreneurs Foundation

• June 15, 2006

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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

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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.

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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

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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 wont know
  until you tell them what youve got.
• Ex Volunteers to teach teachers how to use power
  point
• High need communities might not be where your
  business is located

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Links

• education.intel.com
• Sciencebuddies.org
• Raft.net
• Familygivingtree.org