1. A DPS Foundation & Mile High United Way Collaboration
School Partners
A DPS Foundation & Mile High United Way Collaboration

2. Corporate Volunteering
CVPs have been seen as feel-good social engagement tools that are primarily used for public relations, increased morale, and team building (Veleva et al. 2012, 125).
The challenge is in the design. Creating a CVP that is both scalable for use by even small organizations, maximizing impact by both aligning the CVP with strategy yet retaining the benefits “selfless” volunteering gives, is a challenge (Pajo and Lee 2010, 480).
CVPs should provide the company with:
PR Benefits
Team Building Opportunities
Employee Engagement

3. Shared Value Model Community Value Business Value
Point of Intersect
Business Value
A Shared Value model (Bockstette and Stamp 2011, 4) is simply to commit to finding where business and society have intersecting interests, and using these points of intersection to benefit both

4. About School Partners Founded in 2006 by DPS Foundation
The School Partners Program cultivates, nurtures and sustains partnerships between DPS schools and the Denver community.
The program creates tailor-made partnerships between schools and businesses or community organizations.
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5. Path to Partnership

6. TutorMate Online Tutoring
Tutoring sessions occur once a week, for 30 minutes, via an online, shared screen connection.
Volunteer is in their office, student is in their classroom
Each tutor works with the same student throughout the school year-building a meaningful, supportive relationship.
Students and tutors read appropriate level stories and play activities that encourage fluency, comprehension, phonics and spelling skills.
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7. Power Lunch
Power Lunch is a unique reading & mentoring program that pairs corporate volunteers with third-grade students, to read in-person weekly.
Each week, volunteers go to the school together to read for 45 minutes with their Power Lunch reading buddy.
Participating companies provide one volunteer for each student in a classroom to have a reading partner – a minimum of 25 volunteers.
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8. Activity Ideas: Elementary Schools
Power Lunch
TutorMate
Host a spelling bee
Back-to-school Drive
Sponsorship of family literacy night
Hold a Beautification Day
Lunch Buddies Program

9. Activity Ideas: Middle Schools
Mentor or e-mentor students
Help establish and support extracurricular activities
Judge a Science Fair
Chaperone Field Trips
Focused tutoring students prior to State Exams

10. Activity Ideas: High Schools
Serve as Principal for a Day
Job Shadow
Career Day
Provide scholarships to a select number of students
Host College Day (Alumni talk about college, answer questions etc.)

11. RECRUITMENT PHASE
RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS IS ESSENTIAL TO A SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIP

12. successful recruiting methods
Recruiting Method Tips
Testimonials from colleagues about their own experiences
Examples of real-life benefits gained from students, educators, business staff
Student presentations: in person, by letter/ , in a music program
A joint presentation by school and business management reps

13. BENEFITS
For Your Company, Your Employees, and the School You Partner With

14. BENEFITS: FOR YOUR COMPANY
Offers opportunities for employee volunteerism
Increases employee performance, retention, and productivity
Creates opportunities to receive positive recognition within the community
Enhances communication with the educational systems and increases understanding
Contributes to a healthy community

15. benefits: for your employees
Improves leadership and interpersonal skills
Increases interaction with other segments of the company
Adds variety and sense of self-worth to job
Improves community services used by employees’ families

16. benefits: for the school
Increases understanding of how skills in school are relevant to work
Improves skills and motivations with the help of volunteer support
Offers opportunities to receive curriculum support—skills, resources, pe ople.
Increase the awareness of community businesses and enhances comm unication with business leaders

17. community acknowledgement
We recognize your unique contributions to our schools:
On DPS and Mile High United Way websites
At DPS Foundation’s annual Achieve Gala
Through our social media channels
In our Annual Reports