Some initial thoughts on where I'm going in terms of selling the idea of corporations and foundations expanding their "public purpose" campaigns to include PUEO-type programs:
Aside from the emotional standpoint of the respective stories of these kids and their families who now see college as within their reach, right now I'm seeing three potential ways of making this attractive to the private sector:
• long term— these are the companies' future employees; they would be helping to train a more highly skilled work force
• medium term— public relations; businesses can market how they are committed to providing enrichment activities to public schools; that would create brand loyalty and a loyal customer base
• immediate/short term— providing a tax incentive to give them the necessary write-off for their contributions to convince board members and/or shareholders; this is where I need the most help in navigating the legislative process and figuring out if it's even possible to change the tax code in that way
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
PUEO— capstone
I had the pleasure of meeting with Carl Ackerman, Director of PUEO, and Colleen Murakami, Educational Specialist— Service Learning/Critical Thinking for the Department of Education to discuss the possibility of creating a capstone experience for the PUEO students during the summer of 2011. One area we examined was trying to align the capstone experience with the Senior Project that will be required of all public school graduates starting in the 2010-11 school year. The areas the Senior Project can address are research, service-learning, and performance. Another exciting initiative Colleen mentioned is the Running Start program which would allow DOE students to gain college credit at community colleges. It will be exciting to explore how that program could also align with the capstone/Senior Project experience. I know there is a lot we at Punahou and CapSEEDS in particular can gain from seeing how the DOE lays out its requirements for the Senior Project. I look forward to many more enlightening conversations in the future.
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