Making an Investment in Your Business’s Future

The best investment any member of Delaware’s business community can make is a pretty simple proposition: make a small commitment to our school kids now -- or face the consequences later.

You can make that commitment through The Partnership, Inc., an affiliate of the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce. Its innovative and time-tested programs are designed to help you help our kids to succeed, and helping our children to succeed is the surest way to help your business succeed.

Partnership Programs

Job Corps:
The Delaware State Chamber of Commerce supports the Wilmington Job Corps Center. This center provides education and job training for 125 students in the trades of facility maintenance, culinary arts, business/clerical and health occupations. For more information on Job Corps click here. 

Principal for a Day:
The Principal for a Day program was introduced in 1993 under the Superstars in Education awards program umbrella. Recognizing a need to foster working relationships between business leaders and educators, the State Chamber created this program to provide CEOs and business leaders an opportunity to spend the day in a Delaware school carrying out the daily responsibilities of a principal.

Superstars in Education:
Superstars in Education is a statewide awards program that seeks to promote and share programs and best practices in education that show measurable results and raise student achievement. Funded by the business community, the Superstars in Education program seeks to award Delaware educators who have implemented and sustained a creative, unique program, or a teaching practice that works to raise student achievement and test scores. Read more about our Superstars in Education program.

Teacher Externship Program:
The Externship Program aims to bring real world experience to the classroom by giving educators the opportunity to see how the curricular areas and the standards to which they teach relate to the world of work. Educators learn about the business community and its expectation of future employees and what teachers can do to help students understand the world of work.

The Partnership, Inc. Board of Directors