The Partnership, Inc.
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

Business Mentoring Alliance: The Delaware State Chamber of Commerce and the Delaware Mentoring Council have formed a Business Task Force in an effort to strengthen the youth mentoring initiative throughout the state. The collaboration will help increase the number of partnerships between businesses and individual schools in Delaware. In turn, these partnerships will support mentoring programs in schools, increasing sustainability for the future.

Job Corps: The Delaware State Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Center for Workforce Preparation to promote a new Job Corps center in Wilmington, Delaware and gain support and involvement from the Delaware business community. The Wilmington Center will function as a satellite center to the high performing Philadelphia Job Corps Center and will provide education and job training for 125 students in the trades of facility maintenance, culinary arts, business / clerical and health occupations.

MAKE It! Manufacturing Camp: This unique summer camp is designed to expose ninth and 10th graders to the field of manufacturing through hands-on activities and tours of manufacturing facilities.

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. To view descriptions of past winning programs, click here.

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.