Qualified Employees are Getting Harder to Find!

By partnering with your local educators you can help them understand what qualifications are required in the various positions in your business and help them create curricula that develops these qualifications, and provide a continuous qualified pool of candidates for you to consider.

How Much of Your Business , What You Do, and What Value You Add to the Community, is Public Knowledge? 

By partnering with educators, they can serve as free publicity for the good of your business by

using you as examples for what they are teaching, promoting your connection to the community, and allowing students to see the opportunities you provide. The students then share this information with parents, and it spreads from there!

Wouldn't an ROI on your taxes for education be nice? 

50% of your property taxes^*, 26% of the total State of Illinois budget⁺, and 2% of your federal taxes^{^}go towards education. By working together with educators, you can have a say in developing a return on your investment of tax money to benefit your business.

* Taxpayers Federation of Illinois, July, 2020

+ Capitol News Illinois, April 19, 2022

^ AfterSchool Alliance March 10, 2017

Creating a Sense of Ownership in the Community Creates a Sense of Pride in the Work that Benefits the Community 

This is why it is important to keep young people in our community, or have them return after their post secondary education. Being born here means they already have a sense of

ownership in the community. What takes many of them away is the idea that the "grass is greener on the other side," and there are more

opportunities to do what they want with their lives elsewhere. When educators are exposed to what is available, they can share that with

students by creating real to life lessons and connecting them to what is being done locally.

Then, when students find they have an aptitude and do well on these lessons, they know where those skills can be applied successfully, and

choose to remain, and care for the communities they already have much history with.