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Community
Partners
KIDS IN BUSINESS® taps into every imaginable community resource, and continually seeks ways to involve the community in the program. Guest artists, business people, parents with special talents, educators, graduate students, videographers and photographers, and specialty trades people are invited into KIDS IN BUSINESS® classrooms to help students develop critical business and technology skills, and carry out their product visions.
Just as importantly, KIDS IN BUSINESS® uses the community as its extended classroom by introducing students to the tremendous wealth of talented and supportive people and resources that exist right in their own backyards. Students sell products at corporate sales sites and malls, visit boardrooms to meet company presidents, take out loans from banks, and participate in creative writing projects, which are used in the production of an annual calendar.
Current sales sites include Prudential Insurance Company, PSE&G, CIT Group, Beth Israel Hospital, and Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey.
Community Outreach
One
of the most important components of the KIDS IN BUSINESS® program is
its focus on teaching youth participants how to be effective workers and
contributors within their community. The youth donate up to 50% of the profits
generated through product sales to local charities. To date, over $95,000
in profits and matching grants has been donated by KIDS IN BUSINESS® to
help combat homelessness, AIDS, and poverty, and to promote better reading
skills in Newark. Contribution recipients include:
Apostles' House
Provides comprehensive social services to homeless, at-risk individuals, and
families in an environment that encourages and enables self-sufficiency.
Services include emergency shelter for women and children, transitional housing,
and family preservation.
The Newark Literacy
Campaign
Provides one-to-one and small group reading tutorials and literacy services,
recruits and trains literacy volunteers, recruits children and adults who need
to improve reading skills, and sets up literacy sites at schools, libraries,
colleges, agencies, and churches.
Turtle Back Zoo
Provides an enriching recreational experience that fosters excellence in wildlife
education and wildlife conservation, inspiring present and future generations
to understand, appreciate, and protect the fragile interdependence of all
living things.
Newark Beth Israel
Medical Center
A teaching hospital that provides comprehensive health care services to its
local communities and a major referral and treatment center for patients throughout
the northern New Jersey metropolitan area.
Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocates
(Casa)
an independent, court-authorized, non-profit organization which works through
professionally trained and supervised volunteers to promote the welfare of
children in Essex County, New Jersey, who have been removed from their homes
because of abuse, neglect, or abandonment.
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center (fxb)
at Umdnj
An internationally recognized model for the care of mother-to-child transmitted
HIV disease. The program's mission is to deliver care that is community-based,
child-centered, family-focused, comprehensive, and coordinated.
Habitat for Humanity
Brings families and communities in need together with volunteers and resources
to build decent, affordable housing. Houses are sold with no profit made.