The following tips, tools and connections can help you get started on your partnering journey.
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For schools and businesses
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Additional resources for schools
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The following organisations can help enable school-business connections:
- Australian Business Community Foundation (ABCN): structured workplace mentoring and business/school partnerships
- Australian Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship (ACRE): works with schools (Social Enterprise Schools) and communities to develop the mindset, skills and behaviours needed to build an enterprising culture and a thriving new economy
- Big Picture Education Australia: personalised student learning, preparing students for opportunities beyond school with an emphasis on real-world learning through a combination of academic and real-world internships
- Beacon Foundation: reaching, inspiring and connecting Australia’s future workforce
- CareerTrackers: linking Indigenous university students with employers to participate in paid, multi-year internships (post-school stage of education)
- Country Universities Centre: creating dedicated learning and study spaces for regional people by regional people. Providing a way for local business or service providers interested in engaging locally trained university graduates and students, or hosting student placements and work based learning
- CSIRO STEM Professionals in Schools: national volunteer program that facilitates partnerships between schools and industry to bring real-life STEM into the classroom
- Engineers Without Borders – School outreach program: trained volunteers run creative, hands-on STEM workshops for primary and secondary students, to inspire the next generation of engineering change-makers
- Inspiring the Future Australia: enables volunteers to connect with primary and secondary schools to share information about their career, skills and education route or pathway, to inspire and motivate students
- Ourschool: helping state secondary schools build thriving alumni communities to inspire students about study and career pathways and to create new opportunities for students
- Raise Foundation: providing young people with caring, independent volunteer mentors
- STARportal: offers a comprehensive collection of STEM activities and providers for families to discover local STEM activities for the children in their lives and for providers to find partners with which to collaborate
- The Smith Family’s iTrack mentoring program: connects students in Years 9 to 11 to adult mentors for guidance on post-school options
- Together 4 Youth: a single point of contact for secondary schools to access a range of programs that support social and emotional learning for students
