Samuel Taylor

Collaborative Business Alliances with a Nonprofit School in the Bahamas Samuel Taylor

Professorial Dissertation from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: K-12, University of Phoenix, course: DOC/734, language: English, comment: How to raise funds to support education for students with special challenges. , abstract: Educational leaders and the community have depended on the Ministry of Education in the Bahamas for educational funding. According to Bethel (2008), the government organization addressed the issue of special education and concluded that an inclusion model was required to meet the educational needs of all students. This qualitative case study examined, explored and explained the reasons why for profit business leaders formed the alliance in support of providing funding and resources through a collaborative educational alliance with the Bahamas Wisdom Academy and Development Center in Nassau Bahamas. The Corporate Social Responsibility Model presented a holistic approach to funding education that interconnected education, community, and leadership. The partnership program had positive effects on diminishing the negative factors that labels the special needs students.