By coaching and challenging Triangle schools to graduate 100 percent of their students, High Five is contributing to the health of businesses in all five Triangle counties. High Five’s goal is to ensure that today’s young people are prepared for tomorrow’s workplace. Your workplace. To be prepared for the best jobs at your company and others in the Triangle, these young people need to complete their high school education. Because as you have no doubt experienced, those who lack a high school diploma are unlikely to have the skills, literacy levels and motivation to be able to contribute to your bottom line. In fact, students who drop out of high school cost you money by draining public resources.

Local schools need your help to be able to achieve this ambitious yet absolutely necessary goal. That help can come in donations of time, of money and resources, and of talent. Schools also urgently need your moral and political support.

Browse through these pages for tips, ideas, and resources to help you and employees support public schools as they work to improve tomorrow’s workforce. Look for more content to be added beginning in mid-spring 2008.