Providing schools with free educational materials is a labor-intensive operation: updating mailing lists, doing promotional mailings, packing and shipping, managing a warehouse, taking inventory, preparing budget and materials distribution reports. Tasks that don't involve a lot of thought, but do take time away from parts of your job description that are more important. Because these mundane tasks have to be done on schedule, some activities that are actually more important are put off. That is a modern managerial catch-22: more and more of your time is spent on the most clerical part of your job.
In these days of corporate downsizing, many managers have discovered a solution to this dilemma: out-sourcing.
Let Enterprise for Education take fulfillment off your hands. We pioneered client-customized materials distribution nearly twenty years ago, and we're now providing that service for many of our clients. We understand school systems and we understand fulfillment to schools. We have the experience, the data, the software systems and the facilities to do it right. You and your staff get the time you need to focus on more difficult community and public affairs concerns.
But my company needs to get the credit.
Enterprise's role is invisible to the schools. All mailings to schools are on your utility's letterhead and are approved in advance by you.
Who selects the materials to be offered?
You do, of course. And you specify how much you wish to spend on each title. We'll even fulfill orders for titles from other publishers.
How will I know what's happening?
You will receive reports as frequently as you wish. Each report will brief you on budget status, response rates, and the details of what schools and teachers are participating.
What will happen to the level of participation?
It will rise. We guarantee it. We know how to reach teachers.
What does it cost?
It costs less than doing it yourself, to judge by the experience of utilities using our service. Some reasons for this are:
- You purchase only what is delivered to requesting schools. No inventory buildup, no warehousing costs.
- Economies of scale: our operation is larger than yours, so the fixed costs are spread over many more schools and titles.
Call (310) 394-9864 for more details. We'll fax you a form asking what titles you are considering offering your schools. Complete it and fax it back to us, and we will generate a forecast of your costs. No obligation.
Additional Services
- Custom Publishing. To more firmly identify the support your utility provides your schools, we offer a variety of brand-enhancing options. Imprinting of logos, address and messages; custom covers, and text and graphics revision to reflect local needs. Finally, if your utility needs a publication, poster, brochure or catalog, we have the resources to create them for you.
- Teacher Training. The effectiveness with which our materials are used can often be enhanced through teacher training, particularly where school district leaders want to implement them throughout their districts. Each year, Enterprise for Education's consultant trainers conduct workshops for between 1,000 and 2,000 teachers. Among these trainers are current and former presidents of state and national science teacher organizations; we invite you to consider their services.
- Program Planning and Implementation. How you shape your utility's image in this era of deregulation is ever more important. Let us help you enhance your school outreach program so that it more completely meets your utility's communication objectives and your schools' needs.
Enterprise for Education has worked closely with utility education executives for two decades in developing its publications, science kits, and CD-ROMs, and we would be happy to help you sharpen the focus and effectiveness of your overall school program. Specifically, we can help you to identify your communications/education goals; propose a mix of titles to help meet these objectives; customize the materials with logos and custom covers; develop a fulfillment plan; and, if you wish, organize and conduct teacher training programs. And if your utility has other priorities for its community relations specialists, we stand ready to serve as your turnkey education program provider.