Community Business Initiative
Local businesses empowering schools and communities to thrive.
What is the Community Business Initiative?
In the 2022-2023 school year, STEM Library Lab helped 205 local teachers borrow 4,079 pieces of equipment to create hands on lessons, benefiting over 21,300 students and saving schools and teachers $298,878.
Now our Community Business Initiative invites local businesses to help grow this impact to new schools and more students! We invite your businesses to join our current partners, and sponsor a school to help provide new opportunities for students to engage with rigorous STEM experiments and activities. Learn more about why and how:

Benefits for your Business
Community Business Initiative partners receive: • Recognition on our website and newsletter, and a plaque to hang in your office • Company branding at SLL, at your partner school site, and in marketing materials • Midyear and year end updates on how your support is impacting students at your site and across all schools • Optional volunteer opportunities at SLL and/or at your partner school site • Invitations to CBI networking events with other local businesses and school
Benefits for your school
Your partner school will receive:
• Access to a curated library of over $120,000 in STEM classroom equipment and online
database to search and reserve items
• Professional develop workshops on how to implement content specific lessons
• Individualized planning assistance for teachers to develop new lessons
• Entry to a community of like minded professional educators
Take the next step today!
Have a school in mind?
If you have a school in mind in your neighborhood, just connect us with them and invite them to get involved, then we’ll all meet and discuss a partnership
Sponsor a School on our Waitlist
If you’re open to any local school, we’ve got a short waitlist of schools we can pair you with, or can outreach to schools in your neighborhood
Sponsor a Collection
Get involved without a partner school- sponsor a collection of new equipment or pick from items on our wish list, and your support can benefit thousands of local students
Join Our Current Partners
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Ready to Partner?
Fill out the short application below and we’ll be in touch!