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PACER's Corporate Sponsors
Several companies have partnered with PACER in special projects or ongoing collaborations. PACER welcomes the opportunity to talk about the possibilities for your company to make a difference. Please call Mary Schrock, Development Director, at 952-838-9000 for more information.
Current Corporate and Community Champions
Panera Bread
PACER is a proud partner with Panera Bread of Minnesota, a franchise of bakery-cafes located throughout the Midwest. Panera serves gourmet pastries, salads, sandwiches, and a wide variety of home-style soups. Panera hires employees with disabilities to work in their bakeries, and models successful supported employment environments - a natural fit for PACER Center.
PACER's partnership with Panera also creates increased awareness of PACER's resources for families of children with disabilities. Panera displays PACER materials, event information, and volunteer opportunities at all of its locations.
In addition, PACER is the proud recipient of Panera's Operation Dough-Nation, which gives surrounding communities the opportunity to support PACER through donation boxes located near the cash registers at Panera stores. By donating your change in these boxes, you can support children with disabilities and their families. Panera matches all funds collected and donates to the total proceeds to PACER.
IBM
IBM has partnered with
PACER’s Simon Technology Center to create the
EX.I.T.E. (Exploring Interests in Technology and Engineering ) Summer Camp for middle school girls with disabilities. Although IBM offers EX.I.T.E. Camps at 35 locations world-wide, this camp was specifically pioneered with PACER Center for girls with disabilities.
PACER's EX.I.T.E. Camp gives girls with disabilities the opportunity to explore technology and engineering through engaging, hands-on activities such as creating a Web site, tearing down a personal computer, and designing and building a probe circuit.
Participants of the annual EX.I.T.E. camps also meet inspirational speakers and
form long-lasting mentor relationships. The EX.I.T.E. Camp has received enthusiastic responses from the girls who have attended. To quote one parent, "My
daughter is interested in learning more about careers in technology. She wants to check web sites, reference books... She has the spark. Thanks for the inspiration!"
Previous PACER Partnerships
Best Buy
Best Buy Corporation
helped children with disabilities nation-wide as a result of a partnership with PACER Center. PACER Center is the national
center for the Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers (the ALLIANCE). Through the ALLIANCE, PACER brings training, resources, materials and technical assistance to the nation's other 106 parent centers. Best Buy
was a partner in
the ALLIANCE technology project, which provided resources to expand technology capabilities for all parent centers. In addition, Best Buy
gave employees and managers time off from work to volunteer for ALLIANCE planning meetings, and to participate as trainers and speakers in technology institutes, presented by PACER to parent center leaders from across the country.
When a parent center in California or New York helps a child with ADHD, or helps solve a school problem for a child with a learning disability, the staff can use resources made available through the technical advances created through Best Buy's participation. Best Buy's assistance to our parent center, PACER, is multiplied many times over through it's national projects, and demonstrates Best Buy's commitment to helping thousands of families of children with disabilities through its resources.
Creative Kidstuff
Creative Kidstuff partnered with PACER in a variety of ways including an art contest.
Visit PACER's other sites: National Parent Center Network (ALLIANCE) | Kids Against Bullying | Project C3 | FAPE Project | Minnesota SEACs
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