Excellence Award winners work closely with nonprofit partners to ensure that corporate resources are best leveraged.

The total cost is expected to be $50 million, he said, and he will structure the deal around his nonprofit partners.

Formerly homeless women are recruited through local shelters and placed in housing through local nonprofit partners.

"We intend to give the nonprofit partners the right to buy us out for $1 after 15 years," Mr. Dunn said.

The two corporate sponsors and their nonprofit partners spent the summer training teachers how to operate the equipment and incorporate it in their lessons.

Get everyone involved Host an employee volunteering day with your nonprofit partner.

The project can become a model of sustainable transportation and cooperation between a wide range of public, private, and nonprofit partners.

They use their workplace skills in a hands-on and/or consulting role to build the partner nonprofit's capacity.

Each project is scoped and structured around a standard deliverable based on the needs of the nonprofit partners.

In these circumstances, educators and their nonprofit partners say, the key to staying, if not current with technology, then at least generationally near, is hustling grants.