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School Business Partners
Here is our list of school business partners. This is a wonderful program that applies our community's expertise in business and industry and makes it relevant to students. Careers start here in what best can be described as a "super mentoring" opportunity for our business partners and students alike.

	*City Hall* City Hall provides mentors to Prescott students. People at City Hall are available to come and speak to classes about how the city government works. They give tours of City Hall. City Hall provides the financial support (for buses, etc.) for the end-of-the year trip to the pool. City Hall helped to sponsor a family at Christmas time. Students from Prescott provide art work that is displayed at City Hall and make birthday cards for the City Hall employees.
	*US Bank* US Bank provides the students at Prescott with mentors, guest readers, educational programs related to saving money, and opportunities to visit the bank. US Bank helped to sponsor a family at Christmas time. They also donated hats, gloves and coats for Prescott students. The students at Prescott make art work and birthday cards for the US Bank employees.
	*Kephart's* Kephart's has been one of Prescott's business partners since 1996. Kepharts is a music store that is only about a block away from Prescott. They have many musical instruments in their store. These are instruments that you can either rent or purchase. The people at Kephart's can even fix your instrument if it is broken. If you walk into Kephart's you can always hear music playing, as well as see many of the musical instruments in the store.
	*Telegraph Herald* The Telegraph Herald has been our business partner since 2000. They provide us with copies of the newspaper and have given students school supplies and games at Christmas. One employee, Mary Rae Bragg, is a mentor to a Prescott student. Another employees serves on the Site Council at Prescott School. Prescott students create art work to display at the TH. The students also send birthday cards to employees. Some seasonal table decorations have also been made for them.
	*St. Luke's United Methodist Church* St. Luke's Church has informally supported the staff and families of Prescott for the past few years and officially became a buisness partner on December 3, 2004. As the members of St. Luke's have increased their efforts to support our school, we now welcome them into official partnership. St. Luke's United Methodist Church was the first church in Iowa. They continue the tradition of being a "first church" by their willingness to partner with Prescott. St. Luke's Church is the first church to become a community partner with a Dubuque Community School. We are so excited about this opportunity. The goal of the partnership between St. Luke's Church and Prescott School is not to promote a specific religion or church, but rather to provide the an avenue for the members of St. Luke's Church and the staff of Prescott School to collaborate and combine resources to enhance the education of the children of Prescott School. St. Luke members volunteer in our classrooms, mentor, help with health screenings and special events, and provide resources to classrooms. St. Luke's Church has also generously allowed us to utilize the church building for parent meetings, staff meetings and concerts. Our partnership opens the door to many new possiblities!
	Bio Life Prescott Early Childhood Center was pleased to welcome a new Community Partner, BioLife Plasma Services, on October 28, 2005. BioLife Plasma Services is an industry leader in the collection of high quality plasma that is processed into life-saving plasma-based therapies. BioLife operates and maintains numerous state-of-the-art plasma collection facilities throughout the United States and collects nearly 3 million liters of plasma per year.