Business Partner for Education Awards
This award was presented at the Partnership's Annual Meeting on Oct. 11, 2007, at the McKimmon Center.
The Business Partner for Education Award is presented each year by Wake Education Partnership and the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce to two businesses that have taken a leadership role in making high quality public education a top priority. Begun in 1998, the awards are presented at the Partnership’s Annual Meeting each fall. Due to a special 25th anniversary program in 2008, no single winner was chosen for that year.
Past award winners include:
2007 - The Wake Weekly & The News & Observer Publishing Company
2006 - Barnhill Contracting Company & KB Home
2005 - Time Warner & LS3P/Boney Architects
2004 - Apple Gold Group & Lifetouch
2003 - SAS & Elinvar
2002 - WakeMed & Bovis Lend Lease
2001 - IBM & Home Builders Association
of Raleigh and Wake County
2000 - GlaxoSmithKline & Wake Stone Corporation
1999 - BellSouth
1998 - Progress Energy (CP&L)