"I have made working with the schools one of the top priorities of my administration as Mayor of St. Petersburg and the reason is simple.   If our city is going to be the best it can be, if our neighborhoods are going to be the best they can be, and if our businesses are going to be the best they can be, then our schools must also be the best they can be."

Mayor Rick Baker

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Program Description
When Mayor’s Mentors & More was first launched on January 24, 2002 at John Hopkins Middle School ,  Mayor Baker announced that he had raised 100 Doorways scholarships to be awarded to eligible sixth graders in St. Petersburg middle schools. 

Each winner of a scholarship needed a mentor.  Mayor Baker first looked to city staff and established an Administrative Policy for city employees to receive time to mentor during the work week.   Having been the president of the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, the mayor then looked to the corporate community.

The Corporate Partners program began with nine corporations matched with nine middle schools and was announced on February 14, 2003 .  The corporations provided mentors as well as many different types of resources to the schools. Schools provided art, entertainment and recognition to the corporate partner.  The program is a huge success!

 

In the next year Mayor Baker and Bill Habermayer of Progress Energy hosted breakfasts to recruit more corporations so that each of our 47 schools in St. Petersburg would have at least one corporate partner.

 

On April 14, 2004 , Mayor Baker announced the 57 corporate partners for our each of our schools.  Today, we have over 70 corporate partners; every school has one or more partners.  We are proud of the contributions our corporate partners have made in our schools and the difference they make each day!

 

Corporate Partners support their partner schools in a variety of ways.   The main areas corporate partners assist schools are:  

Volunteering:  This includes mentors, tutors, and other extra hands the partner provides the school.

Resources:  This includes financial support, equipment donations, gift certificate donations, and fundraising on behalf of the school.

Strategic Planning:  This area includes long-range ways the partner aids the school, such as creating internship programs for their students and providing leadership support for the school?s administrators.

List of Schools and Their Corporate Partners

Elementary Schools

74th Street	Gerry & Cathy Hogan / Jean & Ted Wittner / Goodwill Industries
Azalea	Hennessy Construction Services
Bay Vista Fundamental	Carlton Fields Attorneys at Law
Bay Point	US Geological Survey
	Echelon Corporation
Blanton	Battaglia, Ross, Dicus & Wein, PA
Bear Creek	Mortgage Investors Corporation
Campbell Park	Bayfront Medical Center USF Marine Sciences Pier Aquarium Rays Corporation
Clearview Avenue	AMSCOT
Doug Jamerson	IBM Corporation
Fairmount Park	ANB Enterprises Ruden McCloskey
	ANB Enterprises, Inc.
Lakeview Fundamental	JMC Communities
	Stetson University College of Law
Lakewood	SunTrust Bank
Lynch	National Foundation for Debt Management
Maximo	USF Business School
	Bank of America American Opportunity of Housing, Inc.
Melrose	Trenam Kemker
	St. Petersburg Times
Mt. Vernon	Macy's
North Shore	First Advantage  Great Explorations
Northwest	Merrill Lynch
Pasadena Fundamental	UBS
Perkins	The Florida Orchestra Wachovia Bank
Rio Vista	Aegon
Sanderlin	Film Technologies International, Inc. BB & T
Sawgrass Lake	Florida Coca Cola Bottling Co.
Sexton	U.S. Coast Guard CME
Shore Acres	Abbey Adams & Associates Whitney Bank
Tyrone	Dillards, Inc. Chick-fil-a
Westgate	Stevens & Stevens Gregory Sharer & Stuart
Woodlawn	SAIC
	The Florida Orchestra
	Fifth Third Bank

Middle Schools

Azalea	Raymond James Financial
Bay Point	Eckerd College
John Hopkins	Verizon Communications
	Wallace, Welch, & Willingham
Lealman Intermediate	Bright House Networks
Meadowlawn	Franklin Templeton Funds Management
Riviera	Catalina Marketing Corp.
Southside Fundamental	American Stage Regions Bank
Thurgood Marshall	Home Shopping Network USA
Tyrone	Progress Energy Florida, Inc.

High Schools

Boca Ciega	St. Anthony's Hospital Universal Healthcare Florida Blood Services Harvard Jolly
Gibbs	All Children's Hospital Anonymous Donor The Florida Orchestra
Lakewood	Ceridian Terra Construction
Northeast	Catalina Marketing
St. Petersburg	Edward White Hospital
	St. Petersburg General Hospital
	USF-St. Petersburg College of Education
St. Petersburg Collegiate	St. Petersburg College

Exceptional Schools

Nina Harris	Danka / R'Club
Hamilton Disston	Boley
Sanders	Suncoast Community Mental Health

Secondary Schools

Norwood	St. Petersburg Bar Association

P.A.S.S. - Partnership to Advance School Success