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• How would you evaluate the impact of this partnership?

In 2009, Fidelity set about rethinking its approach to community relations. For many years, the firm had been philanthropically active, giving to a wide range of charities in its home community and elsewhere. But the company had come to believe that it could have a greater impact by focusing on partnerships with a small number of what it called "best in class nonprofit organizations. An issue of particular concern to Fidelity was education, especially the shocking dropout rates in many of the communities it served; nationally, 1.2 million students dropped out of high school every year, many of them as early as ninth grade. In researching various options for making a difference, the com- pany learned that the middle school years were critical in determining whether or not students would go on to graduate from high school. To focus its resources on this issue, Fidelity chose to partner with Citizen Schools (CS). Social entrepreneur Eric Schwarz had founded CS in 1995 in Boston to operate after- school programs for middle school students, aged 11 to 14, in disadvantaged communities. The nonprofit recruited volunteer professionals"citizen teachers"to offer after-school apprenticeships in subjects they were passionate about in schools in the CS network. As a culminating experience, students would present what they had learned to friends, family, and teachers at what CS called "WOW!" events. In 2012, Citizen Schools had active part- nerships with 31 schools in low-income communities in seven states, serving more than 4,000 students. Fidelity had contributed money to Citizen Schools since 1998, but in 2009 it signifi- cantly stepped up its commitment, becoming the nonprofit's lead national partner for its 8th Grade Academy (8GA), an initiative that helped students with academic and life deci- sion making. In addition to its financial commitment, the company went beyond charity, encouraging its employees, like Roy Fralin, to teach in Citizen School programs. By 2012, Fidelity volunteers had taught more than 70 apprenticeships in such wide-ranging topics as robotics, law, and financial literacy in 22 middle schools. Several executives had served on various advisory boards. The company also donated meeting space and equipment. For example, students who had learned about web design from a Fidelity employee were in- vited to use the company's Center for Applied Technology for their WOW! event, present- ing their work in a state-of-the-art facility. An external evaluation commissioned by Citizen Schools showed that its programs had "successfully moved a group of low-income, educationally at-risk students toward high school graduation and advancement to college, and [had) set them up for full par- ticipation in the civic and economic life of their communities." Seventy-one percent of CS alumni completed high school in four years, compared with 59 percent of matched peers. Sixty-three percent of students who had participated in 8GA five or more years earlier had enrolled in college, compared with 41 percent of low-income students nationally