Become a partner

It’s easy—and rewarding—to become an Industry Preferred Partner of the Northwest Career Colleges Federation. Join the outstanding vendors, service providers and professional organizations who have partnered with the Northwest Career Colleges Federation.

What's new

The 2012 Careers That Work! Scholarship program makes available five $1000 scholarships to every high school – public and private – in Oregon, Washington and Idaho to award to graduating seniors headed to one of the NWCCF participating member colleges. This includes alternative high schools and skill centers. High schools select the recipients.

Did you know?

The first recorded private “venture” school opened in 1705 in Colonial America, the first business college opened in Washington in 1886 and Perry Technical Institute opened in 1941, making it the oldest, continuously operating private career college in Washington. In 2011, private career colleges are highly efficient educators, integral to the economy’s turn-around by providing career-focused education.

Industry Partners Program

It’s easy—and rewarding—to become an Industry Preferred Partner of the Northwest Career Colleges Federation. Join the outstanding vendors, service providers and professional organizations listed below.

To learn more about partnership categories and benefits, contact us today.

Platinum members

Champion College Services
iTeachers
McGraw-Hill Education
Outsource Marketing
Williams Kastner

Gold members

Henry Schein, Inc
CliftonLarsonAllen
Pearson Education

Associate members

College Performance Partners
Enrollment Resources
Gragg Advertising
Max Knowledge, Inc.
National Healthcareer Association
Partners Financial Services, Inc.
TFC Credit Corporation
Vector Careers

Platinum Members


Champion College Services

Champion College Services

4600 S. Mill Avenue, Suite 180
Tempe, AZ 85282
800-761-7376 or 480-947-7375
www.championcollegeservices.com
info@championcollegeservices.com

CHAMPION COLLEGE SERVICES, a respected advocate for higher education since 1989, delivers unrivaled results. Our tenured clients’ CDR rates dropped 7.1% from FY2008 to FY2009! Our diversified portfolio of results-driven services includes borrower education, financial literacy, debt management and default prevention; customizable surveys for Insight into students, alumni, employers, placement verification, and gainful employment measures; skip tracing; audits; appeals; and consulting. Our unique software-as-a-service, APEXsrm, offers transparency and technology for Independence (you do it all), Alliance (we do it together), and Assurance (we do it all) options to meet your needs and overcome your challenges. Champion, on behalf of school clients, upholds its mission to be a mentor for developing healthy life skills for our student customers that create and maintain self-esteem and self-worth.

iTeacher 

iTeachers

2 Hudson Place
Hoboken, NJ 07030
212.960.3191
http://www.iTeachers.com/
iTeacher's learning management system makes it easy for teachers to create classes and for students to connect to them anywhere at any time bridging the gap between the "on campus" learning experience and the "at home" learning environment. Whether courses taught are on campus, on line, or both students can access course material at all times resulting in a better more informed student, strengthening of the student teacher relationship, and greater student satisfaction.

McGraw Hill

McGraw-Hill Career College Division

1285 Fern Ridge Parkway, Suite 200
St. Louis, MO 63141
800-257-5785
314-439-6754 (fax)
www.mhhe.com
McGraw-Hill Education is a global leader in educational materials and professional information. With offices in more than 30 countries and publications in more than 40 languages, the McGraw-Hill Education develops products that influence people's lives, throughout their lives, from preschool through career. The scope of our operations, the quality of our editorial product, and the pace at which we are developing new media to fulfill our customers' information requirements are increasing. Wherever in the world you are, whatever in the world you need to know, The McGraw-Hill Companies is there, keeping the world up to speed.

McGraw-Hill is excited to support your goals through all of our disciplines: Allied Health, Business, Computer Education, Electronics, Engineering, and General Education. From traditional textbooks, to E-books to course cartridges for your course management system. McGraw-Hill delivers complete classroom solutions based on your needs.

Microsoft and McGraw-Hill have an exclusive partnership with Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Internet Academy program offering educators a world class dimension in authoritative teaching and learning tools. McGraw-Hill is your provider of the Microsoft Official Academic Course materials.

We invite you to visit our online catalog at www.mhhe.com.

Outsource Marketing


Outsource Marketing

4122 Factoria Blvd SE #202
Bellevue, WA 98006
800-803-3229
www.outsourcemarketing.com
You know you have opportunities—opportunities you should seize now. But you haven't been able to get your marketing done. You don't have the in-house expertise. Or you don't have enough people to make things happen. Or you're looking for a better way.

Whatever the case, Outsource Marketing was built for you.

We offer all the tools, all in one place: Research, strategy, planning, advertising, PR, direct marketing, sales promotion, internal communications, graphic design, Web and new media, and more. All carefully chosen to support your marketing strategy. All seamlessly integrated. So you have one point of contact and one invoice.

If you are interested, you can learn more about what marketing outsourcing is and isn't.

WK


Williams Kastner

601 Union ST, Ste 4100
Seattle, WA 98101
206-628-6600
http://www.williamskastner.com/
With offices in Seattle, Tacoma and Portland, Williams Kastner has been serving clients in the Northwest since 1929. Their Education Law practice team has the experience, resources and knowledge to provide legal services in the areas of risk management, litigation, labor and employment, personnel policies, codes, domestic and international transactions, business planning, regulatory compliance, management of documents and electronically stored information and collections.


Gold Members

Henry Schein

Henry Shein, Inc

135 Duryea Rd
Melville, NY 11747
631-390-8155
www.henryschein.com/
linda.scomanillo@henryschein.com
Henry Schein, Inc., is the largest distributor of healthcare products and services to medical, dental and veterinary office-based practitioners. Now more than ever, healthcare providers require specialized products and services to operate their practices efficiently. We offer an extensive selection of dental supplies, medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, equipment, software technology, and much more. Our portfolio of practice solutions is designed to support our customers and to successfully meet their business goals and achieve optimal patient satisfaction.

LarsonAllen


CliftonLarsonAllen

3000 Northup Way, Suite 200
Bellevue, WA 98004
425-828-9420
www.larsonallen.com/
Clifton Larson Allen offers a wide array of professional services. These include financial statements, tax planning and preparation, accounting systems consulting, business valuations and estate planning. We have provided financial statement audits, SFA attestations, and other services to the private school industry for 15 years. We continuously maintain our expertise on SFA related issues, and also on accounting and tax issues that are of particular relevance to our school clients. We emphasize that an effective system of international controls is a school's best insurance against compliance deficiencies. We work with our clients to help develop and maintain strong international control systems within their organizations.

Pearson

Pearson Education

1 Lake Street
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458
800-635-1579
http://www.pearsoned.com/
Pearson Education is pleased to support your goals through the educational publishers we represent. As your partner, the Pearson Education family of companies represents the world_s leading career education content. We put our vast capabilities to work for you to deliver complete classroom solutions in the media and format that is appropriate for your institution and student population.

From Allied Health, to Computing and Information Technology, Electronics, Business, Automotive, Construction, Criminal Justice, and General Education, our products are supported by leading edge and easy to use technology that adds value to the classroom experience and is consistent and reliable.

You know us by our Pearson-branded imprints of Prentice Hall, Addison Wesley, Benjamin Cummings, Longman, and Pearson Custom Publishing. Each of these publishers offers proven content, trusted authors, expertise in customization, and unparalleled instructor support materials. We invite you to visit our online catalog at pearsoned.com. Thank you for your business and we look forward to contributing to your continued success.

Associate Members

Cengage

College Performance Partners

1605 SE 240th ST, Suite 208
Kent, WA 98031
800-506-5524
http://www.collegeperformancepartners.com/
doug@collegeperformancepartners.com/
STAFFING--OPERATIONS--COMPLIANCE--MARKETING

We know that hiring the right individual is one of the single most important things you can do to ensure your college's success. We find top performers! We’re a team of college professionals with extensive experience. We’ve led successful marketing and admissions teams, innovated and launched new educational programs, hired and trained scores of top performing individuals, and led troubled schools back to full enrollment. As a team, we present our clients with a formidable capacity to effect change and achieve results. We work with post-secondary institutions that want and need to grow and prosper.

For more information contact Kelly Alston at 503-477-4179
or visit www.collegeperformancepartners.com

Enrollment Resources

Enrollment Resources

1096 Goldstream Ave
Victoria, British Colombia, Canada V9B 2Y5
250-743-2886
250-743-8371 fax
http://www.enrollmentresources.com/
Enrollment Resources helps Career Colleges and Trade Schools increase enrollment without having to increase budgets by identifying the under performing areas in your marketing—typically advertising, admissions, and lead conversion—and reallocating resources to get better performance.

You may have heard of the 50/5 rule, where 50% of your effort gets 5% of your results. We can help you identify the underperforming 50% and reinvest it in strategies and activities that will get you significantly better return on your marketing dollar.

We offer four main services:

  • Advertising and Admissions Optimization
  • Lead conversion programs
  • Lead generation
  • Mystery shopping
  • Tenant Representation—Local & National Representation


All our programs are based real-world strategies and best-practices of top schools and have been proven to deliver financial results for clients

Gragg


Gragg Advertising

450 – 4th Street, Suite 100
Kansas City, MO 64106
816-931-0050
816-931-2227 fax
http://www.graggadv.com/
lolmedo@graggadv.com
Gragg Advertising is a full-service direct response marketing company with a focus in online technology. In addition to traditional advertising services such as creative design, media buying and online marketing, we’ve also developed a series of tools to help you better refine your lead flow process and fill your classrooms with more students. We combine traditional branding strategy with proven direct response marketing tactics in order to create advertising that is both memorable and measurable.

MaxKnowledge

Max Knowledge, Inc

3943 Irvine Blvd #262
Irvine, CA 92602
888-626-2407
888-626-0367 fax
http://www.maxknowledge.com/
amirm@maxknowledge.com
MaxKnowledge offers a wide variety of online and blended performance improvement training programs to enhance the quality, efficiency and profitability of career colleges. Subject areas include: Admissions, Education (Faculty Training and Development), eLearning, Financial Aid, Marketing, Operations, Placement and Retention. MaxKnowledge training courses are facilitated by leading career education experts and participants receive Continuing Education Units upon completion of training. MaxKnowledge also offers a large selection of free courses in soft skills areas such as communications skills, management, leadership, creativity and innovation.

NHA
National Healthcareer Association

7500 West 160th Street
Stilwell, Kansas 66085
913-661-5502
913-685-2381 fax
http://www.atitesting.com
tdavis@atitesting.com
National Healthcareer Association (NHA) was established in 1989 with the vision of implementing national competency standards to promote quality patient care. Our goal is to increase the quality of care and make the healthcare industry better one worker at a time. Together with allied health schools and employers, we are taking steps to accomplish this mission. NHA is recommended and recognized by colleges, healthcare career programs and healthcare employers around the country. Offering national certification as part of a school's program helps recruit, retain and place students as well as provides students with a competitive edge in the marketplace.
Partners Financial Services

Partners Financial Services, Inc.

403 Axminister
Fenton, MO 63026
800-926-1303
http://www.partners-mo.com/
You need value from your business partners and Partners Financial Services, Inc. is in the business of providing value. The credit and collections industry serves companies with options for the recovery of delinquent or defaulted outstanding receivables, as well as outsourcing opportunities for loan servicing and billing.

Since opening in 1993 our mission has been to provide our clients with value by way of increasing profits through ethical consumer billing & collection (A.R.M) strategies, state-of-the-art technology and industry professionals dedicated to their business. We look forward to the opportunity to create value for you and your school through a strong business partnership. We know your reputation & bottom line are important to you. We’ll protect both because “Your Success is Our Success!!”

Contact: Ben McNabb, The Self Investment Guy
1-800-926-1303 ext. 221 ben@partners-mo.com

TFC

TFC Credit Corporation

2010 Crow Canyon Place, Suite 300
San Ramon, CA 94583
http://www.tfccredit.com/
Ask for Stephen Breitbart at 800-832-5626

With more than 35 years of successful student tuition financing experience, TFC Credit Corporation thoroughly understands the needs and strategies of schools. We have managed the student tuition receivables of over 2500 schools and take pride in our industry-wide reputation for professional excellence.

TFC provides the professional servicing required to efficient and effectively manage your student loan receivables.

Our TFC Advanced Cash Program generates "Upfront Cash" to your school while professionally managing your accounts.

Vector
Vector Careers, Inc.

3800 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
Suite 298
Beaverton, OR 97005
877-832-8672
http://www.vector-careers.com/
At the heart of Vector Careers is the desire to facilitate and support education. We are a highly successful and respected national recruiting firm that specializes in placing high level executives such as Regional VP's and Campus Presidents along with Directors of Admissions, Finance, Career Services, etc., and the people that support these teams. Our proven team of experienced recruiters represents a level of expertise in the educational market that is recognized and utilized by many of the world's leading institutions. Vector Careers is dedicated to providing candidates and companies with the highest quality and most time-efficient recruiting services. We cultivate many successful partnerships with a sense of integrity, professionalism, individual pride and company spirit.