Carl Bentley, Executive Vice President of Strategic Staffing Solutions is surrounded by students as his company donates 1000 books to the libraries of A.L. Holmes and Brewer Schools in Detroit on Monday, December 17, 2012. (DPS Photo)

Strategic Staffing Solutions donates over 1,000 books to two DPS schools

A.L. Holmes and Brewer schools received the book donations

DETROIT - Continuing an annual tradition that spans more than 15 years, Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3) donated more than 1,000 books to A.L. Holmes Elementary-Middle School and Brewer Elementary-Middle School on Monday, December 17, 2012.

Roy S. Roberts, Emergency Financial Manager, accepted the donation from Carl Bentley, Executive Vice President of Strategic Staffing Solutions, in the library of A.L. Holmes Elementary-Middle School. Leenet Campbell-Williams, Principal of A.L. Holmes, and Cecily Wilson, Principal of Brewer, also attended the presentation along with fifth graders from A.L. Holmes.

Each year, S3, a Detroit-based global IT and business services company, hosts a holiday party where guests—including customers, community partners, friends and staff members—are asked to bring new books to donate to DPS students.

S3’s holiday party, which took place on Thursday, December 13, had more than 1,000 guests in attendance, who donated the books that were donated to the two schools selected as recipients.

In recent years, book donations from Strategic Staffing Solutions have helped to fill newly renovated libraries, such as in 2009, when the company donated hundreds of books to Clippert Academy.

Strategic Staffing Solutions has a strong partnership with Clippert Academy through the DPS Business Corps Program, which aims to build robust partnerships between schools and area businesses and community organizations to improve academic achievement in schools throughout the district.