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
McGraw-Hill Education
Outsource Marketing
Pearson Education
Williams Kastner
Gold members
CliftonLarsonAllen
Associate members
American Medical Technologists
College Performance Partners
Educational Computer Systems Inc.
Enrollment Resources
Gragg Advertising
Great Exposure Inc.
Henry Schein, Inc
ieLinks
Max Knowledge, Inc.
National Center for Competency Testing
National Healthcareer Association
Partners Financial Services, Inc.
TFC Credit Corporation
Vector Careers
Platinum Members
Champion College Services
4600 S. Mill Avenue, Suite 180Tempe, 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.
iTeachers
2 Hudson PlaceHoboken, NJ 07030
212.960.3191
www.iTeachers.com/
McGraw-Hill Career College Division
1285 Fern Ridge Parkway, Suite 200St. Louis, MO 63141
800-257-5785
314-439-6754 (fax)
www.mhhe.com
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
4122 Factoria Blvd SE #202Bellevue, WA 98006
800-803-3229
www.outsourcemarketing.com
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.
Pearson Education
1 Lake StreetUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458
800-635-1579
www.pearsoned.com/
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.
Williams Kastner
601 Union ST, Ste 4100Seattle, WA 98101
206-628-6600
www.williamskastner.com/
Gold Members
CliftonLarsonAllen
3000 Northup Way, Suite 200Bellevue, WA 98004
425-828-9420
www.cliftonlarsonallen.com/
Associate Members

American Medical Technologists (AMT)
10700 W. Higgins Road, Suite 150Rosemont, IL 60018
847-823-5169
www.americanmedtech.org
kcilia@americanmedtech.org
American Medical Technologists (AMT) is a recognized certification agency for allied health professionals, including Medical Assistants, Phlebotomists, Medical Administrative Specialists, Dental Assistants, Medical Laboratory Technicians, and Allied Health Instructors. In existence since 1939, AMT is also a membership association, providing continuing education and other services to over 50,000 members.

College Performance Partners
1605 SE 240th ST, Suite 208Kent, WA 98031
800-506-5524
www.collegeperformancepartners.com/
doug@collegeperformancepartners.com/
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

Educational Comuter Systems Inc.
181 Montour Run RoadCoraopolis, PA 15108
866-841-3274
www.ecsi.net

Enrollment Resources
1096 Goldstream AveVictoria, British Colombia, Canada V9B 2Y5
250-743-2886
250-743-8371 fax
http://www.enrollmentresources.com/
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 Advertising
450 – 4th Street, Suite 100Kansas City, MO 64106
816-931-0050
816-931-2227 fax
http://www.graggadv.com/ lolmedo@graggadv.com

Great Exposure, Inc
2207 – 1010 Richards St.Vancouver, BC Canada, V6B 1G2
Tel: 604.608.2461
Fax: 604.608.2462
http://www.greatexposure.com/ saj@greatexposure.com
Great Exposure has specialized in creating highly effective customized Education Marketing and Student Recruitment solutions for the Higher Ed sector since 1998. In the last 15 years we have worked with over 1000 colleges and universities and accumulated a wealth of knowledge and expertise to share with our clients.
Whether your interest is in redesigning your website as a better enrollment tool, or more effectively connecting with the 25-40% of your visitors that are using mobile devices, please visit see our design portfolio that includes some of our work.
If your focus is a school management system, we should talk. CampusLogin is the most advanced recruiting system on the market. Let's have a conversation about your needs, take a tour of our system, and put you in touch with school owners and senior administrators who can share their experience.
Great Exposure is different: we specialize in the private post-secondary sector, and provide the solutions and stand by them rather than make recommendations. We are a partner, not a vendor, and look forward to partnering with you.
Henry Shein, Inc
135 Duryea RdMelville, NY 11747
631-390-8155
www.henryschein.com/
linda.scomanillo@henryschein.com

ieLinks
2701 E. Thomas Road, Unit BPhoenix, AZ 85016
602-852-0101
602-852-3838 fax
www.ecampuslynx.com
atshahar@aol.com

Max Knowledge, Inc
3943 Irvine Blvd #262Irvine, CA 92602
888-626-2407
888-626-0367 fax
http://www.maxknowledge.com/
amirm@maxknowledge.com

National Center for Competency Testing
7007 College Blvd, Suite 385Overland Park, KS 66211
913-498-1000
913-498-1902 fax
www.ncctinc.com
kay@ncctinc.com

National Healthcareer Association
11161 Overbrook RoadLeawood, KS 66211
913-661-5502
913-685-2381 fax
http://www.atitesting.com
tdavis@atitesting.com
Partners Financial Services, Inc.
403 AxministerFenton, MO 63026
800-926-1303
http://www.partners-mo.com/
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 Credit Corporation
2010 Crow Canyon Place, Suite 300San Ramon, CA 94583
http://www.tfccredit.com/
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 Careers, Inc.
3800 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.Suite 298
Beaverton, OR 97005
877-832-8672
http://www.vector-careers.com/






