According to a NSBA’s survey on after-school program among school board presidents, 52 percent say they will have to reduce somewhat or cut entirely programs due to decreases in funding.
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Innovative Strategies for Funding Quality After-School School Programs
After-school programs are among the most promising educational innovations today. They provide opportunities for students to engage in enriching learning activities and for schools and communities to form powerful collaborations. Learn innovative strategies for funding school based and school linked after-school programs. This webinar examines under-utilized and overlooked funding sources at the federal, state, and local levels as well as the role school boards can play in accessing these funds.
Dollars and Sense: A First Look at Financing A New Day for Learning
This publication focuses on how communities can organize resources to support A New Day for Learning.
Follow the Money: A Tool for Mapping Funds for Out-of-School Time Initiatives
This publication provides a step-by-step approach for statewide afterschool networks and others to track out-of-school time investments in their states.
Roadmap to Afterschool for All
Roadmap to Afterschool for All is a scientific study that assesses the current investment in afterschool programs from the public sector, parents, foundations and businesses, and estimates the additional investment needed from each sector to provide quality afterschool programs for all children.
Out-of-School Time Finding Funding Clearinghouse
This Resource Center highlights funding sources and financing strategies and considerations for their implementation.
Strategies for Improving Out of School Programs in Rural Communities
This brief highlights the challenges faced by rural programs and suggests several strategies that can strengthen them. Proposes five key strategies for obtaining resources for rural out-of-school programs.
Financing and Sustaining Out of School Time Programs in Rural Communities
This strategy brief describes the funding landscape of rural programs and highlights the uniques challenges facing rural program leaders. It also provide information for overcoming these challenges.
Snapshots of Sustainability: Profiles of Successful Strategies for Fiancing Out-of-School Time Programs
This compendium includes 32 profiles of out-of-school time programs that have succeeded in sustaining their work by developing strategies to marshal a broad range of critical fiscal and non-fiscal resources.
Cost Worksheet for Out-of-School Time
This worksheet from the Finance Project is an excellent starting point for identifying the start-up costs for an after-school program.
Estimating Supply and Demand for Afterschool Programs: A Tool for State and Local Policymakers
This tool provides a framework for estimating supply and demand—from basic steps to an in-depth review—by summarizing and highlighting experiences in a number of states.
Fact Sheets for Afterschool Funding
This fact sheet describes a range of federal funding sources that can support afterschool programs - produced by the National Center for Community Education in collaboration with the Afterschool Alliance.
Financing Facility Improvements for Out-of-School Time and Community School Programs
A strategy brief from the Finance Project that discusses creative strategies to increase the number of resources available for facility improvements.
Financing Transportation Services to Support Out-of-School Time and Community School Initiatives
A strategy brief from the Finance Project on funding transportation.
MAKING SMART INVESTMENTS IN AFTERSCHOOL: POLICY PRIMER FOR STATE & LOCAL LEADERS
This brief offers ideas for state and local policymakers to develop interagency collaboration, expand access to affordable after-school programs, and advance general program quality. Examples of promising practices from across the country are included to show leaders concrete ways of promoting the sustainability of after-school programs.
Physical Infrastructure
This task brief from the Forum for Youth Investment examines the critical challenges – logistical and financial - facing after-school programs as it relates to transportation and facilities.
The Costs of Out-of-School-Time Programs: A Review of the Available Evidence
This report reviews a variety of studies conducted since 1993 in an attempt to gain a broad sense of what it costs to run out-of-school-time programs.
Thinking Broadly: Financing Strategies for Comprehensive Child and Family Initiatives
This brief from the Finance Project includes information on better using existing resources, maximizing federal and state revenue, and building public-private partnerships.
Uncertain Times: Funding Insecurity Puts Afterschool Programs at Risk
A recent survey of after-school programs, finds that after-school programs are serving a high need population, serving more children than expected, and struggling to maintain their funding.