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Investments in Building Citywide Out-of-School Time Systems: A Six-City Study
January 15, 2014
Out-of-school-time (OST) programs play a vital role in many children’s academic and social development. To address the growing demand for and interest in these activities, a number of U.S. cities have initiated efforts to create OST systems: coherent, shared infrastructures designed to support, coordinate and sustain OST programs citywide. This report, prepared by The Finance Project, builds on these resources by discussing the strategies and system-level investments made to support OST programming in the six cities where previously gathered program-cost data exists.
Type: Resource
promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Effective Education
channels: Expanded Learning Time
SOURCE: The Finance Project
The Cost of Quality Out-of-School-Time Programs
January 15, 2014
Out-of-school time (OST) programs are increasingly expected to be of high enough quality to produce real benefits for children, but until now there has been little information on what such quality programming costs. This groundbreaking report from the Wallace Foundation, Public/Private Ventures, and The Finance Project fills that gap, providing a data-filled examination of the costs of 111 diverse, quality OST programs in six cities. The report finds that costs vary widely depending on a range of factors from program goals to times of operation and the ages of the children served.
Type: Resource
promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Effective Education, Opportunities to Help Others
channels: Expanded Learning Time
SOURCE: The Finance Project
Ensuring Youth Transitioning from Foster Care are Connected by 25: Lessons Learned from the Foster Care Work Group
June 10, 2013
Lessons Learned, prepared by The Finance Project, offers a look back at the unique evolution of work in each of the Connected by 25 sites, proceeding from the Connected by 25 blueprint. It offers rich lessons for funders, advocates, policymakers, and program developers interested in continuing to build the field of initiatives supporting young people transitioning from foster care.
Type: Resource
promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places
channels: Mentoring
SOURCE: The Finance Project
Financing Policies and Practices that Support Permanency for Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care
June 10, 2013
Child welfare leaders and program developers must also contend with significant financing challenges in promoting permanency for older youth in care, including financial disincentives and restrictions on federal funding streams. This brief aims to help these stakeholders finance policies and practices that support permanency for older youth in foster care.
Type: Resource
promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places
SOURCE: The Finance Project
Finding Resources to Support Mentoring Programs and Services for Youth
June 10, 2013
This brief from The Finance Project outlines three strategies for financing and sustaining mentoring programs and services for youth, illustrating these options through state and community examples. The strategies examined are: ways to build partnerships with businesses and foundations; how to conduct community fundraising to generate revenue; and ways of maximizing public revenue.
Type: Resource
promises: Safe Places, Effective Education, Caring Adults
channels: Mentoring
SOURCE: The Finance Project