Sustainability
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21st Century Community Learning Centers
Description: This Web site outlines programs supported by the Presidental Administration to keep children safe, provide academic enrichment, and other recreational and enrichment opportunities, such as band, drama, art, and other cultural events for children; and to provide life-long learning opportunities for community members.
21st Century Community Learning Centers
Description: This Web site outlines programs supported by the Presidental Administration to keep children safe, provide academic enrichment, and other recreational and enrichment opportunities, such as band, drama, art, and other cultural events for children; and to provide life-long learning opportunities for community members.
Author: Weiss, Heather (5 more by this author); Priscilla M.D. Little
Description: "This paper looks at the role that foundations can play in building OST nonprofits' organizational capacity. In it, we suggest seven possible approaches to strengthening OST organizations, including methods to ensure that providers become stronger partners with other groups and more adept advocates for their field."
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Documenting Progress and Demonstrating Results: Evaluating Local Out-of-School Time Programs
Author: Little, Priscilla (6 more by this author); Sharon Deich; Sharon DuPree
Description: This brief provides practitioners of local out-of-school time programs with techniques, tools, and strategies for improving their program and tracking its effectiveness over time. 47 pages.
Evaluation that Goes Beyond the Data 
Description: This article describes two accessible interactive Web sites that were designed to provide support to educators designing program evaluations. The first site is designed to assist educators in evaluating parenting education programs, in particular. The second site assists educators in designing effective evaluations for any program. These two Web sites offer educators a self-study opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge to support their program evaluation efforts.
Harnessing Technology in Out-of School Time Settings
Description: This article from Harvard Family Research Project reviews the role of technology in out-of –school time programs. It highlights the evaluation methods and findings about implementation and youth outcomes of several programs that utilize technology. The article indicates that there are four primary approaches used to integrate technology into programs supporting learning and development: 1) Using software packages for educational remediation and skill building; 2) Integrating technology and multimedia into project-based learning; 3) Creating community technology centers; and 4) Providing technology-focused mentoring and career development opportunities.
Learning From Logic Models in Out-of-School Time
Description: A logic model can be a powerful tool for illustrating a program's theory of change to program staff, partners, funders, and evaluators. Moreover, a completed logic model provides a point of reference against which progress towards achievement of desired outcomes can be measured on an ongoing basis, both through performance measurement and evaluation. This 2002 brief offers an in-depth review of logic models and how to construct them.
Outcome Evaluation: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Practitioners
Author: Allen, Tiffany; Jacinta Bronte-Tinkew
Description: This resource provides a basic review of outcome evaluations, discusses why they are important and when they are useful, and discusses ways they can be implemented in out-of-school time programs. It also highlights the experience of an out-of-school time program that has conducted an outcome evaluation and provides a list of helpful evaluation resources.
Description: Harvard Family Research Project's evaluation periodical, The Evaluation Exchange, addresses current issues facing program evaluators of all levels, with articles written by the most prominent evaluators in the field. Designed as an ongoing discussion among evaluators, program practitioners, funders, and policymakers, The Evaluation Exchange highlights innovative methods and approaches to evaluation, emerging trends in evaluation practice, and practical applications of evaluation theory. It goes out to its subscribers free of charge 3–4 times per year.
What's the definition of youth work insanity?
Author: Grant, Samantha
Description: An evaluation expert blogs on the importance of routinely “checking under the hood” to see how your program is working. Engaging youth in pre and post-tests, reflection discussions, advisory groups for planning feedback, and asking youth to help analyze evaluation data are all good ways to strengthen evaluation as a regular part of your program.
Why conduct Program Evaluation? Five Reasons Why Evaluation Can Help An Out-Of-School Time Program
Description: This brief discusses five reasons for doing program evaluation. Additional resources are provided to design and implement an evaluation.
Why, When, and How to Use Evaluation: Experts Speak Out
Author: Weiss, Heather (5 more by this author); Priscilla Little
Description: In this issue breif experts respond to the President's Fiscal Year 2004 Education Budget Summary and Background Information proposal to a 40 percent reduction in the 21st CCLC budget.
Why, When, and How to Use Evaluation: Experts Speak Out
Author: Weiss, Heather (5 more by this author); Priscilla Little
Description: The fifth in this series of research briefs on evaluation in out-of-school time, this brief offers expert commentary on the implications of the first-year report of the national evaluation of the 21st Century Communty Learning Centers program for future evaluation and research.
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Right on the Money: Youth-serving Agencies Raise Money on Groupon
Description: This article describes how some youth organizations have been able to raise money through Groupon’s G-Team program.
The Cost of Quaility Out-of-School-Time Programs
Author: Grossman, Baldwin (1 more by this author); Jennifer McMaken and Andrew Gersick; Cheryl Hayes; Christianne Lind
Description: this study compares the cost of out-of-school-time programs in six cities. Standards for qualtiy programs were considered. It provides a base-line to compare local programs to a national level.
When Giving Online is Not Ideal
Description: Fundraisers dream about the new frontier of online giving as a potential golden ticket for reaching younger or more tech-savvy donors. Driving everyone to give online, in monthly installments, is all the rage. But what happens when a donor wants to give $1000 or more? Is there potential negative organizational impact in accepting large gifts online?
Why, When, and How to Use Evaluation: Experts Speak Out
Author: Weiss, Heather (5 more by this author); Priscilla Little
Description: In this issue breif experts respond to the President's Fiscal Year 2004 Education Budget Summary and Background Information proposal to a 40 percent reduction in the 21st CCLC budget.
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Right on the Money: 'Crowdfunding' for Youth-Serving Organizations--Indiegogo vs. Kickstarter
Description: Tips for fundraising via two online sites.
Right on the Money: Lessons in Social Media Fundraising
Description: This article discusses using social media for fundraising.
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Do's and Don'ts of Media Relations
Description: Here are ten tips for interacting with members of the press for youth-serving organizations.
Description: Read tips from two nonprofit board chairs about how you can encourage board members to be spokespeople for your cause.
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Child Care Center Financial Planning and Facility Development Manual
Description: Child Care Center Financial Planning and Facility Development Manual guides the prospective childcare provider through facility selection and management through the basics of financial management of a child care service program.
Data-Driven Decision Making in Out-Of-School Time Programs
Author: Bandy, Tawana (1 more by this author); Allison J. R. Metz; Mary Burkhauser
Description: The use of high-quality data facilitates program management, reduces reliance on anecdotal information, and ensures that data are available for decision-making purposes. Both research and program experience have shown that decision-support data systems are effective tools for gathering high-quality data. This brief offers recommendations and action steps to support the use of high-quality data to inform the implementation of evidence-based practices.
Kid's Klub--A New Approach to School-Age Child Care
Author: Novak, Mary; Merry Klemme
Description: The Kid's Klub model, brings the asset-building approach into the child-care arena providing a forum for child care providers, parents, and community members to promote the same assets with children.
Learning From Logic Models in Out-of-School Time
Description: A logic model can be a powerful tool for illustrating a program's theory of change to program staff, partners, funders, and evaluators. Moreover, a completed logic model provides a point of reference against which progress towards achievement of desired outcomes can be measured on an ongoing basis, both through performance measurement and evaluation. This 2002 brief offers an in-depth review of logic models and how to construct them.
Author: Bandy, Tawana (1 more by this author); Kristin A. Moore
Description: This Child Trends brief finds that youth who have not participated in out-of-school time programs are significantly more likely than are their participating peers to live in an unsupportive neighborhood; to spend more than two hours a day watching TV or playing video games; and to have parents who are in poor health, who don't exercise, and who have less than a high school education. The brief identifies individual and background factors that influence non-participation.
NOT-FOR-PROFIT STATUS FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILD CARE PROGRAMS
Author: Carter, Steven (1 more by this author); Nancy H. Bull, Ph.D.
Description: A summary of the organizational steps to becoming a federally not-for-profit and/or tax-exempt 501(c)(3) school-age child care program. It is not intended to cover all aspects of not-for-profit organizations.
Author: Sandel, Kate
Description: The sustainability successes of out-of-school time programs are captured in 32 profiles. They include school-based programs, community-based programs, 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21CCLCs), city-wide initiatives, and intermediary organizations. The profiles highlight initiatives
ranging from single-site programs to large-scale, multisite operations.
Using Incentives to Increase Participation in Out-Of-School Time Programs
Description: This Child Trends brief provides key strategies for implementing a successful incentive program.
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Estimating the Cost of Quality Out-of-School Time Programs
Description: This literature review addresses the difficulty in determining the cost of after-school programs. The last in depth study was completed in 1993. Today, studies do not always compare the same components such as in-kind resources, start-up or expansion costs, child-to-staff ratio, program content, etc. This article provides an overview showing the finding on various costs in out-of-school time programs and the relationship between cost and quality of programs.
Out-of-School Time Programs in Rural Areas
Description: This Research Update highlights the benefits, challenges, and successful strategies of OST programs in rural areas, based on profiles from HFRP's OST Database.
Description: The Finance Project is a non-profit policy research, technical assistance and information organization created to help improve outcomes for children, families and communities nationwide. Its mission is to support decision making that produces and sustains good results by developing and disseminating information, knowledge, tools and technical assistance for improved policies, programs, and financing strategies.