AmeriCorps funding cuts would make a bad situation for afterschool programs even worse.
A literature review explores how youth arts engagement promotes youth well-being.
GRANT FOCUS: Youth Summer Programs, OST, Child/Youth Mental Health, Education/Development, Ohio | Amount: Up to $2,000 | Deadline: Mar. 7, 2025
ARTportunity Knocks serves schools across Atlanta, providing arts programming and dinner to students.
GRANT FOCUS: Education, STEM Education, Math Education, Summer Learning | Amount: Up to $15,000 | Deadline: Jan. 22, 2025
GRANT FOCUS: Summer Programs/Learning, OST Learning, Child/Youth Development, Hartford, Connecticut | Amount: Up to $50,000 | Deadline: Jan. 13, 2025
GRANT FOCUS: Museums, Education, Learning, Humanities, STEM, OST | Amount: $50,000 - $750,000 | Deadline: Nov. 15, 2024
GRANT FOCUS: Out-of-School Time (OST) Learning, Early Learning, Education, Philadelphia | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Oct. 25, 2024
‘Opportunity gap’ between rich and poor children can come down to six missed chances.
The opportunity gap was a more powerful predictor of educational attainment than childhood poverty.
GRANT FOCUS: Education, STEM, Environmental Education, Middle/High School, OST | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Unspecified
The statistical techniques are new. Researchers debate about how and when to use them.
GRANT FOCUS: Youth Summer Programs, Out-of-School Time, Summer Camps, Youth Development, Alaska | Amount: Up to $45,000 | Deadline: Feb. 29, 2024
GRANT FOCUS: Out-of-School Time, Afterschool, Summer Learning, Youth Development | Amount: $15,000; $50,000; $100,000 | Deadline: Feb. 1, 2024
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Summer Learning, OST, Disadvantaged Students, San Diego | Amount: $30,000 - $500,000 | Deadline: Jan. 9, 2024
Looking at the full OST learning ecosystem could reveal less costly, more sustainable options.
Funders are finding innovative ways to respond to inequities borne by the youth workforce.
“Workers in these spaces are undervalued,” said University of Minnesota professor Dale Blyth.
A report discusses how states used unprecedented summer learning federal funding after the pandemic.
The Satanic Temple has filed suits seeking the same rights afforded to Christian groups.