Causes: Children & Youth, Education, Educational Services, Youth Development
Mission: Our mission is to engage public will to increase public and private investment in quality afterschool program initiatives at the national, state, and local levels. As the national voice of afterschool and the main organizing body of the afterschool movement, we provide supports to all members of the field, from national allies to state leaders to local programs, seeking to ensure that all youth have access to affordable, quality afterschool programs.
Results: The Afterschool Alliance is the only organization dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of afterschool programs and advocating for more afterschool investments. We work with the presidential administration, the U. S. Congress, governors, mayors, and advocates across the country. Today the Afterschool Alliance boasts more than 25,000 afterschool program partners and our publications reach more than 65,000 interested individuals every month. Our efforts include Lights On Afterschool, a nationwide celebration of afterschool programs that attracts 1 million Americans to more than 8,000 events across the country.
Geographic areas served: Nationwide
Programs: Field development - building relationships and partnerships with national, state, and local organizations and individuals who are working in the afterschool field, and supporting their efforts to promote afterschool programming. Tracking and disseminating information on state and local level afterschool developments. Training afterschool supporters on communication, marketing and sustainability, and developing materials for the afterschool field in these areas.
public awareness - educating the public, leaders, and media on the benefits of afterschool programs, and the demand and supply of programs nationwide.
research - program development - conducting research, gathering information and developing fact sheets, and informational materials on the afterschool issues. Sharing information via briefings, testimony, and meetings with national leaders, lawmakers, and public agencies. Tracking policy developments related to afterschool programs.
Mission: Our mission is to engage public will to increase public and private investment in quality afterschool program initiatives at the national, state, and local levels. As the national voice of afterschool and the main organizing body of the afterschool movement, we provide supports to all members of the field, from national allies to state leaders to local programs, seeking to ensure that all youth have access to affordable, quality afterschool programs.
Results: The Afterschool Alliance is the only organization dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of afterschool programs and advocating for more afterschool investments. We work with the presidential administration, the U. S. Congress, governors, mayors, and advocates across the country. Today the Afterschool Alliance boasts more than 25,000 afterschool program partners and our publications reach more than 65,000 interested individuals every month. Our efforts include Lights On Afterschool, a nationwide celebration of afterschool programs that attracts 1 million Americans to more than 8,000 events across the country.
Geographic areas served: Nationwide
Programs: Field development - building relationships and partnerships with national, state, and local organizations and individuals who are working in the afterschool field, and supporting their efforts to promote afterschool programming. Tracking and disseminating information on state and local level afterschool developments. Training afterschool supporters on communication, marketing and sustainability, and developing materials for the afterschool field in these areas.
public awareness - educating the public, leaders, and media on the benefits of afterschool programs, and the demand and supply of programs nationwide.
research - program development - conducting research, gathering information and developing fact sheets, and informational materials on the afterschool issues. Sharing information via briefings, testimony, and meetings with national leaders, lawmakers, and public agencies. Tracking policy developments related to afterschool programs.
info@afterschoolalliance.org
1101 14th Street NW Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005
202-347-2030
Children & Youth
Washington
