Afterschool in America: 2002

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• The National Voice for Afterschool
• Grew out of partnership between the U.S.
  Department of Education (ED) and Charles Stewart
  Mott Foundation to support afterschool
• Works with a diverse group of afterschool
  advocates and providers, including the 21st
  CCLCs, to represent a collective voice
• Communicates with network of 35,000 supporters
  and policy makers nationwide

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Sustainability

• Building Relationships
• Getting Started
• Finding Funding

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Building Relationships

• Takes time and effort
• Needs a team approach
• Requires an assessment of outreach that needs to
  be done to key stakeholders

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Dont Go It Alone!

• Just like a successful program requires
  tremendous amount of personal attention, so does
  a successful funding strategy. We have found that
  our successes can generally be tracked back to
  making that personal contact with people, whether
  they are from a corporation, a church, a
  government agency or an individual who wants to
  get involved.

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3 Steps to Getting Started

• Step 1- Create a Sustainability Committee
• Reach out to staff, board members, parents and
  other key members of your afterschool program.
• Use our Building Sustainability worksheet to
  guide the committees work.

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Power of Proximity

• Start close to home what are the potential
  resources and who are the stakeholders in the
  neighborhood?
• Look a bit further reach out to the outer edges
  of your circle to find new stakeholders.
• Think creatively!

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3 Steps to Getting Started

• Step 2 - Focus Your Energy
• After completing the Building Sustainability
  worksheet, youll have targeted potential funding
  sources and stakeholders.
• Begin with the top 3-5 targeted stakeholders and
  funding sources and then move onto a longer-term
  strategy.

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Ways to Engage Potential Stakeholders

• Arrange an in-person meeting or invite the
  stakeholder to visit your program
• Hold a Lights On Afterschool Event and invite
  stakeholders to speak
• Use Afterschool for All Project 2010 as an
  community engagement outreach tool and invite
  leaders to sign-on to the effort
• Build partnerships - how can you help each other?

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3 Steps to Getting Started

• Step 3 - Develop a Schedule
• Set up and stick to a plan
• Like other keys to planning a successful program,
  sustainability needs an allotted time each week.

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Finding Funding

• There is no single formula that fits every
  afterschool program.
• Diversify - programs need to determine the mix of
  public funding, parent fees, foundation support,
  corporate contributions and in-kind donations
  that suits them, the families they serve, and the
  resources available.

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More Tools and Resources

• Afterschool Alliance
• Afterschool Advocate newsletter
• Online Sustainability Forum
• The Finance Project and the Foundation Center
  out-of-school time products
• www.grants.gov the new federal source for
  annual grant funds available across the Federal
  government