ERIC Number: ED625431
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 14
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Grantmaking Practices to Support Equity and Sustainability in Out-of-School Time. Insights from the Grantees of the Afterschool and Summer Recovery and Opportunity Fund
Grantmakers for Education
From 2020-2022, seven national foundations collectively supported the out-of-school time (OST) field to withstand, recover, reopen and re-imagine, through the acute phases of the COVID pandemic and the ongoing impact. The funders pooled their resources through Grantmakers for Education (EdFunders), providing grants to national intermediaries supporting the field with advocacy, convenings, professional development opportunities, communications, toolkits, guides, youth voice and leadership initiatives, and other actions to strengthen practitioners' capacity to meet the evolving needs of children, youth and families. In addition to providing flexible financial support to each organization, the funders commissioned grantees to produce a report identifying key field-facing challenges and recommendations to address them. The report prioritized perspectives of Black, Latino and Indigenous communities represented in the grantee cohort -- acknowledging that these perspectives are among those that have been historically under-represented within the OST field's leading policy, practice and research tables. This document -- collaboratively produced by the eight grantee organizations and published by EdFunders, summarizes themes and insights from the report and a series of follow-up conversations among the funders and grantees. The report identified the following field-facing challenges, with recommendations for funder action. [This report was co-produced by the National Afterschool Association, Every Hour Counts, and the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA).]
Descriptors: Grants, Minority Groups, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Indigenous Populations, Private Financial Support, After School Programs, Equal Education, Cooperation, Community Involvement, Labor Force Development, Diversity, Advocacy, Summer Programs, Professional Development
Grantmakers for Education. 400 SE 103rd Dr. #33348, Portland, Oregon 97216. Tel: 503-595-2100; e-mail: information@edfunders.org; Web site: https://www.edfunders.org/
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
Sponsor: S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation; Charles Stewart Mott Foundation; Overdeck Family Foundation; Bezos Family Foundation; New York Life Foundation; Wallace Foundation; Susan Crown Exchange (SCE)
Authoring Institution: Grantmakers for Education; Afterschool Alliance; National Urban League; Coalition for Community Schools; National Indian Education Association; UnidosUS
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