Activating the Power of Afterschool
Past Event: 2025
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This signature citywide event celebrates the impact of afterschool on youth and families, promotes innovation, and elevates lessons learned. We welcome Executive Directors, supervisors, and front-line staff from youth-serving community-based agencies, as well as funders, higher education administrators, policymakers, and educators, for a day focused on emerging trends, challenges, and promising practices.
Event Recap
The Partnership for After School Education (PASE) hosted our annual citywide conference on July 23, and it was a day of connection, inspiration, and reflection.
Over 250 individuals participated in the event, including executive directors, program supervisors and directors, frontline staff, government officials, funders, higher ed professionals, researchers, and afterschool supporters.
To open our day, Deborah Archer, President of the ACLU (bio), spoke about the vital role of educators in this complex policy and advocacy moment. Ana L. Oliveira, President & CEO of The New York Women's Foundation (bio), closed the afternoon with remarks about philanthropy's role in equitably engaging community organizations and leaders as experts and problem-solvers.
We were also thrilled to pilot an Executive Director track with support from The Carmel Hill Fund and the Coalition of Youth Development Intermediaries (CYDI), with workshops featuring SeaChange Capital Partners and Grantmakers for Education. Read more about each of these on the Workshops tab.
At lunchtime, four innovative citywide initiatives presented brief Spotlight Sessions, sharing ways to leverage emerging opportunities:
- K-12 policy and advocacy with NYCPS Office of Policy & Advocacy (slides)
- Literacy in afterschool with The Center for Public Research & Leadership (CPRL) and ExpandED Schools (slides)
- Supporting the youth sector with the Coalition of Youth Development Intermediaries (CYDI) (slides)
- Afterschool expansion with The Office of the Mayor and the Department of Youth and Community Development (slides)
As always, we are also deeply grateful for our talented workshop facilitators who shared their expertise with colleagues from across the sector. Check out the Workshops tab to read more about the workshops and to see workshop materials.
Educators have always been frontline leaders, even if you haven't always been called by that name.
— Deborah Archer, ACLU
Check out the full set of images via our full event album. Photos by Salahadeen Betts/Seven Six Studios LLC.
