Resources for Afterschool Professionals

An article written by Cause Effective’s Executive Director Judy Levine entitled From Desperation to Opportunity: Building a Diverse Donor Base From the Ground Up was published in the New York Nonprofit Press. The article offers strategies and methods for how to diversify your agency’s donor base.

A must read, this article created a stir when released and has resulted in a number of important conversations at national afterschool meetings.

An academic article examining the limitations of using current standardized test scores to gauge progress by schools.

Article summarizes two days of discussion among researchers and evaluators, program and policy experts, and educators and government officials at the After School Summit resulting in a wealth of ideas on ways to improve and measure the performance of afterschool programs that have improving academic achievement as their core mission.

This article is one of the best written on the outcomes we should expect of afterschool programs and role of academic measures in program evaluation.

Time Magazine's August 2, 2010 cover story on opportunities to address summer learning loss.

This article synthesizes the existing literature on how best to educate high school-aged youth, and provides ten principles for educators working with this age group.

The study was commissioned by the Sally and Dick Roberts Coyote Foundation, with additional support from the W. T. Grant Foundation.

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PASE Profiles allow us to highlight a few of the many individuals and organizations who have made extraordinary contributions to our work of strengthening the afterschool field in NYC. Here is the ninth profile.

PASE Profiles allow us to highlight a few of the many individuals and organizations who have made extraordinary contributions to our work of strengthening the afterschool field in NYC. Here is the first profile.

PASE Profiles allow us to highlight a few of the many individuals and organizations who have made extraordinary contributions to our work of strengthening the afterschool field in NYC. Here is the second profile.