Collaboration

Resources

• Peer Communication Strategies To Support Extended-Day learning Opportunities [PDF 2,424,240kb]
  This issue brief provides examples of how school board members can become more effective messengers and opinion shapers on the concept of after-school programs and other extended-day learning opportunities.
  
• Building Partnerships for Extended-Day Learning Opportunities [PDF 2,283,970kb]
  This issue brief provide examples on how school board members can help build and can champion various types of partnerships to sustain quality after-school programs.
  
• Building Partnerships for Extended-Day Learning Opportunities [PDF 2,283,970kb]
  This issues brief examines how school board members can help build and champion various partnerships to sustain quality after-school programs.
  
• A Guide to Sucessful Public-Private Partnerships for Out-of-School Time [PDF 1,335,627kb]
  This guide from the Finance Project provides practical information on creating and maintaining public-private partnerships to increase and improve after-school initiatives.
  
• Building and Sustaining Citywide Afterschool Initiatives [PDF 220,167kb]
  Experiences of the Cross-Cities Network Citywide Afterschool Initiatives from the National Institute on Out-of-School Time.
  
• Creating a Vision for Afterschool Partnerships [PDF 2,202,505kb]
  This tool is intended to help new afterschool partnerships create a shared vision for their work. It contains information to educate partners on what a vision statement is and the purpose it serves.
  
• Challenges and Opportunities in After-School Programs: Lessons for Policymakers and Funders [PDF 1,240,001kb]
  Public/Private Ventures gives ideas for policy makers and funders on how to offer high-quality youth development programs in school buildings through partnerships between local school districts and community-based organizations (CBOs) and universities.
  
• Community Education and Social Capital [PDF 148,455kb]
  Recently the term 'social capital' has re-emerged as a concept that has strong relevance to community educators. As a concept that existed primarily in the world of sociology, social capital adds an important dimension to the theory and practice of Community Education in building partnerships between school and community.
  
• Coordination, Collaboration and Networking [PDF 84,818kb]
  This task brief examines out-of-school networking, relationship building between community organizations and the public, city-school collaborations and neighborhood-based coordination.
  
• Focus on Partnerships - Finding Common Ground [PDF 241,614kb]
  An eight-page "Afterschool Issues" brief from the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) that examines the partnerships between districts and after-school programs.
  
• Focus on Families! How to Build and Support Family-Centered Practices in After School [PDF 856,220kb]
  This guide presents best practices on how to build the capacity of after school programs through engaging families.
  
• Helping Young People Succeed [PDF 177,649kb]
  This paper focuses on strengthening and sustaining relationships between schools and youth development organizations.
  
• Leadership and Political Will [PDF 82,915kb]
  This task brief from the Forum for Youth Investment closely examines community engagement strategies used by city leaders to help build support for after-school programs.
  
• Leadership, Program Quality and Sustainability [PDF 531,439kb]
  This 35-page paper from Policy Studies Associates examines strategies for sustaining school-linked after-school programs in order to help practitioners, funders, and policy makers.
  
• Local Intermediary Organizations: Connecting the Dots for Children, Youth, and Families [PDF 192,354kb]
  This brief is intended to introduce policy makers and program developers to local intermediary organizations and to demonstrate the potential of these organizations in helping local communities achieve important policy goals.
  
• Moving an Out-of-School Agenda: Lessons and Challenges Across Cities [PDF 770,677kb]
  This 38-page book from the Forum for Youth Investment describes the Greater Resources for After-School Programming (GRASP). GRASP aims to develop community engagement tools and engage selected communities in a planning process for improved opportunities for out-of-school time.
  
• Public Will and Constituency Engagement [PDF 86,214kb]
  This task brief from the Forum for Youth Investment looks at the critical factors in engaging the public in after-school issues and how to frame the issues.
  
• Strengthening Partnerships: Community School Assessment Checklist [PDF 168,440kb]
  This tool contains a series of checklists to assist school and community leaders in creating and/or strengthening community school partnerships.
  
• The Family Participation in After-School Study: Report of Survey Results [PDF 245,945kb]
  In order to learn more about the ways in which after-school programs involve families, the Institute for Responsive Education, with a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, launched this research initiative. This first phase of research involved conducting a survey of after-school programs to learn what efforts programs undertake to encourage family involvement. The results of this research are presented in this report.
  
• The Power of Partnerships [PDF 21,756kb]
  This report from the George Lucas Educational Foundation discusses the positive effects of the unique partnership between New York City's schools and the Children's Aid Society.
  
• When School is Out, Museums, Parks and Libraries are In [PDF 164,663kb]
  This issue of the Out-of-School Time Policy Commentary series explores the unique resources these groups bring to the table, featuring examples of cutting edge practice and partnerships and highlighting current policy opportunities and challenges.