Offsite Links
| U.S. Department of Education | The 21st CCLC Program, a key component of NCLB, is an opportunity for students and their families to continue to learn new skills and discover new abilities after the school day or school year has ended. |
| North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 21st CCLC Programs | North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction selected its first round of 21st CCLC grantees in November, 2002. The group of 17 grantees in NC's Cohort I grew to a group of 92 new or expansion grantees in 2005's awards to Cohort IV. |
| North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Standard Course of Study | The North Carolina Standard Course of Study provides a set of competencies in every content area for each grade and high school course. It provides rigorous student academic performance standards that are uniform across the state. |
| Grants.Gov | Grant.Gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 billion in Federal grants. It's a single access point for over 1,000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant making agencies. |
 AfterSchool KidzLit |
AfterSchool KidzLit® is a reading enrichment program designed specifically for use in out-of-school settings. It increases young people’s motivation to read and builds their literacy skills. At the same time, it develops core values of helpfulness, fairness, personal responsibility, and respect for others. |
 Promising Practices in Afterschool |
PPAS is an effort to find and share things that are working in afterschool programs. The PPAS website is for afterschool program directors who want to improve the quality of their programs. Others who will find it useful are program staff, volunteers, parents, community members, policymakers, funders, researchers, and anyone else who cares about children and youth. |
 The Finance Project |
Afterschool, before-school, and summer programs have become essential supports for working parents and a key part of life for many American children. These programs need broad-based funding streams for sustainability! |
 National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning |
Providing assistance, training, and tools to help state and local practitioners develop high-quality, balanced programming to engage student learning. |
 NC CAP |
NC CAP brings NC afterschool porgrams, community leaders and policy makers together to address afterschool program issues of quality, accessibility, and sustainable funding. |
 The Rural School and Community Trust |
The Rural School and Community Trust is a national nonprofit organization addressing the crucial relationship between good schools and thriving communities. Their mission is to help rural schools and communities get better together. |
 Afterschool Alliance |
The Afterschool Alliance is dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of afterschool programs and advocating for quality, affordable programs for all children. The Alliance's vision is that all children will have access to afterschool programs by 2010. |
| North Carolina AfterSchool Coalition (NCASC) | The mission of the NC AfterSchool Coalition is to build a profession that develops, supports, and promotes quality programs for school-age children and youth during out-of-school time. |
 National Community Education Association |
The National Community Education Association (NCEA) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership association founded in Flint, Michigan, in 1966, as the National Community School Education Association. In 1978 the name was changed to the National Community Education Association and its national office was moved to the Washington, DC area. |
 SERVE |
SERVE is a university-based education organization with the mission to promote and support the continuous improvement of educational opportunities for all learners in the Southeast. |
| GrantStation | GrantStation provides an interactive website that allows grantseekers to identify potential funding sources for their programs or projects, and mentors you through the grantseeking process. |
| Finance Project Sustainability Resources | The Finance Project's Sustainability link provides significant resources for developing customized local sustainability plans, building partnerships, & locating funding. |
| Afterschool Alliance Funding & Sustainability | The Alliance uses this link to give an overview of strategies and other links to sources for federal, state, local, and private funding, as well as a guide for developing and documenting in-kind resources. |
 The Coalition for Community Schools |
The Coalition for Community Schools is an alliance of national, state and local organizations in education K-16, youth development, community planning and development, family support, health and human services, government and philanthropy as well as national, state and local community school networks. The Coalition advocates for community schools as the vehicle for strengthening schools, families and communities so that together they can improve student learning. |
 Afterschool for All: Project 2010 |
Project 2010 was initiated by the Afterschool Alliance, the Academy for Educational Development, The After-School Corporation, the Center for Educational Renewal, LA's BEST, and the National Center for Community Education. The Afterschool Alliance is coordinating this effort with support from the Open Society Institute. |
| SchoolGrants | Focused on those who seek K-12 funding, SchoolGrants provides samples of successful grant proposals for a variety of funding sources, including 21st CCLC grant proposals. SchoolGrants also lists funding opportunities available to schools and districts across the United States. |
| North Carolina Support Our Students (SOS) Program | The Support Our Students (SOS) Program is a community based afterschool initiative directed by NC's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention that provides support and guidance to young people by involving them in constructive activities to keep them focused and out of trouble. |
| The Evaluation Exchange | Designed as an ongoing discussion among evaluators, program practitioners, funders, and policymakers, The Evaluation Exchange highlights innovative methods and approaches to evaluation, emerging trends in evaluation practice, and practical applications of evaluation theory. |
| Out-of-School Time Program Evaluation Database | The Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) Out-of-School Time (OST) Program Evaluation Database is a compilation of profiles written by HFRP of evaluations of OST programs and initiatives. |
| Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book | This system contains state-level data for over 75 measures of child well-being. This online database allows you to generate custom reports for a geographic area (Profiles) or to compare geographic areas on a topic. |
| Impacts of a Summer Learning Program | Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) is a nonprofit organization operating summer and after school programs in Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore to increase the academic achievements, self-esteem and life opportunities of children living in low-income, urban communities. The Urban Institute recently conducted a rigorous evaluation of the BELL Summer Program that offers scientific evidence of its effectiveness. |
| Program Development & Evaluation | This University of Wisconsin Extension Services site provides multiple resources for evaluation models and approaches. |
| American Evaluation Association | This association of evaluators is devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. The site contains links to everything you always wanted to know about evaluation! |
| NC Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Grants Office | JJDP's Grants Office has developed an on-line database to assist in finding youth-related funding sources. The database gives a brief description of the funding opportunity as well as contact information. |
| Federal Resources for Educational Excellence | The goal of FREE is to make it easier to find more than 1,500 teaching and learning resources available from the federal government. It has a "subject map" that shows more than 100 topics and the number of resources for each topic. These resources have links to wonderful lesson plans for thematic afterschool enrichment that is well-aligned with areas of academic mastery! |