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A Foot in the Door: Using Alternative Staffing Organizations to Open Up Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers

A Portrait of Preteens in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties: What We Know About 9- to 13-Year Olds

Adult Communication and Teen Sex: Changing a Community

Advancing Achievement: Findings from an Independent Evaluation of a Major After-School Initiative

After-School Pursuits: An Examination of Outcomes in the San Francisco Beacon Initiative

After-School Pursuits: The Executive Summary

AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs

AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs Executive Summary

Alive at 25: Reducing Youth Violence Through Monitoring and Support

Charting New Territory: Early Implementation of the Workforce Investment Act

Children's Futures' First Five Years: Lessons and Early Outcomes of a Community Change Initiative

Collaboration and Community Change in the Children's Futures Initiative

Community Change for Youth Development in Kansas City

Early Outcomes for Programs and Families in Children's Futures

Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-Level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time

Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-Level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time, Research Synopsis

Enriching Summer Work: An Evaluation of the Summer Career Exploration Program

Enriching Summer Work: An Evaluation of the Summer Career Exploration Program (Executive Summary)

Evaluating Mentoring Programs

Extended-Service Schools: Putting Programming in Place

Faith in Action: Using Interfaith Coalitions to Support Voluntary Caregiving Efforts

Group Mentoring: A Study of Mentoring Groups in Three Programs

Growing Bigger Better: Lessons from Experience Corps' Expansion in Five Cities

Growing Bigger Better: Lessons from Experience Corps' Expansion in Five Cities Executive Summary

High School Mentors In Brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study

High School Students as Mentors: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study

High School Students as Mentors: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study Executive Summary

Increasing Opportunities for Older Youth in After-School Programs

Investing in Low-Wage Workers: Lessons from Family Child Care in Rhode Island

Investments in Building Citywide Out-of-School-Time Systems: A Six-City Study

Job Training That Works: Findings from the Sectoral Employment Impact Study

Labor Market Leverage: Sectoral Employment Field Report

Launching Literacy in After-School Programs: Early Lessons from the CORAL Initiative

Leaving the Street: Young Fathers Move from Hustling to Legitimate Work

Making a Difference in Schools: The Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study

Making a Difference in Schools: The Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study
Executive Summary


Making a Difference: An Impact Study of Big Brothers/Big Sisters
(Re-issue of 1995 Study)


Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs' Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens

Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs' Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens Executive Summary

Mentoring Formerly Incarcerated Adults: Insights from the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative

Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs

More Time For Teens: Understanding Teen Participation—Frequency, Intensity and Duration—In Boys & Girls Clubs

More Time For Teens: Understanding Teen Participation—Frequency, Intensity and Duration—In Boys & Girls Clubs Executive Summary

Multiple Choices After School: Findings from the Extended-Service Schools Initiative

Mustering the Armies of Compassion in Philadelphia

P/PV Preview: Mentoring Ex-Prisoners in the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative

Positive Support: Mentoring and Depression Among High-Risk Youth

Promoting Opportunity: Findings from the State Workforce Policy Initiative on Employment Retention and Advancement

Quality Time After School Executive Summary

Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to Enhance Learning

Rewards of Giving: An In-Depth Study of Older Adults' Volunteer Experiences in Urban Elementary Schools

School-Based Mentoring: A First Look Into Its Potential

Seeking a Sustainable Journey to Work: Findings from the National Bridges to Work Demonstration

Targeted Outreach: Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention

The Cost of Quality Out-of-School-Time Programs

The Cost of Quality Out-of-School-Time Programs, Executive Summary

The Costs of Out-of-School-Time Programs: A Review of the Available Evidence

The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs: Final Report

The Promise and Challenge of Mentoring High-Risk Youth: Findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative

Tuning In to Local Labor Markets: Findings From the Sectoral Employment Impact Study

Tuning In to Local Labor Markets: Findings From the Sectoral Employment Impact Study, Executive Summary

Working Dads: Final Report on the Fathers at Work Initiative

Working Dads: Final Report on the Fathers at Work Initiative Executive Summary

Working Together to Build Beacon Centers in San Francisco: Evaluation Findings from 1998-2000


Investments in Building Citywide Out-of-School-Time Systems: A Six-City Study Synopsis

by Cheryl Hayes, Christianne Lind, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Nichole Stewart, Sharon Deich, Andrew Gersick, Jennifer McMaken and Margo Campbell
September 2009, 6 pages


This synopsis highlights the main findings from Investments in Building Citywide Out-of-School-Time Systems, which documents approaches six cities across the country have taken to build, finance and sustain effective citywide out-of-school-time (OST) systems. Developed by P/PV and The Finance Project, the synopsis provides detailed information about investments made in the four major strategies used to strengthen OST infrastructure: providing community leadership and vision; improving program quality; expanding access to and participation in quality programs; and financing and sustaining quality programs.

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Tags: Out-of-School Time, Funders, Policymakers, Research


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