"The McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation offers Academic Enrichment Grants designed to develop in-class and extra-curricular programs that improve student learning. The Foundation considers proposals that foster understanding, deepen students’ knowledge, and provide opportunities to expand awareness of the world around them.

"Foundations, Inc., in partnership with The After-School Corporation (TASC), is pleased to announce publication of Out-of-School Time: Leveraging Higher Education for Quality, a white paper that explores why and how partnerships between institutions of higher education and the OST field can strengthen the quality of children’s educational opportunities beyond the school day."

"Staff beginning in after-school programs often describe a "sink-or-swim" initiation, but this Forum for Youth Investment commentary says efforts to train supervisors and strengthen pre-service training and on-the-job feedback may improve practice and reduce turnover in out-of-school programs."

"The Millenials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change" - "is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation."

"The Afterschool Alliance and MetLife Foundation are partnering to develop and disseminate a series of Issue Briefs that address topics related to middle school youth and afterschool programs. Nominate a program by April 23, 2010 for a chance to receive a MetLife Afterschool Innovator Award and be highlighted in one of our Issue Briefs.