Foundation grantmaking focuses on four major program areas. These programs touch upon a number of major issues. Each grantmaking program also works within clearly stated geographic parameters or regions.
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This grant will support LA's BEST in securing high quality afterschool education, enrichment, and recreation programming for 28,000 elementary students in 180 school sites. Specifically, grant funding will support the continued and sustained delivery of the LA's BEST program over one year including day-to-day operations, program implementation, and training activities that effectively remove the barriers to children's academic and social development and make them available to learn. The grantee's mission is to provide a safe and supervised afterschool education, enrichment, and recreation program for elementary school children ages 5 to 12 in the city of Los Angeles.
This grant to the Afterschool Alliance will provide general purposes support to fulfill its mission of raising awareness and public support for quality, affordable afterschool programs for all by 2010. In addition to providing support to continue its awareness and advocacy campaigns, this grant will allow the alliance to begin developing the infrastructure of the organization. Specific activities include serving as a key authority and information and referral source on afterschool, being an effective voice for afterschool in efforts to expand quality afterschool programs, and building the capacity of and encouraging a grassroots constituency for afterschool.
The Collaborative Communications Group supports the development of a national network and learning community of statewide afterschool networks. This grant increase will support the growing national network of statewide afterschool networks by convening meetings and audio-conference calls, developing a website and listserv, and documenting learnings. Currently, the Foundation is providing partial support to nine statewide networks, with an additional twenty statewide afterschool networks expected to join the national network. This project will foster cooperation and collaboration in states across the country, and create opportunities for sharing strategies for developing successful statewide afterschool policies.
Principals See Children Flourish in Afterschool
Video Production by Duane M. Elling and Ann Richards
Afterschool In Action: How Innovative Afterschool Programs Address Critical Issues Facing Middle School Youth
The Mott Foundation’s Pathways Out of Poverty program supports initiatives around the U.S. that promote learning beyond the classroom especially for traditionally underserved children and youth — as a strategy for improving public education.
This grantmaking includes strengthening afterschool through technical assistance, research, evaluation and policy development, and by building public support. We also fund community schools internationally under our Civil Society program, as well as afterschool-related projects in Mott’s hometown of Flint, Michigan via our Flint Area program.
By JENNIFER LIVERSEDGE, Pathways Out of Poverty program officer
Intuitively, we long have known that high-quality afterschool programs benefit children and youth, and a substantive body of research is emerging to support that perception. A compelling new resource — “Expanding Minds and Opportunities: Leveraging the Power of Afterschool and Summer Learning for Student Success” — which captures some of the latest evidence about the effectiveness of afterschool programming was released February 5, 2013 during the National Network of Statewide Afterschool Networks conference in Washington D.C. Edited by Terry K. Peterson, this groundbreaking compendium features studies, reports and commentaries by more than 100 thought leaders including elected officials, educators, researchers, advocates and other prominent authors.
Published with support from the Mott Foundation, which has a long history of grantmaking for afterschool programming — including more than $150 million in the past decade — the compendium serves as an excellent source of information to help inform and guide the afterschool field as it navigates the road forward. Hard copies and electronic formatting of the book are available. To learn more about the compendium, download individual articles or order your own copy visit: http://www.expandinglearning.org/expandingminds.
The Foundation’s 2011 Annual Report takes an in-depth look at Mott’s efforts to increase the quality and availability of afterschool programming, including its long-standing partnership with the federal government on the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) initiative. A special section also showcases five afterschool programs in communities across the country, along with a message from President and CEO William S. White on the important role afterschool programs play in the lives of students and their families.