This grant increase will enable the National School Boards Association to further build the capacity of school board leaders to advance high-quality afterschool programs by building awareness through meetings and informational documents. The National School Boards Association is working to advance school leadership and policy development in support of afterschool opportunities for all students by examining how students are educated and developing strategic plans with various stakeholders at the local, state, and national levels to create seamless learning opportunities based on the needs of their respective districts and communities.

This grant will support the National Summer Learning Association to develop summer learning opportunities for young people by ensuring that summer learning is integrated into efforts to redesign systems of teaching and learning. Specifically, this grant will provide technical assistance to communities with an interest and capacity for including summer as a stronger part of a comprehensive, twelve-month vision for expanding learning opportunities for young people. To accomplish these objectives, the National Summer Learning Association will engage school systems, the afterschool community, and municipal leadership in reinventing summer school and will support the New Day for Learning demonstration sites and public awareness campaign.

This grant will support the Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative in its efforts to continue to develop the Kentucky statewide afterschool network. Through the statewide afterschool network, afterschool programs in Kentucky will have access to research-based best practices and will help ensure that children will have access to the supports they need to succeed. The Kentucky statewide afterschool network will systematically organize, mobilize, and communicate with afterschool stakeholders to advocate for increased funding and support for afterschool programs at the local, state, and national levels. This grantee is part of the sixth cohort of Mott-funded statewide afterschool networks.