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From Soft Skills to Hard Data: Measuring Youth Program Outcomes

Abstract Everyone who runs a youth program believes in their hearts that their program helps kids – but in their heads, they know they need convincing data to prove it. This guide from the...

The Forum for Youth Investment

Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database

This site enables users to apply for access to quantitative data and classroom videos created by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Measures of Effective Teaching Project

Grant

Aligning Summer Learning and Afterschool

The National Summer Learning Association and the Forum for Youth Investment seek to increase alignment between the summer learning and after-school fields.

Charles Smith and Sarah Pitcock

The Forum for Youth Investment

2013
$25,000.00

Publication

Our Work on the Quality of After-school Programs: 2003–2011

During the past eight years, the after-school field has made real progress, particularly in understanding what “high-quality practice” means and how to measure it. And we at the Foundation have...

Robert Granger

Publication

The William T. Grant Foundation: Contributions to the After-school Field, 2003-2011

This review of the Foundation’s grantmaking and staff work on the quality of after-school programs from 2003–2011 will help trustees and staff learn about the effects of their strategies during this...

Foundation Staff

Grant

Examining California’s After School Movement Post Proposition 49

What is the status of California’s after-school movement?

Sam Piha

Partnership for Children and Youth

2012 – 2013
$20,175.00

Grant

Improving After-School Program Quality and Access

This grant will enable the Partnership for Children and Youth to inform and influence federal legislation as it relates to the development of quality systems of out-of-school time programming.

Jennifer Peck and Katie Brackenridge

Partnership for Children and Youth

2011 – 2012
$75,000.00

Grant

Expanded Learning Time for High School Students

The After-School Corporation (TASC) will develop and test a high school Expanded Learning Time (ELT) model that can be scaled nationally.

Lucy Friedman

The After-School Corporation

2011 – 2012
$125,000.00

Grant

Career Programming in Out-of-School Time

In what ways do program content, social processes, and setting resources interact to create the environments experienced by youth?

Kathryn Hynes

Pennsylvania State University

2011 – 2012
$25,000.00

Grant

Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Afterschool Programs in California

Funds were provided to develop policy recommendations and identify successful strategies and practices for for California after-school programs.

Sam Piha

Partnership for Children and Youth

2010 – 2011
$25,000.00

Grant

California After-School Policy Agenda Development for the 2011 Legislative Session

Proponents of after-school programming in California are aggressively planning a collaborative policy agenda for the coming year.

Steven Amick

LA's BEST (Better Educated Students for Tomorrow)

2010 – 2011
$10,000.00

Grant

Dissemination of Results from the WASCIP Quality Advisory Study

Funds were given to help AIR disseminate information obtained from the Wisconsin After-School Continuous Improvement Process (WASCIP) quality advisor study through several publications.

Neil Naftzger

American Institutes For Research In The Behavioral Sciences

2010 – 2011
$24,935.00

Grant

Supporting California’s Quality Improvement and Accountability Initiatives for After-school Programs and Systems

Funds were given to the Forum for their support of California’s efforts to build quality improvement and accountability systems for after-school programs, and to better align school-day improvement...

Charles Smith

The Forum for Youth Investment

2010
$25,000.00

Grant

Using Research on Improving the Quality of Youth-Serving Programs to Inform Policy

American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) will provide information to national policymakers—including six Capitol Hill forums—about research on effective strategies to improve the quality of youth-serving...

Betsy Brand and Ben Aiken

American Youth Policy Forum

2009 – 2011
$162,745.00

Grant

Mayors’ Institute on Children and Families

Support was given for a new series of Mayors’ Institutes on Children and Families.

Clifford Johnson

National League of Cities

2009 – 2010
$20,000.00

Grant

The Impact of Self-Assessment and Quality Advisor Support on Afterschool Program Quality

What is the impact of self-Assessment and quality advisor support on afterschool program quality?

Robert Stonehill and Neil Naftzger

Learning Point Associates

2009 – 2010
$25,000.00

Grant

Comprehensive Educational Opportunity Project: After-school Education/Out-of-School Learning Experiences

Support was given to the Campaign for Educational Equity’s state-wide Task Force on Comprehensive Educational Opportunity.

Michael Rebell and Michael Rebell

Columbia University

2009 – 2010
$25,000.00

Grant

Improving the Outcomes of High School Youth through Effective After-school Programs

Support was given to generate awareness of best practices, research, and successful models of after-school programs.

Sam Piha

2009 – 2010
$25,000.00

Grant

The History of the After School Education and Safety Program in California

Support was given to chronicle the ten-year history of state funding for after-school programs in California, with particular emphasis on the events preceding the Proposition 49 campaign.

Steven Amick

LA's BEST (Better Educated Students for Tomorrow)

2009
$10,000.00

Grant

Strengthening Youth Today’s Investigative Research Capabilities

Youth Today will continue to expand and build platforms for their coverage of youth issues.

Sara Fritz and Patrick Boyle

American Youth Work Center

2009 – 2011
$150,000.00

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From Soft Skills to Hard Data: Measuring Youth Program Outcomes

Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database

Aligning Summer Learning and Afterschool

Our Work on the Quality of After-school Programs: 2003–2011

The William T. Grant Foundation: Contributions to the After-school Field, 2003-2011

Examining California’s After School Movement Post Proposition 49

Improving After-School Program Quality and Access

Expanded Learning Time for High School Students

Career Programming in Out-of-School Time

Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Afterschool Programs in California

California After-School Policy Agenda Development for the 2011 Legislative Session

Dissemination of Results from the WASCIP Quality Advisory Study

Supporting California’s Quality Improvement and Accountability Initiatives for After-school Programs and Systems

Using Research on Improving the Quality of Youth-Serving Programs to Inform Policy

Mayors’ Institute on Children and Families

The Impact of Self-Assessment and Quality Advisor Support on Afterschool Program Quality

Comprehensive Educational Opportunity Project: After-school Education/Out-of-School Learning Experiences

Improving the Outcomes of High School Youth through Effective After-school Programs

The History of the After School Education and Safety Program in California

Strengthening Youth Today’s Investigative Research Capabilities

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