Capacity Building
Resource Links for Capacity Building
- Capacity Building Programs: afterschool programs, financial literacy projects (utilizing VISTAs), adult education, teens in employment, food independence, and community gardens—Beans and Rice Inc.
- Federal funding basics: types of funding and major federal funding for afterschool programs—Afterschool.gov
- Capacity building and technical assistance to build exemplary systems for training youth workers: workshops, support, and competencies—PASA Providence Afterschool Alliance
- The After-School Institute’s primary capacity building areas: after-school network meetings, site visits, advisory committees, steering committee, and members
- The After-School Institute website, a Baltimore-based youth development and training institute featuring: institute and network information, how to get started, how to get funding, and further reading resources
- The Executive Director of the National School-Age Care Alliance (NSACA) writes about the NSACA accreditation process helps after school programs build evaluation capacity in a periodical on emerging strategies in evaluation—Harvard Family Research Project
- The Need for evaluation capacity-building in afterschool programs: results from the Michigan evaluation of 21st Century community learning centers—Michigan State University
- San Diego County Office of Education: technical assistance to support program implementation and capacity building for after school programs
- Butte County Office of Education: Site locations, afterschool education and safety programs, learning support, and technical assistance and training
- Boston’s 2004 merging of two key afterschool organizations: 2:00-to-6:00 After-School Initiative and Boston's After-School for All Partnership to create Boston After School & Beyond: organization, vision, and governance of merged programming—City of Boston.gov
