Research Highlights
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 The Forum for Youth Investment; Wallace Foundation
Yohalem, Nicole; Elizabeth Devaney; Charles Smith; Alicia Wilson-Ahlstrom
October 2012
This guide is intended to help cities strengthen and sustain quality afterschool programs by using an emerging practice known as a quality improvement system (QIS). The guide explains how to start building a QIS or how to further develop existing efforts and features case studies of six communities’ QIS.
Funder(s): Wallace Foundation
 Wallace Foundation
Gill, Jennifer
June 2012
Includes tip sheets on using data to improve accountability, map needs and supply, enhance programs, and strengthen advocacy efforts and data-sharing strategies to better inform city agencies, program providers, intermediary organizations, and others.
Funder(s): Wallace Foundation
 Grantmakers for Education
December 2011
Based on a survey of GFE members, examines funder characteristics; priorities such as closing the achievement gap; budgets; grantmaking strategies; important emerging trends; and response to public-sector funding cuts.
Funder(s): Target Corporation
 National League of Cities; Wallace Foundation
October 2011
Profiles city-led efforts to build out-of-school time systems with citywide networks, strategies, and research-based approaches to enhancing quality and access. Assesses progress on sustainability elements and impact on school attendance and performance.
Funder(s): Wallace Foundation
 Policy Studies Associates, Inc.
LaFleur, Jennifer; Mark Low; Rebecca Romash; Christina A. Russell
September 2011
Evaluates a Wallace-supported effort to build up after-school programs for middle school students in New York City's Beacon community centers. Identifies traits that seem to boost the chances of success, including giving youth a say in activities offered.
Funder(s): Wallace Foundation
 National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education & Families
August 2011
Looks at the kinds of data U.S. cities are gathering and analyzing in their efforts to build citywide systems that make high-quality after-school programs more available to children, how they collect it, and how they put it to use.
Funder(s): Wallace Foundation
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 Northwestern University
Hirsch, Barton J.; Larry V. Hedges; Megan A. Mekinda; JulieAnn Stawicki
June 2011
Evaluates outcomes for teens in Chicago's After School Matters apprenticeship-like program, finding statistically significant benefits on some measures of youth development and reduced problem behaviors but not in job skills or school performance.
Funder(s): Chicago Community Trust, Wallace Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation
 Harvard Family Research Project; Atlantic Philanthropies
June 2011
Outlines impact of and insights from a five-year initiative to support direct service, infrastructure, and advocacy for engaging disadvantaged youth ages 8 to 16 in learning during out-of-school time using an "integrated learning cluster" model.
Funder(s): Atlantic Philanthropies
 RAND Corporation
McCombs, Jennifer; Catherine H. Augustine; Susan J. Bodilly; Amanda Brown Cross; Dahlia S. Lichter; Brian McInnis; Heather Lee Schwartz
June 2011
Examines evidence that summer programs can help counter the "summer slide" that disproportionately affects low-income students and contributes to the achievement gap; identifies obstacles to program provision; analyzes costs; and offers recommendations.
Funder(s): Wallace Foundation
 Wallace Foundation
October 2010
Examines Wallace-supported efforts in five cities to build systems to improve the quality and accessibility of after-school, summer, and other out-of-school time programs. Concludes that the fledgling systems hold some promise. Also describes challenges.
Funder(s): Wallace Foundation
 Wallace Foundation
April 2009
Highlights lessons and strategies on how cities can build and sustain high-quality OST programming, such as forging closer ties to schools, using new data systems to inform budget choices, and making the recession an opportunity to introduce bold changes.
Funder(s): Wallace Foundation
 Wallace Foundation
February 2008
Drawing on lessons from five cities, offers "action elements" to help cities achieve widespread, sustainable improvements in out-of-school learning opportunities so that many more children benefit.
Funder(s): Wallace Foundation
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