Funding resources
The Charles Stewart Mott, Wallace and Robert Bowne Foundations fund extensive research and publications related to after school. Their materials can give you information on all aspects of the field and are especially helpful in identifying what resource-providers are seeking.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Financing and Sustaining Out-of-School Time Programs in Rural Communities (The Finance Project)
This strategy brief describes the funding landscape of rural OST programs and highlights the unique challenges confronting rural program leaders. It describes the different public and private resources that can support OST programming and identifies key strategies that can be used to finance and sustain these programs in rural communities.
The Afterschool Alliance has dedicated a section of their web site to providing new and updated tools, resources, and help in finding after school program funding as well as an online forum on funding. Go To: www.afterschoolalliance.org/funding_main.cfm