Share Your Afterschool Successes & Enter to Win a Kindle Fire!
Have you had great successes in afterschool programs in your community? Do you want to share your successes to help others develop sound programs? Do you want a chance to win a Kindle Fire or some iTunes credit?
If so, we urge you to take a moment to complete this short survey from our friends at the Afterschool Alliance. This survey is helping to collect success stories of programs all over the country. By filling out the survey, you will be entered in a drawing to win a Kindle Fire or a $10 iTunes gift certificate.
Two Kindle Fire winners will be drawn from the highest quality submissions. Fifty iTunes gift certificate winners will be drawn at random. But be sure to send in your submission by January 18, 2012, to be eligible to win a prize.
Afterschool Alliance and their partners and allies in the field need examples of success to strengthen support for investments in quality programs. Your successes will also provide information critical to improving programs across the country. Advocates are particularly concerned with sharing the successes of programs that have received 21st Century Community Learning Center funds as we press for increased funding for 21st CCLC.
Please share examples of programs that boost student success in school (e.g., behavior, attendance, grades, academic skills, grade advancement) or provide engaging learning opportunities in areas such as STEM, digital learning, arts, health/nutrition, global learning and physical activity, to name a few.
When taking the survey, It will be helpful to have all statistics on your program demographics, such as number of children attending, free/reduced priced lunch percentage, funding data, etc., and any program evaluation statistics easily accessible.
The survey is part of a new campaign by the Afterschool Alliance and Terry Peterson, longtime associate of former U.S. Secretary of Education Dick Riley and now Senior Fellow at the College of Charleston—with support from the Mott Foundation—to collect and share the many success stories of afterschool programs nationwide. Selected success stories will receive national attention in print and Web materials and will be shared with Congress. Materials will be sent to you for your own promotional use.
If you have questions or suggestions for this effort, please contact Chris D'Agostino at cdagostino@afterschoolalliance.org or (202) 347-2030.
