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Funding Map for New Orleans’ Afterschool Programs

The Afterschool Partnership

August 20, 2008

• Less than 25% of school-age children in New Orleans currently have access to afterschool programs
• Afterschool programming is most limited in the areas that had the most extreme flooding
• The areas of the city with the highest crime rates have the most limited afterschool programming

• The overwhelming majority of afterschool programs targets elementary and middle school students, with little for high school students
• State afterschool funders have made it difficult for programs to rely on stable funding

• Local afterschool intermediary
• Publishes local funding guide for programs based on funding research
• Sponsors sustainability workshops
• Regularly surveys programs to understand access funding issues

• Research federal discretionary programs
• Research federal block grants
• Research state own-source funds
• Research city own-source funds
• Research largest local private funders

Definition of Afterschool funding sources:

Sources that can be used to provide educational, enrichment, recreational or supportive services to children ages 5-18 during non-school hours.

• State plans are very general, and only include broad target areas for federal block grant allocations versus specific awardees and amounts.
• Local funders do not all keep track of awards by specific subject areas/target population. One funder included early childhood grants in total, while another had everything generally categorized as “education.”

• Federal spending on children has declined in recent decades, from 20% of the federal domestic spending in 1960 to 15% of the federal domestic spending 2006.
• Almost all children’s programs are discretionary, and will continue to lose out to entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security.
• Children’s programs primarily target low-income families, so benefits disappear when income increases.

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FY2004 $21,573,000.62

FY2005 $20,995,000.07

FY2006 $20,853,000.67

FY2007 $20,942,000.36

FY2008 $20,190,000.16

*Estimates show as much as $20,000,000 was not drawn down in 2005 and smaller amounts in subsequent years by Louisiana.

State Standardized Monthly School-Age Rate

Louisiana $165

Arizona $300

Florida $360

Georgia $320

Indiana $616

Mississippi $180

North Carolina $446

Tennessee $240

• TANF - $9.5 million a year/renewed each year so no consistent guarantee of funding
• Community Based Tutorial Program - $1.3 million/no new applicants unless current contractor withdraws and only $15,500 a year
• Section 8(g) - $5.1 million/year/none for afterschool

• National – NCLB reauthorization and federal domestic funding trends
• State – State financial investments and supportive legislative examples
• Local – Youth Opportunities Task Force

• Build capacity with providers to make sure grants that are submitted are more competitive, which means working with them on program design
• Pursue more discretionary grants

• Effectively lobby for the state to allocate more TANF funding for Afterschool for All, and to make specific allocations of Section 8(g) funding to afterschool and summer camps
• Work with DSS on reasonable school-age licensing regulations and Quality Rating System requirements so that school age providers are more likely to go through licensing
• Consider pursuing a dedicated revenue stream like unclaimed lottery money or duplicate birth certificates (like Children’s Trust), etc.
• Consider legislative action to establish a statewide afterschool network
• Develop and re-apply for a Mott Foundation statewide afterschool network grant, to build statewide advocacy and support within the field

• Establish the Youth Opportunities Task Force to develop a plan for afterschool and youth development activities and funding in New Orleans
• Work with the City toward obtaining a local dedicated revenue stream
• Support NORD’s efforts to seek more city funding for the recreation budget
• Work with local private foundations and corporations to nurture a stronger investment in afterschool and summer