The primary objective of this project is to manage the continuation of the well established Afterschool Matters Initiative, which includes several publications and a Research Grantee program, in addition to planning for the national expansion of a related action/research writing initiative.
National Afterschool Matters Initiative
There are four components of the National Afterschool Matters Initiative: (1) Practitioner Fellowship Program which provides an opportunity for line staff to develop their writing and research skills; (2) Afterschool Matters Journal and Occasional Paper Series publications to disseminate the findings and experiences of the Practitioner Fellows and Research Grantees and other researchers in the out-of-school time field; (3) Edmund A. Stanley, Jr. Research Grantee program to foster high quality cutting
