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United Way Worldwide can and should provide national leadership by working with national partners and other interested stakeholders to sustain a national environment that helps to catalyze local action. This includes: Making the Case – United Way Worldwide can help make the case – within the network, external stakeholders, and the general public – about the importance of out-of-school time as one important strategy for cutting the dropout rate by 2018 and increasing the number of students who graduate high school prepared for college, work, and life. United Way Worldwide can also channel our network’s collective voice and advocate for policies that sustain public investment in out-of-school time. • Leveraging Core Organizational Strengths to Advance the Work – United Way Worldwide can encourage local United Ways to leverage all parts of their organizational work to deepen their out-of-school time efforts. Volunteers can be engaged and matched with related programs that could use more adult presence and support; local businesses and corporate partners might be asked to lend their time, talent, and expertise to mentor youth in out-of-school time programs, or to provide internships and career exploration opportunities for older youth; donors might be asked to advocate for sustained public, private, and philanthropic investment in these initiatives. • Increasing Visibility – United Way Worldwide’s national leadership can help shine a light on the network’s overall investment in out-of-school time and on the work that local United Ways are already doing in out-of-school time to strengthen quality, expand access, leverage existing resources, and improve results for participants. • Sharing Best Practices – United Way Worldwide can continue to grow local United Way capacity in this area by facilitating access to the latest expertise as well as support to strengthen their own out-of-school time grant making, sustaining a learning community to share promising practices and experiences, and developing tools and other resources. • Strengthening Connections – United Way Worldwide can help connect our network to existing coalitions, advocacy groups, state afterschool networks, and others who are actively advancing this issue so that efforts at the national, state, and local levels complement and support one another. Ensuring that high-quality afterschool and summer learning opportunities are available to all students who need them requires a systemic, big-picture approach that is not piecemeal or focused on individual programs. Given the reach of our network and the relationships, partnerships, and resources United Ways can collectively leverage, the network is well-positioned to help facilitate a systemic approach to improving out-of-school time as part of larger strategic efforts to improve middle grades success and increase high school graduation rates. This work and the resulting lessons learned, would not have been possible without the investment of jcpenney Afterschool. United Way Worldwide is pleased to have had the significant support of jcpenney to build on these successes and deepen our work on out-of-school time. 24
RESOURCES United Way Worldwide. (2012). Out-of-School Time Online Toolkit. Available at: outofschooltime. unitedway.org/. United Way Worldwide and Harvard Family Research Project. (2011). The Family Engagement for High School Success Toolkit: Planning and implementing an initiative to support the pathway to graduation for at-risk students. Available at: www.hfrp.org/family-involvement/publications-resources/the-familyengagement-for-high-school-success-toolkit-planning-and-implementing-an-initiative-to-supportthe-pathway-to-graduation-for-at-risk-students. United Way Worldwide. (2012). Charting a Course for Change: Advancing Education, Income and Health Through Collective Impact . UWW’s “roadmap” for driving education, income and health strategies. Download the strategy document at unway.3cdn.net/5872dd81d8ce449dff_1qm6yxly7.pdf. Harvard Family Research Project. (2010). Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time. Available at: hfrp.org/EngagingOlderYouth. Harvard Family Research Project. (2011). Afterschool Evaluation 101: How to Evaluate an Expanded Learning Program. Available at: www.hfrp.org/AfterschoolEvaluation101. The Wallace Foundation. (2010). Hours of Opportunity: Lessons from Five Cities on Building Systems to Improve After-School, Summer, and Other Out-of-School-Time Programs (Volumes I, II and III). Available at: www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/after-school/key-research/Documents/Hours-of- Opportunity-1-Lessons-After-School-Summer-OST.pdf. The Forum for Youth Investment. (2010). Measuring Youth Program Quality: Guide to Assessment Tools. Available at: www.forumfyi.org/files/MeasuringYouthProgramQuality_2ndEd.pdf. 25
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