 
| | Helping Communities
… with collaboration, implementation, and inspiration. We build capacity at the community, state, and federal levels by developing cooperative, supportive relationships across systems.We get all the major players together—funders, public agencies, schools, parks and recreation, community-based organizations (CBOs), and faith-based organizations —to integrate efforts, implement high standards, and enact favorable policy. We turn in-depth data-gathering into coherent strategy and assess how to tailor programs to meet community needs. Strategic Planning - Thought leadership in systems-building efforts
- Meeting facilitation
- Development and review of presentations, strategy documents, RFPs
- Advising on coordinating and aligning public and private funding streams
- Facilitated site visits to other communities
- Lobbying, testimony
- Summits and briefings
- Policy templates, statements, recommendations
- Legislative task force or workgroup formation, coordination, participation
Data Collection & Evaluation - Assessment of demand for summer programs
- Resource scan to determine what resources exist in the community to support summer learning
- Stakeholder surveys, interviews, and focus groups
- Effective practices distillation and dissemination
- Program Improvement System
Partnership Building & Outreach - Assessment and recommendations for how multiple partners can work together
- Partnership building forums
- National conference placement
- Youth and family engagement
- Parent engagement advising, best practices review, identification, dissemination
Tools & Training - Program evaluation
- Standards crosswalk with summer learning quality standards
- Facilitated Professional Learning Communities focused on program improvement
- Research-based program model development and design
- Advising on curriculum selection
- Program quality assessment and Program Improvement System
Professional Development Workshops - Emerging Leaders: Basics of Summer Learning (full day)
- Planning a High-Quality, Effective Summer Program
- Quick Tips for a SUCCESSful Summer
- Using Thematic Units to Create a Summer Culture
- Selecting Goals for Your Summer Program
- Tools to Fund and Sustain Your Summer Program
- Creating a Strategic Plan for Your Summer Program
- Making Summer Learning Fun and Engaging
- Advocacy Training and Outreach Strategies for Adults
- Advocacy Training for Youth
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