Afterschool.org

Team-Up for Youth. Team-Up for Youth's Coaching Corps recruits, trains, and places college students as volunteer coaches at afterschool programs in low-income communities of California. Our highly-trained volunteer coaches help afterschool programs increase and improve their physical activity offerings. As a result, more young people benefit from the many academic outcomes associated with sports participation, such as increased school connectedness, aspirations for higher education, and improved school attendance and homework completion. Our recent report, Learning to Play and Playing to Learn, summarizes current research about the link between academic outcomes and sports for low-income youth. The report is available online.

Town and Country Learning Center.  Town and Country Learning Center is a community center and afterschool center for school-age children.  It functions as a collaborative between the University of California, San Diego's Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition and the Town and Country Village, a HUD subsidized housing community.

Free Spirit Media, Chicago, IL. Free Spirit Media partners with schools and organizations to provide education, access, and opportunity in media production to under-served urban youth. Through hands-on production of their own video programs, participants build skills in communication, critical and independent thinking, teamwork, and the use of technology.

Words, Beats & Life, Washington, DC. The DC Urban Arts Academy, a multi-medium hip-hop arts Academy was the first initiative. Next came Words Beats Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop.  Following that the University Project came about, taking WBL back to where it began--transforming university classrooms and campuses through hip-hop culture via interactive workshops, exhibitions and gallery installations.