Looking for funding opportunities? The After School Corporation maintains a comprehensive database of funding opportunities.

The SPARK Grant-Finder Tool is also a resource to find national and state-specific grants for your Physical Education, After school, Early childhood or Coordinated School Health program.

Community Foundations provide a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving. They offer a variety of giving tools to help people achieve their charitable goals – and create lasting good work in their communities.


Federal Funding

Understanding the Federal Budget: A Primer from Spark Action

• Community Development Block Grant provides annual awards to communities in Louisiana. Click here for a list of communities receiving funds. A portion of the funds may be used for afterschool and youth programs.
  
  
• Child Care Development Fund provides subsidies to low-income families for child care for ages under 13, or under 19 for a child with special needs.

• In Louisiana, the CCDF program is the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) administered by the Louisiana Department of Children & Family Services
  
  

• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Funds
  
  
• Education Federal Funds

• 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21CCLC) is the only federal funding source specifically for afterschool. The Louisiana Department of Education administers 21st CCLC grants across the state.
• Title I, Part A funds can be used by schools to fund extra instruction in afterschool and summer programs
• School Improvement Grants (SIG)
  
  

• Workforce Investment Act – Youth Services
  
  
• AmeriCorps allows volunteers to work in schools and nonprofit organizations.

• In Louisiana, the AmeriCorps and the LA Serve VISTA programs are administered by the Louisiana Serve Commission.
  
  

• Juvenile Justice Funds: Violence Prevention
  

• Title V Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention
  
  

• The Carol M. White Physical Education Program in the U.S. Department of Education provides grants to LEAs and community-based organizations (CBOs) to initiate, expand, or enhance physical education programs, including after-school programs.
  
  

Additional Sources of Public and Private Funding*

• United Way
• School District
• City or County General Fund
• Parks and Recreation Departments
• Sheriff 's Office
• Foundations: National, State and Community
• Corporations
• Chamber of Commerce
• Police Athletic League
• Volunteer Center
  
  

In-Kind Contributions

• Staff Time from a Community Organization
• Evaluations Conducted by Universities
• Fundraising ­­Consultation by a Business Special Events Ads by Local Media

*Adapted from the Afterschool Alliance

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Read the National Institute on Out-of-School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women’s publication Making the Case: A 2009 Fact Sheet on Children and Youth In Out-of-School Time for summaries of data from over a decade of research proving that afterschool supports youth success.