Funding Map for New Orleans Afterschool Programs

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Funding Map for New Orleans Afterschool Programs

• The Afterschool Partnership
• August 20, 2008

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Issue Statement

• Less than 25 of school-age children in New
  Orleans currently have access to afterschool
  programs
  
• Afterschool programming is most limited in the
  areas that had the most extreme flooding
  
• The areas of the city with the highest crime
  rates have the most limited afterschool
  programming

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Issue Statement (cont.)

• The overwhelming majority of afterschool programs
  targets elementary and middle school students,
  with little for high school students
  
• State afterschool funders have made it difficult
  for programs to rely on stable funding

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Afterschool Partnerships Role

• Local afterschool intermediary
• Publishes local funding guide for programs based
  on funding research
  
• Sponsors sustainability workshops
• Regularly surveys programs to understand access
  funding issues

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Purpose of Report

• Research federal discretionary programs
• Research federal block grants
• Research state own-source funds
• Research city own-source funds
• Research largest local private funders

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Framing the Analysis

• Definition of Afterschool funding sources
• Sources that can be used to provide educational,
  enrichment, recreational or supportive services
  to children ages 5-18 during non-school hours.

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Post- Katrina Limitations

• State plans are very general, and only include
  broad target areas for federal block grant
  allocations versus specific awardees and
  amounts.
• Local funders do not all keep track of awards by
  specific subject areas/target population. One
  funder included early childhood grants in total,
  while another had everything generally
  categorized as education.

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Federal Budget Trends

• Federal spending on children has declined in
  recent decades, from 20 of the federal domestic
  spending in 1960 to 15 of the federal domestic
  spending 2006.
• Almost all childrens programs are discretionary,
  and will continue to lose out to entitlement
  programs like Medicare and Social Security.
  
• Childrens programs primarily target low-income
  families, so benefits disappear when income
  increases.
  

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Overview of Largest Federal Programs Funding
Afterschool

1 Id.
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21st Century Community Learning Centers Louisiana
Allocations

• FY2004 21,573,000.62
• FY2005 20,995,000.07
• FY2006 20,853,000.67
• FY2007 20,942,000.36
• FY2008 20,190,000.16
• Estimates show as much as 20,000,000 was not
  drawn down in 2005 and smaller amounts in
  subsequent years by Louisiana.

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No Child Left Behind
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Child Care Development Fund
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Monthly School-Age Rate Provider Compensation
Comparison
State Standardized Monthly School-Age Rate
Louisiana 165 Arizona 300 Florida 360
Georgia 320 Indiana 616 Mississippi
180 North Carolina 446 Tennessee 240
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State Investments in Afterschool

• TANF - 9.5 million a year/renewed each year so
  no consistent guarantee of funding
  
• Community Based Tutorial Program - 1.3
  million/no new applicants unless current
  contractor withdraws and only 15,500 a year
  
• Section 8(g) - 5.1 million/year/none for
  afterschool

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LA-DOE Administration of Afterschool Funds
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Local Investment in AfterschoolCity of New
Orleans
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Breakout of City Funding for Youth
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City Recreation Department Budget History
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Afterschool Programs Receiving Portion of CDBG
(15.1 million)
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Comparison of City Investments in Afterschool
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Investment in School-Age Programs By Funding
Source
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Orleans Afterschool Federal Investment by Area
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Trends in Afterschool

• National NCLB reauthorization and federal
  domestic funding trends
  
• State State financial investments and
  supportive legislative examples
  
• Local Youth Opportunities Task Force

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Recommendations - Federal

• Build capacity with providers to make sure grants
  that are submitted are more competitive, which
  means working with them on program design
  
• Pursue more discretionary grants

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Recommendations - State

• Effectively lobby for the state to allocate more
  TANF funding for Afterschool for All, and to make
  specific allocations of Section 8(g) funding to
  afterschool and summer camps
• Work with DSS on reasonable school-age licensing
  regulations and Quality Rating System
  requirements so that school age providers are
  more likely to go through licensing
• Consider pursuing a dedicated revenue stream like
  unclaimed lottery money or duplicate birth
  certificates (like Childrens Trust), etc.
  
• Consider legislative action to establish a
  statewide afterschool network
  
• Develop and re-apply for a Mott Foundation
  statewide afterschool network grant, to build
  statewide advocacy and support within the field
  

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Recommendations - Local

• Establish the Youth Opportunities Task Force to
  develop a plan for afterschool and youth
  development activities and funding in New Orleans
  
• Work with the City toward obtaining a local
  dedicated revenue stream
  
• Support NORDs efforts to seek more city funding
  for the recreation budget
  
• Work with local private foundations and
  corporations to nurture a stronger investment in
  afterschool and summer