To meet the growing demand for providing better out-of-school time opportunities to more children, a number of cities have been working to create OST “systems” – meaning, developing the coherent structures necessary to secure and maintain the needed leadership, information and other resources to deliver quality programs citywide. This new report – and a
companion synopsis – analyzes the monetary and in-kind investments being made to pursue common strategies to develop such systems in six cities (three of which have been pursuing their OST work with Wallace support): Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, New York City and Seattle. The report completes a Wallace-commissioned research series by Public/Private Ventures and The Finance Project documenting the costs of OST programs and the city-level systems to support them. The previous resources include
The Cost of Quality Out-of-School Time Programs; and an
online OST Cost Calculator, both of which are on Wallace’s website.