November 16, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
Finding Funding: A Guide to Federal Sources for Out-of-School Time and Community School Initiatives, by Nancy D. Reder, shows how to obtain federal funds for after-school and community-education efforts. Such programs, Ms. Reder writes, are essential to the healthy development of children whose parents work, yet most of the country’s after-school and community preschool programs face serious money and financial-management challenges. The report profiles more than 120 federal programs that provide grants or loans, and offers advice on applying to them. Ms. Reder suggests, among other things, that in order to make the most of the federal dollars available to them, program leaders should collaborate with each other; use federal funds as a way to take better advantage of state, local, and private money; and refinance their budgets by using federal contributions to free up other funds. Ms. Reder is the outreach and dissemination coordinator for the Finance Project, in Washington. Available free online at http://www.financeproject.org/osthome.htm.
Publisher: Finance Project, 1000 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005; (202) 628-4200; fax (202) 628-4205; http://www.financeproject.org; 53 pages; $20.
