Listing of Publications
Community Schools Fact Sheet(Coalition for Community Schools) 93.2 KB
01/01/09 Coalition for Community Schools
Do you have questions about community schools? What they are? How they function? This list of "Frequently Asked Questions" provides answers to these and other questions. If you still have questions that weren't answered, please email us at: ccs@iel.org.
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Community Schools Across the Nation(Coalition for Community Schools)
01/01/09 Coalition for Community Schools at the Institute for Educational Leadership
Today, there are a number of national models and local initiatives that create their own flavor of community school. This brief provides an overview of leading initiatives.
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Finding Resources to Support Mentoring Programs and Services for Youth 742.6 KB
11/03/08 The Finance Project
This brief highlights three strategies that leaders and stakeholders can use to finance and sustain mentoring programs and services for youth. These strategies include building partnerships with businesses and foundations, conducting community fundraising to generate revenue and maximizing public revenue. In addition, it provides information on 25 federal funding sources that can be used to finance and sustain these programs.
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Closing the Achievement Gap: School, Community, Family Connections 747.1 KB
01/01/08 The Annie E. Casey Foundation
This publication provides an in-depth look at Casey’s support of community schools,
including selected results and lessons learned. It also includes stories about one California school district’s innovative parent engagement policy, the Harlem Children’s Zone Practitioners Institute, parent organizing in Texas and Denver, and the Foundation’s contributions to results measurement in the connections field.
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Using CDBG to Support Community-Based Youth Programs 915.2 KB
01/01/08 The Finance Project
Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) are an important tool for helping local governments & agencies address challenges facing youth. This brief provides policymakers, stakeholders, community leaders, and program developers working in or with community-based youth programs with a basic understanding of how CDBG is structured, how community-based youth programs fit into CDBG purposes and activities, and how communities nationwide are using CDBG to support youth initiatives.
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