If you weren't able to tune in for the Afterschool Alliance's webinar on successful afterschool partnerships for reopening schools, it is now available on-demand. Speakers provide specific tools afterschool providers can use to form critical partnerships with states and school districts. Tune in to hear from program leaders who will share their experience, messaging, and success in advocating for afterschool to be included in reopening guidance.

The Afterschool Alliance and the National Summer Learning Association are teaming up to ask you to complete a follow-up survey that focuses on what programming local providers have been able to offer this summer and what plans are for fall. The survey should take no more than 10-15 minutes of your time and your responses will be anonymous. To thank you for your time, 50 respondents to the survey will be randomly selected to win a $50 cash prize.

United Way of Central Indiana would serve as the administrator of the Nonprofit Restart program for all 501(c)(3) organizations in Marion County. With $2 million in Coronavirus Relief Funding, the Nonprofit Restart program will provide necessary reimbursements for organizations procuring safety-related items that are essential to preventing the spread of COVID-19, in keeping with CDC guidelines and helping nonprofits continue serving people as safely as possible. Nonprofit organizations can receive grants between $200-$5,000 to reimburse themselves for the cost of personal protective equipment (PPE), disinfectant products, and capital improvements based on CDC guidelines.

The Kiwanis Foundation of Indianapolis provides annual grants in the amount of up to $2,500 for programs that serve children and youth in the City of Indianapolis that are designed to improve the quality of life directly through activities promoting health, education, etc. and through programs that encourage leadership and service among youth.

Indiana school districts now have an opportunity to provide all of their Elementary through High schools a robotics team by applying for a Robotics Start-Up Grant through TechPoint Foundation for Youth’s (TPF4Y) State Robotics Initiative. Robotics training will be available to all awarded educators and will include training and information on VEX robotics kits, competition logistics, expectations for robotics educators and how educators can integrate Project Lead the Way activities (for elementary only) into the classroom with the new robotics kit. Recipients of the grant will be expected to assemble a robotics team at their school and attend at least one robotics competition during the school year.