• After School Alliance
• After School.Gov
• The Afterschool Investments Project
• Center for Afterschool Education
• Child Trends: Research-to-results
• The Evaluation Exchange
• Forum for Youth Investment
• A Mayor's challenge: building citywide afterschool systems that expand opportunities to learn
• National Afterschool Association
• National Foundation for Educational Research
• National Institute on Out-of-School Time
• National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning
• Promising Practices in Afterschool
• Strengthening Afterschool for Older Youth Through Policy and Practice: A Policy Brief
• TASC - The After-School Corporation
• Using TANF to Finance Out of School Time Initiatives

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• Building Effective Afterschool Programs. Fashola, O. S. (2002). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc.
• Building effective afterschool programs. Newsome, M. T. (2003). Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 8, 287-288.
• Building life skills through afterschool participation in experimental and cooperative learning. Junge, S. K., Manglallan, S., Raskauskas, J. (2003). Child Study Journal, 33, 165-174.
• Conceptualization and measurement of children's after-school environments. Vandell, D.L.,& Posner, J.K. (1999). In S. L. Friedman & T. D. Wachs (Eds.) Measuring environments across the life span: Emerging methods and concepts (pp. 167-196). Washington, D.C., US: American Psychological Association Press.
• Developing the talents of African American male students during the non-school hours. Fashola, O. S. (2003). Urban Education. Special Educating African American males, Volume 1. 38(4), 398-430.
• When homework is not home work: After-school programs for homework assistance. Cosden, M., Morrison, G., Albanese, A.L., & Macias, S. (2001). Educational Psychologist, 36(3), 211-221.

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