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C.S. Mott Foundation

The C.S. Mott Foundation believes that high quality education can be a pathway out of poverty. Thus, the Foundation has committed over $100 million to increase the quality and quantity of school-based/school-linked afterschool programs and school-community partnerships. These initiatives promote systems of sustainable, community-driven expanded learning opportunities that support developmentally appropriate children and youth outcomes, especially for underserved children and their families. The Foundation's giving supports research and evaluation, identification and dissemination of promising practices, professional development for practitioners, policy development, and public awareness and advocacy.

The Atlantic Philanthropies

The Atlantic Philanthropies are dedicated to bringing about lasting changes in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people through grant-making. Atlantic focuses on critical social problems related to ageing, disadvantaged children and youth, population health, and reconciliation and human rights.Programmes funded by Atlantic operate in Australia, Bermuda, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United States and Viet Nam.

William T. Grant Foundation

The goal of the William T. Grant Foundation is to help create a society that values young people and enables them to reach their full potential. It pursues this goal by investing in research and in people and projects that use evidence-based approaches. The Foundation supports research on how contexts such as families, programs, and policies affect youth, how these contexts can be improved, and how scientific evidence affects influential adults.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's twin missions are to seed and inspire great journalism everywhere, and to build strong communities in the 26 cities and towns where its founders ran newspapers. The Community Partners Program funds projects that provide direct and measurable benefits to residents in the foundation's communities, and are at the highest levels of quality and innovation. Two of the Community Partners Programs funding priorities are (1) Education, through which the Foundation aims to help all residents gain the knowledge and skills necessary to reach economic self-sufficiency, remain active learners, be good parents and effective citizens in a democracy; and (2) Well-being of Children and Families, through which the Foundation strives to provide all children and youth with opportunities for positive growth and development and to give all parents resources they need to strengthen their families.

The After-School Corporation

The After-School Corporation (TASC) was created in 1998 with a generous challenge grant from George Soros's Open Society Institute to enhance the quality, availability and sustainability of after-school programs. TASC provides grants, training and technical assistance to more than 130 community-based organizations in New York, to run programs from 3:00 to 6:00 every day that school is in session. With the help of its supporters and partners, TASC works to ensure that every child will have access to free, quality after-school programs by 2010.

MetLife Foundation

MetLife Foundation supports programs that increase opportunities for young people to succeed, give students and teachers a voice in improving education, create connections between schools and communities and develop leadership. The Foundation works with national nonprofit organizations to develop a variety of programs, many of which address issues raised each year in The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher. For more information about MetLife Foundation, please visit www.metlife.org.

The Nellie Mae Education Foundation

The Nellie Mae Education Foundation, formerly the Nellie Mae Foundation, is New England's largest public charity dedicated exclusively to improving academic achievement for the region's underserved communities. The Foundation provides grants and technical assistance to programs that concentrate on academic enrichment, college planning, advising, preparation and retention support for low-income, under-served students in grades 5 through 14, and adult learners. It also sponsors research projects and conferences that examine critical issues in education. By focusing on Adult Literacy, College Preparation, Minority High Achievement and Out-of-School Time, the Foundation is able to achieve greater impact as a force for educational improvement.

Open Society Institute

The Open Society Institute (OSI) is a private operating and grantmaking foundation based in New York City that serves as the hub of the Soros foundations network, a group of autonomous foundations and organizations in more than 50 countries. OSI and the network implement a range of initiatives that aim to promote open societies by shaping government policy and supporting education, media, public health, and human and women's rights, as well as social, legal, and economic reform.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation was created in 1964 by David Packard and Lucile Salter Packard. The Foundation's Children, Families, and Communities (CFC) Program works to ensure opportunities for all children to reach their potential. Current grantmaking focuses on on the central goal of achieving preschool for all in California and, ultimately, the nation. Grantmaking also supports two other ambitious goals: promoting access to health insurance for all children and implementing after-school programs for all elementary and middle school-aged children in California.

T-Mobile USA

The Afterschool Alliance is proud to partner with T-Mobile USA to support T-Mobile Huddle Up -- a new company-wide community outreach program created to help young people from single parent families in underserved urban communities whose families need a safe and reliable option for their children afterschool. T-Mobile's three-year commitment to the Afterschool Alliance is supporting our national and grassroots work to make sure that every child has a positive, safe place to go after school.

Torani/R. Torre & Company

For over 80 years, familiar Torani labels in bold shades of red, gold and blue have been visible in coffeehouses, restaurants and consumer kitchens. Torani is the number one flavored specialty syrup in North America and its products have spanned generations and sinspired creativity. Each year, Torani and the Alliance run an afterschool art contest where winning student artwork is featured on limited edition labels of two flavors of Torani syrup. The company demonstrates its support for the creative and caring environments afterschool programs offer by donating a percentage of sales of the limited edition labeled products to the Afterschool Alliance. For more information or recipe inspiration, visit www.torani.com or call 800-775-1925.

Bright House Networks

Bright House Networks is a company of more than 7,100 professionals dedicated to perfecting their customers’ home entertainment experience and serving more than 2.1 million customers across the United States. Exceptional customer service is the top priority across all operating units. Bright House Networks is dedicated to actively supporting and participating in the community. Public affairs, social responsibility and community involvement continue as major initiatives for the company as an ongoing commitment to the families and communities Bright House Networks serves. This includes long-term commitments to education and to what matters in the lives of the Bright House Networks customers. Bright House Networks are proud supporters of and partners in children’s safety initiatives, enhanced education programs and community-wide efforts to invest in the futures of children.

The Robert Bowne Foundation

The Robert Bowne Foundation supports the development of quality programs that offer literacy education to children and youth of New York City, in the out-of-school hours, especially for those living in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Celebrating the fact that out-of-school-time education is emerging as a field in its own right, distinct from K-12 education, the Robert Bowne Foundation provides research grants and fellowships to out-of-school-time education providers and scholars. The Robert Bowne Foundation believes that all young people are entitled to quality programs that support their development—intellectual, artistic, physical, emotional, and spiritual—to its fullest potential. Through the foundation’s research and advocacy efforts, it joins the growing out-of-school-time community in helping to make that dream a reality.