May 12, 2003

The Academy of Educational Development's Center for Youth Development and Policy Research (the Center) in Washington, DC, is pleased to announce the first national call for promising practices in After-School. The Center is looking for promising practices in any one of seven areas:

• Community and Family Involvement
• Programming
• Management and Administration
• Staffing and Training
• Financing
• Research, Evaluation and Knowledge Base
• Policy and Advocacy

The Center is collecting practices as part of the Promising Practices in After-School System funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. For more information, please visit www.afterschool.org and click on "Submitting Practices". If you have any further questions you may call the Center at (202) 884-8267 or send an e-mail to PPAS@aed.org.