Transcript Funding Map for New Orleans’ Afterschool Programs

Funding Map for New Orleans’
Afterschool Programs
The Afterschool Partnership
August 20, 2008
Issue Statement
• Less than 25% of school-age children in New
Orleans currently have access to afterschool
programs
• Afterschool programming is most limited in
the areas that had the most extreme flooding
• The areas of the city with the highest crime
rates have the most limited afterschool
programming
Issue Statement (cont.)
• The overwhelming majority of afterschool
programs targets elementary and middle
school students, with little for high school
students
• State afterschool funders have made it
difficult for programs to rely on stable funding
Afterschool Partnership’s Role
• Local afterschool intermediary
• Publishes local funding guide for programs
based on funding research
• Sponsors sustainability workshops
• Regularly surveys programs to understand
access funding issues
Purpose of Report
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Research federal discretionary programs
Research federal block grants
Research state own-source funds
Research city own-source funds
Research largest local private funders
Framing the Analysis
Definition of Afterschool funding sources:
Sources that can be used to provide educational,
enrichment, recreational or supportive
services to children ages 5-18 during nonschool hours.
Post- Katrina Limitations
• State plans are very general, and only include
broad target areas for federal block grant
allocations versus specific awardees and
amounts.
• Local funders do not all keep track of awards
by specific subject areas/target population.
One funder included early childhood grants in
total, while another had everything generally
categorized as “education.”
Federal Budget Trends
• Federal spending on children has declined in recent
decades, from 20% of the federal domestic spending
in 1960 to 15% of the federal domestic spending
2006.
• Almost all children’s programs are discretionary, and
will continue to lose out to entitlement programs like
Medicare and Social Security.
• Children’s programs primarily target low-income
families, so benefits disappear when income
increases.
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Id.
Overview of Largest Federal
Programs Funding Afterschool
PROGRAM
Child Care Block Grant
21st CCLC
TANF
Food and Nutrition
Title I Grants to Schools
Title I SES
Social Services Block Grant
TOTAL Estimated Federal
Investment in OST
AGENCY
U.S. Department of Health &
Human Services
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Health &
Human Services
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Health &
Human Services
AMOUNT FOR OST
$1,200,000,000
$ 991,000,000
$ 856,000,000
$ 342,000,000
$ 119,600,000
$ 63,700,000
$ 28,000,000
$3,600,300,000
21st Century Community Learning
Centers Louisiana Allocations
FY2004
FY2005
FY2006
FY2007
FY2008
$21,573,000.62
$20,995,000.07
$20,853,000.67
$20,942,000.36
$20,190,000.16
*Estimates show as much as $20,000,000 was not drawn down in 2005 and
smaller amounts in subsequent years by Louisiana.
No Child Left Behind
NCLB
Orleans Parish Allocation
Title I School Improvement
$0
Title I SES
$0
Title I, Part A
$40.5 million
Title I, Comprehensive School Reform
$0
Title IV, Safe & Drug Free Schools
$355,000
Title V, Innovative Programs
$66,000
Child Care Development Fund
Percent of School Age Children Receiving
CCDF Subsidies
60%
51%
45%
50%
40%
38%
46%
41%
39%
Alabama
Georgia
30%
20%
10%
0%
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arizona
North
Carolina
Monthly School-Age Rate Provider
Compensation Comparison
State
Louisiana
Arizona
Florida
Georgia
Indiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Tennessee
Standardized Monthly School-Age Rate
$165
$300
$360
$320
$616
$180
$446
$240
State Investments in Afterschool
• TANF - $9.5 million a year/renewed each year
so no consistent guarantee of funding
• Community Based Tutorial Program - $1.3
million/no new applicants unless current
contractor withdraws and only $15,500 a year
• Section 8(g) - $5.1 million/year/none for
afterschool
LA-DOE Administration of
Afterschool Funds
LA-DOE Afterschool Investment
21st CCLC
$20 Million
TANF $9.5
Million
CBT $1.3
Million
Total $30.8 Million
Local Investment in Afterschool
City of New Orleans
City of New Orleans Opportunities for Youth
Budget
600
$467.6 Million
500
400
300
200
100
$2.65 Million
0
Adopted 2008 Opportunities for Youth
Budget
Adopted 2008 City of New Orleans
Budget
Breakout of City Funding for Youth
City Recreation Department
Budget History
Afterschool Programs Receiving
Portion of CDBG ($15.1 million)
Agency Name
New Orleans Ballet Association
First Emanuel Baptist Church
Catholic Charities Archdiocese NO
Youth Empowerment Project
Concerned Citizens for a Better Algiers
TOTAL
Funding
$34,617
$22,500
$20,000
$20,000
$18,500
$115,617
Comparison of City Investments in
Afterschool
City
Albuquerque, NM
Fort Worth, TX
Alexandria, VA
Charlotte, NC
Baltimore, MD
Funding commitment
from the City for
Afterschool
$2.5 million/year
$1.2 million/year
$2 million/year
$550,000/year
$7 million/year
Little Rock, AR
$3.5 million/year
Austin, TX
Providence, RI
Waco, TX
New Orleans, LA
$2.5 million/year
$315,000
$350,000
$115,617
Funding Source
City general fund
City crime tax
City general fund
City general fund
City general fund;
CDBG; City Department
of Social Services/TANF
½ cent sales tax
increase
City general fund
CDBG; tax levy
City general fund
CDBG
City Population
471,000
529,000
128,283
540,828
651,154
183,043
600,000
173,618
113,726
300,000
Investment in School-Age Programs
By Funding Source
Afterschool and Summer Camp
Investment by Source
State
5%
Federal
76%
Private &
United Way
6%
City
13%
Orleans Afterschool Federal
Investment by Area
Afterschool Investment by Federal Program Area
Housing and
Urban
Development Department of
0.4%
Labor
Juvenile
3.3%
Justice
1.6%
Education
40.1%
Health and
Human
Services
54.6%
Trends in Afterschool
• National – NCLB reauthorization and federal
domestic funding trends
• State – State financial investments and
supportive legislative examples
• Local – Youth Opportunities Task Force
Recommendations - Federal
• Build capacity with providers to make sure
grants that are submitted are more
competitive, which means working with them
on program design
• Pursue more discretionary grants
Recommendations - State
• Effectively lobby for the state to allocate more TANF funding for
Afterschool for All, and to make specific allocations of Section 8(g) funding
to afterschool and summer camps
• Work with DSS on reasonable school-age licensing regulations and Quality
Rating System requirements so that school age providers are more likely
to go through licensing
• Consider pursuing a dedicated revenue stream like unclaimed lottery
money or duplicate birth certificates (like Children’s Trust), etc.
• Consider legislative action to establish a statewide afterschool network
• Develop and re-apply for a Mott Foundation statewide afterschool
network grant, to build statewide advocacy and support within the field
Recommendations - Local
• Establish the Youth Opportunities Task Force to
develop a plan for afterschool and youth
development activities and funding in New Orleans
• Work with the City toward obtaining a local
dedicated revenue stream
• Support NORD’s efforts to seek more city funding for
the recreation budget
• Work with local private foundations and corporations
to nurture a stronger investment in afterschool and
summer