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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND TEACHING ORGANIZATIONS

If you are a community organization or teaching organization, read through the following process to prepare yourself for developing a proposal.

1.    Pick a program setting

Instructors

After School Matters instructors are skilled professionals committed to sharing their knowledge with teens. We seek creative mural artists, advertising executives, engineers, graphic artists, sports managers, journalists, artisans and other dynamic professionals to run programs in our campuses, which include a school, park, and library.

Planning a Showcase

Planning a Showcase

At the end of each program, teens showcase their new skills and talents before a live audience.

Program providers are encouraged to plan their Campus Showcase when programs begin. Here are the elements involved in planning your Campus Showcase:

Program Manual

Download the 2009-2010 Program Manual (pdf)

Training Manuals

Program Modules

Program Modules

In an effort to enrich our programs program practices available to providers, After School Matters offers a number of free program modules made possible by the Wallace Foundation. These modules are intended to be used as self-guided supplemental materials for teen after-school programs. 

Instructor & Partner Reference Library

Archive

Find out more about our city partners and what they might offer you to develop an area of your interest:

City of Chicago
Chicago Public Schools