Uncertain Times

Uncertain Times: Funding Insecurity Puts Afterschool Programs at Risk, a recent survey of afterschool programs, finds that afterschool programs are serving a high need population, serving more children than expected, and struggling to maintain their funding. Nearly all respondents say that more children in their communities could benefit from afterschool programs, if they were available. Fewer than half of afterschool programs say their funding is fully secure for the next two years and just one in five has secure funding for three to five years.

Full report released in October 2006:

• Click here for a Summary of Findings
• Click here for complete results
• Click here for News Release on National Findings

State-by-State Fact Sheets - Click on a state to download state-level findings from Uncertain Times.

• Connecticut: Report | Press Release
• Florida: Report | Press Release
• Georgia: Report | Press Release
• Iowa: Report | Press Release
• Illinois: Report | Press Release
• Maryland: Report | Press Release
• Missouri: Report | Press Release
• New York: Report | Press Release
• North Carolina: Report | Press Release
• Ohio: Report | Press Release
• Oklahoma: Report | Press Release
• Pennsylvania: Report | Press Release
• Tennessee: Report | Press Release
• Texas: Report | Press Release

First-wave of Uncertain Times data released in September 2006:

• Click here to read the press release on Uncertain Times
• Click here for a Summary of Findings
• Click here for topline data from the first wave of survey findings