About the Foundation
Mission
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.
Afterschool Matters: June 2010 edited by Jan Gallagher
This issue of Afterschool Matters ranges across the variety of learning domains that quality afterschool programs support. We open with "High Impact Afterschool for All: A Statewide Quality Framework," in which Jennifer Siaca outlines the development by the New York State Afterschool Network of a set of program quality tools built to promote continuous program improvement and better support for out-of-school time programs. "Getting the Right Mix" by Christine Proffitt describes a small Massachusetts study to identify effective strategies for developing resources and sustaining funding to support youth arts programs. In "Project Exploration’s Sisters4Science: Involving Urban Girls of Color in Science Out of School," Gabrielle Lyon and Jameela Jafri give us a comprehensive look at an afterschool program that promotes science learning for girls of color by putting girls at the center.
Click here for the full issue (.pdf file).
Dynamic Framework for Understanding the Complex Work of Quality Out-of-School Time Programs by Dr. Kim Sabo Flores
The Robert Bowne Foundation has recently published A Dynamic Framework for Understanding the Complex Work of Quality Out-of-School Time Programs, written by Dr. Kim Sabo Flores who has been a consultant with the Foundation for many years. For an Executive Summary of the paper, click here. For the full paper, click here.
Bowne Foundation Sponsors OST Ambassadors
The Bowne Foundation is very pleased to sponsor two Ambassador positions in the 2010-2011 class of Ambassadors, to be chosen from OST program staff in the New York City area. This will mark our fourth year of collaboration with the Afterschool Alliance, and we’re delighted to be able to build on the wonderful success we’ve enjoyed thus far.
For more than a decade, the Afterschool Alliance, a national nonprofit organization working to ensure all children have access to affordable, quality afterschool programs, has annually selected 18 to 20 "Afterschool Ambassadors" from communities around the nation. The Alliance provides these afterschool leaders with intensive training, a variety of resources, professional consulting expertise, and a modest stipend as they work to promote afterschool programs in their communities and states, with special emphasis on the media and policymakers. Among other activities, Ambassadors participate in a two-day training session in August, organize local Lights On Afterschool rallies in the fall, participate in the annual Afterschool for All Challenge on Capitol Hill in the spring, and engage in a variety of other outreach efforts over the course of the year. Ambassadors continue their important work with their current employers during their one-year Ambassador terms. The Ambassador program is designed to complement and enhance the work that Ambassadors are already doing, in a way that builds their organizations’ profiles, furthers the Ambassadors’ professional goals, and serves the Alliance’s interest in building grassroots support for afterschool.
If you’re interested, I hope you’ll contact Matthew Freeman with the Afterschool Alliance at matt@prsolutionsdc.com. He’ll be happy to provide you with more information, and discuss whether you or an appropriate member of your staff might be suited for the program. I appreciate, of course, that you have a busy schedule and much to accomplish, and that the program might not be a good fit for some of you. But I hope you will consider the many ways that the Afterschool Ambassador program could support your efforts.
In Memorium: Edmund A. Stanley, Jr.
Edmund A. Stanley, Jr., former CEO of Bowne & Co., Inc., died on December 16, 2009. The official cause of death was colon cancer but Mr. Stanley had been incapacitated for many years by a neurological disease. Better known as Ted, he was 85. Born in New York City in 1924, he was the son of the late Edmund Allport Stanley and Emily Hasslacher. He graduated from Lawrenceville School in 1943, where he served as a trustee from 1969 to 1989. He was a major benefactor of the school, played a significant role in the school’s transition to coeducation in 1987, and funded the Aldo Leopold Distinguished Chair in Environmental Science and Ethics. Mr. Stanley served in the 175th Infantry in World War II in Belgium and France and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart. Following the war he graduated a member of Princeton's Class of 1949. Click here for the complete obituary.
