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Helping Families: » Six out of ten NYC parents surveyed said that enrolling their kids in daily after-school programs helped them keep their jobs. |
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Since 1998, TASC has helped more than 250,000 children discover and develop their potential through high quality, engaging after-school programs. The first nonprofit organization in the nation which set out to build a citywide K-12 after-school system, TASC has helped to transform the way after-school is delivered and funded in New York City, the state and the nation.
When TASC was launched in 1998 with a challenge grant from The Open Society Institute, after-school programs were typically small, isolated, variable in quality and often inconveniently scheduled for working parents. Just 10,000 of the 1.1 million K-12 children in New York City public schools had access to publicly funded daily programs, compared to 140,000 today.
TASC began with the goal of creating a critical mass of quality after-school programs with demonstrable benefits, operating every day until 6 PM inside public schools.
During TASC’s first school year in 1998-1999, we funded and supported 50 programs. Nine years later, TASC has provided direct support to 326 after-school programs in New York City, 269 of which continue to operate and 110 of which are no longer dependent on TASC funds.
TASC has developed successful program models for kids in elementary, middle and high school. TASC has created a public/private mechanism to make the most of the rich assets of New York City, by partnering public schools with 146 community-based and cultural organizations to keep kids safe and stimulated in the hours when many have no adult supervision.
TASC has changed the lives of the quarter million kids who have passed through its programs, exposing them to new possibilities and opportunities for self-discovery many would have found nowhere else. But it has also raised the bar on quality and contributed to a local and national transformation in the way after-school is delivered, funded, and institutionalized as an essential service for kids and families.
