Use your Lights On Afterschool event to announce your partnership in Afterschool for All , and to encourage local leaders and partners to sign on. Signing on means that you support the goal of afterschool for all, and join the voices of nearly 23,000 partners nationwide in calling for more programs. Partners include governors, educators, business leaders, youth advocates, parents, mayors, police and faith based leaders among many others.  View Afterschool for All partners.

Ways to make Afterschool for All part of your event:

• Recruit the support of your local mayor, superintendent, principal, corporate partners or others. Ask them to agree to sign on to the Project at your event as a public demonstration of their support for afterschool. Create a large visual on posterboard so that everyone can see the signing.

• Print our Afterschool for All petition of support and have guests at your event sign on. After the event, send the list to your community leaders to show them how much support exists for afterschool. Send us a copy, and signers of the petition will be added to the list partners for Afterschool for All. Send your petition to Marie Coichy in our NY office. Email mcoichy@afterschoolalliance.org for help making Afterschool for All part of your event. Or, print copies of our sign-on forms to distribute and collect at your event.

• Insert a dose of Afterschool for All in the promotional materials for your Lights On Afterschool event. For example, include recruitment forms with registration materials.

• Set a goal of partners to sign on – make it an Afterschool for All community challenge!  Adding new partners can strengthen the support for afterschool and help build new partnerships in your community.

The list of Afterschool for All partners is a great piece to share with the public, media and decision-makers to demonstrate the broad support that exists for afterschool. Use it in your community to build coalitions and form partnerships.

Afterschool for All was created by the Afterschool Alliance to show how many Americans think afterschool programs are vital for our children, families and communities. There are no requirements to be a Partner. Partners’ will receive periodic updates about the state of afterschool in America. Partner information will not be shared or sold. Learn more about this effort.