ASOST-S Grant School Year 2024-2025                                  

In partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership (MAP) is calling for proposals for the ASOST-S Grant for the 2024-2025 school year.  This grant program is intended to help expand access to and increase quality of after school programs in Massachusetts. MAP will award programs an amount of up to $50,000, awarded to programs for services offered from September 1st, 2024 – June 30th, 2025. MAP has approximately $1.2M to award to after school programs. 

Programs can apply to ASOST-S funds for a wide range of services and support, including but not limited to staff wages and/or compensation, emotional learning services, transportation, and professional development. Funds cannot be used for capital projects. 

Purpose and Process 

The overall goal of the grant is to help ASOST programs enhance the quality of and increase access to afterschool and out-of-school time (ASOST) programs in order to improve academic, physical, social, and emotional wellness of school-age youth during the school year and summer months. The main priorities of the grant are to support activities that enhance one or more of the quality criteria areas outlined in the Guidelines for Quality Enhancements in After-School and Out-of-School Time and to increase access to quality ASOST programs for students who have previously been underserved.   

This Year’s Grantees

• 18 Degrees, Inc./Kids 4 Harmony

• ABACUS: Attleboro Public Schools

• ARTSFoundation inc.

• Berkshire Art Center/After-School Visual Art Programming in the Pittsfield Public Schools

• Berkshire Health Systems/ Operation Better Start

• Berkshire Hills Regional School District

• Berkshire South Regional Community Center / Action Adventures OOS

• Brockton Public Schools

• Child Care of the Berkshires/Monument Square and Magic Seasons - School Age Programs

• Coaching4Change

• Collaborative for Educational Services, Greenfield High School (GHS)

• Community Adolescent Resource and Education Center (The Care Center)

• Crossroads C5 Leaders

• Dream Out Loud Center

• Educational Divide Reform

• Fall River Public Schools

• Family Service Association

• Flying Cloud Institute: Summer is Where Science Meets Art!

• Girls Inc. of the Valley/Afterschool Programs

• Holyoke Public Schools

• Massachusetts Audubon Society

• New Bedford Department of Community Services / Girls Design Academy Program

• New Bedford Public Schools

• New Bedford Whaling Museum

• North Adams Public Schools

• Northampton Public Schools, Leeds Elementary School, Early Bird / Late Bird

• Robbins Children's Programs

• School on Wheels of Massachusetts Inc

• Sgt. Carney Academy After School Day Care Program, Inc.

• South Shore Community Action Council

• The Brigham Center

• The Pathway Initiative (TPI) / Middle School STEAM Academy Afterschool Program

• Wareham Public Schools

• Westfield Child Center

• Whitman Hanson Regional School District

• Worthington School District/R.H. Conwell Elementary School

• YWkids School Age Program