• National Associations / Advocacy
• Achieving the Dream:  Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count is a multiyear national initiative to help more community college students succeed. The initiative is particularly concerned about student groups that traditionally have faced significant barriers to success, including students of color and low-income students. Achieving the Dream works on multiple fronts, including efforts at community colleges and in research, public engagement and public policy. It emphasizes the use of data to drive change.
• Afterschool.org:  The Afterschool.org website is for afterschool program directors who want to improve the quality of their programs. All sorts of other people will find it useful, too--people like program staff, volunteers, parents, community members, policymakers, funders, researchers, and anyone else who cares about children.  As part of the website, Promising Practices in Afterschool (or "PPAS")  is an effort to find and share things that are working in afterschool programs.
•  Catapult Learning: Serving K-12 children who struggle with academics.
• Center for Community Economic Development: The Insight Center's Early Care and Education (ECE) program plays a leadership role in creating systems that provide every child with access to high-quality, affordable, early care and education 
• Educators 4 Excellence: E4E is a teacher-led organization that elevates the profession by giving classroom teachers a meaningful voice in the creation of policies that impact their careers and their classrooms

• Institute for Higher Education Policy:  The Institute for Higher Education Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose mission is to foster access and success in postsecondary education through public policy research and other activities that inform and influence the policymaking process. 

• Foundations for Educational Excellence:  resources from the Foundation Center 
• National Network for Educational Renewal:   The NNER is a membership network (see the governance page for membership information) dedicated to the simultaneous renewal of schools and the institutions that prepare our teachers. Our work is based on the four-part mission of providing equal access to quality learning for all students, promoting responsible stewardship of our schools and universities, improving teaching and learning through pedagogy that nurtures and challenges all learners, and providing students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to become fully engaged participants in our democratic society. John Goodlad refers to the NNER as the proofing sites for the ongoing research and inquiry conducted by the Institute for Educational Inquiry.
• Other
• K-12 Academics (http://www.k12academics.com/national-directories/after-school-program) 
• Educational Testing Service  

Research Reports / Policy Analysis

• Durlak, J.A., Weissberg, R.P. (2007). The impact of after-school programs that promote personal and social skills.  Chicago, IL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (may be retrieved from www.casel.org). 
• Promoting Economic Mobility by Increasing Postsecondary Education
• Facts and Research on After-School Programs 

Statistical Data

• College Crisis Initiative @ Davidson:  to learn how colleges and universities innovate in a crisis mindset by 1) collecting data on higher education institution responses to crisis situations to help researchers, policymakers, students, and their families; 2) creating a COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on how postsecondary institutions are responding to the pandemic; and 3) getting the most up-to-date information, data, and analysis.
• Return to Learn Tracker (R2L) is a tool developed by the American Enterprise Institute's (AEI) Education Policy Studies department, in partnership with The College Crisis Initiative (C2i) of Davidson College, that captures how US public school districts' instructional models change during the coronavirus pandemic. 

Funding Opportunities

Miscellaneous

• Doing What Works — Doing What Works is a website dedicated to assisting teachers in the implementation of effective educational practices.  

• SolutionsU Database for Stories on Education: SolutionsU™ connects educators and students to credible news stories about responses to society’s toughest challenges, and to the tools that help them incorporate those stories in their teaching and learning.
• The Conversation - The Conversation is a nonprofit, independent news organization dedicated to unlocking the knowledge of experts for the public good. We publish trustworthy and informative articles written by academic experts for the general public and edited by our team of journalists.