This toolkit has been designed by Corporate Voices for Working Families to serve as a resource that will direct and inspire proactive business engagement in afterschool policies and programs at the community level and will lead to policies and community outreach that garner widespread public support.
Washington (March 31, 2009) – Corporate Voices for Working Families and Business Roundtable are calling for a renewed emphasis on high-quality early care and education and a commitment to focusing resources on the first five years of life.
(August 23,2004, Washington, DC)–– Corporate Voices for Working Families today unveiled the framework for building quality after school systems in the United States that all young people have access to. Corporate Voices is calling on local, state and federal government entities, as well as private and non-profit sectors, to assess existing after school programs, consider philanthropic priorities, review policy proposals on 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and other programs, and formulate policy positions that provide more after school care to working families.