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Parent perception of afterschool programming is beginning to shift from a simple necessity of the work week to a conscious choice about the daily experiences of their children. Public school districts are leaning heavily on afterschool programs to complement the school day by incorporating academic components to help close the achievement gap.  \nIn light of these shifts, limited resources and waning support for OST organizations require solutions that go beyond the traditional strategies of fundraising and networking. Although these components are still critical, many are finding that fundraising and networking are not enough to sustain high-quality enrichment experiences for young people whose families do not have the financial means to pay. With dwindling resources and myriad needs to be met, many providers feel compelled to go beyond their mission statements to meet the unique needs of their communities while being nimble enough to respond to crisis. The idea that any individual organization can meet community needs through its own isolated intervention is slowly becoming a perception of the  \nJOSÉ MENDEZ is the OST coordinator for the City of Somerville, Massachusetts, and a fellow in NIOST’s Afterschool Matters Practitioner Fellowship. He has developed and led several OST and social service programs in the greater Boston region. He holds an MS degree in human service from Springfield College.  \npast. Community organizations need to create deeper $67,118 in 2013 (Data USA, 2017) to over $91,000 in relationships with each other while leveraging and 2018 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2019) . In the past 10 years,  \nmaintaining limited resources. the average home sale price has more than doubled,  \nCollective impact is one model for bringing about averaging over $900,000 in 2019 (Tamela Roche, systemic change. Collective impact is “a framework 2020) .  \nfor achieving systems-level changes in communities As the cost of living has increased, so has the cost of through coordinated multi-sector collaborations” doing business for OST providers. Skyrocketing rents (Christens & Inzeo, 2015) . The collective impact and leasing agreements have forced many providers to model enables community organizations to go beyond increase their prices dramatically, essentially making the small constituencies with whom they regularly their services unaffordable to people making less work, reframe their efforts, and magnify their reach. than the median income unless they receive financial Kania and Kramer (2011) write,“Collective impact is assistance. Providers operating in public school facilities not merely a matter of encouraging more collaboration have the luxury of focusing revenue on higher salaries. or public private partnerships. It requires a systemic Although higher salary ranges are an obvious benefit approach to social impact that focuses on the to staff in those programs, the inevitable consequence relationships between organizations and the progress is a wage deficit. Recent job postings for frontline staff toward shared objectives.” in Somerville showed a difference of as much as five  \nThis case study investigates how collective dollars per hour for staff in the same roles depending impact can increase equitable access to high-quality on whether the providers were operating within or OST programming by encouraging independent outside of the school district. In addition, organizations organizations to adopt a common in facilities outside of school  \nagInenpidalot toprsolve sogramsystinemSoic issmervuilesle ., In pilot programs in buicosdsingsfor pcoronptenertdy wmaiithnternisingance, Massachusetts, application of Somerville, Massachusetts, utilities, and transportation from the col","cbCaiaoG5QxCTFAk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaoG5QxCTFAk","pdf",399206,"English","# Context and Problem\n## Resource constraints and shifting perceptions\n## Affordability and wage deficit challenges\n# Collective Impact Framework\n## Systems-level change through collaboration\n## Shared objectives and coordinated multi-sector action\n# Case Study: Somerville, Massachusetts\n## City demographics and OST demand context\n## OST provider landscape and constraints","[{\"question\":\"Why are traditional fundraising and networking strategies not enough for OST organizations?\",\"answer\":\"Because limited resources and rising costs make it difficult to sustain high-quality enrichment, especially for families without the means to pay. 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