Afterschool Arts Programming in the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of America: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation

Began in January 2014

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RFA partnered with McClanahan and Associates, Inc. to conduct a five-year mixed-methods evaluation of after-school arts programming in Boys & Girls Clubs funded by the Wallace Foundation. Our work provided actionable, formative feedback to each implementation site, and we collected and analyzed indicators of effectiveness across the initiative.

Project Director(s)

Tracey A. Hartmann

Senior Fellow, Informal Learning

Research Team

Kri Burkander

Senior Research Associate

Cyril Cherian

Senior Research Analyst

Justis Freeman

Senior Research Analyst

Jonathan Guevara

Research Assistant

Lindsey Liu

Research Associate

Bushra Malaibari

Research Associate

Jill Pierce

Senior Research Associate

Valerie Ratner-Smith

Senior Research Analyst

Alyn Turner

Interim Chief Research Officer

Sarah Cehelyk

Research Intern

Ryan Kapa

Research Associate

Wendy McClanahan

Zijin Zhang

Research Intern

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Designing for Engagement: The Experiences of Tweens in the Boys & Girls Clubs’ Youth Arts Initiative

Tracey A. Hartmann, Lindsey Liu, Wendy McClanahan, Tosin Shenbanjo

A 2013 Wallace-commissioned report pointed to 10 principles that small, high-quality, arts-focused youth organizations appear to share. Four years later, RFA’s investigation into Wallace’s Youth Arts Initiative showed that the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), a multi-faceted…

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Executive Summary: Raising the Barre & Stretching the Canvas

Wendy McClanahan, Tracey A. Hartmann

As part of an ongoing, multi-million dollar Wallace Foundation initiative to improve and expand arts learning opportunities for young people, the Wallace Foundation, in partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), developed…