$22,315 raised by 91 donors
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$20,000 Goal
Game On: Coaching Tomorrow’s Champions! Step onto the field with us as we rally North Texas to support middle school students through our engaging after-school programs. This year’s “Game On” campaign is all about teamwork, energy, and creating opportunities for kids to stay active, safe, and inspired. Just like athletes train to win, we’re actively recruiting the next generation of All-Stars, champions in the classroom, on the court and field, and in life. By joining our team of supporters and community partners, you’ll help coach tomorrow’s champions and fuel their path to success. Together, let’s score big for our youth!
Breaking Barriers to Access
Every child deserves access to enrichment beyond school hours. Our free, on-site after-school programs eliminate the two greatest barriers for youth from low-income backgrounds: cost and transportation.
Creating Equitable Opportunities
We provide a safe, engaging environment tailored to each school site and community at no cost. Our programs—spanning Academic Readiness, Career Exploration, Health and Wellness, STEM, Visual and Performing Arts, and Social Emotional Learning—are rooted in mentorship, empowering students to become leaders and positive change agents.
Brightening Futures Together
By supporting ASAS, you help brighten the futures of 800 high-needs North Texas youth. Together, we can bridge the opportunity gap and ensure that a child's zip code doesn't limit their access to opportunities. Your support sparks curiosity, excitement, and empowerment in our students, creating lasting impact this North Texas Giving Day.
After-School All-Stars (ASAS) North Texas' mission is to provide comprehensive, cost-free after-school programs that keep children safe and help them succeed in school and life. Our vision for our All-Stars is to be healthy and active, to graduate high school and go on to college or trade school, to find a job that they love, and to give back to their communities.
In Dallas County alone, 100,000 children are left without the after-school enrichment their parents say they need. Further, a study by the Afterschool Alliance found that 30% of middle schoolers are unsupervised when the bell rings due to their schools’ limited resources for continual engagement and because many parents/caregivers are still working. To compare, only 4% of elementary students are unsupervised after-school. This lack of engagement and supervision is directly related to the fact that it is during the hours of 3pm to 6pm when youth violence, drug use, and other dangerous behaviors are most likely to occur.
Those hours are even more critical when we know that by age 12, a child from a poor background has spent an estimated 6,000 fewer hours learning through enrichment than a peer from an affluent household (ExpandED Schools). ASAS fills this 3-hour window by providing a safe-haven with engaging curriculum and meaningful mentorship.
Mentoring, at its core, gives young people the belief that there is someone who cares where they are, who helps them deal with challenges, and who assures them that they matter. Even though a positive connection with a youth development worker is associated with a 67% reduction in high school dropout rates (America’s Promise Alliance, 2014), one in three young people will grow up without this critical asset (National Mentoring Partnership, 2016).
We step in to change this inequitable narrative for the students who need it most by providing a safe, engaging environment tailored to each school site and community at no cost to them. Further, we structure our focus areas (Academic Readiness, Career Exploration, Health and Wellness, STEM, Visual and Performing Arts, Social Emotional Learning) to be rooted in mentorship. Our impact to date illuminates the reality that our students become empowered with the tools to grow into radiant leaders and agents of positive change in their communities and beyond.
After-School All-Stars honors and celebrates the diversity of lived experiences and identities. We acknowledge and seek to dismantle structural racism and all systemic injustices. We commit to building inclusive and intentional programs and policies in pursuit of a more equitable world.
Organization name
After-School All-Stars North Texas
other names
After-School All-Stars
Causes
Education - K-12
Operating Budget
$1,000,000 - $2,999,999
Counties Served
Dallas, Tarrant
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx
BIPOC Leadership
Board Chair
Address
2902 Swiss Ave