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NYC Youth Alliance kicked off a two-week vigil to protect vital services to kids in City budget.

The president of The After-School Corporation (TASC), Lucy N. Friedman, joined supporters of after-school programs across the state in commending Governor Eliot Spitzer for proposing a $10 million supplement to federal after-school funding in his Executive Budget for fiscal year 2009.

A message from our partners at the Coalition for After-School Funding (CASF), learn more about how to testify at the upcoming budget hearings. Your support is needed to influence the state budget so allocations will benefit after-school programs.

Children throughout the Lower East Side celebrated Lights On Afterschool last Thursday, Oct. 18, showing their support for the programs that supervise and stimulate them each day in the hours before their parents can pick them up.

Thousands of city kids won't be attending after-school classes when school starts next week after $30 million in federal funding cuts forced many programs to close or scale back.

Twenty-five members of the New York State Congressional delegation have appealed to Governor Eliot Spitzer to allocate emergency funds to ensure that 207 endangered after-school programs can continue to operate at full force during the upcoming school year. The members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Spitzer appealing for the state to allocate $30 million to rescue these programs, which families count on to keep their kids safe and engaged after school.

The New York Times discusses the fate of funding for over 200 after-school programs about to run out of government financing and may close unless $30 million can be raised by September.

The Bronx Times Reporter discusses how after-school programs across the Bronx are scrambling to keep their services running next year, pressing the state government to reinstate aid.