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improve our thinking. Please share your thoughts and reactions.

find partners and supporters who may be interested in our work. Please share any suggestions of foundations, school districts, local governments, summer program agencies, or think tanks that may be excited by our work.

Email ramon@giveasummer.org. 

Support great summer programs

There are many great programs. Here are three that Give a Summer recommends: 

Breakthrough Collaborative

Higher Achievement

Springboard Collaborative

Engage with other organizations working to expand and improve summer opportunities

• Advocate for summer programs and expanded learning time
  • National Summer Learning Association, Time to Succeed
•  Identify the characteristics of effective summer programs and how to implement them
  • Many Wallace Foundation studies
• Develop networks of afterschool and summer providers

  • Statewide Afterschool Networks

• Utilize expanding learning time approaches within schools
  • The TIME Collaborative 
• Use technology (apps, games, etc.) to provide enriching summer opportunities
  • Cities of Learning