Providence After School Alliance - PASA

📣📣401 Gives Is Live!📣📣
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Your gift powers opportunity across an entire city - from transportation, partnerships with local experts, and the coordination that makes hundreds of hands-on experiences available to young people throughout the year, from baseball diamonds to campfire cooking to debate club.

And your gift shows up in real moments.

Like Tonya (name anonymized), a student at Roger Williams who wasn’t originally part of an after-school art program but joined during a Thanksgiving project where students were making cards for elderly residents in a nursing home. Tonya, a talented young artist, chose to make multiple cards because the project felt meaningful to her and she loves making people happy through her art. After that experience, she continued coming to the program, deepening her art skills and staying connected to her fellow artists and the teaching artist who led the program.

This is what your gift makes possible. Young people finding what they love, building confidence, and using their talents to connect with others and their future.

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Support Providence After School Alliance | 401 Gives 2026 I’m ready to support Providence After School Alliance on March 31, 2026 during 401 Gives 2026. Learn more about Providence After School Alliance and all the other organizations participating in 401 Gives 2026.

📣Join PASA for 401 Gives! Starting March 31st at 6am to April 1st at 6pm, you'll have the opportunity to support youth across Providence by donating during one of Rhode Island's largest days of giving. Your gift will power transportation, partnerships with local experts, and the coordination that makes hundreds of hands-on experiences available to young people throughout the year, from baseball diamonds to campfire cooking to debate club.

In other words: you’re not just funding a program. You’re powering opportunity across a whole city.

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📣PASA Launches National Search for Executive Director📣

The search for our next Executive Director is being led by Eos Transition Partners. You can help us spread the word by sharing this post!

As longtime friends of PASA, you've been with us through two decades of growth and transformation. You know what keeps us showing up every day after school: seeing a middle schooler who "doesn't do nature stuff" end up knee-deep in the Woonasquatucket with binoculars, completely absorbed.

Moments like these are possible because PASA brings together schools, community-based organizations, city leadership, and families to create a dynamic and high-quality out-of-school time ecosystem across Providence. Whether you’ve been part of this work as a partner, volunteer, funder, school staff person, or family member who trusted us with your young person’s time, you’ve helped build a system that serves more than 1,200 youth each year.

Together, we’ve expanded access to high-quality after-school and summer learning that builds confidence and life skills, supports academic and economic outcomes, and established PASA and Providence as a national model for how cities can invest in adolescents beyond the school day.

Now, PASA is starting a new chapter. We’re excited to announce that our board is launching a national search for an Executive Director who will lead this collective work into its third decade—and we wanted you to be among the first to know.

We're looking for someone who will help us keep building on what we've created together, deepening partnerships across the city and forging new ones. But most importantly, someone who will continue to make sure that every Providence adolescent can experience the belonging, discovery, and support that only out-of-school time offers. Whether sailing on Narragansett Bay or hitting the mats in wrestling scrimmages, PASA's AfterZone and Hub programs create moments youth carry with them.

PASA’s work is also deeply integrated into the life of the city and its schools.

"PASA is one of the City’s most important partners in supporting young people and families, and has helped Providence show the country what’s possible when a city invests in young people beyond the school day. PASA strengthens our schools, helps my office advance citywide learning goals, supports working families, and gives students the confidence and skills to imagine new futures for themselves."
— Mayor Brett Smiley, PASA Board Chair

"Providence Public Schools is proud of our partnership with PASA. PASA’s programs help keep students engaged, supported, and connected to learning during the out-of-school hours, reinforcing the social-emotional skills and habits that matter for success in school."
— Dr. Javier Montañez, Providence Public Schools Superintendent, PASA Board Member.

We’re proud of the trust and close relationships we’ve built across Providence with city and school leaders, community partners, and most importantly, with young people and their families.

With that foundation in place, PASA is seeking a values-aligned Executive Director to steward this work into its third decade, strengthen our partnerships, and help shape PASA’s next chapter.

This search is being conducted by Eos Transition Partners. We invite you to share this opportunity with your networks and encourage candidates who are inspired by collaborative leadership and youth-centered systems to learn more.

Sincerely,

PASA’s Executive Director Search Committee
Chiara Deltito-Sharrott, Executive Director RI League of Charter Schools
Margaret Farrell, Partner, Partner, Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP
Maryclaire Knight, Principal, Knight Consulting LLC
Carol Landau, Clinical Professor Emerita of Psychiatry & Human Behavior and Medicine, Brown University
Genesis Sanchez, Commercial Litigation Associate, Proskauer Rose LLP, Program Alumna

Executive Director, Providence After School Alliance - Providence, RI Providence After School Alliance Seeks an Executive Director About the Organization Established in 2004 by former Mayor David Cicilline and more than 100 community-based afterschool leaders, youth, and educators, PASA is a citywide alliance that provides high-quality, safe, and enriching out-of-scho...

PASA is excited to announce that we have been chosen to participate in a special charitable giving campaign sponsored and funded by Target. And you have the chance to help direct a portion of Target’s donation to us!

Now through Dec. 31 vote for PASA through the Target Circle program to help determine how Target’s donation will be divvied up. Find out more about Target Circle here: www.target.com/circle

Every vote counts to help us receive a portion of the available Target funds as we continue our mission.

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Here's how it works through your Target app:

Step 1: Choose ‘My Target’ in the Target app or ‘Account’ on Target.com

Step 2: Tap ‘Target Circle benefits’, scroll down to ‘Vote for non-profits’

Step 3: Find PASA & vote!

PASA is keeping the . Participation in afterschool programs helps youth build confidence and explore new interests, while promoting learning engagement and so much more. Organized by the Afterschool Alliance, Lights on Afterschool calls attention to the importance of afterschool programs and the resources required to keep the lights on and the doors open.

Only two weeks until RIAN's Lights on After School Conference. Register today!

💡October 23, 2025💡

Join more than 8,000 communities and 1 million Americans in celebrating afterschool programs for this year's Lights On Afterschool! This nationwide event, organized by the Afterschool Alliance, calls attention to the importance of afterschool programs and the resources required to keep the lights on and the doors open.

The Rhode Island Afterschool Network is proud to be a Lights On Afterschool partner and we are excited to invite you to our annual conference- RSVP Today before it's too late!!!

We have HUGE news.

America After 3PM—the nation’s most comprehensive survey looking at how children spend the critical hours after school—is back! On October 15, we'll be releasing the fifth edition of the report and sharing the latest findings on the demand for afterschool programs, barriers to program participation, which students are missing out, and parents’ views on afterschool programs—nationally and in each of the 50 states.

Save the date and tell your friends!

Middle schoolers, families, city leaders, and staff celebrated the end of Business Builders, a 5-week entrepreneurship camp, where youth learned about business including product development, marketing, accounting, and personal and business finance. PASA was pleased to partner with the Community Libraries of Providence, the Providence Recreation Department on this exciting program, funded by the Governor’s Learn365 Initiative - Math Matters. A great summer of learning full of new friends and fun!

High school students from throughout Providence took a deep dive into personal finance this summer by participating in the 2025 Financial Literacy Camp. PASA proudly partnered with The Financial Literacy Youth Initiative, Concorde Education, and Fidelity Investments on this 4-week program. Participants learned how to manage money including income, investments, and taxes, while earning credits toward their financial literacy graduation requirements.

How do you wrap up such a great program? You celebrate with a visit to Fidelity Investments. Thank you for a great day!

Senate appropriators mark up FY 2026 education spending bill, maintain dedicated 21st CCLC funding The Senate Appropriations Committee released and marked up its Fiscal Year 2026 (FY 2026) Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (LHHS) bill today. It proposes $200.1