21st Century Community Learning Centers

The Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) Grants are awarded through a competitive process to local and intermediate school districts, universities, and other public or private community-based agencies, organizations, and programs, including faith-based organizations. These grant programs provide comprehensive community learning center services. Currently, there are 68 grants with 259 sites in 20 counties.  Each site serves one or more schools. Grants are targeted at high-priority and low-income schools. Students must be offered after-school and summer programming for a minimum of four days a week, two and a half hours a day, for 32 weeks per school-year during out-of-school time, and six weeks in the summer. More than 320,000 students have been served since the inception of the program in 2001.

Nita M. Lowey 21st CCLC Competition - Next Funding Opportunity  
The next 21st CCLC grant cycle will begin in July of 2022. More information and a request for proposal will be available in the December of 2021.

21st CCLC Information  

• General Grantee Information
  • Attendance Policy-Cohort J and Future Cohorts
  • Michigan Out of School Time Standards of Quality Checklist
• Budget/Finance
  • EDGAR
• Licensing
  • Licensing Rules for Child Care Centers
• Statewide Technical Assistance Partners
  • Michigan State University Statewide Evaluation 
  • The David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality 
  • Michigan After-School Partnership
• Additional Resources 
  • Child and Adult Care Food Program 
  • Healthier Child Care Environments Toolkit

 After-school Websites 

• Afterschool Alliance 
• American Institutes for Research
• EduPaths Out-of-School Time Courses
• Michigan AfterSchool Association
• Michigan After-School Partnership
• National Institute on Out-of-School Time  
• SEDL Afterschool Training Toolkit
• U.S. Department of Education 21st Century Community Learning Centers
• You For Youth (Y4Y) Online Professional Development