ASOST-S Grant School Year 2025-2026                                     

In partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership (MAP) is calling for proposals for the ASOST-S Grant for School Year 2025-2026. This grant program is intended to help expand access to and increase quality of afterschool programs in the Western and Southeastern regions of Massachusetts. MAP will award programs an amount of up to $50,000, awarded to programs for services offered from September 1st, 2025 – June 30th, 2026. MAP has approximately $1M to award to afterschool programs. 

Programs can apply to ASOST-S funds for a wide range of services and support, including but not limited to staff wages and/or compensation, emotional learning services, transportation, and professional development. Funds cannot be used for capital projects. 

Please note: Boys and Girls Clubs and YMCAs are not eligible to apply for this grant.

Purpose and Process 

The overall goal of the grant is to help ASOST programs enhance the quality of and increase access to afterschool and out-of-school time (ASOST) programs in order to improve academic, physical, social, and emotional wellness of school-age youth during the school year and summer months. The main priorities of the grant are to support activities that enhance one or more of the quality criteria areas outlined in the Guidelines for Quality Enhancements in After-School and Out-of-School Time and to increase access to quality ASOST programs for students who have previously been underserved.   

MAP reserves the right to change the scope and/or the terms of the RFP depending on the number of proposals received, funding requested, and changes to the anticipated allocations by the state legislature. MAP may also extend the date for application submissions. 

This Year’s Grantees

• 18 Degrees/Kids 4 Harmony

• A.R.T.S Foundation Inc

• ABACUS: Attleboro Public Schools

• Berkshire Art Center After-School Art Programming

• Berkshire Pulse

• Brockton Day Nursery, inc

• Brockton Public Schools

• Buzzards Bay Coalition

• Child Care of the Berkshires

• Coaching4Change

• Collaborative For Educational Services

• Dream Out Loud Center

• Eagle Eye Institute

• Flying Cloud Institute

• Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts

• Girls Inc. of the Valley

• Haitian Community Partners Foundation

• Homework House Holyoke, Inc.

• Lee Public Schools

• Nauset Youth Alliance

• New Bedford Department of Community Services / Girls Design Academy

• New Bedford Parks Recreation & Beaches

• New Bedford Whaling Museum

• North Adams Public Schools

• Pa'lante Transformative Justice

• Positive Action Against Chemical Addiction (PAACA)

• School on Wheels of Massachusetts Inc

• South Shore Community Action Council, Inc.

• The Maria Mitchell Association

• The Pathway Initiative Inc

• Treehouse Foundation

• VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL, IN

• Wareham Public Schools CARE after school program

• Whitman Hanson Regional School District

• Worthington/ R.H. Conwell Elementary School

• Youth Opportunities Unlimited

• YWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts, Inc.