Subject: Support kids and educators in your community on Giving Tuesday!
Support kids and educators in your community on Giving Tuesday!
December 1st, 2020 at 7:00 am EDTTuesday, December 1, 2020, is Giving Tuesday. Support VPOST on this global day of giving! 2020 has been a challenging year for the out-of-school time community with more young people out of school than ever before and our most vulnerable families bei ...
Million Girls Moonshot Monday: Opportunity for Free Coaching with Stipend!
November 23rd, 2020 at 10:00 am EDTEarlier this month, I attended Part III of the Engineering Practices Support Equity, which focused on the four core features of an engineering mindset and practices: Evaluating and iterating designsPersisting through and learning from failureWorking ...
New Governors Order Update and OST programs
November 18th, 2020 at 3:30 pm EDTGovernor Northam’s Executive Order 67, Sixth Amendment: What you need to know for Out-of-School Time ProgramsOn Friday, November 13, 2020, Governor Ralph Northam announced new actions to the existing Executive Order 67, which was put in place to m ...
VPOST November 2020 VPOST News: Free STEM PD with stipend, COVID-19 Activity Guides and more!
November 11th, 2020 at 4:24 pm EDTWe are only eleven days into November, but it’s been quite a month already with President-Elect Biden securing the nomination to serve as our 46th President. His running mate, Vice-President Elect, Kamala Harris, will be the first woman, first Afr ...
A word from VPOST on election events
November 4th, 2020 at 5:23 pm EDTA word from VPOST Board of Directors and Staff: Last month we held our first virtual VPOST conference, with the theme “Roadmap to Resiliency”, born out of the events of 2020. We hoped that the takeaways would help our field not only in the afterm ...
Million Girls Moonshot Monday: Diving Deep into Engineering Mindsets
November 2nd, 2020 at 5:56 pm EDTNovember is already here and like October, we're deep diving with Million Girls Moonshot into four more critical features of an engineering mindset: 1) evaluating and iterating designs; 2) persisting through and learning from failure; 3) working effe ...
Due today at 8 PM: Recovery grant for non-profits
October 30th, 2020 at 3:14 pm EDTRural LISC and TRUIST Establish Recovery Fund for Rural Nonprofits- Due today at 8 PM EST VPOST has just learned of a commitment of $1 Million from the Truist Charitable Fund, which is making it possible for Rural LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corp ...
What a Bright 21st Lights on Afterschool, Virginia! 🎉💡
October 23rd, 2020 at 1:41 pm EDTVirginia's light beams bright for the 21st Lights on Afterschool! To say that the pandemic has been a challenge would be an understatement, but one silver lining is the ability to hop all across the Commonwealth and the country with a click of a butt ...
VPOST October 2020 VPOST News: Lights on Afterschool and more!
October 20th, 2020 at 10:00 am EDTLights on Afterschool is October 22, 2020. Celebrate all week! VPOST would love to hear from you on how you are keeping the Lights on Afterschool in Virginia. Share with us by emailing Professional Development and Quality Coordinator, Christine at Ch ...
Million Girls Moonshot Monday: NASA Live and Engineering Design Challenges
October 19th, 2020 at 10:17 am EDTThis Million Girls Moonshot Monday newsletter comes to you right on the heels of our 11th Annual Conference, Roadmap to Resiliency in Out-of-School Time. I can't help but reflect on the running theme of resilience and how it relates to opening doors ...