What is the Summer Funding Collaborative?
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The Baltimore Summer Funding Collaborative (SFC or the Collaborative) is a partnership between public, private and nonprofit organizations that supports high-quality summer programs serving children and youth from low-income backgrounds in Baltimore City. While each member of of the Collaborative has particular priorities, they all share the same goal: To fund different types of summer programs to keep students engaged and reduce summer learning loss so that more youth can reach their full potential.
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Summer Makes a Difference
- On average, a student loses one month of academic progress during the summer - this is known as summer learning loss.
- Students who rely on school lunches lose access to those meals during the summer.
- Students who fall behind over the summer are less likely to graduate from high school or go on to college.
High quality summer programs help students connect to learning and recreational opportunities, job training, and resources such as healthy meals at no cost. Through high-quality summer programming, we can make sure that all Baltimore youth have what they need to succeed all year long.
See the effects of the programs funded by the SFC in Summer 2018!
Check out video testimonies of students, families, and staff on why summer programs matter.
Check out video testimonies of students, families, and staff on why summer programs matter.
References: The Brookings Institution, Feeding America, and the National Summer Learning Association