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Most after-school staff learn the job by doing it wrong the first week

Nothing here costs anything, and nothing here turns into a sales call three weeks later

Thirty-one kids walked through our door yesterday afternoon and every one of them got a snack, a chair, and someone who

Nine of our families have a parent working evening shifts, which is exactly why we stay open until six

The snack shelf ran empty on a Tuesday in October and I bought crackers with my own card, which is a bad system I would

Somebody asked me last month whether after-school programs still matter now that phones exist

What does your team spend on coffee in a month

The plastic storage bin is unglamorous, nearly indestructible, and constantly borrowed back by whatever else uses the

Snack costs us about ninety dollars a week across both sites

What is the smallest amount you would feel genuinely fine about sending somewhere

Does your company have a small budget line that quietly goes unspent every December

Every kid's program deserves good tools — funded or not