State Budget Case Study: Connecticut
Last year, the Connecticut legislature appropriated $100,000 for afterschool programs thanks to strong support from key representative. These funds were sustained in the budget this year. Thanks to network adn partner efforts to increase funds in the budget for afterschool, $1 million in additional funds are still pending.

State Budget Case Study: Illinois
A new appropriation of $12.2 million for new afterschool programs was included in the 2006 budget bill. In addition, funding for the Department of Human Services' Teen TEACH program, a long-standing statewide program, was increased by approximately $3 million, despite moves to cut funding in initial budget proposals.

State Budget Case Study: Kansas
A new appropriation called the Kansas Afterschool Enrichment Act was included in the 2006 Omnibus Budget Bill. $375,000 was made available for a competition for afterschool programs. Half of the funds were to be allocated to non-school based programs. The other half of funds were to be used to support existing 21st CCLC grantees transition to ongoing sustainability.

State Budget Case Study: New Mexico
On April 1 of this year, New Mexico Senate Bill 614 was signed into law creating teh Next Generation Fund and Council. The law supports positive youth development and after-school programming through $2 million in funds, seeded through the Children's Trust Fund. These monies are from the state's tobacco settlement and will be used to leverage private and philanthropic investments in positive youth development, including afterschool programs.

State Budget Case Study: Seattle
In fall 2004, Seattle voters passed the third Families and Education Levy, a $116,788,000 million property tax levy over seven years to support a wide variety of activities in eight major investment areas. Those that impact afterschool are: quality supports to programs through training and technical assistance, child care subsidies for low income families using contracted City of Seattle Child Care programs, a direct program dollars to middle school programs. The levy offers funding to other types of family/education supports as well.