{"id":41247,"date":"2026-02-26T15:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41247"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:27:41","slug":"riley-institute-highlights-after-school-policy-fellowship-and-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/riley-institute-highlights-after-school-policy-fellowship-and-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Institute highlights after-school policy fellowship and network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Riley Institute at Furman University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/news\/how-the-riley-institute-is-changing-the-afterschool-landscape\/\">recently highlighted<\/a> its White-Riley-Peterson Afterschool Policy Fellowship and the South Carolina Afterschool Leaders Empowered network, which equip leaders to advocate for these programs while learning how to better serve the people who use them.<\/p>\n<p>After-school and summer programs are essential infrastructure for working families and engaged communities. The Riley Institute highlights stories from community leaders who have been through these programs and transformed after-school programming in their own communities.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about The Riley Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of these programs shared stories of how they leveraged the experience to advocate for after-school efforts in their communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":35939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3498,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation-lab","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41250,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41247\/revisions\/41250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}