The Center for Afterschool Development is a station for development. Young people and successful adults create new performances together. They grow and are fortified to try other new experiences.

The Center reorganizes the negative impact of Newark’s poverty on the development of its youth. It supports young people having cosmopolitan experiences they need to grow and become open and interested in learning. It is a place that supports play and performance, powerful development tools.

The Center for Afterschool Development is the site of the All Stars Project’s (headquartered in New York City) New Jersey youth programs, educational initiatives and university partnerships. The Center hosts its free programs - the All Stars Talent Show Network (its flagship program), the Development School for Youth (a partnership with the business community and youth), and UX (a school for development for all people). All Stars turns no one away. The All Stars community of youth, donors, volunteers and staff create new developmental experiences with each other at the center inspired by Newark’s legacy as a busy transportation hub.

In Newark, the All Stars Project has been playing a critical role for the past 12 years, providing human development opportunities to its young people, producing its free programs in Newark’s schools, community centers and corporate boardrooms.

While it will continue to provide programming at these sites, the new center will establish its programs for and approach to development at a larger scale. The space is designed to express the vision of the organization: to amend the national educational landscape and elevate the role of afterschool activity through its Institute for Afterschool Development and university partnerships. Students and teachers studying urban education through work/study will learn about the discoveries the All Stars Project has made as an innovative, entrepreneurial, privately funded, on the ground organization.