A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Denver—After eight years as the executive director of The Spot, a hip-hop program for at-risk youth in Denver, Dave DeForest-Stalls was exhausted....
Denver—After eight years as the executive director of The Spot, a hip-hop program for at-risk youth in Denver, Dave DeForest-Stalls was exhausted....
“You either love this program or you hate it,” Charlie Stancil says of his creation, a shock regimen for disruptive youth that...
There are several reasons to urge teenagers to avoid fast food chains like Taco Bell, but is one of those reasons …...
Evanston, Ill.—It’s a mild Thursday evening in October, and the Ben & Jerry’s shop two blocks from Northwestern University enjoys a steady...
The House of Representatives last month passed its version of a bill (HR 7) designed to increase charitable contributions, but without a...
The federal government is making it easier for nonprofits to find, apply for and win federal grants. Those goals are not fully...
Nonprofits Archbishop Elden Curtiss of Omaha stepped down as chairman of Girls and Boys Town’s 20-member board of trustees last month after...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Bergenfield, N.J.—On March 11, 1987, Cheryl Burress broke a date, saying she was “going to see Joe.” Her friend Joe Major had...
When the people who ran Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Inner City Games programs in more than a dozen cities hooked up on conference calls...
At the opening of last month’s filibuster in Washington to save 20,000 AmeriCorps positions, Candace Spiller stepped up to the podium, fresh...
Many teenagers have been inspired by the quick success that Derrick Seaver found after graduating from high school two years ago, but...
Cheyenne, Wyo.—Gina Scott was sent to her first foster home when she was 9. Like many others in the foster care system,...
Lawmakers plan to introduce legislation this month that they hope will make it unnecessary for parents to give up custody of their...
Nonprofits Could it be that the D.C.-based Children’s Defense Fund is downgrading its efforts in Congress in favor of more grassroots work?...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Yakima, Wash.—For youth worker Darrel Armstead, the challenge of implementing one of the nation’s most expensive and highly touted youth programs was...
Washington, D.C.—The battle to save AmeriCorps began at breakfast. It was May 16, and more than a dozen executives from some of...