Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Web Watch for November 2002
Civic Engagement Free The Childrenwww.freethechildren.orgis a great website for youth workers trying to make a connection between their youth and kids...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
No More Tax Breaks For Nonprofits
Nonprofits looking for a new home may want to avoid Fairfax County, Va., unless they are prepared to pay property taxes.The county...
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Opinion
Wanted: More Militant Mentors for Mentoring
It’s hard to name an approach to positive youth development more universally praised than mentoring. President after president has advocated adult mentoring...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Grants Awarded for November 2002
Public Welfare Foundation1200 U St. NWWashington, DC 20009-4443(202) 965-1800www.publicwelfare.org • Homies Unidos, Los Angeles, $25,000 for general support.• Howard Brown Health Center,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Building a Foundation for Change
Here, two young writers examine how they moved away from fear, anger and shame to gain pride in their culture and participate...
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Opinion
Facts Wrong On Hewlett Story
Paul Brest, PresidentThe William and Flora Hewlett FoundationMenlo Park, Calif.From the assertion that the Hewlett Foundation’s assets are $9 billion to the...
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Opinion
Boosting Youth Work’s Stature
Ralph RosenbergExecutive DirectorCoalition for Family and Children’s ServicesDes Moines, Iowa“Aiding Front Line Youth Workers” [October] is a timely editorial. Hopefully, the editorial...
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Opinion
Drug Test Nonsense
Fran RothsteinRothstein ConsultingChevy Chase, Md.Not only do extracurricular activities inhibit substance abuse and other high-risk behaviors, as Jane Quinn correctly claims in...
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Opinion
Foster Parents Burned Out
Donna Metcalf Barre, Vt.Your article [“Is This Any Way to Treat Foster Parents?” July/August] touched on several areas where there are problems...
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Opinion
Review Harmful to Readers
Judith LevineBrooklyn, N.Y.Contrary to the implication of Steven Mintz’s review [The Youth Today Review of Books, October], my book, “Harmful to Minors,”...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Surprise: Whites Lead Rise In Child Poverty
Children under 18 continue to have a higher poverty rate than older people, but the number of poor youth is not growing...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for November 2002
National Youth of the Year For: Outstanding contributions to a member’s family, school, community and Boys & Girls Club. The winner receives...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Juvenile Justice Chief Dismissed Over Sex Charge
A 35-year veteran of child welfare and juvenile justice, and Kentucky’s first commissioner of its Department of Juvenile Justice, was fired a...
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Opinion
Ed Dept. Shuffles Research, Safe Schools Offices
Several offices and responsibilities are being shifted at the U.S. Department of Education in an effort to improve the quality of research...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
News Briefs for November 2002
Should Convicted Kids Go to Class? Two Philadelphia high school students are suing the school district over a state law that prohibits...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for November 2002
Nonprofits After 35 years, Center for Community Change (CCC) Director Andy Mott has left the organization to pursue other personal interests in...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
NAB’d by the Market
In the February 1998 issue of Workplace Economics, the D.C.-based National Alliance of Business (NAB) asked: “Education Reform: Where have we been?...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Call Carl
The Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (assets: $1.7 billion) is in the midst of a major overhaul of how and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Missing Kids Count
In early October more than 600 people gathered at the Ronald Reagan Building (two blocks from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) for the White...
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News
High School After School: Oxymoron or Opportunity?
The idea of “high school after-school programming” is an oxymoron if one’s image of after-school activities involves 11-year-olds munching snacks, getting help...
