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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Tax Deductions for Volunteers

With the income tax deadline approaching next month, volunteer youth workers should know that they can take some tax deductions for their...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Ready by 21 Ready to Expand

The Forum for Youth Investment (FYI) launched a new effort last month to expand its Ready by 21 initiative. While more than...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

No Free Speech From Huckabee

YCLA recipient Stephen Ryan receives congratulations from Mike Huckabee. It’s not often that an awards ceremony for young people gets international attention....

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

New Focus on Smoking Among Gay Youth

Ohio has become the latest state to increase its focus on smoking by gay youth, whose smoking rate is about double that...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Giant Upset for Anti-Drug Ad?

Mixed Reviews: Some say the feds fumbled this ad featuring a drug dealer talking to parents; others disagree. How’s this for standing...

► Newsmakers

Newsmakers for March 2008

Jack Kresnak Nonprofits For 34 years, Jack Kresnak used journalistic objectivity to put a public face on the complexities of city...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Last Chance to Fight the President

Just weeks after Congress enacted a fiscal 2008 appropriations law that some youth advocates viewed as short-changing many kids’ programs, they were...

News

The Downside of Upscale

First, the youth boxing club was in the Barragan family’s backyard. Next, it was in a two-car garage. And finally, and somewhat...

News

Nonprofit Leadership Crunch

Nonprofit organizations are facing an “unprecedented” crisis in leadership, according to a national report released jointly by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, The Annie...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Area Schools Set to Lose Millions under Medicaid Policy Changes

The Washington Post Educators nationwide are protesting a Bush administration rule that would cut about $3.6 billion over the next five years...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Child Protection: Through the Eyes of a Social Worker

Wisconsin State Journal As part of a series examining Wisconsin’s child protection system, the State Journal profiles social worker Lisa Hankes, who,...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Foster Kids Seek Sibling Contact

Rocky Mountain News Colorado foster children will be allowed to visit their brothers and sisters regularly under a bill that easily passed...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Learning to Lie

New York Times Magazine When a 3-year-old fibs, parents typically assume the child is too young to understand that lying is wrong...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Some States Reconsider Youth Sex Laws

Stateline States throughout the nation have stopped sentencing youths who are convicted of having consensual sex to the same punishments as sexual...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Congratulations for Reading a Winner

Jim Myers Silver, Case History American Society of Business Publication Editors, 2007 “Then La Paloma [Family Services] did something unusual: It turned...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Anti-Drug Programs Get Off Drugs

Dando Furenza a la Familia: Only one session focuses on substance abuse and its effect on the body. Every now and then...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Paul Robeson Academic International School of Excellence (PRAISE)

Stand-up Kids: The PRAISE Academy helps boys lift themselves. Johns Hopkins University Baltimore(410) 467-1605www.paulrobesonacademy.org Objective: Develop the academic and social skills of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Ingrid Dahl

Ingrid Dahl, Editor EditorYouth Media ReporterNew York(212) 367-4623www.youthmediareporter.org Age: 27 Salary: $44,000-49,000 About Youth Media Reporter: This website and professional journal serves...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier