Chicago Public Schools students have made slow but steady progress in several key areas during the eight-year leadership of CEO Arne...
Brooke Briggance discovered in October that Count Me In Corp., a Washington state online vendor that handled sports and activity registrations for...
Food insecurity among youth has impacts beyond hunger pangs, leading to health and behavioral problems that often require intervention from mental health,...
Microsoft Corp., actress Angelina Jolie and 25 law firms and corporate law departments have formed an organization to assist the approximately 8,000...
Want to run the U.S. Administration for Children and Families? Ever dream of being associate commissioner of the Children’s Bureau? Juvenile justice...
A racing team from the Sunflower County Freedom Project prepares for a 5K race. The teens are (left to right) Michael Burse,...
New solicitations for federal mentoring grants could be announced in the next few weeks and months from several federal agencies – although...
A majority of likely voters support increasing funds for after-school program, according to a new poll commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance, which...
The Finance Project 32 pages. Free. This brief explores three strategies for financing and sustaining mentoring programs and services: building partnerships with businesses...
Thanks to an ambitious initiative passed by its voters, California is the nation’s largest incubator of after-school programming. But the state’s...
It’s easy to understand why peer mentoring is growing: Youth mentors are easier to recruit than adults, the pairs can easily...
Because of the close ties they develop with youths, volunteer mentors and tutors sometimes learn about disturbing aspects of those kids’...
Beefed-up training and easy reporting systems are the keys. Because of the close ties they develop with youths, volunteer mentors and tutors...
Hundreds of organizations are coming together to promote a unified national agenda for community partnerships that link schools and youth-development organizations....
In a mostly glowing initial review of a certificate program for after-school workers in New York City lies a dash of...
A new study shows that expanded learning time (ELT) programs are increasing across the country, but so far these extensions of the...
The Council on Accreditation (COA) – an independent organization based in New York – last month released quality standards for after-school programs...
A voucher program designed to expand the availability of mentors for children whose parents are incarcerated is bogged down by in-fighting...
Buried in a 431-page reauthorization measure for higher education are a few small but potentially important provisions that should boost supportive...
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