Bottom Line Studies have repeatedly shown that youth benefit in myriad ways by participating in out-of-school time programs. However, as youth...
Bottom LineAfter years of “siloed” school reform efforts focused on such issues as teacher quality, mentoring, class size, school size and curriculum,...
Bottom Line A nonprofit service agency creates an ongoing evaluation system that is operated in-house, and uses the data to improve...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Community Access to Technology (CAT) program in 1999 to help provide local communities in...
Public/Private Ventures This latest report on P/PV's multi-year study of Boys & Girls Clubs finds that the more frequently youths participate in...
At a time of government budget deficits, can youth-serving organizations run programs cheaper and easier than their local governments can? A...
Watch the “Because of Camp” PSA. Expect to see this and other images on TV and the Web, as part of two...
School-based mentoring – a cornerstone of the rapidly expanding mentoring field – took a big hit last month when President Obama announced...
A well-vetted assessment tool used by hundreds of after-school programs across New York state to examine the quality of their services...
Child Well-Being Index scores of family economic well-being project a decline through 2010. The scores are based on several federal economic data...
Calif. Rep. Linda Sánchez (D) Anti-bullying policies would be required of schools receiving Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Community Act funding under...
Child Trends Nearly 20 percent of American children and youth are living in poverty - a percentage that has been steadily increasing...
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services This new guide underscores the reliance...
New York YMCA camps pledge to raise more money for camper scholarships, and lower fees for low-income parents. The New York YMCA...
The Basics The percentage of children ages 6 to 11 who are overweight increased from 4 percent in the early 1970s to...
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 100Days/100Voices campaign is asking the public to submit written comments (100 words or less), photos and YouTube...
The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded its fifth group of Youth Service Improvement Grants (YSIG) to community-based organizations in New York,...
America's Promise Alliance/Editorial Projects in Education Research Center Only slightly more than half (53 percent) of students in the nation's 50 largest...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in Newark, N.J., have never had a place to go for counseling, mentoring and stress-free...