John Kelly

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Hope Springs from Katrina’s Rubble

New Orleans, La. — Dolores Whitfield returned to her battered shotgun home, one of the rectangular domiciles that were invented here, shortly...

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Storm Opens Doors to ‘change the things we did wrong’

Simon Gonsoulin and David Bell saw different things happening in juvenile justice before Katrina came ashore. But ask either how the storm...

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Devastated Agency Strains To Shift Toward Preservation

For decades, Marketa Gautreau railed against the quality of service provided to Louisiana’s abused and neglected children as CEO of Prevent Child...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Recreation, Curfews and Depression: Major Problems Confront Youth

In addition to the long-term challenges of reforming the major city and state systems for New Orleans’ youth, some specific problems won’t...

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Youth Groups Bring Hammers and Swings

Following are some of the relief efforts conducted by national organizations in the areas affected by the hurricanes: YouthBuild USA: Hundreds of...

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Fewer Kids, More Partners

Out of the 180 agencies that belong to the Greater New Orleans After School Partnership, only 20 are running after-school programs a...

Elections: Attack with Care

Washington, D.C. — The Capitol Hill office of Vote Kids is not your typical youth advocacy headquarters, sporting warm-hearted mission statements and...

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Newsmakers for September 2006

Nonprofits Mala Thakur has been acting executive director for the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) so interminably that you almost forget she...

New Script for Delinquent Youth

Treyce d’Gabriel says she can tell a lot about a kid from a note he scrawls or his handwritten laundry list. She...

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Newsmakers for July-August 2006

Nonprofits Jill Pasewalk is in as CEO of the Kansas City, Mo.-based Camp Fire USA, the 96-year-old nonprofit that serves 750,000...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pioneers for Peace

Detroit, Mich.(313) 745-5053www.pioneersforpeace.org Objective: To increase awareness about the impact of violence and to help reduce violence among youth. In a...

New Ways to Say, ‘Hello Mudder, Hello Fadder’

Dads whose kids were at Blue Star Camps in Hendersonville, N.C., weren’t with their children on Father’s Day, but saw the kids...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Men’s Sufferage in Youth Work

The quiet rebellion over men at the YWCA began seven years ago in Olympia, Wash., and Tucson, Ariz. In a move that...

Trying to Awaken a Sleeping Treaty

Nobody would count Jeffrey Newman among the uninformed when it comes to children’s rights. But one day last month, the executive director...

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Newsmakers for June 2006

Nonprofits Operating a bicoastal advocacy effort had become more burdensome than beneficial for the Youth Law Center (YLC), a law firm...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Youth Opportunity Boston

Boston, Mass.(617) 541-2602www.cityofboston.gov/bra/yoboston Objective: Connect youth who have been in the juvenile justice system with services that can help them succeed...