There’s hardly a youth program manager in the country who doesn’t understand the uses and misuses of evaluation studies. Surely all understand...
Capitalism doesn’t worship the young for nothing. The teenage and tween buying market is huge, with kids spending $9.5 billion on personal...
Why do you make a personal “to do” list? To get things done. To set priorities and work efficiently. To hold yourself...
What a pity that for many youth workers, one common side effect of their difficult work is the loss of astonishment. They...
Back in 1998 a wonderful youth program in Brooklyn, El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice, came under the spotlight of critical...
Somewhere in the bowels of the White House someone someday somehow will see the connection between the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future...
There is a tendency in youth work to either romanticize the task – “We’re saving kids, doing the Lord’s...
President Bush is right to make after-school programming for American teens a high priority in these early days of his administration. It...
Flexibility and patience. Everyone wants a funder who approaches complex change initiatives with these attributes. But to be fair, wouldn’t we as...
Somewhere in the bowels of the White House someone someday somehow will see the connection between the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future...