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Foundations

Departing from the John and James L. Knight Foundation (assets: $2.2 billion) after nine years is Community Initiatives Program Officer Linda L....

Steady Walker

When Jim Walker was hired at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa during the first year of a small federally funded project known as...

Recipe for Reaching Teens: Blend Research with the Real World

By Larry Hayes In 1995, the Carnegie Corporation churned out “Great Transitions,” an authoritative survey of the research on early adolescence. Here’s...

The Pros and Cons of Single-Sex High Schools

By Liesel Haskell, 17 My alarm clock is blaring – it’s 5:30 a.m. I jump out of bed and head for the...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at a Boys’ School

By Richard Kwon, 17 After a long night of working on an essay, I woke up late the next day and had...

Juvenile Peep Show

Welcome to the voice mail system of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Perversion Prevention. Press x1 for grantmaking guidelines for programs...

Juvenile Peep Show

Welcome to the voice mail system of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Perversion Prevention. Press x1 for grantmaking guidelines for programs...

Porn Wars

While reticent to discuss juvenile crime and its prevention, Flores is effusive when it comes to discussing pornography, which he refers to...

Kangaroo Court

That 1983 study (the comical “Images of Children, Crime and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler” magazines by Judith Reisman) received $734,371...

The Right Guy

If President Bush was searching for a superbly qualified candidate to run OJJDP, he needed to look no further than his own...

Faith Assumption

On May 20 President Bush was at Notre Dame trying to pump more gas into his compassionate conservative domestic agenda and his...

National Groups

Quickly making his mark on the Corporation for National Service is former Indianapolis mayor Steven Goldsmith, now an unpaid special assistant to...

Radical Idea Serves Youth, Saves Money

Memphis, Tenn. In 1995, Patrick Lawler, CEO of one of Tennessee’s largest youth service contractors, approached state officials with a radical idea:...

I’ve Been an Adult Too Long

By Marlene Peralta, 18 Last year when I finished high school, I wanted to go away to college. I thought it would...

I Don’t Wanna Grow Up

By Susanna Vagman, 16 My freshman year of high school, I was waiting in the nurse’s office (because I had fainted in...

Pangs of Faith

The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI), directed by John DiIulio, an Italian-American Catholic, could certainly use more than...

Taxing Days for Younger Americans Act

The top priority for new federal legislation for youth service agencies in the 107th Congress is the Younger Americans Act (YAA). The...

Foundation Events

Stepping down after 10 years as managing director of the San Francisco-based Roberts Enterprise Development Fund is Jed Emerson. The youth enterprise-promoting...

Preserved In Idaho

Rural preservationists take note: The National Family Preservation Network’s nine-year odyssey from the Hunter College School of Social Work to the Maryland...