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Managed Grants

While small youth-serving nonprofits can be gleeful about receiving a new grant, a reality check is soon in order: As The Finance...

Several Community Health Leaders Honored for Youth Work

Lynne Holden is a doctor honored for encouraging less advantaged students in New York to enter health professions. Rajiv Kumar was honored...

Court Funding Guidelines Announced

The State Justice Institute (SJI), which provides funding to improve the operations of state and local courts – including the juvenile system...

Following the Money

Following the Tobacco Money Most people have seen the highly produced anti-teen-smoking tobacco ads paid for by the American Legacy Foundation, the...

Education’s New $650 Million Plan

For enterprising youth-serving agencies with a track record of partnering with schools to improve student achievement in a measurable way, now is...

The Truth About American Legacy

The American Legacy Foundation is a rare example of a public charity being born with a silver spoon. Even before it began...

Healton: An Ex-Smoker Sees Hope

Healton: “Going against the tobacco industry is a marathon.” By Michael Anft At her offices along Massachusetts Avenue, in the heart of...

Healton’s Home Loan from Legacy

Household Help: Legacy lent Healton money to buy this house, which extends far into the back. Photo: John Kelly In 2002, the...

The Truth About American Legacy

The American Legacy Foundation is a rare example of a public charity being born with a silver spoon. Even before it began...

Recovery Act News

The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) has released a new chart tracking Recovery Act spending under the Child Care and...

How Not to Handle Sex, Drugs and Violence at Job Corps

An operator of Job Corps centers failed to properly discipline problem students at three of its sites for incidents that included drug...

Who Has Oversight of Legacy?

The American Legacy Foundation’s spending receives little outside scrutiny. No outside oversight of the foundation is prescribed, even though the foundation’s money...

Biggest AmeriCorps Program Gets Slashed

The Corporation for National and Community Service has penalized the largest AmeriCorps program in the nation, but not nearly to the...

One More Time: Don’t Pit Preschoolers Against Teens

States are struggling. Children’s lives, too often, are truly in the balance as states and localities decide where to make cuts, often...

Give, Get or Get Off Youth Program Boards

I have often heard it politely put that board members for youth-serving agencies give of their “time, talent and treasures.” In...

Where Is the Youth Czar?

First there was the drug czar, followed quickly by the auto czar, the climate czar, the health czar, the urban czar...

An Update on State Budget Cuts

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Major budget cuts occurring in at least 41 states and the District of Columbia –...

Grants Awarded for October 2009

Office of National Drug Control PolicyWashington, D.C.(202) 395-6618http://www.ondcp.gov Note: The following are 2009 new mentoring grantees from the Drug-Free Communities Program. Each...

The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Handbook: Getting the Money You Need from Government Agencies, Businesses, Foundations, and Individuals

Michael A. Sand and Linda LysakowskiCareer Press224 pages. $14.99 paperback. As nonprofit funding sources founder in the struggling economy, one sound...