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Economy Shrinks Girl Scout Cookies

Selling Girl Scout cookies in an economy that is forcing many Americans to cut back on excess spending seems difficult enough. Now...

Children’s Budget

http://www.childrensbudget.org First Focus’ new web resource provides in-depth statistical information regarding federal spending on children. First Focus is a national bipartisan children’s...

Programs Granted a New Day

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s New Day for Learning, which seeks to help communities improve existing plans to improve educational achievement through...

The Stimulus and Youth

Below is a look at how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will affect funding for youth services in federal...

Youth Services in States of Pain

With the national economic crisis deepening, youth programs and youth service advocates are scrambling to save funding as they cut their current...

Obama Signs Children’s Health Bill Vetoed by Bush

President Obama signed into law this afternoon a bill that is projected to extend health insurance to 4.1 uninsured children by 2013. ...

Steering Dollars Toward Action

Robert F. Sherman, who used his position at the Surdna Foundation to help youth rock the boat for their own causes,...

Madoff Scandal Claims Youth Work Victims

Youth work lost two major benefactors to the alleged Ponzi scheme created by financial manager Bernard Madoff. The New York-based JEHT...

A Silver Lining: Giving Weathered Great Depression

With nonprofits planning for lean financial times, development directors might do well to look to historical trends for some comforting news....

Grants Awarded for February 2009

Allstate Foundation Northbrook, Ill.(847) 402-5600http://www.allstate.com/foundation/ All grants are given to promote the economic empowerment of domestic violence survivors. • Florida Coalition...

New York Life Foundation Supports Service Learning

The New York Life Foundation has awarded $200,000 over two years to The LEAGUE, a school- and web-based program created by a...

Inaugural Celebrations of Interest to Youth Workers

Inaugural revelers who do not find their way to the parade route or get into the official balls will not lack for...

Dear Obama Claus

Illustrations by Dean MacAdam After Barack Obama won last month’s presidential election, gatherings of youth workers and advocates took on the air...

Agency Director Trades Pounds for Cash

Oliver Clark The future of The Deck youth center in Milton, Ontario, depends on Director Oliver Clarke’s ability to resist the...

Taxing Your Way to Financial Security

When voters in Miami overwhelmingly renewed a tax on themselves last summer to fund youth services, they illuminated a rarely used path...

Network Forecast: Cloudy, with a Silver Lining

For six years, a network of organizations that help youth transition from school to work has found ways to survive after...

Wallace Gives $1.8 Million For Arts Education

The Wallace Foundation has announced grants to two Los Angeles arts learning initiatives that help bring high-quality arts experiences to youth in...

AMI, Other Alternatives to Lockup Hit Hard by State Budget Cuts

While hopes are high in Washington that the federal government will soon make inspired investments in juvenile justice, the state dollars that...

$5 Million to Help Reduce Violence in Five Boston Neighborhoods

The Boston Foundation has announced a $5 million commitment to StreetSafe Boston – a public-private partnership designed to decrease violent crime by...