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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...

Young Offender Grants from DOL: Act Now!

Gotta love it when a federal agency announces grant availability with a deadline that is only a month later. The Department of...

Atlantic Philanthropies Hires New Children and Youth Director

The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international grant maker with assets of $3.3 billion, has hired Donna Lawrence to oversee its disadvantaged children and...

Wall Street’s Losses: What Should Nonprofits Do?

Every year at this time, New York’s Reciprocity Foundation, which serves homeless youth, prepares for an annual fall gala that brings...

Help Local Foundations Play a Role in Youth Policy

Many local foundations, especially the smaller ones, could use some help in understanding and working in the arena of youth policy. In...

Grants Awarded for November 2008

Department of Health and Human Services(202) 619-0257, www.hhs.gov Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Programs • Missouri State Department of Mental...

Reclaiming Futures Spreading Out…Want In?

In 2001, the Princeton, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced its Reclaiming Futures Initiative, which helped 10 pilot sites develop ways...

A Foundation Changes Course

Almost eight decades after its founding, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is embarking on the kind of complex, fundamental overhaul of its mission...

Wall Street Woes Could Hurt Nonprofits

Uncertainty on Wall Street could spell frustration or worse for those who depend on grants from foundations, whether those foundations are connected...

Feedback: Letters, E-mails and Web Postings

Career Ladder Opportunities Thanks for the article on Hector Fabio Urrea in September (“Climbing Career Ladders”). There are numerous ways that...

4-H to Study Wind Energy

The National 4-H Council, which has made concerted efforts to create more science and engineering programs in the 4-H infrastructure, landed...

Grants Awarded for October 2008

Daniels FundDenver(303) 393-7220http://www.danielsfund.org Colorado: • Colfax Marathon Partnership, Denver, $12,500 for the Colorado Kids Marathon Milers, which organizes long-distance races for children....

Research for Youth Projects

The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded grants to four research teams for youth-related projects. The teams selected, listed by the head...

After-School Training Funded

The Atlantic Philanthropies has announced that it will provide $2.3 million to Foundations Inc. for its Center for Afterschool Education. The Moorestown,...

A Push for Investments Instead of Grants

A new financial entity – part nonprofit, part for-profit – is being pushed as the next great way to increase the...

Roommates

Washington’s most parochial federal office holder might be headed for Texas. No, not short-timer President George W. Bush, but 84-year-old Sen....

Grants Awarded for September 2008

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Flint, Mich. (810) 238-5651 http://www.mott.org •Southern Education Foundation, Atlanta, $140,000 for the Education Summers Youth Leadership...

Administration Won’t Enforce New SCHIP Rules

The Bush Administration will not crack down on states that are out of compliance with its controversial rules on state children’s health...

When a Rec Center Floods, Federal Aid Dries Up

By Nick Drymalski If an arts center or animal shelter gets flattened by a natural disaster – like a hurricane or flood...

Face Time Pays Off

Justice Under Oath: J. Robert Flores testifies last month before a House committee, saying allegations about his grant selections “are false.” Photo:...