Youth Today
Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
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Federal Youth Shops Shifted
The U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has moved several functions to a reorganized Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), which...
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New Way to Find Earmark Winners
For the first time ever, the federal government has put an earmark databased online. In April, the U.S. Office of Management and...
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Surviving Without Uncle Sam’s Money
Finding a pot of $30 million in federal grants for your specialty in youth work should make you feel pretty good. But...
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Key Facts on Corporate Foundations
Foundation Center Giving by the nation’s more than 2,600 grant-making corporate foundations rose an estimated 6 percent in 2006, to a record...
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Grants Awarded for June 2007
Otto Bremer Foundation St. Paul, Minn. (651) 227-8036 http://www.ottobremer.org • Parents United for Public Schools, St. Paul, $25,0000 general support. • Seward...
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Funding Social Change from the Inside Out
Ronald ClementStudy Center Press72 pages. $9.95. As the sun sets on the Haigh-Scatena Foundation – a grant maker for social advocacy that...
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Awards for May 2007
The David and Lucile Packard FoundationLos Altos, Calif.(650) 948-7658 • Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a project of the Action Against Crime...
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Bid Goodbye to Earmarks
The elimination of earmarks in the 2007 budget should mean more open competition for federal funds, according to a memo from the...
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Resource Generation
http://www.resourcegeneration.org/home.html Resource Generation supports and challenges wealthy young people (ages 15-35) who are interested in contributing to “progressive social change.” Through the...
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Are Justice Funds Up For Grabs?
The reality of tight budgets in a time of war has rendered youth advocates fairly quiet on budget battles in recent years,...
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Of Pork and Baked Alaska
SEN. STEVENS FEEDING HAPPY THE HIPPOPOTAMUS: One of them is where he belongs – behind bars. Wondering about that weeping and chattering...
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Federal Budget Freezes Youth Programs
For those who love budget slides, actuarial tables and the phrase “fiscal year,” February was your month. Not only did President Bush...
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Grants Awarded for March 2007
George Gund FoundationCleveland(216) 241-3114http://www.gundfdn.org • City Year, Boston, $40,000 for the Young Heroes program. • Youth Opportunities Unlimited, Cleveland, $75,000 for general...
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Will Musical Chairs Create a Different Tune?
Youth issues are expected to get greater attention under the Democratic Congress that will be seated in January. As a result of...
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Kuo Vadis: The Path to Nowhere, Faithfully
In 1896, when Polish patriot Henryk Sienkiewicz published his epic historical novel Quo Vadis, the devout Catholic knew where he was going....
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After-Life for After School
Bricca P. Sweet doesn’t want another federal after-school grant. Don’t misunderstand: They’ve helped her in the past. But now that her community...
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Foundation Child Neglect in New Orleans?
New Orleans, La. — While billions of dollars have been poured into rebuilding this city and much of the Gulf Coast after...
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Help a Kid, Make a Buck
For years, social scientists of many stripes have tried to make the case for investing in the healthy development of our nation’s...
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RIP: A Nonprofit Knows it’s Time to Go
Even when Family Support America (FSA) was flush with $24 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, its leaders knew trouble lurked...
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Hope Springs from Katrina’s Rubble
New Orleans, La. — Dolores Whitfield returned to her battered shotgun home, one of the rectangular domiciles that were invented here, shortly...
