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General Support? Sounds Nice, But…

When it comes to how foundations fund youth work, Gary L. Yates is a lonely guy. When Yates’ The California Wellness Foundation...

Grants Awarded for April 2002

The Commonwealth Fund1 E. 75th St.New York, NY 10021(212) 606-3800www.cmwf.org • Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, $595,698...

Newsmakers for April 2002

Feds After languishing in the Senate for 10 months, the appointment of John Robert Flores as administrator of the Office of Juvenile...

More Meal Money for Youth Programs

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is trying to get more youth organizations to take its money to feed kids this summer....

Congress’s Anonymous “Healthy Youth Prevention Program” ($100,000)

The names of actual groups or programs in the criminal justice, education and social service sectors directly funded by Congress amply illustrate...

Grants Awarded for March 2002

The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health 770 Welch Rd., Ste. 350Palo Alto, CA 94304(650) 497-8365www.lpfch.org • Asian American Recovery, San Mateo...

News Briefs for March 2002

Gay Adoptions OK: Citing the estimated 9 million children in the United States with at least one gay parent, the American Academy...

Newsmakers for March 2002

Nonprofits After almost 30 years in operation, the Center for Community Change (CCC) has decided to plunge into the media game. The...

USA Recycle Corps

In the beginning there was compassionate conservatism, which begat the Armies of Compassion, which begat the faith-based initiative, which begat the USA...

Not Quite Expired

Another life-after-death tale is taking wing among the former affiliates of Children’s Express (CE). The 26-year-old youth journalism enterprise’s D.C. headquarters crashed...

Pubs and Videos for March 2002

Advocacy Children’s Rights: Policy and Practice, by John Pardeck, is a valuable tool for those who work in social services as well...

Forging 21st Century Partnerships

Now that the ink is dry on the recently reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), it’s time to examine the implications...

Beyond Access: A Foundation Guide to Ending the Organizational Divide

While foundation grant-making for information technology (IT) continues to grow, strategies for improving the distribution and effectiveness of that money need to...

Bush Budget Offers Deaths and Resurrections

President George Bush’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2003 would gouge some youth programs to the point of extinction while boosting others...

Youth Jobs Program Gets Pink Slip

By Natalie Gardner Lake Village, Ark.—Federal dollars for a limousine ride and a manicure? Toyce Newton knows that what she did here...

Newsmakers for February 2002

Foundations The New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s policy shift to focus on strengthening urban youth service agencies in the Northeast has...

Innovative Inca

An almost seven-year tour at the Ford Foundation (assets: $14.7 billion) has ended for Inca Mohamed, a program officer for children, youth...

Pork: Best Killed by Kindness

No, not the sputtering United Way, but the unraveling of Congress’ ill-advised practice of “earmarking” groups in the children and youth field...

CBO Access to Funds is Key in Education Bill

While the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) squeezes into a House-Senate conference committee with wildly disparate authorization levels,...

New Funds for Older Foster Youth

The Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation and Seattle-based Casey Family Programs (CSF) have created the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative to help,...