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National Nonprofits

Moving on to new challenges – not retiring, she insists – is Mildred Wurf, public policy director for Girls Incorporated. The dean...

Bush Budget: Faith, Flexibility, And Families with Fathers

By Sue Badeau President George Bush last month unveiled the details of his administration’s first budget. Cabinet members held press conferences in...

Foundation Events

Stepping down after 10 years as managing director of the San Francisco-based Roberts Enterprise Development Fund is Jed Emerson. The youth enterprise-promoting...

National Nonprofits

Grace Reef, for the past four years director of intergovernmental relations at the Children’s Defense Fund, is moving to Capitol Hill. She’ll...

The President’s Budget & Kids

By Sue Badeau In February President George W. Bush unveiled his budget “blueprint” for Fiscal Year 2002. The 175-page document presents his...

Foundation Fluctuations

The Denver-based Gill Foundation (assets $240 million) has announced the impending departure of executive director Katherine Pease. Founded in 1994 by Quark...

Congressional Earmarks Fatten Children and Youth Agency

In what may be the biggest chunk of pork ever fed to youth-serving organizations, the 2001 federal budget bestows at least $420...

School-to-Work Sunsets, State Programs Rise

Although October will bring an end to the seed money provided by the federal School-to-Work (S-t-W) Opportunities Act of 1994, as of...

The $100 Million Club

A hundred million here, $77 million there-and that’s just the new money flowing toward the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America...

Foundation Events

Youth organizing programs and initiatives will receive a big boost next month when $600,000 in grants launch the first joint effort of...

In U.S. Budget, the Winner Is…

BY SUE BADEAU While not officially adjourned, the 106th Congress came to a halt a few days before Election Day and...

The Foundation World

The Arsalyn Foundation (assets $9.6 million) in Glendora, Calif., founded in 1996 to “address the increased cynicism and the resultant decline in...

Strategy Worked for Seniors, Can It Work For Kids?

Before the Older Americans Act in 1965, there was no Medicare, no meals-on-wheels, no multi-purpose senior centers – all now part of...

‘Traumatic Transition’ as Workforce Act Displaces Summer Jobs for Youth Program

Scrambling to fill the void being left by the now defunct 16-year-old Job Training Partnership Act’s Summer Youth Employment Program, alarmed youth-serving...

Feds Boot Up Funding For Youth Technology

While private sector support of youth technology programs is a major element of overall funding, the federal government is also a major...

Do Kids Count in Congress?

By Sue Badeau Members of Congress want us to believe that children are a very high priority. So day after day they...

Fatherhood Sites Get Help from U.S.

Ten states have been selected to participate in a waiver demonstration program designed to improve the opportunities of young, unmarried fathers to...

Need a Grant?

By Amy Bracken Kari Pardoe is barely out of high school, but she’s already given away more money than many people do...

More Money for Child Abuse Services, Background Checks

By Amy Bracken President Bill Clinton, whose proposed budget for next year keeps funding for child abuse programs flat and cuts at...

Kauffman Coughs, Packard Dozes

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations supporting youth services, has had an expected shake-up in its...