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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...

Immaturity Can Mean No Trial

A three-judge appeals panel in Sacramento ruled last month that an 11-year-old candy thief, and all those like him, are too immature...

Infection Kills Youth, Closes Program

Several youths have died at wilderness and boot camps in recent years because of alleged abuse, but a Colorado program was shut...

New Group to Ease Re-entry

A private California foundation has given its last grant to a collaboration of well-known nonprofits to smooth the re-entry of juvenile offenders...

Immigration Raids Protested

While most of the child welfare field stays mum about the havoc sometimes created for youth and youth-serving agencies when adults are...

Guidelines for Sex Offender Registries

The U.S. Department of Justice has submitted its proposed National Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification, as required by the Adam...

Missing Kids Cards Gone

Don’t go searching for those "Have You Seen Me?" cards in your mail any more. ADCO, the direct mail company that sends...

Lawsuit Closes Foster Care Program

Catholic Charities says it is closing one of the largest foster care programs in Illinois because the program has become uninsurable as...

Justice Investigates Reading First

The Justice Department has begun a probe of the Reading First program, one of the Bush administration’s signature efforts to boost youth...

Half-a-Billion To Fight Obesity

In what is billed as the largest financial commitment by any foundation to fight childhood obesity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...

Ex-Youth Workers Charged in Abuse Scandal

The scandal that is roiling the Texas juvenile justice system has yielded its first criminal indictments. Two former administrators at the West...

Missing Kids’ Center Spreads to Texas

Two Texas businesswomen, armed with $1 million in private backing, have persuaded the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to...

Churches Comply with Abuse Guidelines

Twenty-seven out of 29 Catholic dioceses and eparchies audited in 2006 are compliant with the “Charter for the Protection of Children and...

Volunteers Worth More than Ever

Managing a cadre of volunteers can be a management headache, but it’s hard to beat them as an investment value. They were...

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...

Groups Win $1 Million for Social Change

Organizations that focus on youth have won five of the ten $1 million prizes to be given out this year through the...

Denmark’s Famous Youth House

The house – for 25 years a symbol of youth liberation or criminal anarchy, depending on your point of view –...

Community Service Giants Explore Merger

Two of the nation’s premier nonprofits in community service and volunteering – the Points of Light Foundation and the Hands On Network...

Unemployment Trusts For Nonprofits Merge

Two of the nation’s leading unemployment trusts for nonprofits have merged, creating one of the largest such firms in the country. Joint...

Congress Urged to Boost Kinship Care

Advocates of more federal support for kinship care took their case to Congress last month. Representatives from Generations United, the Pew Charitable...