Youth Today
News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
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Volunteering Is Up
More than 63 million Americans volunteered for some type of organized program in 2009 – about 26.8 percent of the population,...
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Corps Network, YouthBuild Get Funds to Help Dropouts, Offenders
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awarded two $10 million competitive grants last month to two national youth-serving organizations to support...
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Slaughterhouse Boss Acquitted of Child Labor Charges
An Iowa child labor case that gained national attention because of the more than 9,000 violation allegations against a slaughterhouse manager...
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Ruling: BSA Abuse Files to Be Made Public
The Boy Scouts of America’s “confidential files” on people banned for alleged child molesting must be made public, an Oregon judge...
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Church to Help Recruit ‘Bigs’ for Black Youth
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) is teaming with the African Methodist Episcopal Church to help get more African-American boys...
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Website Reveals Applicants
The U.S. Department of Education has launched a website that brings a new level of transparency to its grant-making process. The website,...
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Social Innovation Fund Boosts Youth Programs
The Corporation for National and Community Service announced the 11 groups that will receive the first grants from its $50 million Social...
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Y Change a Good Name?
A lot of people wondered this summer why the YMCA, with about the most powerful name among nonprofits, decided to shorten its...
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Governors Group Launches College Completion Initiative
America’s governors – armed with statistics about poor college completion rates and a report outlining a methodology for improving the numbers –...
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Network Forms to Train Foster Youth on Advocacy
A national organization launched last month hopes to train former foster youth to educate lawmakers and state and local system leaders...
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Failed Olympic Bid Funds Summer Sports
Thanks to Chicago’s failed Summer Olympics bid, $6.1 million in leftover corporate donations is being used to help sustain a youth...
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New Rules to Snuff Out Youth Smoking Kick In
Final rules that take effect this month will usher in a new era of broad restrictions on the sale, distribution and...
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100th Anniversary of Camp Fire USA
Founded: In 1910 as Camp Fire Girls, by Dr. Luther Gulick and his wife, Charlotte Gulick, to provide for girls what...
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NY Firm is Redrafted for Youth Drug Prevention Ad Campaign
New York-based communications firm Draftfcb has been awarded a new contract to continue leading the “Above the Influence” anti-drug campaign, a major...
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Judge Overturns Gay Adoption Ban
An Arkansas state judge last month overturned a voter referendum that banned unmarried couples from adopting. The law was widely seen...
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Immigration Law Spurs Youth Activism
The controversial new immigration law in Arizona has spurred a series of protests by youth and youth organizers, who say the...
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Gates Foundation Pledges $110 Million to Improve Remedial Courses
In an effort to increase the number of students who complete college, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged up...
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More Students Working Longer Hours = More Years to Graduation
American youths are taking longer to complete college than they did in the 1970s because they have to work more hours...
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Teen Birth Rate Dropped in 2008
The birth rate for U.S. teenagers dropped 2 percent in 2008, reversing two years of increases that had interrupted a 14-year...
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Want to Reach a Teen? Try Texting
Mobile texting has become the primary source of communication for 88 percent of teen cell phone users in the United States,...
