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Heroin Gang Infiltrates Baltmore Community Center
Gang members working as counselors allegedly used an anti-violence program at a Baltimore community center to extend their heroin distribution business to...
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Survey of Entering Student Engagement, Benchmarking & Benchmarks: Effective Practice with Entering Students
This report espouses “benchmarking” as a way for community colleges to measure how well they are making sure the youths who start...
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CNCS Names Head of Social Innovation Fund
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) today announced the appointment of Bridgespan Group co-founder Paul Carttar to serve as director...
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College Diplomas, Income Elude Foster Care Alums
A study being released today of youths who aged out of foster care in three Midwestern states paints a grim picture of...
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Teen Birth Rate Drops
Births to U.S. teenagers dropped two percent in 2008, reversing two years of teen birth increases that had interrupted a 14-year decline,...
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Feds to Job Corps Sites: No Ifs, Ands, Pools or Golf Courses
A strict interpretation of Recovery Act rules has halted a pair of renovation projects at Job Corps sites that could have provided...
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Boy Scout Confidential
Related on the Web Book: Scout’s Honor: Sexual Abuse in America’s Most Trusted Institution Q&A With Patrick Boyle, Author of ‘Scout’s Honor’...
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The Risk of Advocacy: Eviction
Poussaint: Told to keep mum about Baby Einstein. Lots of groups call themselves “youth advocates,” but in truth, few of them stick...
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Summer Jobs Program Worked, with Snags
Goat-to guy: Jeremy Barker, with Easter Seals Work Resource Center, feeds goats at Gorman Heritage Farm in Evendale, Ohio, where he worked...
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Boys & Girls Clubs’ Funding Questioned
An uproar over expenditures of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, including the salary of CEO Roxanne Spillett, could jeopardize...
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Judges Switch Stand on Incarcerating Status Offenders
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, which led the charge in the late 1970s to enable judges to lock...
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Newsmakers for April 2010
Sandy Bowen Nonprofits Sandy Bowen, who grew a local outreach effort into a national model to help youth in crisis, will retire...
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Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities: Impacts of Advocacy, Organizing, and Civic Engagement in Los Angeles
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy In an effort to encourage charitable giving, this new report aims to quantify nonprofits’ value in...
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The Nation’s Children 2010: A Factsheet of America’s Most Vulnerable Children
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) CWLA’s 2010 National Fact Sheet provides snapshots of the nation’s “most vulnerable” children, reflecting hardships...
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Can I Get a Little Advice Here? How an Overstretched High School Guidance System Is Undermining Students’ College Aspirations
Public Agenda This report examines the high school guidance system through the eyes of its former customers and concludes that it...
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Terms of Engagement: Men of Color Discuss Their Experiences in Community College
MDRC Issues of manliness, self-reliance and respect are among those explored in this report, which examines the experiences of “men of...
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Raising Their Voices: Engaging Students, Teachers and Parents to Help End the High School Dropout Epidemic
Civic Enterprises Based on focus group discussion in four cities – Baltimore, Dallas, Indianapolis and Kingsport, Tenn. – this report contributes...
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Building a Comprehensive Youth Employment Delivery System: Examples of Effective Practice
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) To create an effective youth employment delivery system requires a strong convening entity, an...
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Wealth and Values Survey: The Affluent and Philanthropy
PNC Wealth Management At a time when nonprofits need assistance the most – during the deepest recession since the Depression –...
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The Social Security Administration’s Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Implementation Lessons from the Original Projects
Mathematica Policy Research Inc. This report presents the findings of the Social Security Administration’s implementation of seven original Youth Transition Demonstration...
