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CNCS Announces Planning Grants
The Corporation for National and Community Service has chosen 14 organizations to receive grants to help them plan programs they hope can...
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Justice Department Backs JJDPA Reauthorization
Note: This story was updated on April 19 The Justice Department has notified the Senate Judiciary Committee that it “strongly supports” the...
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Heroin Gang Infiltrates Balimore 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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Learning from Molesters: What the Scout Scandal Teaches Us
Should the Boy Scouts say sorry? Should the pope resign? Those are among the questions that people have been asking in recent...
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Jury Deems Boy Scouts Negligent in Handling Sex Abuse
In a case that could have significant implications for one of the country’s most venerated youth-serving organizations, a Portland, Ore., jury today...
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More Students Working Longer Hours = More years to Graduation
American youths are taking longer now to complete college than they did in the 1970s because they have to work more hours...
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Administration May Forgo Political Hires at FYSB, Children’s Bureau
The Obama administration may not appoint new heads for the bureaus that oversee child welfare and homeless youth at the Administration for...
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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...
