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Winning Over the Neighbors
In a downtrodden neighborhood in Tucson, Ariz., La Paloma Family Services faced a struggle typical to group homes around the country: The...
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Group Youth Work: Does it Hurt?
To parents and youth workers, a ground-breaking research article published in 1999 simply provided scientific backing for what they see all the...
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Newsmakers for July-August 2006
Nonprofits Jill Pasewalk is in as CEO of the Kansas City, Mo.-based Camp Fire USA, the 96-year-old nonprofit that serves 750,000...
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Report Roundup for July-August 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Child Welfare’s Death Penalty
It’s the ultimate nightmare for child welfare administrators: Tied to a bedpost and weighing just 47 pounds, a 9-year-old Baltimore County, Md.,...
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Are You My Mentor?
There’s this guy, a writer. Coaches a boys’ baseball team. He sees the kids three times a week; they have a great...
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Newsmakers for June 2006
Nonprofits Operating a bicoastal advocacy effort had become more burdensome than beneficial for the Youth Law Center (YLC), a law firm...
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Report Roundup for June 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Nonprofit Consulting Goes Upscale
Boston — It’s a long way from the wood-paneled offices of consulting firms like Bain & Co. to the yard-sale decor of...
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The Pitch for High Fidelity
Denver, Colo. — When Robert Barnoski saw the first outcome data from his evaluation of Functional Family Therapy in early 2002, he...
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Report Roundup for May 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Newmakers for May 2006
Nonprofits Sid Johnson isn’t your average nonprofit executive. The former head of the Chicago-based Prevent Child Abuse America, who served as...
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Boot Camps Get Dismissed
Last month, authorities exhumed the body of a 14-year-old boy who had died in a Florida juvenile boot camp, conducted an autopsy,...
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Newsmakers for April 2006
Nonprofits When the Colorado Children’s Campaign (CCC) was down on the mat a few years ago, its most loyal supporters in...
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Report Roundup for April 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Detention Centers:
Staunton, Va. — When Superintendent Tim Smith goes to work every day at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Detention Center here, the layout...
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CWLA Chief Seeks a New Placement
Taking over the Child Welfare League of America after David Liederman retired in 1999 was never going to be easy. The...
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Newsmakers for March 2006
Nonprofits David Doi is out as executive director of the Washington-based Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ), a national resource provider on...
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Report Roundup for March 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Pork Chopped
Sitting in his Louisville, Ky., office, Vern Rickert contemplates the sudden hole that’s been blown in his program’s budget by a decision...
