Yakima, Wash.—For youth worker Darrel Armstead, the challenge of implementing one of the nation’s most expensive and highly touted youth programs was...
Washington, D.C.—The battle to save AmeriCorps began at breakfast. It was May 16, and more than a dozen executives from some of...
American teens are notorious big spenders, plunking down $170 billion in 2002 for electronic gadgets, movie and concert tickets, food, clothes and...
Not long ago, the convicted sex offender who tried to volunteer with a youth soccer club in New York this summer probably...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Critics of the House Republicans may need to reconsider charges that Congress is nothing but a rubber stamp for the Bush administration,...
Nonprofits After 10 years, National Center for Children in Poverty Director Larry Aber announced that he will be leaving the center, which...
At a time when after-school and AmeriCorps programs face proposed federal cuts that could eliminate services for untold thousands of children, the...
Chicago—A couple years ago, managers at the Gen. Robert E. Wood Boys & Girls Club began begging for money to hire more...
Leicester, England—More kids are lighting up joints at some youth clubs here, and youth workers who confront them are getting a new...
With youth-serving agencies around the country bracing for major losses in volunteer staff because of a financial crisis at AmeriCorps, Congress stepped...
A new federal study has stirred the debate over minority over-representation in the juvenile justice system by finding no evidence of racial...
The Catholic Church sex abuse scandal offers an ever-growing list of lessons in how to handle or flub an organizational crisis, with...
This summer’s youth job market is expected to be the worst since the end of World War II, and is not likely...
Nonprofits A potential merger is in the works between Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) and Idealist, a division of the New York-based...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
When it comes to reducing recidivism among convicted juveniles, few programs show as much promise as the Oregon Youth Authority’s Project Support....
Campbell, Calif.—It’s been a little more than a decade since Jerry Doyle launched an initiative that drove his agency into debt and...
Faith-based organizations eager for government money are grateful that the Bush administration is teaching them to navigate the federal grants process, but...
Is the effort to reach out to young, unmarried fathers being trampled by the Bush administration’s drive to get them married? Some...