The latest child protection horror story from New Jersey – this one involving a couple charged with starving and neglecting their adopted...
Is James Wagoner paranoid, or is the federal government out to get him? The president of Advocates for Youth, a national organization...
Job Training Senate sponsors of legislation to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act do not expect the full Senate to make many changes...
Foundations The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (assets: $1.7 billion) board voted to hire CEO Carl Schramm in April 2002. That appears to...
Washington, D.C.—In an effort to streamline federal financial holdings and spur growth, Treasury Secretary John Snow announced Monday that the federal government...
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Denver—After eight years as the executive director of The Spot, a hip-hop program for at-risk youth in Denver, Dave DeForest-Stalls was exhausted....
Denver—After eight years as the executive director of The Spot, a hip-hop program for at-risk youth in Denver, Dave DeForest-Stalls was exhausted....
“You either love this program or you hate it,” Charlie Stancil says of his creation, a shock regimen for disruptive youth that...
There are several reasons to urge teenagers to avoid fast food chains like Taco Bell, but is one of those reasons …...
Evanston, Ill.—It’s a mild Thursday evening in October, and the Ben & Jerry’s shop two blocks from Northwestern University enjoys a steady...
The House of Representatives last month passed its version of a bill (HR 7) designed to increase charitable contributions, but without a...
The federal government is making it easier for nonprofits to find, apply for and win federal grants. Those goals are not fully...
Nonprofits Archbishop Elden Curtiss of Omaha stepped down as chairman of Girls and Boys Town’s 20-member board of trustees last month after...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Bergenfield, N.J.—On March 11, 1987, Cheryl Burress broke a date, saying she was “going to see Joe.” Her friend Joe Major had...
When the people who ran Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Inner City Games programs in more than a dozen cities hooked up on conference calls...
At the opening of last month’s filibuster in Washington to save 20,000 AmeriCorps positions, Candace Spiller stepped up to the podium, fresh...
Many teenagers have been inspired by the quick success that Derrick Seaver found after graduating from high school two years ago, but...
Cheyenne, Wyo.—Gina Scott was sent to her first foster home when she was 9. Like many others in the foster care system,...