Boasting that he could readily supply the names, addresses and phone numbers of “future criminals,” Mobile County, Ala., District Attorney John Tyson...
National Nonprofits The D.C.-based National Network for Youth, the trade group of service providers for runaway and homeless youth, continues its wobbly...
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Hartford, Conn.—Officials here think they’ve found an answer to one of the common raps against state youth policies: that they are shallow,...
Leslee Unruh recalls the days not long ago when she and a few colleagues traveled the country like frontier pioneers, urging youth...
Maybe the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on advertisements to discourage teen smoking, drinking and illegal drug use are paying dividends....
Nobody seems to know where 6-year-old Rilya Wilson is or if she’s even alive, but her disappearance from a foster home two...
President Bush has made it easier for faith-based groups to win government contracts while allowing them to reject job applicants based on...
Foundations After announcing that it would restructure its grant making around seven business units, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (assets: $1.6 billion)...
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Maybe trying to get more young people to vote isn’t worth the trouble. Blasphemy? Certainly to the tens of millions of American...
Tacoma, Wash.—It’s early afternoon at the Pierce County Boys & Girls Club, where youth worker Ron Andrade sits in a back room...
Proponents of after-school programming will be watching California to see if a voter-mandated spending increase will help kids as its supporters envision,...
Ottawa, Canada—The meeting starts in the wood-paneled boardroom of Ottawa’s Children’s Aid Society. The stylish decor isn’t totally lost on the eight...
In a good year, Martha de Acosta knows exactly how much money to expect from the federal government. This is not a...
Nonprofits After 35 years, Center for Community Change (CCC) Director Andy Mott has left the organization to pursue other personal interests in...
The idea of “high school after-school programming” is an oxymoron if one’s image of after-school activities involves 11-year-olds munching snacks, getting help...
Foundations in the United States “have targeted increasing shares of their giving to the needs of children and youth” over the past...
Drawing from data compiled in the 1999 National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children, the authors break down the...
Study authors Anne R. Pebley and Mary E. Vaiana set out to answer the question of how a neighborhood can affect the...