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Report Roundup for October 2003
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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The Suicide Test
Bergenfield, N.J.—On March 11, 1987, Cheryl Burress broke a date, saying she was “going to see Joe.” Her friend Joe Major had...
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Arnold Learns Youth Work
When the people who ran Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Inner City Games programs in more than a dozen cities hooked up on conference calls...
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AmeriCorps Backers Talk, Funding Chances Walk
At the opening of last month’s filibuster in Washington to save 20,000 AmeriCorps positions, Candace Spiller stepped up to the podium, fresh...
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How a Teen Moved From High School to Statehouse
Many teenagers have been inspired by the quick success that Derrick Seaver found after graduating from high school two years ago, but...
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For Foster Kids, Aging Out No Longer Means Left Out
Cheyenne, Wyo.—Gina Scott was sent to her first foster home when she was 9. Like many others in the foster care system,...
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Congress
Lawmakers plan to introduce legislation this month that they hope will make it unnecessary for parents to give up custody of their...
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Newsmakers from September 2003
Nonprofits Could it be that the D.C.-based Children’s Defense Fund is downgrading its efforts in Congress in favor of more grassroots work?...
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Report Roundup for September 2003
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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The Best Youth Program You Can’t Afford
Yakima, Wash.—For youth worker Darrel Armstead, the challenge of implementing one of the nation’s most expensive and highly touted youth programs was...
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Inside the Fight to Save AmeriCorps
Washington, D.C.—The battle to save AmeriCorps began at breakfast. It was May 16, and more than a dozen executives from some of...
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When Kids Hold the Purse Strings
American teens are notorious big spenders, plunking down $170 billion in 2002 for electronic gadgets, movie and concert tickets, food, clothes and...
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‘Have You Ever Been Convicted …?’
Not long ago, the convicted sex offender who tried to volunteer with a youth soccer club in New York this summer probably...
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Report Roundup for July-August 2003
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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After-School Funds Make a Comeback
Critics of the House Republicans may need to reconsider charges that Congress is nothing but a rubber stamp for the Bush administration,...
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Newsmakers for July 2003
Nonprofits After 10 years, National Center for Children in Poverty Director Larry Aber announced that he will be leaving the center, which...
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Football Star Scores in Washington
At a time when after-school and AmeriCorps programs face proposed federal cuts that could eliminate services for untold thousands of children, the...
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Plastic Card Tells A Dangerous Truth
Chicago—A couple years ago, managers at the Gen. Robert E. Wood Boys & Girls Club began begging for money to hire more...
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United Kingdom
Leicester, England—More kids are lighting up joints at some youth clubs here, and youth workers who confront them are getting a new...
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AmeriCorps Hang-up Leaves Agencies Dangling
With youth-serving agencies around the country bracing for major losses in volunteer staff because of a financial crisis at AmeriCorps, Congress stepped...
