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Rewarding Search
When the Minneapolis-based Search Institute gathered for its annual Healthy Communities * Healthy Youth Conference in early November, it had plenty to...
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National Nonprofits
The Children’s Partnership, a small but polished advocacy organization, is expanding again. It was founded in 1993 by Wendy Lazarus, a former...
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The Foundation World
The Arsalyn Foundation (assets $9.6 million) in Glendora, Calif., founded in 1996 to “address the increased cynicism and the resultant decline in...
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Donna Departing
Donna Shalala, the longest-serving secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services since its establishment under Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the...
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Once Lame Juvenile Justice System Jockeys to the Lead
Richmond, Ky.—In four short years, Kentucky has erased a blot of shame from the record of what was laughably described as the...
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When Confidentiality Dies with a Child
Detroit, Mich.—Social workers and Child Protective Services investigators across the nation are adjusting to a new reality – their once confidential cases...
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Young Vote Inches Up, Falls Short
Efforts to involve more young people in last month’s elections reaped some moderately good results: The precipitous decline in voting among young...
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America’s Promise Mentoring Impact is Foggy in Philly
PHILADELPHIA—It is a mentor’s mecca, this town of cheesesteaks, hoagies and sticky buns. That was one of the...
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Charter Schools: CBOs’ Risky Pot o’ Gold
LOWELL, Mass.—To understand the enormous benefits of becoming a charter school, consider the Lowell Middlesex Academy: Five years ago, as an...
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GARY MALLON
“Let me tell you something, honey. You’re a big queen yourself and you need to come out of the closet.” A fine...
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Chopping Block: The Rise And Fall of Title XX
BY SUE BADEAU Title XX, the Social Services Block Grant, is one of the oldest block grant programs to...
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Making the Case: Linking Youth Development and Positive Psychology
Now and then you have the unsettling experience of hearing your thoughts come out of someone else’s mouth. This is the experience...
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Moms Ring Bell
The Million Mom March held in Washington, D.C., and 15 other cities on Mother’s Day rang up impressive numbers – the aggregate...
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Mott-ly Alliance
In the growing field of the after-school programming, all roads, it seem, lead to Flint, Mich., home of the Charles Stewart Mott...
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National Nonprofits
Give that man a cigar. That, for the tobacco industry, at least, is the reaction to the departure of Chuck Wolfe as...
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Sub Minimum Wage Rewarded
Interns, take heart. Your job running that copier won’t last forever – just for the semester. Consider the case of David Brown,...
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Carnegie Units
In a staff change that underscores a shift in priorities at the Carnegie Corp. (assets: $1.7 billion) since Vartan Gregorian became president...
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Cashing in at Casey
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 1999 annual report is out. Most foundations release their grantmaking decisions on a regular schedule throughout the...
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Politics of Charter Schools Makes Strange Bedfellows
The struggles of charter schools in the nation’s capital reflects what they’re up against nationwide. Washington, D.C., charter schools are pulling 10...
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Some Philly Programs Cruise, Others Feel a Bumpy Ride
Mary Strasser calls it “the Cadillac of school-to-career programs.” Mary Jane Clancy, executive director of the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of...
