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Newsmakers for October 2002
Foundations After only a few months with the Ypsilanti, Mich.-based High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, Terry Langston got an offer he couldn’t refuse....
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Newsmakers for September 2002
A roundup of people on the move in the field of youth work. Nonprofits American Humanics, the Kansas City, Mo- based group...
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Newsmakers for July 2002
A roundup of people on the move in the field of youth work. Nonprofits Sally Prouty begins her tenure this month as...
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Newsmakers for May 2002
NonprofitsThe National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC), run by Jack Calhoun, received a $6.2 million grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to support...
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Newsmakers for April 2002
Feds After languishing in the Senate for 10 months, the appointment of John Robert Flores as administrator of the Office of Juvenile...
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Newsmakers for March 2002
Nonprofits After almost 30 years in operation, the Center for Community Change (CCC) has decided to plunge into the media game. The...
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Newsmakers for February 2002
Foundations The New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s policy shift to focus on strengthening urban youth service agencies in the Northeast has...
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Trumpeting For Fatherhood
It has been a sterling year so far for fathers, at least for GOP advocates of pro-father policies. But first we note...
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Guns Are Back
“I refuse to leave any child behind in America,” says President George W. Bush. Here are four: Randy Ruiz, 17, and Brian...
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Answered Prayers
Advocates of national service were thrilled when Bill Clinton made the expansion of federal support for community service opportunities a centerpiece of...
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Bad Form on Welfare Reform
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you – and flies you, and puts you up in a nice hotel. When members...
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Foundation Fluctuations
The Denver-based Gill Foundation (assets $240 million) has announced the impending departure of executive director Katherine Pease. Founded in 1994 by Quark...
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Right On, Right Now!
Bob’s back! Not that Bob Woodson, Sr., president-for-life of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, ever left D.C. But with a Democrat...
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On the Move
Where are they now? Former President Clinton, looking for a new office, has bumped New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services from...
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Promising Practices: Supporting Transition of Youth Served by the Foster Care System
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine National Resource Center...
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Younger Americans, Act II
The 107th Congress brings bright prospects for the Younger Americans Act (YAA), a cash-rich proposal for youth work endorsed last September by...
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The $100 Million Club
A hundred million here, $77 million there-and that’s just the new money flowing toward the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America...
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Shepherd’s Watch
If Dubya is the preacher of those flocking to the faith-based standard, the senior deacon is former Indianapolis mayor Steve Goldsmith, who...
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Foundation Events
Youth organizing programs and initiatives will receive a big boost next month when $600,000 in grants launch the first joint effort of...
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National Groups
The U.S. program office of the Baltimore-based International Youth Foundation (IYF) is changing its name and modifying its mission. Located in the...
