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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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Answered Prayers

Advocates of national service were thrilled when Bill Clinton made the expansion of federal support for community service opportunities a centerpiece of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...