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Putting the Plural in Casey
It’s image remake time for the Seattle-based Casey Family Program (CFP). Started in 1966 by hometown-boy-made-good Jim Casey, founder of the United...
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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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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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White House Wanderings
The White House is taking yet another crowd-pleasing spin or two around the crime and drug prevention track. In the Clinton administration’s...
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Girl Talk
Few question that much of the youth service field is pathetically underfinanced. So it is no surprise that those who follow the...
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Boy Talk, Too
While the girls’ groups have been busy caucusing, sewing on merit badges and powering around the Internet, the boys in the fatherhood...
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National Nonprofits
Holy Cow, yet another national board member has made the move from board member to full-time president. This time it’s the Englewood,...
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April Fool
Perhaps you were too busy on April 13th preparing to join an estimated 3 million young people for the 12th annual National...
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Iced @ COOL
Like, really not too cool. That’s the reaction to the abrupt departure of Melissa Kendrick, executive director of COOL – the Campus...
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Rose Garden Baby
Remember that Rose Garden 501(c)(3) baby delivered suddenly by Bill and Hillary Clinton last May? Not too many people, even in the...
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Shifts at GCYF, OSI
On board at the D.C.-based affinity group of over 200 foundations funding children and youth undertakings is Marsha Renwanz, a well known...
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Kauffman Coughs, Packard Dozes
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations supporting youth services, has had an expected shake-up in its...
