Youth Today
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Volunteering in America
Corporation for National and Community Service The number of young adults (16 to 24 years old) who volunteered in 2008 rose...
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Career and Technical Education: States Have Broad Flexibility in Implementing Perkins IV
U.S. Government Accountability Office States are doing what they can to implement performance measures under a federal accountability law for career...
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Workforce Investment Act Needs Updating, Agency Says
Jobs for the Future (JFF) There’s no shortage of ideas about how to retool the Workforce Investment Act in order to...
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Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diagnoses of ADHD/ADD and of Learning Disability
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Although it makes no effort to establish possible causes, and some of its findings...
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Synthesis of 10 Case Studies: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Simplified or joint forms, the elimination of face-to-face interviews, a centralized system for eligibility processing and...
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Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can HelpThe Commonwealth Fund
More than 13 million young people ages 19 to 29 lacked health insurance coverage in 2007 because of the structure of...
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America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics An annual federal interagency report shows a few small changes in the well-being...
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School Meal Program Participation and Its Association with Dietary Patterns and Childhood Obesity
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Eat a good breakfast. That’s the bottom line on this federal study of eating...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Do-it-Yourself Data
Bottom Line A nonprofit service agency creates an ongoing evaluation system that is operated in-house, and uses the data to improve...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
YouTube Video Volunteers
http://www.youtube.com/videovolunteers Tech-savvy YouTube users who want to do some good with their skills now have an outlet. YouTube Video Volunteers hooks...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Foundations Inc.
http://www.foundationsinc.org Foundations Inc. is a nonprofit organization that provides professional development services and technical assistance to schools, school districts and community organizations...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Disability.gov
http://www.disability.gov/ Managed by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), in partnership with 21 other federal agencies, the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
PolicyforResults
http://www.policyforresults.org Operated out of Washington, D.C., the Center for the Study of Social Policy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that promotes...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
GreatNonprofits
http://www.greatnonprofits.org Visitors to http://Greatnonprofits.org can find, review and discuss nonprofit organizations with ease. The website features user-generated content so visitors can...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Workshop Out of School
Anne-E WoodPerforming Arts Workshop44 pages. $10 paperback, free download. Since 1965, the Performing Arts Workshop in San Francisco has transformed young...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
A Video Essay on Teenage Grief
Hospice Volunteer Services of Addison CountyMcMulti Production, distributed by Fanlight Productions75 minutes. DVD $249. When sisters Amanda and Meghan were in elementary...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
Sharon Robinson; illustratedby Kadir NelsonScholastic Press40 pages. $16.99. Sharing a family incident from her childhood, Sharon Robinson bears testament to her...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Girls Gone Activist! How to Change the World Through Education
Edited by Joanne Conelly, Gaëlle Dessus, Anna Diarra, et al. Youth Activism Project, School Girls Unite 118 pages. $16 paperback. Free full-color...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
DOL Grants for Apprentice Programs
Eleven national industry and employer associations will share $6.5 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Labor to promote innovation...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Grants Awarded September 2009
Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationSeattle(206) 709-3140http://www.gatesfoundation.org • Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, D.C., $8.3 million to increase the leadership capacity...
