Youth Today
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Opinion
A Chance for Us to Do Better by Kids
Richart Three weeks before the election that swept Barack Obama into the presidency, Gara LaMarche, president of The Atlantic Philanthropies (assets: $3...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Dear Obama Claus
Illustrations by Dean MacAdam After Barack Obama won last month’s presidential election, gatherings of youth workers and advocates took on the air...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Fatherhood Programs Mature
Note: This version corrects an error from the printed issue pertaining to the Dads Make a Difference program. In New York, helping...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Youth Referenda Results
Voters decided on several youth-related measures last month: Arkansas • Act 1, Restricting Adoption and Foster Parenting Approved Prohibits same-sex couples from...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Youth Vote Up
Voting among young adults increased this year and appears to have helped Barack Obama win some key states. More than 52 percent...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Teen Flees School, Almost Crushed
A teenager almost suffered the ultimate fate last month after running away from a youth program after an argument with a staffer....
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Agency Director Trades Pounds for Cash
Oliver Clark The future of The Deck youth center in Milton, Ontario, depends on Director Oliver Clarke’s ability to resist the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
A Bad Economy’s Ripple Effect on Kids
Food insecurity among youth has impacts beyond hunger pangs, leading to health and behavioral problems that often require intervention from mental health,...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Lawyers for Immigrant Youth
Microsoft Corp., actress Angelina Jolie and 25 law firms and corporate law departments have formed an organization to assist the approximately 8,000...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Job Announcement: Help Run America
Want to run the U.S. Administration for Children and Families? Ever dream of being associate commissioner of the Children’s Bureau? Juvenile justice...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Campus Compact
Maureen F. Curley, President Moves to:45 Temple PlaceBoston, MA 02111(617) 357-1881
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News
Dual Enrollment Reaches Down
Vargas: Dual enrollment initiatives are spreading to more states. “We want students who aren’t on their way to college,” said Daniel Voloch....
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Taxing Your Way to Financial Security
When voters in Miami overwhelmingly renewed a tax on themselves last summer to fund youth services, they illuminated a rarely used path...
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News
Rural Awakening
A racing team from the Sunflower County Freedom Project prepares for a 5K race. The teens are (left to right) Michael Burse,...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Network Forecast: Cloudy, with a Silver Lining
For six years, a network of organizations that help youth transition from school to work has found ways to survive after...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for December 2008-January 2009
Nonprofits The Atlantic Philanthropies (assets: $3.3 billion) has hired Donna Lawrence to oversee its disadvantaged children and youth program, which last...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Hope Out of the Box
Youth Radio/National Public Radio This youth-produced commentary makes the point that in the post-election years of Barack Obama’s presidency, young people will...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Struggling Parents Pull Kids from Day Care
The Associated Press/MSNBC Parents throughout the nation are scaling back or pulling their children from day care programs because they can no...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Defining the Grandma Effect
ABC News The role played by grandmothers in American families has been spotlighted by President-elect Barack Obama’s speeches about his late grandmother,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
CPS Give Kids a Voice in Cutting Dropout Rate
Chicago Sun-Times More than 50 youth from 15 Chicago high schools have spent the past year-and-a-half trying to figure out how to...
