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Coalition Pushes Community Schools Agenda

Hundreds of organizations are coming together to promote a unified national agenda for community partnerships that link schools and youth-development organizations....

Opinion

Why I Back McCain: His Core Values Would Favor Youth

A while ago, I heard Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) give a speech related to youth, and I have to say it could...

Opinion

Why I Support Obama: He Gets Community Service

On Wednesday, Sept. 4, I left work at Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (Puerto Rican Tenants in Action), a nonprofit community organization in...

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National Youth Groups Unveil Agenda

The National Collaboration for Youth (NCY) last month released a legislative agenda that its members have committed themselves to pushing in...

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Staying After School in College

In a mostly glowing initial review of a certificate program for after-school workers in New York City lies a dash of...

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Toolkit Review: Afterschool Training

Afterschool TrainingThe National Partnership for Quality Afterschool LearningFree(800) 476-6861, http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/toolkits The award-winning The toolkit includes ideas for activities in the arts …...

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Building a Better Bridge: Helping Young Adults Enter and Succeed in College

Youth Development Institute45 pages. $10. This report in the Supporting College Access and Success for Young Adult Learners series features an experiment...

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It’s My Life! A Guide to Alternatives After High School

Edited by Janine SchwabAmerican Friends Service Committee92 pages. $9.95. Addressing those facing “the transition from high school to the real world –...

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Promising Practices in Working with Young Adults

Youth Development Institute122 pages. Bound volume: $35. Nine sections in booklets: $2-$5 each. Download: free. Help for high school dropouts and potential...

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Getting Real: Helping Teens Find Their Future

Kenneth Gray Corwin Press196 pages. $25.95. As an outspoken advocate of career education and alternatives to four-year college degrees, Gray commands attention:...

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American Youth Policy Forum

http://www.aypf.org This nonprofit professional development organization’s website includes briefs, reports and publications on contemporary youth issues, such as education, community involvement and...

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The Annie E. Casey Foundation

www.aecf.org The grant-making organization’s revamped website features the latest news about AECF’s philanthropic efforts in the family- and child-welfare field, and...

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Innovations in Effective Compassion

http://www.innovationincompassion.hhs.gov A comprehensive guide to faith-based and community groups, the site posts articles about how these groups have partnered with federal, state...

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The Search Institute

http://www.search-institute.org The Search Institute, an independent nonprofit organization that promotes healthy youth and communities, has launched a new Web site featuring...

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Youth Outlook

http://www.youthoutlook.org Youth Outlook’s site is a virtual collection of all that this Bay Area-based youth literary journal has to offer: magazine...

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4-H to Study Wind Energy

The National 4-H Council, which has made concerted efforts to create more science and engineering programs in the 4-H infrastructure, landed...

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Grants Awarded for October 2008

Daniels FundDenver(303) 393-7220http://www.danielsfund.org Colorado: • Colfax Marathon Partnership, Denver, $12,500 for the Colorado Kids Marathon Milers, which organizes long-distance races for children....

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Research for Youth Projects

The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded grants to four research teams for youth-related projects. The teams selected, listed by the head...

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After-School Training Funded

The Atlantic Philanthropies has announced that it will provide $2.3 million to Foundations Inc. for its Center for Afterschool Education. The Moorestown,...

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