Youth Today
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Opinion
Secret to Success: Deliver Meaning
Accomplishment. Beauty. Community. Creation. Duty. Those are five of the 15 “meanings” identified in a hot new business book about the bottom-line...
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News
Report Roundup for March 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Research of Note for March 2006
Feasibility of Screening Adolescents for Suicide Risk in "Real-World" High School Settings PIRE Chapel Hill CenterAbstract available at www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/96/2/282 In September...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teaching Kids to Raise Their Kids
For years, the good news about teen pregnancy has been that it’s going down. The national teen birth rate fell from 61.8...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
On The Verge
Napa, Calif.(510) 599-7786www.onthemovebayarea.org Objective: Recruit and support young leaders who are committed to building effective organizations for social change in the...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Forget Hip-Hop; Get YCC
A civil war is brewing in youth work force development centers. It pits many veteran youth workers against a younger crowd that...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Measuring Effectiveness in the Real World
In a field of research seemingly obsessed with developing, cataloging and replicating evidence-based program models, one study has found a unique...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Pork Chopped
Sitting in his Louisville, Ky., office, Vern Rickert contemplates the sudden hole that’s been blown in his program’s budget by a decision...
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News
Hunting for Grandma
Campbell, Calif. — Like many children in foster care, the one on Kevin Campbell’s mind this morning has no known relatives. But...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Faithful Partnerships
While the idea of churches working with secular organizations to provide social services often sparks public debate, the truth is that nonprofits...
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Opinion
MySpace.com Menaces Teens? C’mon!
Many parents think their children are safe in one of our most hallowed institutions, until they discover its dark side: violence, sexual...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for February 2006
Foundations William Bell, vice president of child and family services for Seattle-based Casey Family Programs (assets: $2 billion), will replace the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Atlantic Cup Winners
Once feared lost in the Bermuda Triangle of consultant-induced philanthropic anomie, the Atlantic Philanthropies (assets: $4.3 billion) has sailed into port with...
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Opinion
Age of Aquarius Meets Era of Accountability
I recently participated in back-to-back meetings about outcomes of community schools and after-school programs. At each event, leaders in the field gathered...
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News
Report Roundup for February 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Research
Research of Note for February 2006
The Association Between Parent, Family and Peer Religiosity and Teenagers’ Sexual Experience and Contraceptive Use Child Trends/The National Campaign to Prevent...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Youth Build Immigrant Power
Oakland, Calif.(510) 268-0192www.aiwa.org Objective of the program: To develop the organizing and leadership skills of low-income Asian immigrant youth so they...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Community Boxing and Fitness Center
Kansas City, Kan.(913) 371-7676 Objective: Use boxing and personal guidance to meet the physical, mental and spiritual needs of youth. In...
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News
Report Roundup from December 2005 – January 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for December 2005 – January 2006
Nonprofits Public/Private Ventures CEO Gary Walker announced his retirement after a decade running the Philadelphia-based nonprofit. Walker’s migration to P/PV began when...
