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A large fiberglass tank was placed in a pit, as shown below. Before pipes could be attached and the tank filled with...

Anti-Drug Groups Go Cold Turkey – on Cash

Judy Rubin and Bobbi Douglas were feeling pretty confident in early September. Both run agencies that have won federal Drug-Free Communities (DFC)...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

When Youth Job Training is Job 1

Chances are, if you’re not old enough to vote, you’re not pulling in a paycheck. Today’s teens face the most dismal job...

News

In Windy City, Dropouts Drift In

Chicago People here call Jack Wuest many things.“Passionate advocate.”“Bulldog.”“Hope merchant.”“A real a—hole.” That last one comes from Wuest, projecting what some people...

News

YAPing it Up

Lebanon, Pa. Alan McLoughlin spends much of his week laboring in his family’s construction business, doing what’s commonly considered tiring work. He...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Feds Find it Painful to PART

Youth-serving programs might take comfort in knowing that even federal agencies feel the pain of funding, designing and conducting program evaluations. The...

Research

Research of December 2005-January 2006

Analysis of Predictors of Participation in Out-of-School Time Activities Harvard Family Research Project/Harvard UniversityAvailable at www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/ost_findings.html. Ask teens why they’re not doing...

Opinion

Private Pays, but Not for Kids

The business section of The New York Times ran a feature story in August titled, “A Business Built on the Troubles of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

JACS Tossed By Job Corps

JACS Tossed By Job Corps It would be hard to imagine a more innocuous do-gooder, national youth-serving organization than Joint Action in...

Opinion

France Could Learn From U.S. Youth Riots

Last month’s youth riots in France raised many important questions, including what that country must do to tackle chronic youth alienation and...

An alliance gives Boston youth workers clout and camaraderie

As the Boston Red Sox completed their historic march to the world baseball championship in 2004, a fledgling alliance of the city’s...

Communities Get Scored on Helping Kids

When Marguerite Sallee became CEO of America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth a little more than a year ago, she saw...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Cadillacs for Kids

Knoxville, Tenn. There is nothing fancy about where Rick Bowen lives, except perhaps the shiny Cadillacs in the parking lot. “I wouldn’t...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Inspiring Kids to Get Active

If you make cars or deodorant, it’s relatively easy to see the effect of your advertisements: Look at sales. But if you...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Katrina’s Harsh Winds of Change

The Children’s Coalition for Northeast Louisiana (CCNL) is based in Monroe, safely tucked away from the winds of Hurricane Katrina and the...

Opinion

Medellin’s Murdered Children … and Ours

“Just light sprinkles,” the pilot rasped as my flight from Medellin, Colombia, descended through Miami’s murky skies. “In a few hours, it’ll...

E-mentoring removes barriers, but requires new procedures and struggles in evaluations

At a time when many youth-serving programs are virtually begging adults to volunteer as mentors, anyone who wants to mentor for Best...

► Newsmakers

Newsmakers for November 2005

Nonprofits After seven years at the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC), Executive Director David Brown departs this month to join the ever-expanding...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier