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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Let’s Go Up to the 21st Century

Fort Washington, Md. (301) 292-4925 Objective: To expose at-risk youth to aviation-related career fields at an early age. In a Nutshell: 21st...

Grants

Grants Awarded – OJJDP – For November 2004

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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Grants Awarded – SAMHSA – For November 2004

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News

What’s in a Name?

Peg Smith knows what you think when you hear “camping”: RVs. Tents. Outdoor latrines. When you’re the CEO of the American Camping...

Opinion

Do Youth Services Reduce Social Unrest?

What do Kenya, Liberia, Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Algeria, Iran, the Palestinian Territory and Saudi Arabia have in common?...

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Newsmakers for October 2004

Nonprofits For years, the regional director of Latin American programs for Covenant House, Bruce Harris, has been regarded as a warrior on...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

AP & The Volunteer State

America’s Promise (AP) has a new president from the Volunteer State, Marguerite Sallee, who most recently served as staff director of the...

Opinion

Evaluation: Risk Or Responsibility?

The July/August issue of Youth Today featured not one, but two lengthy stories on evaluation. The first, sharing the front page...

Opinion

Risky Business

The recent report entitled “Reading at Risk” revealed that, for the first time in modern history, less than half of the adult...

Research

Research of Note for October 2004

Girls and Aches, Pains and Fatigue Headache, Stomachache, Backache, and Morning Fatigue Among Adolescent Girls in the United StatesReem Ghandour, M.P.A.; Mary...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Will Youth Vote Efforts Finally Win?

After years of trying just about everything to get young people to vote, only to see their participation in elections continue to...

News

Kinship Care Kid Grows Into a Pioneer

Pittsburgh, Pa.—A dozen years ago, as Sharon Toliver McDaniel began work for a nonprofit agency here that arranged adoptions of foster...

News

Juvenile Justice

Leicester, England—What happens when a country reduces the penalties for smoking marijuana to the point where most users won’t get arrested for...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Home Opportunity Meets Emancipation (HOME)

Whittier, Calif.(562) 789-8009www.bridgeoffaith.org Objective: Help young women aging out of foster care get the support they need to live independently. In...

News

Shielding Kids From Web Porn and Violence

In blocking enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act this summer because it is probably unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court said anyone...

Opinion

Transforming America’s Juvenile Justice System

Over the past five years, public scandals about the way young people are treated in America’s juvenile justice facilities have erupted in...

Opinion

Phony ‘Youth Risks’ Are a Risk to Youth

When Food and Drug Administration official Steven Galson recently blocked over-the-counter “Plan B” emergency contraception because he worried that 11- to...

► Newsmakers

Newsmakers for September 2004

Nonprofits Communities in Schools – the 27-year-old nonprofit network of more than 200 community groups that provide resources and volunteers for schools...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Treasure Watch

Two New York City-based foundations – the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies – are revving up their nationwide grant-making...

Opinion