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Drop and Kick

The youth field is certainly well acquainted with the power of hokey statistics. Inflated numbers are the stock in trade for everyone...

Opinion

The Uses and Misuses of Evaluations

There’s hardly a youth program manager in the country who doesn’t understand the uses and misuses of evaluation studies. Surely all understand...

News

Federal Grants Website: Will it Click?

The federal government is making it easier for nonprofits to find, apply for and win federal grants. Those goals are not fully...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Grants Awarded for October 2003

Otto Bremer Foundation445 Minnesota St., Suite 2000St. Paul, MN 55101(651) 227-8036www.fdncenter.org/grantmaker/bremer • Boardsource, Washington, $7,500 to support work with nonprofit boards in...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Being Pimped Ain’t Easy (and)

Music, Sex and Responsibility Music has an enormous influence on young people, but it’s usually adults who worry about that influence. In...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

News Briefs for October 2003

Kids and Adults: The Culture Gap Amazed by what today’s kids don’t seem to know or by what they take for granted?...

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Newsmakers for October 2003

Nonprofits Archbishop Elden Curtiss of Omaha stepped down as chairman of Girls and Boys Town’s 20-member board of trustees last month after...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The ‘C’s and Y’s’ of the YWCA

A National Organization for Women (NOW) press release in May trumpeted the good news: “Women’s rights supporters across the U.S. cheered” as...

Opinion

On Nature vs. Nurture, Success and Failure

Almost everyone remembers doing the obligatory science experiment where two identical seeds (mine were lima beans) are grown under different conditions and...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Press Watch for October 2003

Safe Haven: School Provides Needed Stability for Homeless Teens and Street Wisdom: Young Outreach Worker Hits the Ground to Aid Hub’s Homeless...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for October 2003

Civic Engagement Millennial Manifesto: A Youth Activist Handbook, by Scott Beale and Abeer Abdalla, is a call to arms for members of...

Opinion

New Schools = New Opportunities for Youth Groups

Here’s a fact that may not have yet crossed the radar screen of most youth workers: America is involved in a major...

News

Report Roundup for October 2003

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Research

Research of Note for October 2003

Looking for Good News About Youth State of Our Country’s Youth 2003Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished AmericansAvailable free at www.horatioalger.com/pdfs/state03.pdf. When I...

Opinion

Taking Collaboration for Youth Seriously

As chairman of the National Collaboration for Youth, a coalition of more than 40 national nonprofit youth-serving and youth-interested organizations, I am...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The ManaTEEN Club

Bradenton, Fla.(941) 761-3207www.manateens.org Objective: Train youth for community service and connect them to community needs that fit their interests. In a...

News