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News Briefs for July 2003

Foundations Fight Law To Give More Some of the nation’s largest foundations are trying to change a provision in a federal charity...

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Newsmakers for July 2003

Nonprofits After 10 years, National Center for Children in Poverty Director Larry Aber announced that he will be leaving the center, which...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Finding Affinity

The foundation world may have trouble promoting and sustaining positive social change, but when it comes to setting up special interest caucuses,...

Opinion

21st Century Skills and Indicators

We’re getting close. On June 5, 50 hand-picked researchers, practitioners and policy experts from academia and youth development gathered in Washington at...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Press Watch for July 2003

Bellingham Cops Train to Be Foster Parents for Vulnerable KidsSeattle Post-Intelligencer Police in Bellingham, Wash., plan a new program that prepares officers...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for July-August 2003

Abuse Sins of the Fathers: A Look at the Relationship between Child Abuse and Delinquency, by Dane Elmar Petersen, provides insight for...

Opinion

Summertime: Is the Living Too Easy?

Many of the young people that youth agencies serve are about to lose a lot of what they’ve spent the past nine...

Research

Research of Note for July-August 2003

Several studies of youth have made headlines in recent months, but the research may be more complicated than it seems at first...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Stone Soup Nutrition and Fitness Program

Encino, Calif.(818) 905-1441www.stonesoupchildcare.org Objective: Helping low-income children learn how to avoid obesity and other food-based health problems. In a Nutshell: Kids from...

News

Football Star Scores in Washington

At a time when after-school and AmeriCorps programs face proposed federal cuts that could eliminate services for untold thousands of children, the...

News

Plastic Card Tells A Dangerous Truth

Chicago—A couple years ago, managers at the Gen. Robert E. Wood Boys & Girls Club began begging for money to hire more...

News

United Kingdom

Leicester, England—More kids are lighting up joints at some youth clubs here, and youth workers who confront them are getting a new...

News

AmeriCorps Hang-up Leaves Agencies Dangling

With youth-serving agencies around the country bracing for major losses in volunteer staff because of a financial crisis at AmeriCorps, Congress stepped...

News

Juvenile Justice

A new federal study has stirred the debate over minority over-representation in the juvenile justice system by finding no evidence of racial...

News

Responding to Crisis

The Catholic Church sex abuse scandal offers an ever-growing list of lessons in how to handle or flub an organizational crisis, with...

News

Youth Employment

This summer’s youth job market is expected to be the worst since the end of World War II, and is not likely...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Web Watch for July-August 2003

After School Promising Practices in Afterschool http://www.afterschool.org%20provides youth workers with a valuable resource that covers all aspects of creating or improving...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Awards for June 2003

Prudential Spirit of Community Awards For: Personal initiative, creativity, effort, impact and personal growth; each winner receives $1,000.By: Prudential Financial.Winners Include: Laura...