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Inside the Fight to Save AmeriCorps

Washington, D.C.—The battle to save AmeriCorps began at breakfast. It was May 16, and more than a dozen executives from some of...

News

When Kids Hold the Purse Strings

American teens are notorious big spenders, plunking down $170 billion in 2002 for electronic gadgets, movie and concert tickets, food, clothes and...

News

‘Have You Ever Been Convicted …?’

Not long ago, the convicted sex offender who tried to volunteer with a youth soccer club in New York this summer probably...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Web Watch for September 2003

After School Child Care Awarewww.childcareaware.orghelps visitors find child care services. The site includes geography-based searches for providers and tips on choosing...

Opinion

An Industry in Denial

In June, Youth Today ran a story alleging that somewhere in Santa Clara County, Calif., there is an institution called EMQ Children...

Grants

Grants Awarded for July-August 2003

Gill Foundation2215 Market St., Suite 205Denver, CO 80205(303) 292-4455www.gillfoundation.org The following organizations received grants to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender causes...

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Report Roundup for July-August 2003

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

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Awards for July-August 2003

Community Health Leadership Program For: Providing unique services to those most in need in the areas of adolescent obesity, prenatal care for...

News

After-School Funds Make a Comeback

Critics of the House Republicans may need to reconsider charges that Congress is nothing but a rubber stamp for the Bush administration,...

Opinion

A Gift Too Far

The Bush administration’s latest “play now, pay later” tax cut is now the law of the land. The cumulative impact of the...

Opinion

Youth and Financial Assets

Capitalism doesn’t worship the young for nothing. The teenage and tween buying market is huge, with kids spending $9.5 billion on personal...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Feminism and the Plight of Boys (and)

Feminism, Gender Roles and StereotypesThe feminist movement has freed many young women from confining gender roles. Nowadays, it sometimes seems as if...

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Promise to Get the FactsPeter A. Gallagher, CEOAmerica’s Promise Alexandria, Va.Wraparound’s I am writing in response to your recent Nose Knows column...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

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...

► Newsmakers

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...

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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