Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Just Another Asian Girl?
By Ju Yon Kim When I was seven years old I went to the circus with my family and friends. We had...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Need a Grant?
By Amy Bracken Kari Pardoe is barely out of high school, but she’s already given away more money than many people do...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
With Washington Stalled On Guns, Youth Take Action
“March Madness” took on a new meaning with last month’s hard-edged gun law rhetoric from President Clinton and the National Rifle Association,...
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News
Anti-Huffing Programs Work, Then Get Cut
By Amy Bracken It’s the third most popular drug in middle school and it can kill on first use. Yet parents and...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Supreme Court Strips FDA Youth Tobacco Regs
In a 5-4 ruling last month the Supreme Court dismantled the Clinton administration’s tough teenage anti-smoking campaign by stripping away the U.S....
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
More Money for Child Abuse Services, Background Checks
By Amy Bracken President Bill Clinton, whose proposed budget for next year keeps funding for child abuse programs flat and cuts at...
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► Newsmakers
Rose Garden Baby
Remember that Rose Garden 501(c)(3) baby delivered suddenly by Bill and Hillary Clinton last May? Not too many people, even in the...
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► Newsmakers
Shifts at GCYF, OSI
On board at the D.C.-based affinity group of over 200 foundations funding children and youth undertakings is Marsha Renwanz, a well known...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
From Cold Kumpfer to Job Corps Ax
So you think there’s too much mudslinging on the White House campaign trail? Consider this consolation: It’s not as bad as what’s...
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Kauffman Coughs, Packard Dozes
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations supporting youth services, has had an expected shake-up in its...
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National Nonprofits
Communities in Schools (CIS), the Alexandria, Va.-based national program that brings youth workers into schools, has expelled Janet Langmore, its CEO of...
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Opinion
Reading Between the Lines
Over the past few months I have amassed a stack of newspaper articles about youth – not so much by design as...
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► Reports
A Piece of the Puzzle: How States Can Use Education to Make Work Pay for Welfare Recipients
As little as one semester of full-time training can result in a salary increase of as much as $10,000 for a former...
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► Reports
State Programs Can Reduce Tobacco Use
In 1997 the National Cancer Policy Board, a joint program of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council (which is...
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The Value of Investing in Youth in the Washington Metropolitan Region
Prepared for the Morino Institute by the Brookings Institution Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy When President Clinton took a tour of...
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Community Counts: How Youth Organizations Matter for Youth Development
This report is based on a study spanning 12 years, of 12-to-18-year-olds in urban and rural communities across the country, aimed at...
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News
Reviving Jackie Robinson
Richmond, Va.—Flush with a $50,000 grant from Major League Baseball, former big-leaguer John Young set out to build his field of dreams:...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Six Youths Killed During Community Service in Nevada
The driver of a minivan plowed off a busy interstate into a group of seven youths, killing five instantly as they participated...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Youth Worker Impact: Passing On Tradition Keeps Game Alive
Richmond, Va.—When youth baseball coaches cite the names of the men who taught them the game, they touch on the special continuity...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Getting Personal: England Gives Kids Advisers
While “guidance counselor” in the United States has routinely come to mean a desk-bound administrator who dispenses college applications, England has just...
