Youth Today
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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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► Newsmakers
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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► Newsmakers
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...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Nonprofits Warn About For-Profits
By Amy Bracken Are for-profit companies fit to serve youth? A group of the nation’s top nonprofits issued a warning last month...
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News
An Abrasive ‘Mother Teresa’ Says, ‘Drop The Guns’
LORAIN, Ohio—Re’Nee Gill’s service to kids came while she was saving herself. To understand her passion about stopping gun violence, go back...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Congressional Mystery: The Quest for Mount Hope’s Youth Center
As budget items go, this one seemed simple: “$3,000,000 for the Mount Hope Center for a youth program.” Given the enormity of...
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News
Welfare-to-Work Overhaul Boosts Fatherhood Groups
It took 20 phone calls to persuade him, but 21-year-old Julius Armstrong – a noncustodial never-married father – finally said, “I’ve got...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
$222 Million in Grants Target Poor Youth
Some 44,000 young people have been targeted by $222 million in Youth Opportunity grants aimed at getting them back to school, enrolling...
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News
Case Could Harm U.S. Kids Abducted to Foreign Lands
The Elian Gonzalez child custody case may thrill foes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, but it may jeopardize the return of more...
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News
Youth Empowerment’s Spotty Gains
For today’s youth activists the era of considering teens as primarily passive recipients of adult guidance may seem like life from another...
