There’s hardly a youth program manager in the country who doesn’t understand the uses and misuses of evaluation studies. Surely all understand...
A National Organization for Women (NOW) press release in May trumpeted the good news: “Women’s rights supporters across the U.S. cheered” as...
Hip-hop culture is everywhere: tagged on the sides of buildings and bridges, bumping in Jeep Wranglers in school parking lots, blasting out...
Yakima, Wash.—For youth worker Darrel Armstead, the challenge of implementing one of the nation’s most expensive and highly touted youth programs was...
When it comes to reducing recidivism among convicted juveniles, few programs show as much promise as the Oregon Youth Authority’s Project Support....
Nonprofits The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), an Ashburn, Va.-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing park, recreation and conservation efforts, named John...
Federally funded children and youth services – touching just about everything from drug counseling and job training to foster care and juvenile...
National Nonprofits The D.C.-based National Network for Youth, the trade group of service providers for runaway and homeless youth, continues its wobbly...
Public Welfare Foundation1200 U St. NWWashington, DC 20009-4443(202) 965-1800www.publicwelfare.org • Homies Unidos, Los Angeles, $25,000 for general support.• Howard Brown Health Center,...
By Andrew Sum and Nathan Pond Substantially weakened national labor market conditions since the early winter of 2001 have dramatically reduced job...
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation503 S. Saginaw Street, Suite 1200Flint, MI 48502Phone: (810) 238-5651www.mott.org • Tufts University Nonprofit Sector Leadership Program, Medford, MA,...
By Andrew Hahn What prominent institution works as an occasional player in youth work but has the ability and resources to do...
Grand Rapids, Mich.(616) 967-6749www.calvin.edu/admin/precoll Objective: To help more youths, especially those in central city communities, enter and complete post-secondary education. In...
“Without a degree here,” says Kathie Carlson Tripp, leadership development executive for the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee, “you hit a brick wall.”...
Feds After languishing in the Senate for 10 months, the appointment of John Robert Flores as administrator of the Office of Juvenile...
By Natalie Gardner Lake Village, Ark.—Federal dollars for a limousine ride and a manicure? Toyce Newton knows that what she did here...
Foundations The New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s policy shift to focus on strengthening urban youth service agencies in the Northeast has...
When is a congressional earmark not an earmark, but a line item in the federal budget? When it’s the $60 million appropriated...
By Sue Badeau President George Bush last month unveiled the details of his administration’s first budget. Cabinet members held press conferences in...
They had sparred long distance through newspapers and on TV, but they met for the first time over coffee and bagels in...