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  Report Roundup of September 2005

  Education The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Transitions and the Role of Supportive Relationships, 2005MetLife This year’s annual survey focuses on...

• News

  Report Roundup for May 2005

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Community College Hoopla vs. the Equity Gap

  These are good times for community colleges. President Bush is stumping for support of the community college system. Special initiatives in the...

• News

  Pay-As-You-Go Youth Work

  San Francisco—On the last day of a month-long summer program in life skills, 14-year-old Shedrick Milton left the cozy office of the...

• Research

  Research of Note for September 2004

  This month’s studies remind us that research can surprise us and can have practical implications for youth workers, and that schools are...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Editorial

  Matching the Job to the Task On Feb. 3, Michael Hernandez of Miami slit the throat of fellow 14-year-old Jamie Gough in...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Grants Awarded for December 2003 – January 2004

  Wheat Ridge MinistriesOne Pierce Place, Suite 250EItasca, IL 60143(800) 762-6748www.wheatridge.org • Trinity Gardens Community Library Outreach Center, Mobile, Ala., $35,000 to help...

• News

  Youth Work History

  First lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her friend were afraid, and they didn’t mind letting the three dozen people gathered with them in...

• ► Newsmakers

  Newsmakers for November 2003

  Foundations The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (assets: $1.7 billion) board voted to hire CEO Carl Schramm in April 2002. That appears to...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  The Uses and Misuses of Evaluations

  There’s hardly a youth program manager in the country who doesn’t understand the uses and misuses of evaluation studies. Surely all understand...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The ‘C’s and Y’s’ of the YWCA

  A National Organization for Women (NOW) press release in May trumpeted the good news: “Women’s rights supporters across the U.S. cheered” as...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Hip-Hop: Love It, Hate It … Use It

  Hip-hop culture is everywhere: tagged on the sides of buildings and bridges, bumping in Jeep Wranglers in school parking lots, blasting out...

• News

  The Best Youth Program You Can’t Afford

  Yakima, Wash.—For youth worker Darrel Armstead, the challenge of implementing one of the nation’s most expensive and highly touted youth programs was...

• News

  Turbulent Re-Entry

  When it comes to reducing recidivism among convicted juveniles, few programs show as much promise as the Oregon Youth Authority’s Project Support....

• ► Newsmakers

  Newsmakers for May 2003

  Nonprofits The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), an Ashburn, Va.-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing park, recreation and conservation efforts, named John...

• News

  Bush Vision for Youth Funding Has Advocates Seeing Red

  Federally funded children and youth services – touching just about everything from drug counseling and job training to foster care and juvenile...

• ► Newsmakers

  Newsmakers for February 2003

  National Nonprofits The D.C.-based National Network for Youth, the trade group of service providers for runaway and homeless youth, continues its wobbly...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Grants Awarded for November 2002

  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,...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  The Truth About Jobless Teens

  By Andrew Sum and Nathan Pond Substantially weakened national labor market conditions since the early winter of 2001 have dramatically reduced job...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Grants Awarded for July 2002

  Charles Stewart Mott Foundation503 S. Saginaw Street, Suite 1200Flint, MI 48502Phone: (810) 238-5651www.mott.org • Tufts University Nonprofit Sector Leadership Program, Medford, MA,...