All posts tagged "Civic Engagement"

Boys & Girls Clubs Launches Unprecedented Campaign in Times Square

A countdown in Times Square to 3 p.m. — when the school day ends— is meant to highlight the important role of...

Engaging Youth Volunteers by Combating Litter and Desert Dumping

Subject: Youth Development, Civic Engagement, Environmental Education | Deadline: Aug. 5, 2014

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Keep Legal Protections for Kids Crossing Border, Rights Groups Say

As President Obama visits Texas this week, he is urging Congress to add immigration judges and detention facilities to speed up the...

BLM CO – Youth Crews Resource Management & Conservation Projects

Subject: Youth Workers, Youth Development, Job Training, Environmental Education | Deadline: July 14, 2014

BLM CA – Youth Opportunites on Public Lands

Subject: Youth Workers, Job Training, Education, Careers | Deadline: Sept. 30, 2014

The Robert R. McCormick Foundation – Early Childhood Education, Youth Civic Engagement, and Assistance for Disadvantaged Communities Grants

Subject: Education, Civic Engagement, Youth Development | Deadline: Ongoing.

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Students Help Keep Juvenile Court and Other Youth-Service Providers Honest

As I approach the end of my 10th year of teaching in a clinical program at the University of North Carolina School...

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Navigating the Future of Juvenile Sentencing After Miller v. Alabama

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth sent out an email this week lauding two recent decisions in the ongoing efforts to...

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Revisiting the ‘Reform Riot’

The recent election of Bill de Blasio, a self-proclaimed and unabashed progressive, is at once reflecting and generating renewed interest in a...

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When Reform Fails on the State Level, Turn to Local Advocates

North Carolina is the only state in the U.S. that treats all 16 and 17-year-olds as adults when they are charged with...

The Plummeting Labor Market Fortunes of Teens and Young Adults

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Woman Takes Helm at National 4-H Council

Jennifer Sirangelo, the new president and CEO of the National 4-H Council. For the first time, a woman has become president and...

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Far Rockaway Youth Group For the Youth, Run By the Youth

NEW YORK — When Milan Taylor read reports in New York City tabloids that a local elementary school, Far Rockaway’s P.S. 106, had...

Children As Givers: Teaching Kids and Teens to be Philanthropic

April 20, 2010. People around the world were glued to their TV’s as hundreds of millions of gallons of oil gushed into...

In This Together: The Hidden Cost of Young Adult Unemployment

Youth Civic Development & Education

Youth Organizations Educate Public About Affordable Care Act

ATLANTA — People trickled into the multipurpose room at Atlanta’s East Lake YMCA on a Wednesday night, some with children in tow....

All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement