Elizabeth Lindsey is the new chief executive officer (CEO) of Urban Alliance, succeeding seven-year CEO, Eshauna Smith, on April 12, 2021.
March on Washington, August 1963, 250,000 people. Women’s March, January 2017, 7 million people, worldwide. March for Our Lives, March 2018, 2...
Alabama is entering the 2021 legislative session, one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. For advocacy groups serving working-class families, Medicaid expansion is...
For a decade, expansion had been unpopular with conservative voters too, in part because of its ties to the Democratic former president...
The “essential workers” hailed as pandemic heroes often lack the basic protections of a living wage, health insurance, paid sick leave and...
The Urban Institute discusses the effects of school district boundaries on the racial segregation of schools in Atlanta.
A crisis is when a non-common negative occurrence increases in trend and frequency. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic there seems...
Position Profile: Executive Director Application Deadline — March 19 The Providence After School Alliance (PASA) is currently seeking an Executive Director who...
I was in foster care for 14 years. I was in 10 different foster homes and two different group homes. I represent...
COVID relief funding from the federal government, if passed into law, will make a historic reduction in child poverty and could also...
Christian Picciolini, 14, was hanging out one day in an alley near the intersection of Union and Division streets in Chicago. An older...
RUSSIAN FEDERATION/SHUTTERSTOCK What do you do if you find racist graffiti on a wall near your school or youth program? Or come...
Nora Flanagan’s first brush with hate group recruiting took place when she was 15 and living in Beverly, a southwest Chicago neighborhood....
Save the Children releases a new report analyzing how COVID has impacted children and families around the nation while ranking each state...
A new study from the Children’s Bureau in the federal Department of Health and Human Services reveals some shocking findings. It turns...
Youth Participatory Evaluation (YPE) is the involvement of young people in monitoring and evaluation practices and processes, including planning, data collection, analysis...
One Atlanta organization is taking steps to make sure disability issues are being heard and considered at Georgia’s 40-day legislative session. For about...
Ever heard of a state or county “independent living coordinator?” I have and I’m fascinated by the near-mythical role they play as they...
The National 4-H Council recently announced the appointment of Ivan Heredia as its new senior vice president and chief marketing officer.
In 2013, while I was in college at the University of Arizona based in Tucson, I had the opportunity to participate in...