All posts tagged "Management"

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  When a Thief Strikes from Inside

    Retired police investigator Jim Brauch blames himself for the troubles that helped force the South Everett Youth and Community Center to...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  The New Isolationists?

  I have heard it all too often in youth program circles: “The United States should focus on the challenges right here between...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  America’s Overpaid Promise

  The February edition of Youth Today arrived one recent day, and as I do every year with this particular issue, I flipped...

• News

  CWLA Chief Seeks a New Placement

    Taking over the Child Welfare League of America after David Liederman retired in 1999 was never going to be easy. The...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Secret to Success: Deliver Meaning

  Accomplishment. Beauty. Community. Creation. Duty. Those are five of the 15 “meanings” identified in a hot new business book about the bottom-line...

• News

  Report Roundup for March 2006

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Communities Get Scored on Helping Kids

  When Marguerite Sallee became CEO of America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth a little more than a year ago, she saw...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Cadillacs for Kids

  Knoxville, Tenn. There is nothing fancy about where Rick Bowen lives, except perhaps the shiny Cadillacs in the parking lot. “I wouldn’t...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Katrina’s Harsh Winds of Change

  The Children’s Coalition for Northeast Louisiana (CCNL) is based in Monroe, safely tucked away from the winds of Hurricane Katrina and the...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Youth Work in Hurricanes

    The Impact: Buildings lost, staff and kids scattered The executive director of the Youth Empowerment Project was trying to hold her...

• Cutting the Cost of Ex-Employees

  If your agency pays into a standard state unemployment insurance fund, it could be wasting money. Nonprofits can opt out of a...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Business Leaders May Have the Wrong Stuff

  There is a great scene in the first half of the movie The Right Stuff. A group of men is crowded around...

• News

  So Many Friends, So Fast

  Portland, Ore. One of the first things Catherine Milton noticed when she became president of Friends of the Children (FOTC) three years...

• News

  Report Roundup for May 2005

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Research

  Research of Note from May 2005

  Growth of Youth-Serving Organizations The Bridgespan Group Available free online at www.bridgespangroup.org/growthstudy. “What happens when a youth-serving organization attempts to grow larger...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Poop n’ Scoop

  The abysmal state of knowledge development and its dissemination in youth work is captured by two items among the avalanche of newsletters,...

• News

  Report Roundup for April 2005

  Child Welfare Substance Use and Need for Treatment among Youths Who Have Been in Foster Care U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Raiding Our Staff at Nonprofits

  A while back, one of my best staffers came to me with the kind of news that is too commonly heard by...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Tracking Alumni

  By Ed Finkel Bloomington, Ill.—Construction contractor Jason Wallace heard an unexpected knock at his front door one day a couple of years...

• News

  Report Roundup for February 2005

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.