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The Collective Leadership Framework: A Workbook for Cultivating and Sustaining Community Change

W.K. Kellogg Foundation/Kellogg Leadership for Community Change KLCC acknowledges that “conventional approaches to training leaders often overlook important community voices.” To ensure...

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Performance Measurement: Getting Results

The Urban Institute The Urban Institute Press has released a second edition of its step-by-step explanation of how to obtain and analyze...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Web Watch for April 2002

Education BBC Education Online: Count Me Inwww.bbc.co.uk/education/revisewise is a part of BBC Online’s enormous education site dedicated to children. Created as...

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Can Nonprofits and Schools Share Power?

Henriquez-McArdle has helped South Brooklyn Community High School evolve into a model for curtailing dropouts. Photo: Nura Qureshi Brooklyn, N.Y.—For four years,...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Unemployment Trusts For Nonprofits Merge

Two of the nation’s leading unemployment trusts for nonprofits have merged, creating one of the largest such firms in the country. Joint...

For Runaway Shelters, Cash Makes Change

Theresa Tod When Theresa Tod started working at a runaway shelter in the 1970s, she didn’t feel much different from the kids...

Youth Programs and Schools Find a New Way to Share

Just four years ago, Rita McCord couldn’t tell how the kids at Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs of Louisville were doing...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Foundation Child Neglect in New Orleans?

New Orleans, La. — While billions of dollars have been poured into rebuilding this city and much of the Gulf Coast after...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Safe Sitter

Indianapolis, Ind.(800) 255-4089www.safesitter.org Objective: Improve the welfare of young children by increasing the number of young adolescents instructed in safe child-care...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

RIP: A Nonprofit Knows it’s Time to Go

Even when Family Support America (FSA) was flush with $24 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, its leaders knew trouble lurked...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Hope Springs from Katrina’s Rubble

New Orleans, La. — Dolores Whitfield returned to her battered shotgun home, one of the rectangular domiciles that were invented here, shortly...

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Storm Opens Doors to ‘change the things we did wrong’

Simon Gonsoulin and David Bell saw different things happening in juvenile justice before Katrina came ashore. But ask either how the storm...

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Devastated Agency Strains To Shift Toward Preservation

For decades, Marketa Gautreau railed against the quality of service provided to Louisiana’s abused and neglected children as CEO of Prevent Child...

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Youth Groups Bring Hammers and Swings

Following are some of the relief efforts conducted by national organizations in the areas affected by the hurricanes: YouthBuild USA: Hundreds of...

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Report Roundup for September 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

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Report Roundup for July-August 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Guest Opinion Essay

Not Sick Enough

The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently announced some positive news at its first National Children’s Mental Health...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Men’s Sufferage in Youth Work

The quiet rebellion over men at the YWCA began seven years ago in Olympia, Wash., and Tucson, Ariz. In a move that...

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Research of Note for June 2006

What Are Kids Getting Into These Days? Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of-School Time Participation Harvard Family Research ProjectAvailable at www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/content/projects/afterschool/resources/demographic.pdf When...

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