All posts tagged "Youth Development"

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Help a Kid, Make a Buck

  For years, social scientists of many stripes have tried to make the case for investing in the healthy development of our nation’s...

• 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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  Report Roundup for September 2006

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Prison Break

  As mentoring’s popularity continues to soar, perhaps no one is getting more attention than children of prisoners. Programs for those youth have...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Whatever Sells

  The bigoted vendetta waged by America’s news media and institutions against youth has entered an even uglier phase: outright fabrication. Endless “teen...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Can Youth Development Programs Contribute to Academic Success?

  A hot topic in the world of after-school and youth development programs is their role in promoting young people’s academic success. Often...

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  Report Roundup for July-August 2006

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Pioneers for Peace

    Detroit, Mich.(313) 745-5053www.pioneersforpeace.org Objective: To increase awareness about the impact of violence and to help reduce violence among youth. In a...

• News

  Are You My Mentor?

  There’s this guy, a writer. Coaches a boys’ baseball team. He sees the kids three times a week; they have a great...

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  Report Roundup for June 2006

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Generation Rap

  At the Mt. Kisco Day Care Center in Westchester, N.Y., youth in the after-school program often prepare healthy snacks alongside senior citizens....

• Guest Opinion Essay

  On a Path Toward Thriving

  As caring adults in the lives of youth, many of us are privileged to witness young people discover an aspect of themselves...

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  Report Roundup for May 2006

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• 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...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Drive-By Journalism

  To grasp the appalling meanness of the American Automobile Association’s latest media attack on teenagers, consider the tragedy of Travis Bosse. He...

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  Report Roundup for April 2006

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Generation Engage

    Washington, D.C.(202) 465-4807www.generationengage.org Objective: Engage young people in dialogues about political issues and events. In a Nutshell: Generation Engage operates independently...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Federal Budget Forecast: More Pain

    February was a painful month for youth programs that get federal funding. President Bush presented a plan for domestic spending that...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  On The Verge

    Napa, Calif.(510) 599-7786www.onthemovebayarea.org Objective: Recruit and support young leaders who are committed to building effective organizations for social change in the...