All posts tagged "Youth Development"

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  News Briefs for March 2002

  Gay Adoptions OK: Citing the estimated 9 million children in the United States with at least one gay parent, the American Academy...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  USA Recycle Corps

  In the beginning there was compassionate conservatism, which begat the Armies of Compassion, which begat the faith-based initiative, which begat the USA...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Not Quite Expired

  Another life-after-death tale is taking wing among the former affiliates of Children’s Express (CE). The 26-year-old youth journalism enterprise’s D.C. headquarters crashed...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Expiration Expected

  Hometown-girl-made-good Marian Wright Edelman, 62, is far from dead. But that hasn’t deterred Congress from approving two earmarks for the planned Marian...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Pubs and Videos for March 2002

  Advocacy Children’s Rights: Policy and Practice, by John Pardeck, is a valuable tool for those who work in social services as well...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Forging 21st Century Partnerships

  Now that the ink is dry on the recently reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), it’s time to examine the implications...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  AIDS Awareness In Madison County (AAIM)

    Alton, Ill.(618) 463-1906nayturMS@aol.com Objective: Promoting AIDS Awareness in the St. Louis area through hip-hop culture and youth-run media campaigns. In a...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Honors for February 2002

  Youth Leadership Award For: Leaders whose work reflects the importance of cultural understanding and education in improving peoples’ lives. By: Academy for...

• News

  4-H Marks a Century, Looks to the Next

  To celebrate its 100th anniversary, 4-H has been holding a series of discussions nationwide about the future of youth work. 4-H has...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Teen’s Suicide May Prompt New Rules on Student Pilots

  Four days after a 15-year-old flight student committed suicide by flying a plane into a Florida building, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...

• ► Newsmakers

  Newsmakers for February 2002

  Foundations The New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s policy shift to focus on strengthening urban youth service agencies in the Northeast has...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  CSAP: From Shut Up to Shut Down

  “Shut the f**k up, bitch!” That one ill-mannered and vulgar sentence has propelled the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) from a...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Innovative Inca

  An almost seven-year tour at the Ford Foundation (assets: $14.7 billion) has ended for Inca Mohamed, a program officer for children, youth...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Wanted: New Words, New Policies

  This just in: “Tween” has been chosen as the 2001 Word-of-the-Year by “Webster’s.” Prepubescent 9- to 12-year-olds are enough of a market...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Pubs and Videos for February 2002

  Books After-school Building Effective Afterschool Programs, by Olatokunbo Fashola, takes readers through the process of modeling, creating and evaluating four types of...

• News

  The Day Starts at 3

  by Richard Rothstein The art of Jacob Lawrence, the magnificent African-Amer-ican painter who wove color, shape, history and sociology into emotionally powerful...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Civic Education Project

    Evanston, Ill.(847) 467-2572www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep Objective: To promote civic responsibility among young people. In a Nutshell: CEP staff members work with teachers and...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  A Summit Too Sad

  Somewhere in the bowels of the White House someone someday somehow will see the connection between the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Foundations

  Departing from the John and James L. Knight Foundation (assets: $2.2 billion) after nine years is Community Initiatives Program Officer Linda L....

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Recipe for Reaching Teens: Blend Research with the Real World

  By Larry Hayes In 1995, the Carnegie Corporation churned out “Great Transitions,” an authoritative survey of the research on early adolescence. Here’s...