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Shifts at GCYF, OSI

On board at the D.C.-based affinity group of over 200 foundations funding children and youth undertakings is Marsha Renwanz, a well known...

► Newsmakers

Kauffman Coughs, Packard Dozes

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations supporting youth services, has had an expected shake-up in its...

► Newsmakers

National Nonprofits

Communities in Schools (CIS), the Alexandria, Va.-based national program that brings youth workers into schools, has expelled Janet Langmore, its CEO of...

► Reports

Community Counts: How Youth Organizations Matter for Youth Development

This report is based on a study spanning 12 years, of 12-to-18-year-olds in urban and rural communities across the country, aimed at...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Getting Personal: England Gives Kids Advisers

While “guidance counselor” in the United States has routinely come to mean a desk-bound administrator who dispenses college applications, England has just...

News

An Abrasive ‘Mother Teresa’ Says, ‘Drop The Guns’

LORAIN, Ohio—Re’Nee Gill’s service to kids came while she was saving herself. To understand her passion about stopping gun violence, go back...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Congressional Mystery: The Quest for Mount Hope’s Youth Center

As budget items go, this one seemed simple: “$3,000,000 for the Mount Hope Center for a youth program.” Given the enormity of...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

$222 Million in Grants Target Poor Youth

Some 44,000 young people have been targeted by $222 million in Youth Opportunity grants aimed at getting them back to school, enrolling...

News

Youth Empowerment’s Spotty Gains

For today’s youth activists the era of considering teens as primarily passive recipients of adult guidance may seem like life from another...

News

Fatherhood Groups Aim to Make Men ‘Secure Within Themselves’

Although around since 1994, the D.C.-based National Practitioner’s Network for Fathers and Families (NPNFF) is just beginning to hit its stride as...

News

In Milwaukee, Youth Worker Training Pays

Milwaukee, Wis.—Wanted: Youth workers to go to school to learn how to be better youth workers. Money a problem? We’ll pay. Time...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Colorado Cops Keep Tabs On All Youth They Contact

Police in the county where the infamous Columbine High School shootings took place are now keeping a database on juveniles after every...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Me and My Mentor

BY TARA BONAPARTE When I first came to Saint Christopher’s, a residential treatment center for foster youth in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., I...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

My Mentor Taught Me to be A Real Reporter

BY CLAUDIA TEJADA The first time I visited my mentor was nerve-wracking. I pictured her as an obnoxious, rude, demanding editor who...

Guest Opinion Essay

How About Education, Competence – and a Pay Raise?

By Mark Krueger Turnover and incompetence among youth workers are serious threats to youth development. Across the country employers are struggling to...

Guest Opinion Essay