Client News
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Effort Aims to Tie Foreign Language Study to Common Standards
11/15/2011
Effort Aims to Tie Foreign Language Study to Common Standards...
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Children at Inner Harbour Campus design dream playground with help from KaBOOM!
08/15/2011
Children from the Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus just outside Atlanta put crayon to paper to draw their dream playgrounds......
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Abigail Falik wants students to take a year off, doing good abroad
04/11/2011
As America's young adults find themselves in a new global economy and job market, her idea has come to fruition at exactly the right moment....
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Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program is Awarded $3.5 Million Social Innovation Fund Grant
04/11/2011
The Children’s Aid Society Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program has been awarded a $3.5 million Social Innovation Fund grant...
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Nonprofits, Eat Your Spinach
03/28/2011
Charities and service groups wield a big advantage in grassroots lobbying...
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What George Will Got Right About Teach for America—and What He Got Wrong
03/15/2011
The flawed way most federal grant programs are designed leave innovative organizations few options but to pursue them...
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Volunteer Groups Rally to Save Grants
03/15/2011
A coalition of volunteer service groups has banded together to fight House-approved budget cuts to the Corporation for National and Community Service...
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Will We Save Service in America? You Make the Call
03/10/2011
Make the Call to Save Service in America! ...
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Read about the Partnership between Global Citizen Year and the Nike Foundation
03/08/2011
Global Citizen Year joins a growing movement of individuals and organizations who understand that investing in girls is the most powerful – and lasting – way to reduce poverty across generations...
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Save Service:The Future of AmeriCorps
03/05/2011
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would completely eliminate AmeriCorps...
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FCHS English teacher encourages reading
03/03/2011
Read 180 is a program designed to help students not only learn how to read, but master the art of reading so they can succeed in other classes....
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House Passes Bill to Keep Gov’t Running, Scrap Reading Programs
03/01/2011
The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would keep the lights on at the U.S. Department of Education and other agencies for the next two weeks....
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Play Matters: A Study of Local Policy and Practice
02/25/2011
Seeking innovative ways to improve the accessibility, quality, and quantity of play and play spaces for children. ...
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Technology his launchpad for literacy, human rights
01/30/2011
Benetech CEO Jim Fruchterman created Bookshare, the world's largest digital library that makes books available to the blind...
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National Imperative for Language Learning
01/25/2011
Then the Internet and rapid globalization introduced new challenges...
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Family Finance: A gap year need not break the bank
01/25/2011
When you've saved for years, an announcement that your child wants to take a year off before heading to college can be scary....
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More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
01/23/2011
NFTE works with middle- and high-school teachers to help them teach entrepreneurship...
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In International Volunteerism, Structure Pays
01/19/2011
More than 10 years ago, I struck out on my own to spend a semester living and working in Salvador, Brazil...
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2009 Pisa Data Released
12/15/2010
On December 7th, 2010 the results of the 2009 PISA were released by OECD ...
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Catholic Charities: Burning Down Bureaucracy?
10/08/2010
CCUSA has drafted its own version of far-ranging reform of social service policy in the United States...
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A D.C. family works to reunify, in and out of court
09/10/2010
Danielle Pleasant knows this is her last shot....
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Wall Street Reform Passes
07/15/2010
Congress passed its Wall Street reform package, 60-39, with only three Republicans joining every Democrat (but one). ...
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Holliston’s French Immersion Program Nominated for National Award
06/10/2010
Holliston's French Immersion Program Nominated for National Award ...
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Proven Sex-Ed Programs Get A Boost From Obama
06/06/2010
Under the Obama administration, the U.S. is shifting gears on teen pregnancy prevention...
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Teach for the World
03/10/2010
A drumroll, please. In a moment, the winner of my 2010 “win-a-trip” contest....
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Outreach in the Age of Pullback
11/11/2009
A new government fund meant to help innovative, successful nonprofits expand their reach...
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Obama Lauds Non-Profits’ Inventive Spirit
06/30/2009
Challenged by President Barack Obama to invest in community solutions across the United States...
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Citizen Schools in Run to Pitch to Obama
01/07/2009
Citizen Schools has made it to the last round of voting in a campaign ...
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What About the Children?
10/14/2008
The first children's commission meeting is expected to focus on a broad variety of issues...
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Thoroughly Modern Do-Gooders
03/21/2008
They call themselves social entrepreneurs, and you can find them in the neediest places on earth....
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ON DEADLINE: When Government Can’t Do It
12/10/2007
Government doesn’t have all the answers...
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Rewriting Uncle Sam’s Role
11/10/2007
Republican and Democratic presidential contenders are already arguing about whether Washington should expand or reduce its role in confronting domestic problems...
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The New Engines of Reform
02/12/2006
They're called "social entrepreneurs," ...one of the hottest movements to ripple across college campuses and into young urban communities...