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Senator Specter Announces Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Will Receive $8.6 million for Truancy Prevention
Source: Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Funding from DoJ will reduce truancy, improve academics among underserved youth Washington D.C. Today U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) announced that the U.S. Department of Justice has awarded Big Brothers Big Sisters of America a significant grant to enhance its mentoring programs. The $8,615,548 grant,…
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President McAleese launches 'Preparing for Life'
Source: Northside Partnership
A unique early intervention programme which provides services to support parents to ensure that a child is ready for school on a social and emotional level will be launched today by President Mary McAleese at the Darndale and Belcamp Village Centre.Co-ordinated by the Northside Partnership,…
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Global know-how for kids coming to terms with sex
Source: Argus Weekend (South Africa)
South Africa is falling into line with other countries in bringing awareness of the dangers of HIV and risky sexual behaviour to younger and younger children. Children of 12 are indulging in risky sex, highlighting the need for a speedy shift in sexual health awareness.…
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The new philanthropists: Silicon Valley teens
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Original Source by Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer A group of Kenyan orphans is tasting milk for the first time. On a train platform in India, teachers are giving lessons to children whose families force them to beg from passengers. And in Thailand, health workers…
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Looking at the Dropout Issue
Source: The Washington Post
Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer Some of the most troubling questions about schools, such as what causes dropouts, have few clear answers because there is so little research. And the reason that data is lacking, at least in part, is that…
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Rockland wins $100,000 grant, kicks off its piece of national youth collaborative initiative
Source: The Journal News
By Randi Weiner WEST NYACK - Rockland is one of four counties in New York to get money for a national program designed to help prepare kids for adulthood by improving the quality of youth programs already in place and getting those hundreds of separate…
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Springfield greatly expands summer school
Source: The Republican
Springfield greatly expands summer school By MARLA A. GOLDBERG SPRINGFIELD - The School Committee has voted to substantially expand summer school for students finishing the fifth and eighth grades who fail Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests. The new program, to run eight hours a day…
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Happily ever after school
Source: Boston Globe
A CHILD'S calendar has many long hours out of school. Afternoons, weekends, and summers offer some children rich experiences and adventures. But for other children these hours are wastelands of idleness, junk television, and opportunities to get into trouble. Fortunately, two state legislators want to…
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Families 'locked in poverty cycle'
Source: Irish Times
Better education levels and more economic resources mean we have an awesome responsibility to ensure that children of all backgrounds benefit from "the rising tide", President Mary McAleese said yesterday. She paid tribute to the work of staff at a Galway-based family research centre established…
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After a Century of Operations, a Charity Starts Its Growth Spurt
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Proponents of a move to rapidly expand successful nonprofit programs - or "take them to scale" - tend to have in mind relatively new charities started by ambitious social entrepreneurs. Yet few large nonprofit groups are growing as fast these days as Big Brothers Big…
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