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The Summer Gap
Source: The Washington Post
Poor children should not return to school already behind. A NEW SCHOOL YEAR is beginning, and students are returning to classrooms with stories of how they spent the summer. Many will talk of taking trips to historic places, having fun at summer camps or learning…
Resource type: News
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Rogers: House OKs Child Safety Program Extension
Original Source U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, MI-08, issued the following statement today after the U.S. House of Representatives voted Monday evening to adopt a six-month extension of the Child Safety Pilot Program, which allows youth-serving organizations to obtain criminal history background checks on their volunteers.…
Resource type: News
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Safer Streets in Viet Nam: A Public Health Turnaround?
Source: Gara LaMarche
When I made my first visit to Viet Nam last month, to visit Atlantic’s office and staff there and travel to rural health clinics, hospitals, schools and NGOs that we support, I couldn’t help but notice that the streets of Ha Noi were teeming with…
Resource type: News
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Our Schools Must Do Better
Source: New York Times
I asked a high school kid walking along Commonwealth Avenue if he knew who the vice president of the United States was. He thought for a moment and then said, "No." I told him to take a guess. He thought for another moment, looked at…
Resource type: News
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National Children’s Bureau
$2,798,077
Resource type: Grantee
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Red Cross Children’s Hospital
$2,671,868
Resource type: Grantee
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Harlem Children’s Zone
$3,800,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Children’s Defense Fund
$5,521,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Children’s Village
$3,142,837
Resource type: Grantee
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The Children’s Museum of Boston
$780,000
Resource type: Grantee