Connect for Kids / Child Advocacy 360 / Youth Policy Action Center - Taking Action

ExploraVision Awards for K-12 Students

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:35:56 -0500

ExploraVision competition gives students in grades K– 12 the chance to create their own visions of the future. Student teams select and research a current technology and then explore what it could be like 20 years from now.

Understanding the State of Knowledge of Youth Engagement Financing and Sustainability

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:42:46 -0500

This report provides critical information on the costs, funding sources, financing
strategies and sustainability of youth engagement. Included are also several profiles of
youth engagement programs that have implemented various promising strategies to finance

AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS: TOOLKIT FOR ADVOCACY

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:37:58 -0500

The Arts Action Center has a range of resources to take action on behalf of the arts. You can check the latest arts policy issues and find tools to identify and communicate
effectively with local, st

Rural Health Outreach Services Grant Program

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:57:00 -0500

The Health Resources and Services Administration has a new funding opportunity. Up to
$375,000 will be awarded for demonstration projects to improve health care access in
rural areas. RFP deadline: October 16. For more program information, click here.

2009 Healthy Vision Community Awards

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:55:10 -0500

This program awards up to $10,000 for collaborative initiatives that support the vision
objectives in Healthy People 2010, which address examinations and prevention, eye
diseases, injury and safety and vision rehabilitation.

Multigenerational & Civic Engagement Projects Funding

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:53:38 -0500

This National Council on Aging program is offering funds to help multigenerational and
civic engagement projects document effective local approaches and impact. Deadline for
concept paper: August 1, 2008.

Connecting Families, Schools and Community Resources

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:50:58 -0500

Schools can be more than vibrant places for learning, they can also be year-round hubs
that connect families and communities to resources and services. This brief from the
National Human Services Assembly looks at schools that doing just that and outlines

Ready by 21 Big Picture Messages & Frameworks Webinar

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:21:02 -0500

How can we improve the odds for young people? This Forum for Youth Investment Ready by
21 webinar examined the major child and youth development frameworks and offered
real-world experiences of how a coordinating a framework can improve youth programs and

Youth Work Counts Toolkit

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:19:00 -0500

This toolkit from Next Gen toolkit is designed to help organizations collect and use
local survey and focus group data about frontline youth workers to make the case for
investing in workforce development. The tools include a guide, survey and focus group

Run to Vote: High School Students Leading a 48 State Voting Drive

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:57:05 -0500

Run to Vote combines the sport of track and field with your pledge to vote in 2008.

Video: The Power of Partnership Turning Promise into Progress

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:57:40 -0500

The National Partnership has an inspirational new video highlighting victories such as the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. "We're maki

What Ever Happened to that Great Research We Did Last Year? And Why Do I Ask?

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:44:36 -0500

Because, on so many occasions during my Child Advocacy work in recent years—most recently as the founder and editor of the non profit Child Advocacy 360 News Network—I have witnessed such good research on children’s rights and child well-being, and such poor communication of the results, and such miserable follow up in leveraging the findings for the benefit of children that I have pledged to do my own “ What ever happened to….” research on this major area of underachievement, and report it in these blog-like writings. My challenge to Child advocacy researchers : Show us your battle plan post-press release and press notices. Show us the return on investment for children. It’s time for true accountability.

Toolkits for Community Change

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:58:28 -0500

The Innovation Center offers excellent, free guides to mapping community strengths and needs, engaging youth and adults together, planning civic and local action—and creating lasting change in communities and for participants.

Policymakers in Seven States Walk a Mile in the Shoes of Low-Wage Workers

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:46:32 -0500

60 policymakers and numerous low-income constituents in Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, Washington, and West Virginia are spending a month together "walking a mile" in each other's shoes to learn from one another about poverty, public policies and politics. It's part of the national Walk a Mile (WAM) project based in Seattle. Among the object lessons: policymakers will try to feed their family on the amount of money they would receive in food stamps for their family size.

Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization's Capacity

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:13:05 -0600

This W.K. Kellogg Foundation guide helps nonprofits bolster community-based projects by connecting assets in their own organizations to those in their communities. Worksheets help organizations gauge their project's interaction with local residents and institutions, the local economy and resources outside the community.