News Kellogg Announces $32.5 Million to Improve Access to Healthy Food, Physical Activity Nine communities that participated in the foundation's Food & Fitness initiative in 2007 will receive funding of almost $11 million over the next three years.... Posted: 11/18/09 Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Receives $30 Million From Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation Most of the grant, $25 million, will go toward construction of a pediatric research facility at Emory University, while the remaining $5 million will support research efforts at the Marcus Autism Center.... Posted: 11/16/09 Community Foundation Update (11/14/09) News and personnel announcements from community foundations around the country.... Posted: 11/14/09 Gates Foundation Awards $4 Million to Improve College Graduation Rates in Seven Cities The grants will be used to launch nine-month collaborative planning efforts designed to improve college graduation rates through better coordination of the services that colleges, schools, and communities provide to students.... Posted: 11/09/09 WHO, UNICEF, GAVI Alliance Announce Plans to Tackle Child Pneumonia The WHO and UNICEF have announced a comprehensive plan to save up to 5.3 million children from dying of pneumonia by 2015, while the GAVI Alliance has committed to the immunization of 130 million children over the same period.... Posted: 11/03/09 More youth news...

Requests for Proposals PeyBack Foundation Announces 2011 Grant Guidelines to Support Programs for Disadvantaged Children Deadline: February 01, 2010 Grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to agencies and organizations working to advance the welfare of disadvantaged children in Indiana, Tennessee, and New Orleans.... Posted: 11/20/09 Gulfsouth Youth Action Fund Invites Letter of Intent From New Orleans Youth Organizations Deadline: December 20, 2009 (Letters of Intent) Grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded to individual youth, unincorporated youth groups, nonprofits, and faith-based organizations working to empower and train a young generation of community leaders in New Orleans.... Posted: 11/19/09 Clorox Announces New Grant Initiative to Fund Youth Programs Deadline: November 29, 2009 Five grants of $10,000 will be awarded to nonprofit youth programs working on projects that enrich the lives of young people in their communities.... Posted: 11/05/09 Do Something Awards to Honor Young Social Change Activists Deadline: December 15, 2009 Young people age 25 or under will be honored for their leadership in community improvement and concern for the lives of others with grants of up to $100,000 to the cause of their choice.... Posted: 10/01/09 Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation Announces Call for Teacher Award Applications Deadline: December 04, 2009 Grants of $1,000 will be awarded to child care teachers in the United States and on U.S. military bases around the world whose classroom ideas encourage educational, social, and emotional growth.... Posted: 3/23/09 More youth RFPs...

Newsmakers Douglas W. Nelson, President, Annie E. Casey Foundation: Leveraging Resources to Help Disadvantaged Families PND spoke with the president of the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation about the impact of the economic slowdown on the outcomes for kids in the U.S., the foundation's Making Connections initiative, and the philanthropic response to 9/11.... Posted: 10/30/02 Geoffrey Canada, President/CEO, Harlem Children's Zone, Inc.: Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth Through a Place-Based Strategy PND spoke with HCZ president Geoffrey Canada about the crisis facing low-income kids and the lessons he has learned over a twenty-year career dedicated to improving outcomes for children and youth.... Posted: 10/17/02 Michael Bailin, President, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation: A High-Engagement Approach to the Field of Youth Development The EMCF president spoke with PND about the foundation's decision to depart its longstanding program areas, its new high-engagement approach to grantmaking, and the similarities and differences between that approach and venture philanthropy.... Posted: 9/27/02

Connections Children of Immigrants Data Tool Posted: 10/04/09 Programs for Children and Youth in a Community Context Posted: 8/04/09 Federal Expenditures on Infants and Toddlers in 2007 Posted: 5/26/09 A Developmental Perspective on College and Workplace Readiness Posted: 11/29/08 Growing Up in North America: The Economic Well-Being of Children in Canada, the United States, and Mexico Posted: 11/01/08

Off the Shelf Kids Taking Action by Pamela Roberts. Posted: 4/08/03 The Season of Hope: A Risk Management Guide for Youth-Serving Nonprofits by Barbara B. Oliver, John C. Patterson. Posted: 10/22/02

On the Web Leading to Reading http://www.rif.org/leadingtoreading/en/ Posted: 1/13/09 The League http://www.leagueworldwide.org/ Posted: 9/23/08 Loveisrespect.org http://www.loveisrespect.org/ Posted: 7/15/08 KIDS COUNT Data Center http://www.kidscount.org/datacenter/ Posted: 2/26/08 Scenarios USA http://scenariosusa.org/ Posted: 3/27/07

NPO Spotlight Youth Villages Posted: 11/03/09 National Academy Foundation Posted: 9/01/09 BELL Posted: 8/11/09 Save the Children USA Posted: 7/14/09 Kids in Need Foundation Posted: 3/10/09

Special Issues Funding for Children & Youth Posted: 10/01/02