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Latest News and Events
The Untapped Power of Youth Engagement
We increasingly hear talk these days about youth engagement, a popular youth-development strategy that has been successful in many places – but that remains underused in many others.
Publishing Date:
April 22, 2013
Nonprofit Forms Affiliate to Boost Collective Impact for Youth
Contact: Patrick Boyle
202-207-3729
patrick@forumfyi.org
The nonprofit Forum for Youth Investment has formed a new affiliate to help communities achieve collective impact for young people.
Publishing Date:
March 8, 2013
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White House Opportunity: Help Shape Performance Partnership Pilots on Disconnected Youth Webinar Recording
Publishing Date:
October 2, 2012
Improving Outcomes for Disconnected Youth
That's the advice the Forum for Youth Investment gave the U.S. Department of Education as it sought input about effective practices and strategies to improve outcomes for disconnected youth. The department's Request for Information also asked about legislative and regulatory barriers that inhibit states and localities from serving this population as well as they could.
Publishing Date:
August 14, 2012
Race to the Top District Competition
Recommendations Submitted by the Forum for Youth Investment
Prepared by Thaddeus Ferber, June 2012
Publishing Date:
June 13, 2012
Aligning Policies, Increasing Impact Webinar, May 29, 2012 - 3 p.m.
May 29, 2012 - 3:00 pm to May 29, 2012 - 4:00 pm
Contact Info: Kiley Bednar | (202)-207-3722 | kiley@forumfyi.org
Do you ever feel like well-intentioned people around you are working hard but, to borrow a cliché, it looks like the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing?
Publishing Date:
May 14, 2012
Connecting the Dots: Data Sharing in States and Communities to Better Connect Youth Services Webinar, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 3 PM ET
Data sharing: It's an important topic, given the myriad systems that house information about our communities. Whether you are a teacher, service provider, parent or policymaker, aligned and connected data can have a powerful impact on how you work with young people individually and how you help all youth in your community achieve their best outcomes.
Publishing Date:
March 13, 2012
Establishing a Balanced Set of Goals: Guiding the Way Webinar, March 27, 2012 3 PM ET
Featured Speaker: Suzanne Hershey, Senior Fellow, the Forum for Youth Investment and former Facilitator of the Ready by 21 Initiative, Austin, Tex.
Publishing Date:
February 29, 2012
Engaging Key Stakeholders: Chattanooga Connections Webinar--Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 3 PM ET
Featured Speakers: Linda McReynolds, United Way of Greater Chattanooga and Lesley Scearce, On Point, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Publishing Date:
February 28, 2012
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Introduction to the Ready by 21 Strategies Webinar January 31, 2012, 3 PM ET
Ready by 21 is a set of innovative strategies developed by the Forum for Youth Investment that helps communities improve the odds that all children and youth will be ready for college, work and life. Ready by 21 provides clear standards to achieve collective impact, tools and solutions to help leaders make progress, and ways to measure and track success along the way.
Publishing Date:
January 31, 2012
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Improving Systems and Settings: Quality Improvement in Asheville Webinar, December 13, 2011, 3 PM ET
Healthy behavior, staying in school, problem-solving skills - these are among the outcomes we all want to see in our young people. It is always encouraging to be able to point to a new mentoring initiative, a great afterschool program or a really innovative school, but to achieve community- and state-wide impact, you need to do something bigger.
Publishing Date:
November 21, 2011
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Youth Programs Can be Creative and Accountable
Program leaders often face a tension between instilling accountability strategies to encourage rigorous practice, while also fostering an atmosphere where creativity and risk-taking thrive.
Publishing Date:
November 17, 2011
Seeking Clarity on Expanded Learning
Anyone who collaborates with schools on out-of-school time programs should watch what happens in Washington with Waiver 11.
Publishing Date:
November 17, 2011
A New Way to Fund Social Programs?
Could Social Impact Bonds - where private investors fund social programs up front and get returns based on their success - change how we fund youth and family services in the United States? The White House recently partnered with the Nonprofit Finance Fund to discuss the possibilities.
Publishing Date:
November 17, 2011
What Do You Want to Take Stock Of?: Exploring the Gallup Student Poll Webinar, Rescheduled for January 17, 2012, 3 PM ET
To make good decisions, leaders need complete data from all the settings and systems where young people spend their time. They need information about youths’ physical and mental health, afterschool activities, employment and family structure, and more. Better data helps leaders use their resources more efficiently and effectively.
Publishing Date:
November 11, 2011
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