- August 18, 2023Many nonprofit and local government executives think that federal and foundation grant funding priorities are relatively static, but they're not—we've…
- January 26, 2022There's a large, new study out on the "Effects of a statewide pre-kindergarten program on children’s achievement and behavior through…
- December 30, 2019The Washington Post says, "A Minnesota community wants to fix its child-care crisis. It’s harder than it imagined." Duluth City…
- March 18, 2019For many years, construction skills training (often but not always in the form of YouthBuild) was every funder's and every…
- May 18, 2015The Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program is back, most notably via the COPS Hiring Program (CHP), which has $134.5…
- December 29, 2014Mark Peters and David Wessel's "More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs: Technology and Globalization Transform Employment Amid…
- December 1, 2014This post is going to start in an incredibly boring fashion and then twist; first, the boring part: virtually every…
- July 8, 2013We've gotten a number of e-mails and comments over the years in which people say we're cynical or worse.* But…
- October 21, 2012In the L.A. Times, Howard Blume says that a "Gates Foundation-funded education-reform group [is going] to close," because the organization—Communities…
- June 19, 2009On the way to Seliger + Associates' new Tucson offices last week, I listened to Neal Conan conduct an interview…
