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Youth Villages: A Research-Rich Organization

From the Archives
Ruth McCambridge

A new report says that in Tennessee, the system of care for foster children has been able to reduce the number of children in foster care over the past ten years by a staggering 34 percent. The outcomes are the result of a new approach that was informed by the research driven practice of Youth Villages. Read our profile of the group first published in our Spring 2006 issue.

altRead our most popular recent Newswire here. Charities are outpacing large and small businesses in adopting social marketing.

altRead today's trending Newswire here: Buffett and Gates started buttonholing their rich and famous (or not so famous) peers from the Forbes 400 and ended up calling 70 to get 40, though they don’t plan to stop

Wanted: Master Storytellers

From the Archives
Susan Nall Bales

This is about storytelling: how journalists tell stories to citizens; how nonprofits tell stories to journalists to convey to citizens; how we tell stories to each other to try to make sense of what is happening to our families, neighbors, and people we don’t know. And this is a plea for better storytelling from the people in clinics and classrooms, programs and public agencies, who have their hands on America’s future.

Fundraising tactics suffer from a serious disconnect between theory and practice. The good news is that addressing these problems in your own work can help you communicate more effectively with donors and help your organization succeed.

altRead our most popular recent Newswire here. A series of recent experiments has led researchers to suggest that it's the poor, not the rich, who are more inclined to give to charity.

altRead our trending Newswires here. Today: WikiLeaks offers, perhaps, a great example of how real breakthrough social innovation can at times be uncomfortable and fraught.