Press announcement that went out today from Project Cornerstone in San Jose, CA:
Project Cornerstone is pleased to announce that Representative Mike Honda of California’s 15th Congressional District has secured funding from the United States Department of Education to support a Santa Clara County-wide survey of developmental asset levels in youth in grades 4-12. During fall [...]
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US Department of Education to Fund Countywide Developmental Assets Survey
Teens and Transportation
Congressman Jim Oberstar, the chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has announced that he intends to move the surface transportation bill through his committee and the full House during the month of June. This will be a massive bill. The last highway bill to make it through Congress, known as SAFETEA-LU, authorized [...]
Big Apple
I took the 6:00am JetBlue shuttle to New York City on Friday to make a presentation to the government relations committee of the YMCA of Greater New York. Much of the discussion focused on the economic recovery bill that Congress passed Friday and the President is expected to sign into law tomorrow. Here is [...]
3 Youth-Related Grants at Dept. of ED
I sent an email this morning to a person who works in the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools at the U.S. Dept. of Education. She is out of the office for several days, but her auto-reply message was chock full of useful information related to 3 different grants that have upcoming deadlines. [...]
Come and get it!
House Democrats released their version of the economic stimulus package yesterday. It is a $825 billion smorgasbord of spending and tax cuts. View the bill language and summary at the House Appropriations Committee website.
Begging for Change
A recent survey conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies asked charity executives what a new presidential administration could do to help nonprofit groups. According to these nonprofit leaders, their No. 1 priority for a new administration is the ”growth of federal funds” for ‘their’ cause. How uninspiring!
Other priorities on the list include [...]
