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By Sharon Noguchi, snoguchi@bayareanewsgroup.com POSTED: 07/21/2016 04:54:20 AM PDT Jewelry making, film appreciation, hiking, slacklining, graphic-novel design, coding, dodgeball - the electives list for Aim High reads like a cool summer camp, but this program is right in the students' own East...

Education Rising fourth-grader Camila Lora, 8, center, throws her arms in the air during a dance class. On the right is Yenifer Argueta, 9. Montgomery County has a new summer program that aims to helping narrow the county's persistent achievement gap. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) By Donna...

BY KELLYE LYNN/ABC7 | WEDNESDAY, JULY 20TH 2016 Nonprofit summer enrichment program helps close achievement gap in Md. (ABC7) | View photo gallery SILVER SPRING, Md. (ABC7) - School is in session at Cresthaven Elementary in Silver Spring, Md., even though it's July. "I'm here because I want to get...

Photo Left: The finalists for the 2016 Massachusetts Nonprofit Excellence Awards. Photo Right: Kristy Lee of New England Cable News with BELL CEO Tiffany Cooper Gueye and YMCA of Greater Boston CEO James Morton at the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network's Nonprofit Awareness Day Excellence Award...

Published Sunday, April 3, 2016 For both parents and children, the middle school years can be an exciting time filled with change, challenge and possibility. While children are coming into their own as independent, thoughtful young people, emotions and awkwardness can also run high. To use a popular...

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PARTNERSHIP: Building Educated Leaders for Life, or BELL, is working with the Y to expand the reach of its successful summer learning program. Here, students in a BELL summer program in Queens, N.Y., mix in some dance practice.Building Educated Leaders for Life, or BELL, runs a program to...

In an era of tech-enabled, high-growth social enterprises, it's easy to overlook the very large, slower-growth organizations with expansive networks that have been serving children, youth, and families for a decade-or longer. But it's these national and global networks that have the reach and power...

By Kelly Campbell, Shazeen Virani, & Jessica Lanney Mar. 3, 2016 B ig nonprofit networks like the Y-USA and 4-H have been serving children and families for more than a century by providing programs that meet community needs, such as summer camps and after-school programs. Once a network organization...