Youth Development: Issues, Challenges and Directions

Youth Development: Issues, Challenges and Directions

A publication of Public/Private Ventures

Youth Development: Issues, Challenges and Directions

Youth Development Directions Participants

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Acknowledgments

This volume is the major product of the Youth Development Directions (YDD) project. YDD was set up in response to issues raised by members of the Youth Development Funders Group at a meeting held at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City in the summer of 1997. The project's purpose is to examine the state of the emerging "youth development" field, to lay out key challenges it faces, and suggest directions to advance its growth and effectiveness.

Financial support for YDD was provided by The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The DeWitt WallaceReader's Digest Fund, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, The Surdna Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Beyond their financial support, several foundation staff actively participated in the YDD discussions: Mike Bailin and Pamela Stevens of The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation; Talmira Hill and Deborah Delgado of The Annie E. Casey Foundation; Inca Mohamed and Perrin Wicks of The Ford Foundation; Barbara Haar of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; and Robert Sherman of The Surdna Foundation.

Gary Walker of Public/Private Ventures coordinated the YDD project. The papers were edited by Natalie Jaffe; design work was by Malish & Pagonis. Jenifer Marquis assisted with the chapters' revisions. The volume's production process was overseen by Maxine Sherman, Communications Manager at Public/Private Ventures.

The authors want to thank all of the above for their support in making this volume possible. We hope it is useful to those individuals and institutions working to make "positive youth development" a reality for American adolescents.

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