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May 29, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Girl Up, developed by the UN Foundation, empowers young girls to create a life for themselves and their families well beyond poverty and illiteracy. They are now accepting nominations for teen advisers.
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.
January 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
Experience Corps engages older volunteers to tutor - with a focus on reading - and mentor low-income kindergarten through third-grade students. It expanded and became an independent nonprofit organization.
November 27, 2012 | Grant/Feature
Ten grantees from the Vulnerable Populations Portfolio at RWJF have been named to the Social Impact Exchange's S&I 100, an index of the top nonprofits having a positive impact on America's most pressing social issues.
July 30, 2012 | Program Result Report
Project L/EARN is an intensive, paid 10-week summer internship in health-focused research for diverse undergraduates underrepresented in the field. It includes instruction, a research project, and one-on-one faculty mentoring.
February 23, 2012 | New Public Health Post
NPH: Jamie, how did your background as a Major League Baseball player, and your career as a dad, inform how you go about this work? Jamie Moyer: The baseball side allows us to be on a stage and to speak on behalf of these causes. Enlightening people ...
August 4, 2011 | Story
2011 Break-Up Summit 2.0 and first-ever National Virtual Break-Up Summit encourages teens to "Face It, Don't Facebook It!"
October 8, 2010 | Program Result Report
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol delivered a comprehensive array of services designed to promote the health and stability of young Black and Latino males in the Harlem neighborhoods of New York City.
October 1, 2010 | Program Result Report
The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) fosters networking and collaboration among public health institutes and their governmental and other partners. It launched this project to strengthen the nation's public health institutes.
August 19, 2010 | Program Result Report
Roca, a 22-year-old youth development organization in Chelsea, Mass., launched the Young Men's Violence Intervention Project in four Massachusetts' communities it provides intensive and repeated efforts to influence their behavior.