Describes the Fund for New York City Public Education, established by foundation and business leaders, which increases and channels community concern about education toward lasting improvements in the New York City school system. Its priorities include comprehensive school restructuring, professional development and incentives, school community…

Students must understand the "head" as well as the "heart" part of volunteering and service portion of their civic education--why they should be a part of their community, why they should act for the common good, and how participating in their community dovetails with participation in the democratic process. There are many…

In 1988, the Annie E. Casey Foundation began New Futures, an 5-year initiative aimed at preparing disadvantaged urban youth for successful lives as adults. Through grants to five mid-sized cities, the Casey Foundation sought to encourage a fundamental restructuring of the way these communities planned, financed, and delivered educational, health,…

The Communication Technology and Policy section of the proceedings contains the following eight papers: "Effects of Home Computer Use on Adolescents' Family Lives: Time Use and Relationships with Family Members in Taiwan and America" (Mine-Ping Sun); "Computers, Ambivalence and the Transformation of Journalistic Work" (John T.…

The political controversies surrounding the racial desegregation of public and private schools are explored using the example of Dayton (Ohio) and its 40-year effort to overcome segregation. The book examines ways business leaders, clergy, elected officials, judges, teachers, and school administrators reacted to challenges to patterns of student…

This annual report for the Bernard van Leer Foundation describes the foundation's activities during 1990. The foundation seeks to promote the development of human resources in communities with social, economic, and cultural problems, focusing its efforts on the needs of young children. The first part of the publication contains a general…

This book is a compilation of advice on library fundraising through the presentation of real-life case studies. Contributors offer both recommendations and caveats based on their firsthand fundraising experiences in public and college libraries. Libraries of varying size and financial scale are represented in discussions of pursuing grants,…

This series issue presents a description and assessment of the Agency for International Development (AID) funded endowment concept as conducted by a number of AID Missions and host governments in Latin American and the Caribbean. These endowments are being used to strengthen and sustain the financial base of existing or new non-governmental…

The issue of corporate and foundation support for scholarships to help low-income students from the inner city plan for and pay for college is discussed, with advantages and shortcomings of various financial assistance models noted. A focus is on how business leaders in Cleveland, Ohio, and Boston, Massachusetts during the 1980s raised millions of…

Leaders in the field of early care and education identified five main problems in the training of early care and education providers. These problems were: (1) a shortage of trainees: (2) limited access to training; (3) lack of agreement on the content of the training; (4) lack of consistent certification standards and models of professional…

For each organization that serves as a source of information on financial support for college students, research, and special projects, the directory gives the name, address, telephone number, and a brief description of the kinds of information available and the organization's other functions and general objectives. Any relevant publications of…

The fifteen-year history of Greenfield Community College (GCC) is outlined in this report which focuses upon the college's formation, organization and development. Following a brief history of the college, which includes the minutes of the first Advisory Board meeting and a list of present and former Board members, the curriculums of the liberal…

The current status and problems of the voluntary nonprofit sector in American society, the development of voluntary associations and accrediting activities, and changing relationships between the federal government and the voluntary sector are examined, as are varied types of organizations and brief case studies. The current status of the…

Although the Federal government is presently the major sponsor of research and development (R&D) in the United States, in recent years the level of funding once obligated to basic research has declined. Academic institutions have increasingly relied on other sources of support for R&D because of a decline in the growth rate of federal,…

Higher education costs are borne by four parties: taxpayers, parents, students, and philanthropists. From a cost-sharing paradigm, a number of public policy instruments may be viewed as devices to apportion higher education's costs among their potential bearers. (MLW)