DC SCHOOLS
- The DC Public Education Learning Tours 2009-10 (for grantmakers) will begin with the “Semester Kick-Off Breakfast” on September 9. The Community Foundation, the Banyan Tree Foundation, the CityBridge Foundation, and the D.C. Public Education Fund bring education funders in for a closer look at the reform effort. Stay tuned for updates/reports from Erica Pressman, consultant to WG’s Public Education Working Group.
- D.C.’s Other School Reformers (WaPo editorial, 8/26) – “In what is being described as a national first, the city’s charters will be subjected to a uniform evaluation process. Developed with grants from national foundations, the “performance management framework” will include academic measures… and nonacademic indicators…”
HIV/AIDS | D.C.’s Ex-Dealers Back On Streets, “getting residents hooked on HIV/AIDS prevention” (WaPo, 8/26). Former drug dealers “have the skills for what we do,” says A. Toni Young, executive director of the nonprofit Community Education Group.
HEALTH | Gov. Kaine: “By making private resources available CareFirst is setting an example for other corporate leaders and helping build on the progress made by publicly funded initiatives in communities across the Commonwealth.” (WJLA, 8/25) [apply for this grant]
HUNGER | Commentary: Hunger Affects Students’ Ability To Learn – By Alexandra Ashbrook, Director of D.C. Hunger Solutions
(WAMU, 8/25)
SOCIAL INVESTING | Opinion: Social Investing (Finally) Grows Up (Greenbiz.com, 8/24) – “investing in a broad array of companies [including 'sin stocks'] and pushing them to improve their practices.”
WEB | New nonprofit aims to be the YouTube for global giving (MercuryNews, 8/26) – Worldflix.org
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT/JUVENILE JUSTICE | “[T]ension between security staff and the youth services agency over how best to protect and rehabilitate some of the District’s most violent teens.” (WaPo, 8/26)
