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After-school Programs for Low-income Children: Promise and Challenges

This article by The Future of Children reviews after-school opportunities for low-income children. There is a focus on program availability and accessibility, program specifics, and providers. The author looks at challenges in funding, staffing and physical space and then outlines advantages and disadvantages of targeting this population for after-school programs. Fall 1999.

Futuring: A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Strategic Planning

The author of this report by the Support Center for Nonprofit Management suggests that strategic planning is one of the most frequently requested consulting service in the nonprofit sector. This article explores the status of traditional strategic planning methods in nonprofit organizations and offers some new approaches as well.