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Association of Educational Publishers-June 2011 Real Men, Real Stories named “Best Curriculum” by AEP

Real Men, Real Stories won the award for best curriculum in the “Life Skills and Character Education” category. (Grades 9-12, Nonfiction) in the 2011 Distinguished Achievement Awards, a prestigious competition sponsored by the Association of Education Publishers (AEP).

The AEP is comprised of the major educational publishers in the nation, including Scholastic, Time for Kids, National Geographic, Highlights and Weekly Reader. Youth Communication competes directly with these large companies and adult-written publications for the AEP awards. link

 

DWL Associate Director Andrea Kamins was featured in the latest issue of the BOOST Collaborative Newsletter!
Check the story out here

 

Video clips of debate between Carla Sanger of LA's BEST and Mark Levine of the Center for After School Excellence at TASC moderated by Eric Gurna of Development Without Limits are now available on Youtube!"

 

5.25.10 Hudson Valley Your News Now
The City of Poughkeepsie hired DWL to design and conduct a Youth Program Census. The kickoff event was covered by local press, you can see the video news clip here.

MidHudsonNews.com POUGHKEEPSIE – Development Without Limits, a group specializing in helping organizations that work with children outside the classroom, kicked off its Youth Census program in Poughkeepsie on Monday.

The program is set up to ascertain how many youth organizations the city has, which ones need funding and what additional programs are necessary.

According to Mayor John Tkazyik, the 2010 budget was amended to include the $38,000 necessary to bring the group in to help the city determine what services the city provides through the recreation department, police juvenile division and through the community development block grant funding.

“A lot of the after school programs are being scaled back or cut,” said Tkazyik, “We don't have a youth center in the City of Poughkeepsie so we really want to understand what programs are out there. There are a lot of hidden secrets out there.”

Development Without Limits hopes to get their final report done by November, according to Senior Consultant Samuel Quiah and will begin visiting sites for different programs starting in June.

“So we want to know how programs are surviving through this recession. What funding streams are they receiving and how can we open up the funding lanes a little bit to get them more support down the road.” said Quiah.

Reading, math and science are among the programs the group hopes to help.

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Association of Educational Publishers-June 2008 Real Stories, Real Teens named “Best Curriculum Package” by AEP

Real Stories, Real Teens was named “Best Curriculum Package for a Specialized Audience” (Grades 9-12, Nonfiction) in the 2008 Distinguished Achievement Awards, a prestigious competition sponsored by the Association of Education Publishers (AEP).

The AEP is comprised of the major educational publishers in the nation, including Scholastic, Time for Kids, National Geographic, Highlights and Weekly Reader. Youth Communication competes directly with these large companies and adult-written publications for the AEP awards.

10.22.09 New York Nonprofit Press
Sam Quiah, MSW: Profile of a NYC Nonprofit Trainer
Changing a culture and being part of a movement
Sam Quiah is a Senior Consultant at Development Without Limits. He agreed to an interview after we met via the Johns Hopkins University National Center for Summer Learning's virtual conference. (continues)

2008. School Age Notes published a front-page article by Development Without Limits Executive Director Eric Gurna, and Sarah Jonas, Director of Education Services for the Children’s Aid Society, called “Engagement Key for Successful Teen Literacy Programs.” Check it out (pdf): SAN Article (pdf)

2006. The After-School Corporation published an article about afterschool professional development in their e-newsletter that featured Development Without Limits. Check it out

2005. Youth Today ran a front-page article about afterschool professional development that featured Development Without Limits. Check it out

 

ANNOUNCING. . . DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT LIMITS WEST!

We are proud to announce that we are opening a west coast base of operations! Development Without Limits has joined forces with Jhumpa Bhattacharya and Jimena Quiroga Hopkins, read the rest »

 

 

 

 

"We must become the change
we want to see in the world"
-M.K. Gandhi

 


Director of Art Without Limits Elia Gurna leads an Understanding Young People workshop as part of TASC's Afterschool Fundamentals training.