This booklet explains how the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program can provide benefits to children with disabilities. Eligibility for SSI benefits depends on meeting both income and resources limits as well as demonstrating the existence of restrictions in the child's daily life due to physical or mental impairment. Topics addressed…

This study examined the sources of funds for nonprofit agencies which provide youth development services. It tapped multiple sources, including reports compiled about their affiliates' revenue by the national headquarters of youth-serving agencies; studies of seven communities conducted by The Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies…

This newsletter theme issue focuses on accomplishments around the country in finding new and alternative funding sources and support strategies for supported employment programs serving people with disabilities. It looks at the impact of long-term supports, their relationship to a range of supported employment services, and different types of…

Public schools face many of the same marketing problems found in private-sector organizations. These include reputation building, resource mobilization, personnel employment, program development, client satisfaction, community good will, and public political support. This paper analyzes the marketing concept and illustrates its application to…

A study was conducted to determine whether alumni who were previous scholarship recipients were more likely to pledge financial assistance to their alma mater than were alumni who were not financially assisted. A total of 140 alumni were to be contacted through a regular phonathon, with a special script for the 70 previous scholarship recipients.…

The proposed regulations, drafted by an interdepartmental working group from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Health Services, and HUD, are applicable to rental programs, homeownership (Mutual Help) and all housing developed under the Housing and Community Development Act which authorized $15 million for fiscal year 1975 and 1976. (Author/NQ)

Explores the increasing difficulty that library decision-makers will face in proving the value of libraries to society, and suggests appropriate questions that they will want to ask in their use of community analysis. (Author/PF)

Describes the present peer review process which the National Science Foundation (NSF) uses and cites opposition to the method. Presents legislation introduced in Congress to change the current evaluation method. (CP)

Supplies English departments with a rough idea of how other English departments allocate financial aid to graduate students, and discusses what English departments should do in the face of the current job crisis. (RB)

Antioch School of Law, a new law school in Washington, D.C., is committed to giving legal training to qualified persons, including Appalachians, who otherwise would not have the opportunity for such training. (Author)

Suggests guidelines for keeping track of sources of income and expenditures when producing a school paper. (RB)

This fact sheet provides statistical information about Project Head Start. Data is presented in the following categories: (1) budget; (2) number of programs; (3) enrollment; (4) racial and ethnic composition; (5) ages of children served; (6) number of sites; (7) cost; (8) staff (in 1989); and (9) enrollment and congressional appropriation from the…

Intended to aid theory building in the study of influences on news content, this paper examines how five basic theoretical approaches to studying news content can be integrated into J. Herbert Altschull's assertion that mass media content reflects the ideology of those who finance the media. The paper notes that Altschull's theory accounts for the…

This booklet discusses the potential importance to states of long-term care insurance, describes general policy characteristics, and summarizes state actions to both regulate and promote long-term care insurance. It is intended as a resource for legislators and others involved in long-term care financing and public policy formulation. Long-term…