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Business of Giving: Community Schools Mean Real Innovation – October 2nd, 2009

If President Obama’s Office of Social Innovation gets the $50 million he’s requested to help fund non-profit agencies, I’ve got a suggestion for how to best spend that money: Tackle the hardest problems first.

What are the hardest problems? As someone who’s spent the last 40 years working with disadvantaged children, two top my list: teen pregnancy and public education.

In this article, I’ll discuss teen pregnancy. Despite decades of intervention, the US still has the highest pregnancy rate in the developing world. Each year, 4 out of 20 teens will get pregnant. In 2006, nearly half a million babies were born to girls between the ages of 15-19 in the US. These numbers frustrate me immensely because I see evidence everyday that with the right interventions, our country can reverse this trend.

At The Children’s Aid Society, we have taken a holistic approach to teen-pregnancy prevention. The Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program is based on what we know for sure: Hope is a powerful contraceptive.

To read the full article, link here

C. Warren Moses, CEO

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Business of Giving: Bailing Out Our Schools – September 18th, 2009

Right now, everyone is focused on finding the cure for our current economic crisis. Bailouts, recovery plans and billion-dollar loans hopefully will get our economy back on firm footing soon. But we also need to look at the long-term, big picture of what will propel our economy into the future. And I believe that can be accomplished by reinventing the driver of our success: a world-class education.

If you look back at our nation’s history, our wealth was not built solely by great ideas. Rather, it also came from a very well-educated workforce created by created by world-class public schools. Children of immigrants who arrived on our shores 100 years ago received an education that lifted them from poverty to the working class and beyond. That influx of new workers built factories and invented and perfected new technologies. Workers on the assembly line could earn a comfortable living.

For the past 2 decades, the factory jobs that created prosperous lives for so many across much of America have been disappearing. The only way we can uplift the children and grandchildren of the working class and prepare them for a different future is by putting a renewed focus on world-class education.

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C. Warren Moses, CEO

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Why an Angry CEO Is the Best CEO – September 2nd, 2009

When I announced my retirement earlier this year, I had one main suggestion for the committee looking for my replacement: Find someone who’s “angry.”

“Angry?” they said. “What do you mean?”

I mean that to lead one of the country’s largest child-focused charitable organizations, you have to have a fire inside you. You don’t want to hire the person who eases too comfortably into the leather seat, who likes gazing out the corner-office window. You want the person who sees the suffering of so many children, and is because it’s not getting fixed quickly enough.

I’m happy to say we’ve found that person. Richard R. Buery Jr. has committed his career to helping poor children, and therefore is no stranger to the statistics: To read the full article, link here

C. Warren Moses

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Business of Giving: Accountability Is Key – August 28th, 2009

You know how retailers are battling it out over the few dollars consumers are willing to spend? It’s no different in the nonprofit world. Merely grabbing a donor’s attention isn’t enough. We have to make a solid argument for why our cause is the one worthy of your hard-to-part-with dollar.

To accomplish this, nonprofits need to communicate to donors that they are adapting their programs and services to meet the changing face of need in today’s economy. For example, food pantries are now serving the redefined “house poor” – families who are using limited earnings to pay their mortgage and avoid foreclosure, and then have little money left for groceries once the mortgage has been paid.

Nonprofits also have to create forward-thinking, innovative programs that provide novel solutions to new problems To read the full article, link here

— C. Warren Moses

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Children's Aid Society in New York Presents MinyanLand to Promote Importance of Financial Literacy – July 24th, 2009

Photo by Ben Russell

Photo by Ben Russell

We all know the importance of the three Rs in education – “reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic”. But also knowing how to earn, save, spend and give money -financial literacy – seems more important than ever in this era of foreclosures, credit card debt and recession.

Surprisingly few social work schools offer specialized financial literacy in their curricula, as addressing this challenge by offering workshops to struggling families on dealing with banks, credit problems and avoiding potential frauds.

And now, in 2009, New York’s most innovative children’s and family services provider has teamed up with Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, a leading financial media company, to spread the message of financial literacy for children.

Minyanville has brought its virtual community and game site “MinyanLand” to The Children’s Aid Society’s Frederick Douglass Center in Manhattan. The web site, geared to 8-10 year olds, teaches the importance of earning, saving, spending and giving through interactive games and activities.

The CEO of New York’s Children’s Aid Society, C. Warren Moses, also contributes a bi-weekly column about the “Business of Giving” on the Minyanville website:

“Many families come to the Children’s Aid Society looking for tools to help their children lead richer, more productive lives,” said Moses. “MinyanLand is free and available to anyone who can go online with a computer. The financial literacy tools available…give our children accessibility to knowledge they can use for a lifetime.”

So you might add a fourth R to the schooling list now: “responsibility.” Fiscal responsibility might be the most important R of all - and learning how to use it, via an education in financial literacy, is a lesson that will last a lifetime!

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