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  • Seeing is Believing: A Baltimore Team Explores Opportunity Youth Solutions in Mexico

    Seeing is Believing: A Baltimore Team Explores Opportunity Youth Solutions in Mexico cover In their search for effective and innovative approaches that provide opportunity youth with what they truly need—positive experiences, positive relationships, and positive environments—stakeholders in the United States are embracing the idea that inspiration for solutions can come from abroad. Read more
  • Meet the Youth Who Helped Transform a Mexican City

    Meet the Youth Who Helped Transform a Mexican City cover Last year, the city of Chicago recorded 762 murders, with other U.S. metropolitan areas reporting even higher per capita murder rates; yet none comes close to the staggering 3,111 homicides committed in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in 2010. At the time, the city, located just across the border from El Paso, Texas, was known as the most dangerous place on earth as rival drug cartels competed for access to the lucrative U.S. drug market. Read more
  • A Nonprofit Leader from New Orleans Reflects on the Benefits of Cross-border Learning

    A Nonprofit Leader from New Orleans Reflects on the Benefits of Cross-border Learning hero From July 9 to 12, representatives of the New Orleans-based Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) traveled to Belo Horizonte, Brazil to take part in a learning exchange with staff and beneficiaries of Rede Cidadã (The Citizen’s Network), a nongovernmental organization that has trained and placed more than 60,000 youth in jobs or apprenticeships over 15 years.  Read more