after-school

The Department of Health and Human Services recently put out requests for solicitation for four new national centers it plans to establish. All four will focus on assisting state and local governments with aspects of their youth and family services portfolio.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Flint, Michigan www.mott.org (810) 238-5651 Afterschool Communications Project, Washington, D.C.,  $250,000 to provide targeted communications, policy, and research support to the statewide after-school networks and the after-school field as part of the Expanded Learning and Afterschool Project.

Brian Yazzie has been hired by Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) as its national director of Native American Programs, a newly created position at the national level for the Atlanta-based nonprofit.