Community Change
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See also Our Work: Community Change, an overview of the Casey Foundation's investment in this issue.
Featured Publications
Community Benefits Agreements: The Power, Practice, and Promise of a Responsible Redevelopment Tool
2007
This is the second monograph in a series produced by the Casey Foundation to focus thought and attention on the use of responsible redevelopment practices. This report provides a summary of a consultative session on community benefits agreements that took place in May 2007.
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Eminent Domain: Implications for Community Redevelopment Efforts
2007
This is the first in a series of planned monographs from the Neighborhood Development unit presenting Casey’s point of view and efforts around this work. This report provides a summary of the presentations and discussions held at a September 2006 consultative convened by Casey, entitled “The Eminent Domain Debate.”
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Neighborhood Development Fact Sheet
2006
This fact sheet highlights the efforts of the Casey Foundation’s Neighborhood Development work. The Foundation’s investments in this area reflect efforts to foster a new, more comprehensive approach to redevelopment that makes the experience of redevelopment and relocation more positive for low-income children and families.
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Tapping the Power of Social Networks: Understanding the Role of Social Networks in Strengthening Families and Transforming Communities
2006
This report presents the base from which the Casey Foundation has built its work on social networks. It compiles relevant definitions, key findings from the literature and their challenges, and Casey’s point of view on the potential niche for strengthening positive social networks in the context of the Foundation’s Making Connections initiative. This is the first in a series of five on social network approaches and practice.
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Ties that Bind: The Practice of Social Networks
2006
This report documents the Casey Foundation’s effort to learn from families, communities and organizations around the country about their experiences with social network strategies and approaches. Using the voices and experiences of the families and organizations visited, the report summarizes findings from these visit and helps lay the ground work for the development of a social network point of view for Casey's practice and measurement work in the Making Connections sites. This is the second in a series of five on social network approaches and practice.
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Video Toolkit: Making and Using Videos At Making Connections Sites
2008
The purpose of this video toolkit is to assist Making Connections staff and partners in maximizing the use of videos to document, communicate, and enhance their Making Connections campaign strategies. It provides useful tips for any community change initiatives interested in creating videos.
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Child Trends Fact Sheet: Neighborhood Support and Children’s Connectedness
2008
This fact sheets provides information as to whether children’s outcomes are better if they live in environments that are supportive in terms of family, peers, and community. Results indicate that children from supportive neighborhoods are more likely to have stronger connections compared to their counterparts from less supportive neighborhoods.
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Connecting People to Jobs: Neighborhood Workforce Pipelines
2008
The first publication in this series describes the Casey Foundation’s efforts to develop a new approach to connecting the dots between people living in low income neighborhoods and jobs that provide health benefits and career advancement. The Neighborhood Pipeline joins residents, schools, community organizations, employers, workforce agencies, and elected officials to connect families to jobs. Stories from Seattle /White Center, San Antonio, and Louisville show how pipelines work.
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(Brochure) Connecting People to Jobs: Neighborhood Workforce Pipelines
2008
This brochure describes the first publication in a Casey Foundation series that explores a new approach to connecting the dots between people living in low income neighborhoods and jobs that provide health benefits and career advancement. The "neighborhood pipeline" joins residents, schools, community organizations, employers, workforce agencies, and elected officials to connect families to jobs. Stories from Seattle/White Center, San Antonio, and Louisville show how pipelines work.
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Trusted Advocates: A Multicultural Approach to Building and Sustaining Resident Involvement
2007
This report summarizes the learning of a technical assistance peer match between two of the Casey Foundation's Making Connections sites -- White Center, Washington and Oakland, California. Key staff and community members came together to discuss building and sustaining resident involvement.
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