Engaging Youth
You are in the Engaging Youth section of the Casey Foundation Knowledge Center, which offers resources that are either published or funded by the Casey Foundation. Resources address making youth a part of the process in changing communities.
See also Our Work: Community Change, an overview of the Casey Foundation's investment in this issue.
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Understanding the State of Knowledge of Youth Engagement Financing and Sustainability
2008
Published by The Finance Project with funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this report provides critical research and analysis to build the knowledge base on the variety and effectiveness of existing youth engagement approaches and puts forth what is known about the costs, financing, and sustainability of these approaches. This report also profiles several youth engagement programs that have implemented a variety of strategies to finance and sustain their work.
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Using Culture to Build Community: How Oakland Arts Activists Turned Their Dream Into the Reality of the EastSide Cultural Center—A Case Study
2008
This brief tells how a group of Oakland artists organized themselves into the EastSide Arts Alliance and went on to build the EastSide Cultural Center in a struggling part of Oakland. The Cultural Center has evolved into more than just a focal point for the neighborhood’s cultural events; it's also a place for young people to gather and school programs to meet, and it includes 16 units of affordable housing.
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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for CIVIC PARTICIPATION
2006
This fact sheet offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding civic participation. It is part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit" designed to help decision-makers, advocates, and elected officials get better results in their work by providing equitable opportunities for all.
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Engaging Youth in Community Change
2005
This Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match report summarizes the learnings from a meeting of two Making Connections sites -- Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island -- when key members from the communities came together to exchange ideas and experiences about engaging youth in community change.
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Engaging Resources in Higher Education
2005
This guide describes new and existing partnerships between institutions of higher education and communities. Based on these initiatives, it identifies a set of core results and mechanisms to help evaluate progress, gather data, guide investments, and hold the Foundation accountable for producing evidence showing how one program makes a lasting difference in the lives of children, families, and neighborhoods. Part of the TARC Resource Guide Series.
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