Family And Community Involvement
You are in the Family and Community Involvement section of the Casey Foundation Knowledge Center, which offers resources that are either published or funded by the Casey Foundation. Resources address the importance of empowering families and communities actively engaged in schools and school systems.
See also the Our Work: Education, an overview of the Casey Foundation's investments in this issue.
See also all Education resources in the Knowledge Center.
Digital Stories: San Antonio Schools Help Children and Parents Succeed
2009
Casey's digital stories capture the families and children whose lives are touched by the Foundation's work. This photo slideshow depicts Casey's work in San Antonio to create opportunity and lift children out of poverty by making sure their parents have what they need to succeed at home and at work.
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KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief: Reducing the High School Dropout Rate
2009
This brief outlines strategies for reducing the dropout rate, including: make it harder for students to drop out of school; address underlying causes of dropping out and needs of the groups at highest risk of dropping out; strengthen school readiness and skills, and understanding of the adults who affect teens’ motivation and ability to stay in school.
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Getting Started in Education Philanthropy: A Workbook to Identify Your Values, Interests, and Goals
2009
The workbook provides direction and strategies for education philanthropists around eight different aspects of giving: level of change, impact, population, organizations, inside vs. outside the educational system, involvement, and results.
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Closing the Achievement Gap - Strategic Funding Attracts CO-INVESTMENT
2008
An object of every education investment that the Casey Foundation makes is to attract co-investment in promising and evidence-based programs and policies. This publication provides an in-depth look at Casey’s strategic early investment in one innovative but as yet unproved activity – Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson’s Charter Initiative -- and stories about the Foundation’s education grants to two other organizations and the co-investments these grants attracted.
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Closing the Achievement Gap - School, Community, Family CONNECTIONS
2008
The Casey Foundation believes that strong relationships among schools, families, and communities are necessary if schools that serve low-income children are to help young people graduate ready to succeed in life. The publication includes stories about the Harlem Children’s Zone Practitioners Institute, parent organizing in Texas and Denver, one California school district’s innovative parent engagement policy, and the Foundation’s contribution to results measurements in the field.
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