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.
Featured Publications
The Connection Strategy: Preparing Young People to Succeed in College and Beyond
2008
For many young people, the "pipeline" to educational and economic success is truly broken. This report describes how some of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's education grantees in Atlanta are working to mend the pipeline for young people in their communities by connecting standards and expectations for learning from early childhood to college entry or the workforce and providing needed services, supports and partnerships that add value to the work of schools. The report discusses academic content and state policy strategies, and describes Casey's work in Atlanta as one example of what schools and community organizations can do to strengthen the pipeline.
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Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities: Stories and Results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Education Investments
2007
Partnerships among schools, families, and community organizations can reconnect urban schools to their communities and improve results for young people and their families. This report provides an overview of Casey's investment philosophy and strategies, and its approach to defining and documenting grantmaking results. The report highlights the work of seven school/family/community partnerships and the results they have achieved.
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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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Community Involvement in Schools: A Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match between Indianapolis, Indiana and Denver, Colorado
2004
This document summarizes a site-team match that provided the Indianapolis Making Connections team with strategies for engaging parents and community members in the conversion to small schools. This document also details some of the challenges that often occur when converting to small schools and recommends ways to overcome such obstacles.
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Closing the Achievement Gap - Exploring Quality Choices: VOUCHERS
2008
The Casey Foundation invests in creating quality educational choices that improve outcomes for kids and families. This publication provides an in-depth look at Casey’s investment in the Washington, D.C. voucher effort and a summary of results and lessons learned. Stories about the Foundation’s contribution to vouchers in Florida and Milwaukee are highlighted.
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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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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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What Are They and How Do I Use Them? Strategies and Tools to Increase and Improve Filing of the Federal Hope and Lifetime Learning Education Tax Credits by Low-Income Filers
2006
This report highlights strategies on how to apply for and use the Hope and Lifetime Learning Tax.
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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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