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Advancing the Mission: Tools for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

RESPECT is an internal, multi-cultural affinity group of the Annie E. Casey Foundation whose mission is to strengthen the Foundation’s staff capacity to work effectively in diverse communities, and maximize its contributions to children and families in disinvested neighborhoods. This toolkit describes development experiences and lessons learned over the past 16 years. more >>

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More Race Matters: 3 Tools for Getting Started with the Race Matters Toolkit

This update provides users with the updated and revised three key tools in the Race Matters Toolkit: What’s Race Got to do with It?; The Racial Equity Impact Analysis; and How to Talk About Race. more >>

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Advancing Better Outcomes for All Children: Reporting Data Using a Racial Equity Lens

The MORE Race Matters series offers additional resources that align with the perspective of the Race Matters Toolkit developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. This update provides users with guidelines and tips for presenting data on race and racial equity in responsible ways that produce a strong case for addressing equity for all children. more >>

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Race Matters: Guidelines for Promoting Racially Equitable Purchasing

The MORE Race Matters series offers additional resources that align with the perspective of the Race Matters Toolkit developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. This document offers three steps for organizations that are looking to ensure that their purchasing decisions are racially equitable. more >>

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Race Matters: Guidelines for Achieving Staff and Board Diversity

The MORE Race Matters series offers additional resources that align with the perspective of the Race Matters Toolkit developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. This tool describes three steps for organizations that are looking for ways to ensure for a more racially diverse board and staff. more >>

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Investing in Our Communities: Strategies for Immigrant Integration - A Toolkit for Grantmakers

Foundations across the country are recognizing that their grantmaking strategies must respond to the needs and contributions of immigrants. Built on extensive research and interviews with foundation, community, business, and government leaders, this multimedia toolkit intends to better inform the development of program, policy, and grantmaking strategies that promote immigrant integration. It also aims to help foundations understand the importance of supporting efforts that incorporate newcomers into the fabric of our society. more >>

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SECPTAN: Village Building and School Readiness: Closing Opportunity Gaps in a Diverse Society

This resource brief, by the State Early Childhood Policy Technical Assistance Network (SECPTAN), is a compilation of several documents focusing on special issues and opportunities for building early learning systems in what have variously been described as vulnerable neighborhoods, disinvested neighborhoods, or poor, immigrant, and minority communities. more >>

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Adult Literacy Education in Immigrant Communities: Identifying Policy and Program Priorities for Helping Newcomers Learn English

This report offers an in-depth exploration of the pressing language barriers facing the estimated 2.23 million adults in this country who are Limited English Proficient, discussed at the Adult Literacy Education in Immigrant Communities summit held in Washington, D.C. more >>

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Race Matters: PowerPoint

This presentation gives staff and allies shared understanding and language, and highlights all tools and documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit." more >>

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Race Matters: WHAT’S RACE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

This guide, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", promotes evidence-based decision-making about racial disparities. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunity within CRIMINAL JUSTICE

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding criminal justice. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for HEALTH AND WELLNESS

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding health. more >>

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Race Matters: User's Guide

This guide explains how organizations can use the "Race Matters Toolkit" and all of its components in their work. It introduces a series of documents designed to help decision-makers, advocates, and elected officials. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunity within NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding media coverage. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for YOUTH IN TRANSITION

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding youth in transition. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for JUVENILE JUSTICE

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding juvenile justice. more >>

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Race Matters: HOW TO TALK ABOUT RACE

This guide, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", promotes effective discussion and advocacy concerning race. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for RURAL FAMILY ECONOMIC SUCCESS

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding rural economic success. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ECONOMIC SUCCESS

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding family economic success. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for CIVIC PARTICIPATION

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding civic participation. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding neighborhood vitality. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for INCOME SECURITY

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding income security. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities in EDUCATION

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding education. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for SCHOOL READINESS

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding school readiness. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunity within the CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding child welfare. more >>

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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

This fact sheet, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding adolescent reproductive health. more >>

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Race Matters: COMMUNITY BUILDING STRATEGIES

This guide, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", identifies steps needed to ensure equitable results in community building. more >>

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Race Matters: SYSTEM REFORM STRATEGIES

This guide,part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", identifies the steps needed to ensure equitable results in the systems that govern our lives. more >>

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Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care Best Practices: A Report to Ready 4K

This report describes the process and the results of engaging five cultural communities, African American, Hmong, Latino-Mexican-Chicano, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, and Somali, in an effort to inform policy and practice related to early childhood education and to create an early education system that works for everyone. more >>

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Race Matters: ORGANIZATIONAL SELF-ASSESSMENT

This guide, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", helps organizations evaluate staff competencies and organizational policies and practices. more >>

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The Culture of Money: The Impact of Race, Ethnicity and Color on the Implementation of Asset-Building Strategies

This report , prepared for the Casey Foundation, provides a new lens for understanding the cultural, historic, and economic factors that impact consumer choice in target communities of color. It emphasizes the critical importance of developing an accurate profile of a program’s target audience or market before designing implementation strategies. It also provides examples of how community-level practitioners and program managers have considered racial and ethnic dynamics and adapted mainstream strategies to their clientele. more >>

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Race Matters: RACIAL EQUITY IMPACT ANALYSIS - ASSESSING POLICIES, PROGRAMS, AND PRACTICES

This guide, part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit", assesses equity effects of policy proposals and programs and implementation decisions. more >>

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No Turning Back: Promising Approaches to Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities Affecting Youth of Color in the Justice System

This report by the Building Blocks for Youth Initiative features two of Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative sites and their efforts at targeting and reducing racial disparities in the juvenile justice system. The publication demonstrates that by reducing detention, jurisdictions were also able to reduce disproportionate minority confinement. more >>

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Closing Achievement Gaps: The Future of Children: Policy Brief, Spring 2005

When black and Hispanic children reach kindergarten they are on average farther behind in reading and math than their non-black and non-Hispanic counterparts. This brief suggests that educational programs for parents in addition to preschool education for children have the potential to reduce, if not eliminate, such disparities by at least half. more >>

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School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps - Volume 15, No.1, Spring 2005

This issue focuses on children’s lives before they start school in an effort to understand how to eliminate racial and ethnic gaps in educational outcomes. This publication is part of a larger series, The Future of Children, produced by The Brookings Institute and Princeton University http://www.futureofchildren.org. more >>

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Eliminating Racial & Ethnic Disparities: A Funder's Discussion about Strategies and Resources

Finding ways to measure and quantify racial and ethnic inequities are the first steps at reducing them. As a result, this paper provides information on how to better measure disparities and how to create data-based policies aimed at eliminating them. The paper also focuses on the importance of knowledge and constituency building when implementing effective disparity-reducing policies. more >>

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Katrina's Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America

Hurricane Katrina's assault on New Orleans' most vulnerable residents and neighborhoods has reinvigorated a dialogue on race and class in America. This paper argues that the conversation should focus special attention on alleviating concentrated urban poverty--the segregation of poor families into extremely distressed neighborhoods. more >>

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Real Stories: Meet the People Who Live in Making Connections Neighborhoods, Jessaly Mendez/Community Schools (English Version)

This news brief tells the story of how one woman, Jessaly Mendez, brought parents and community members together to create a school environment that better connected Spanish-speaking parents to the education system. more >>

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Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building

This monograph focuses on white privilege in community building work. It examines how the ways we go about improving and bringing resources into communities can maintain or even reinforce power inequities and racially based policies. more >>

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Costly Credit: African Americans and Latinos in Debt

While real income gains were realized during the economic boom over the latter half of the 1990s, the average American’s credit card debt rose faster than ever before. This briefing paper documents the dramatic rise in credit card debt and provides a snapshot of these trends by race between 1992 and 2001. more >>

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Structural Racism and Community Building

This publication represents an effort to adopt a more race conscious approach to community building and social justice. In addition, this publication highlights new approaches to poverty reduction and social justice that could reinforce community building activities. more >>

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Faith Matters: Race/Ethnicity, Religion, and Substance Abuse

This report examines findings of previous research and presents new findings on the relationship between race/ ethnicity, religion and substance abuse. Promising practices, programs, policies, and recommendations are also presented that highlight areas of family support, mentoring, employment training, advocacy, technical assistance, and resource development. more >>

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Structural Racism and Youth Development: Issues, Challenges, and Implications

This report examines the need for an analytical framework to be applied to structural racism in the field of youth work. It includes comments on the success of organized youth in pushing racial equity outcomes as an explicit part of the mission and values of youth work. more >>

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Race, Ethnicity, and Health: Snapshots of American Families

This Snapshot uses data from the 1997, 1999, and 2002 rounds of the National Survey of America's Families to examine changes in health insurance coverage and health status by race and ethnicity. The data reflect the effects of sharp economic fluctuations and recent changes in health policy. more >>

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Assessing The Need, Addressing The Problem: Working with Disadvantaged Muslim Immigrant Families and Communities

This report examines the role faith-based institutions play in supporting Muslim immigrant and refugee families as they settle in the United States. Special attention is given to post-September 11th challenges faced by these families and their communities. more >>

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African-American Children Pocket Guide

The African-American Children Pocket Guide provides statistics on economic, educational, and social well-being for African-American children and highlights gaps that persist between African-American children and non-Hispanic white children in the United States. Derived from the 2000 Census, this booklet contains a national overview and state-by-state data. more >>

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Multiracial Formations: New Instruments for Social Change

The idea of forming multiracial coalitions has become a popular solution to eliminating poverty and formal social change. This report provides an overview of multiracial formations as well as presents theories and models of how such formations can be constructed. more >>

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Matters of Race

MATTERS OF RACE examines the ways in which race is lived in America today. The series combines past memories and present day realities to investigate the complex demands of our rapidly changing multiracial, multicultural society. This is a 6 min 25 second clip from the documentary. more >>

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Race: The Power of an Illusion

This documentary series scrutinizes the very idea of race through the distinct lenses of science, history, and our social institutions. By asking, “What is this thing called ‘race’?” a question so basic it is rarely raised, Race – The Power of an Illusion challenges some of our most deeply held beliefs. This clip runs for 4 minutes and 46 seconds. more >>

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Establishing a Multilingual Homeownership Center

This report describes a peer technical assistance match between two Making Connections sites—Oakland, California and Seattle, Washington. It focuses on advice provided by the Seattle site on how to run a successful homeownership program serving a low-income community. Part of the TARC Peer Match series. more >>

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Promoting Regional Equity: A Framing Paper

This framing paper expands the dialogue and action promoting regional equity. It examines several key equity issues facing the nation. Additionally, this paper offers a framework from which to develop a strategic, comprehensive action agenda. more >>

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Children's Beat: The Children of MLK: Summer 2002

This news brief highlights the landscape in which many of America’s African American children have lived after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. It also highlights the disparities that exist in media coverage of missing children based on race and ethnicity. more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, 11, Summer 2002

This issue focuses on making work count for low-income families, racial disparities in juvenile detention, and the role of cultural competency in connecting workers to jobs. more >>

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Taking the Initiative on Jobs and Race

This is a report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation on the complex issue of race and regional labor markets, particularly for low-skilled workers. It includes lessons learned around issues of cultural competence and identifies helpful tools to improve the practice of workforce development for jobs seekers, workers, and employers alike. more >>

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Walking the Walk: Principles for Building Community Capacity for Equity and Diversity

The publication provides the reader with a vision of what it would look like to draw strength from diversity and create greater equity as a central part of their work. more >>

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The Unavailability of Information on Insurance Unavailability

This research brief examines which states require geographic disclosure of property insurance policies, the type of information that is available, and how that information can be utilized to examine issues of insurance unavailability, redlining, and discrimination. more >>

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Both Sides Now: New Directions in Promoting Work and Learning for Disadvantaged Youth-executive summary

This executive summary explores what can be done to help youth with less formal education and men of color that have suffered a widening distribution of income. It explores the question of jobs from both a supply side, by expanding the definition of work preparation; and the less-addressed demand side, by examining job creation and access. more >>

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Both Sides Now: New Directions in Promoting Work and Learning for Disadvantaged Youth-A Report to the Annie E. Casey Foundation

This report explores what can be done to help youth with less formal education and men of color that have suffered a widening distribution of income. It explores the question of jobs from both a supply side, by expanding the definition of work preparation; and the less-addressed demand side, by examining job creation and access. more >>

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Joblessness and Unemployment: A Review of the Literature

This literature review gathers evidence on the relationship between African-American male economic potential in the formal sector of the economy, and transitions in African American family structure and marital stability. It provides insight into the crime, unemployment, family structure, and racial debates. more >>

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World Without Work: Causes and Consequences of Black Male Joblessness

This monograph documents the scope and extent of joblessness among black males and seeks to identify among de-industrialization, immigration and suburbanization some of the structural explanations for the phenomenon that is joblessness. more >>

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Grant Making with a Racial Equity Lens

In this guide, grant makers explain why a focus on racial equity gives them a powerful lens for understanding and advancing their work. Drawing on firsthand experience, the guide offers advice on promoting and deepening your foundation's commitment to racial equity, both internally and to the programs you support. The guide was developed by Grant Craft in partnership with the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity, of which Casey is a member. more >>

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