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The Casey Foundation’s approach to grant making focuses on making multi-year, multi-site commitments that enable us to invest in long-term strategies and partnerships that strengthen families and communities. The following initiatives are those that have shown strong results and those for which Casey is best known.
Casey Strategic Consulting Group
Casey Strategic Consulting Group combines private sector management consulting strategies with the Foundation’s system reform expertise to help improve outcomes for children and families by transforming the management and accountability structure, operations, and front-line practice of public agencies.
Civic Sites
Our Civic Sites represent cities -- Atlanta, Baltimore, New Haven -- where we have close hometown connections, where our grant making is not restricted to specific initiatives, and where we anticipate maintaining significant leadership roles for years to come.
Family to Family
Launched in 1992, Family to Family is working to improve child welfare outcomes in 17 states by advocating for more children to remain safely with their own families or a family-like connection and by providing opportunities for redesigning and reconstructing foster care systems.
Family Economic Success
The Foundation invests heavily in a set of approaches and projects collectively called Family Economic Success (FES) that reflect our premise that strengthening families is the key to improving child outcome. These efforts address the multiple factors needed to help families find and keep work, save and grow finances, and build assets to secure better futures for their children.
Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
Launched in 1992, JDAI seeks to help youth involved in the juvenile justice system develop into healthy, productive adults through policies and programs that maximize their chance for success, reduce their likelihood of incarceration, and minimize the risk they pose to their communities.
KIDS COUNT
The Casey Foundation provides funding and technical assistance for a nationwide network of KIDS COUNT grantee projects. They collect data on and advocate for the well-being of children at the state and local levels.
Leadership Development
The Foundation and its partners are working to build a field well resourced with leaders capable of creating better futures for disadvantaged children and families. We do so by identifying emerging leaders and improving the skills of managers who can oversee cutting-edge organizations, implement complex system reforms, and lead struggling community-based groups.
Making Connections
Making Connections is Casey’s multi-year, multi-site effort to improve the lives and prospects of families and children living in some of America’s toughest neighborhoods. It is based on the premise that children do well when their families are strong and families do better when they live in supportive communities.
Plain Talk
Plain Talk is a neighborhood-based initiative aimed at helping adults, parents, and community leaders develop the skills they need to communicate effectively with young people about the consequences of early sexual activity.
More Casey Initiatives
In addition to our major initiatives, the Casey Foundation is working to improve the lives of children and families through a variety of investments and projects across the country.