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The Casey Philanthropies

Linked by a com­mon her­itage, the Casey orga­ni­za­tions embody the vision of Jim Casey, the founder of UPS, to improve the lives of chil­dren who lack the fam­i­ly sup­port, con­nec­tions and oppor­tu­ni­ties to thrive.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Jim Casey and his sib­lings, George, Har­ry and Mar­guerite, estab­lished the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion in 1948 and named it to hon­or their moth­er, who kept the fam­i­ly togeth­er and pro­vid­ed them a secure and nur­tur­ing upbring­ing despite the strug­gles they endured after her hus­band died. It was the first of the orga­ni­za­tions Jim Casey and his sib­lings cre­at­ed to serve vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren and families.

Three years after UPS moved its head­quar­ters in 1973 from Seat­tle to Green­wich, Conn., the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion estab­lished the Casey Fam­i­ly Pro­gram East, which lat­er became Casey Fam­i­ly Ser­vices. Casey Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, a pri­vate child wel­fare agency, com­ple­ment­ed the grant-mak­ing func­tion of the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion by pro­vid­ing direct ser­vices through­out New Eng­land and in Mary­land and work­ing to improve the qual­i­ty of fos­ter care and pro­mote per­ma­nence. The agency closed in 2012.

In 2001, Casey Fam­i­ly Pro­grams and the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion launched the then-inde­pen­dent Jim Casey Youth Oppor­tu­ni­ties Ini­tia­tive to ensure that young peo­ple between the ages of 14 and 25 make suc­cess­ful tran­si­tions from fos­ter care to adult­hood. In 2015, the Jim Casey Ini­tia­tive became part of the Casey Foun­da­tion, where, as a pro­gram, it and its 17 sites work to improve poli­cies and prac­tices at the nation­al, state and local lev­el to help youth make the con­nec­tions they need for edu­ca­tion, employ­ment, health care, hous­ing, and sup­port­ive per­son­al and com­mu­ni­ty relationships.

Casey Fam­i­ly Programs

In 1966, Jim Casey estab­lished the Casey Fam­i­ly Pro­gram (lat­er renamed Casey Fam­i­ly Pro­grams) in Casey’s native Seat­tle to demon­strate how high-qual­i­ty fos­ter care could improve out­comes for chil­dren. Today, it is a nation­al foun­da­tion with a mis­sion to pro­vide and improve – and ulti­mate­ly pre­vent the need for – fos­ter care. This oper­at­ing foun­da­tion works with chil­dren, fam­i­lies, com­mu­ni­ties, child wel­fare sys­tems and pol­i­cy­mak­ers to ensure that all chil­dren can be raised in a safe and per­ma­nent fam­i­ly. It draws on more than four decades of expe­ri­ence and expert research and analy­sis to pro­vide high-qual­i­ty ser­vices and sup­port for chil­dren and fam­i­lies in the child wel­fare sys­tem and pro­motes improve­ments in prac­tice and policy.

Mar­guerite Casey Foundation

The only daugh­ter and youngest child of Hen­ry J. and Annie E. Casey, Mar­guerite Casey shared her broth­er Jim’s pro­found belief in the impor­tance of fam­i­ly, lead­ing her to spend much of her adult life cre­at­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to help fam­i­lies and com­mu­ni­ties suc­ceed and thrive. Found­ed in 2001 to hon­or her and extend the reach of Casey Fam­i­ly Pro­grams, the Mar­guerite Casey Foun­da­tion is a pri­vate, inde­pen­dent grant-mak­ing foun­da­tion ded­i­cat­ed to help­ing low-income fam­i­lies strength­en their voice and mobi­lize their com­mu­ni­ties. The foun­da­tion works to change and inform the advance­ment of social and eco­nom­ic poli­cies and prac­tices that pro­mote the devel­op­ment of strong fam­i­lies and strong com­mu­ni­ties; encour­age the devel­op­ment of a coher­ent knowl­edge base for advo­cates, fam­i­lies and the orga­ni­za­tions that serve them; and invest in sys­tem change and cross-sys­tem change to gen­er­ate greater knowl­edge and pro­vide effec­tive work­ing mod­els for practice.

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