Six local organizations have received grants in a collaborative effort to help entrepreneurs of color overcome obstacles to starting and growing businesses in Baltimore City and the surrounding region. Learn how funders are supporting local small businesses.
The formation of the Community Investment Guarantee Pool, a new community development tool and the first of its kind in the United States, was announced on Jan. 28, 2020. The Casey Foundation is one of 10 philanthropies helping back the Pool.
Save the Children has joined forces with StriveTogether, Partners for Education at Berea College and the Annie E. Casey Foundation to develop and launch a first-of-its-kind collective impact effort for rural America. Learn more about this collective effort.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has two new vice presidents: Kimberley Brown, who has been named the Foundation’s vice president of human resources, and Katie Tetrault, now vice president of finance and grants management.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation today released “Children Living in High-Poverty, Low-Opportunity Neighborhoods,” a KIDS COUNT data snapshot that examines where concentrated poverty has worsened across the country despite a long period of national economic expansion.
Lisa Hamilton, president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, issued a statement after federal authorities failed to notify state child protective services about the needs of children who would be affected.
In its 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation today urged policymakers and child advocates to prioritize policies that would expand opportunity for America’s 74 million children. Learn more about this report on child well-being from 1990 to 2017.
Changing the Odds: Progress and Promise in Atlanta highlights innovative policies and approaches community leaders are using to ensure all residents can access the opportunities necessary for them to fully contribute to, and benefit from, the city’s growing economy.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation today released “Keeping Kids in Families: Trends in U.S. Foster Care Placement,” using data from child welfare systems across all 50 states and the District of Columbia over a 10-year period to look at how placements for young people in foster care have changed.
The Casey Foundation has selected 15 leaders for the eleventh class of its Children and Family Fellowship. These women and men will use the 21-month Fellowship to work within their agencies, organizations and communities toward specific, measurable improvements for large numbers of young people and families.
