Summary of Life-Skills Activities and Principles
This paper reviews the many programs and activities offered to increase and enhance the life skills of youth in care.
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Succession Planning and Executive Transition Management for Nonprofit Boards of Directors
This publication focuses particularly on board leaders. It provides a set of practical perspectives, hands-on tools, brief case studies and useful resources to help board chairs, officers, and members take a proactive approach to preparing their organizations for a transition.
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Before you decide race is an issue, check out these 6 steps to make sure.
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Helping Families Achieve Economic Success
This brief provides an overview of the Center for Working Families’ framework and goals. The Center for Working Families® (CWF) is an approach to help low-income families reach financial stability and move up the economic ladder.
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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.
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Double Jeopardy: AdvoCasey Explores the High Cost of Being Poor
This edition of AdvoCasey documents the high cost of being poor in eye-opening detail — including the immense cost of credit paid by many low-income families.
AdvoCasey is a seasonal publication with themed issues that spotlight programs and policies making measurable differences in the lives of kids and families.
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Applying Casey Lessons to Rural Poverty
This issue of Casey Connects highlights the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s commitment to helping rural families achieve economic success.
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This learning paper focuses on Casey's CWF initiative and Seedco’s experiment to test if integrating core services is a better way to help low-income families achieve economic self-sufficiency.
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Family to Family Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care
This manual shows why community partnership programs are essential for child welfare work and provides the steps for how to establish those relationships.
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Building Community and Assets Through Self-Help Housing
This brief looks at the experiences of families working together to build their own homes through self-help housing programs.
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