A Preliminary Review of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Leadership in Action Program
This documentation project explores whether the first statewide and local Leadership in Action Program (LAP) had an impact on the project and the leaders, and if that impact continued to influence efforts to ensure that all children in Maryland and Baltimore City enter school ready to learn.
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Creating Successful Futures for Children and Families
Seattle was the home of UPS founder Jim Casey and his siblings, who created the Annie E. Casey Foundation in honor of their mother and committed it to serving disadvantaged kids. This publication features some of the Casey projects and partnerships that reflect that commitment, including Seattle Jobs Initiative, a decade-long effort to link low-income men and women with a living wage; Making Connections White Center, which demonstrates how communities and residents can lead efforts to improve tough neighborhoods; and Thrive by Five, a public-private partnership that aims to improve, expand and promote early childhood education in the state.
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A New Approach to Asset Building
Financial coaching is an emerging approach to help low-income families build financial assets. This report highlights a financial coaching approach and possible outcomes.
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Financial Institution Guide for Offering International Remittance Services
This executive summary accompanies a full report that provides users with a step-by-step approach to establishing a remittance program that is beneficial to both consumers and the financial institutions serving them. The report describes several effective remittance programs, drawing on the experiences of financial institutions throughout the U.S.
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Casey’s Leadership in Action Program delivers hands-on training for people from diverse fields and backgrounds who are working hard to improve results for vulnerable children and families. This brochure explains how the program works and how to tell if a community is ready to participate.
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Stories and Results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Education Investments
Partnerships among schools, families, and community organizations can reconnect urban schools to their communities and improve results for young people and their families. This report provides an overview of Casey's investment philosophy and strategies, and its approach to defining and documenting grant-making results.
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A Cost-Saving Approach
This 4-page issue brief describes how Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) helps helps communities reduce wasteful spending detaining non-violent youth, and frees up these funds for more effective public safety solutions.
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Transporting Families Toward Financial Stability and Success
The need for a car is particularly critical in rural areas. This brief describes a variety of programs that help rural low income famillies get a car to help build family economic success.
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What Every Policymaker and Educator Should Know
This report discusses what policymakers and educators need to do to help impoverished preschool children reach their potential in school.
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Additional HHS Assistance Needed to Help States Reduce the Proportion in Care
This study by the GAO analyzes the major factors influencing the proportion of African American children in care and the extent to which states and localities have implemented promising strategies. The study also examines was in which federal polices may have influenced African American representation in foster care.
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