A 10-Year Review of the Casey Fellows' Mini-Grants Program
This report summarizes 10 years of the Fellows Alumni Network mini-grants history, alumni involvement and awards, from Casey's Children and Family Fellowship program.
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Parents’ Work and Children’s Welfare in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jobs Initiative
Researchers spent 18 months following families to better understand how parental employment intersects with child well-being. Their study focused on 10 low-income families from two Jobs Initiative sites — Seattle and Milwaukee. The goal? Learn how workforce development impacts a parent’s job mobility and if this mobility — or lack thereof — affects their kids.
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Early Findings from New York City's Conditional Cash Transfer Program
This comprehensive report offers a preliminary assessment of New York City's conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of paying participants to improve education and workforce skills.
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Improving the Lives of At-Risk Youth
This report highlights the United Way of Massachusetts Bay’s Faith and Action effort. The initiative helped faith-based organizations in Boston serving at-risk youth evaluate their efforts and determine the impact of their programs.
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Guidance and Considerations for KIDS COUNT Grantees
This brief describes an existing advocacy evaluation concept for policy work and discusses the pros and cons of how grantees could effectively test this real-time self-evaluation approach to document and support their advocacy work.
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A Reflection by Former Making Connections Oakland Director Fred Blackwell
This interview gives readers an inside look at the ups and downs of managing a foundation initiative at the local level.
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Preparing Young People to Succeed in College and Beyond
This publication chronicles the stories and some of the results achieved by the preschool through college education connection effort in Atlanta, Georgia.
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The Urban Institute partnered with organizations in Chicago, Illinois; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Providence, Rhode Island to merge local and state level criminal justice and human services data to learn about children of incarcerated parents in their localities. This report presents findings from the three sites and a discussion of the possibilities and difficulties involved in merging and analyzing administrative data on this population.
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Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care
This report focuses on organization development tools as an approach to supporting change within child welfare organizations.
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An International Tool Kit helping Children and Youth, Families and Communities
This toolkit contains results-based case studies from 6 countries showing resident-engaging community change strategies that can be adapted to work in other localities.
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