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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A Guide for Funders Interested in Transformational Grantmaking
This assessment guide aims to help funders make smarter—and fairer—grantmaking decisions. It shares specific questions to ask and plan examples to consider in pursuit of transformative change. Prospective grantees can also use this guide to strengthen their proposals and projects before advancing them within the funding pipeline.
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Access to Healthcare in Wisconsin for Immigrant Children and Families
From flu shots to school physicals, basic medical care is vital to growing up healthy. Yet, for immigrant families, the hurdles to health care can be steep. This policy brief is set in Wisconsin but packed with statistics, stories and solutions that cross all geographic boundaries. Its main message? We must do more to connect America’s immigrant families with quality, timely medical care — and here’s how.
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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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Strategies for Improving the Timeliness of Vital Statistics
In this report, industry leaders identify short- and long-term solutions to snags in the vital statistics supply chain. The end goal? Transform the national vital statistics system so that it churns out faster, cleaner data and arms users with the information necessary to address our country’s public health challenges.
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Approaches to Measuring and Tracking Career Advancement
This research brief explores the findings and challenges of data collected over an eight-year period on thousands of individuals who were placed in jobs through the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jobs Initiative.
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This policy brief presents findings about the proportion of children living in cohabiting households, as well as the characteristics of those households, based on an analysis of Census data (1995 to 2006).
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
This guide outlines how Making Connections communities can structure inquiries to access the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for housing.
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Effects of a Community College Program for Probationary Students
This report examines the findings of an evaluation of two community college programs – Opening Doors and Enhanced Opening Doors – at Chaffey College in Southern California.
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