Business Ownership Key to Addressing the Racial Wealth Gap A new Casey-funded report from the Aspen Institute highlights key research and recent data on the connection between business ownership and wealth for Latinos and African Americans, and provides recommendations to address the challenges entrepreneurs of color face in starting and growing their firms. Read More
More Kids Living in Low-Income Families Today Than Before Recession When it comes to child well-being, the research is clear: Family finances matter. Poverty can impede a child’s ability to learn and contribute to social, emotional and behavioral problems. In total, 31 million kids— 43% of the nation’s children — now live in families that are low-income. Read More
One-Fourth of Kids in Immigrant Families Are Living in Poverty In 2015, one in four children lived in immigrant families in the United States. These children are more likely to live in poverty than their peers from U.S.-born families, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Center. Read More
Person Ilene Berman Senior Associate, Evidence-Based Practice Group Areas of Expertise: Education, Evidence-Based Practice View Profile
Person Irene Lee Director, Family Economic Success Areas of Expertise: Community Development, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Immigration and Refugees, Parental Incarceration, Philanthropy, Two-Generation Approaches, Working Families View Profile
Results-Based Leadership Development Helps Promise Neighborhoods Deliver Results in Mississippi For four years, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has played a key role in nine Promise Neighborhoods efforts by providing its signature results-based leadership to assist these communities in achieving results for children from cradle to career. Read More
Year One of the Rural IMPACT Project Agency officials, funders, policymakers and service providers gathered at a White House symposium on November 17 to discuss early implementation lessons and future plans for Rural IMPACT — a public-private effort to reduce child poverty in rural and tribal communities. Read More
Serving Immigrant Families Through Two-Generation Programs Identifying Family Needs and Responsive Program Approaches This report shares key facts about immigrant parents with young children and examines 11 programs that have successfully served immigrant and refugee families using a two-generation approach. Readers will learn about the difficulties these programs face, what they are doing well, and what policymakers and community stakeholders need to know to support this vulnerable — and growing — demographic. Read More
Reentry and Barriers to Employment Lessons From Casey’s Investments This report covers the challenging terrains of incarceration, reentry and work. It draws on expert interviews, dozens of resources and two decades of strategic investments by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Readers will learn what employment barriers people commonly face after exiting prison or jail and how to help these individuals pursue — and maintain — family-supporting jobs. Read More
Five States Selected for New Initiative to Help Parents and Kids Succeed Together Learn about a new effort to promote two-generation policies and programs in states — and connect low-income families with early childhood education, job training and other tools to achieve financial stability and break the cycle of poverty. Read More
Federal Grant to Build on Evidence2Success in Providence A five-year, $1.8 million grant was recently awarded to the Providence Children & Youth Cabinet for the Building Trauma Sensitive Schools initiative, which will seek to decrease post-traumatic stress disorder among middle-school students in neighborhoods with elevated levels of trauma. By the end of the grant period, the initiative will have served more than 3,000 adolescents. Read More
