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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for Family and Community Economic Success

This fact sheet offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of racial inequity surrounding family economic success.

Social Networks Make a Difference

Family Economic Success

This report — the fourth installment in a five-part series devoted to exploring the power of social networks — opens with an examination of the role that social connections play in supporting vulnerable households and family economic success. To research this issue, Casey experts turned to networking efforts already underway in their seminal 10-site community change initiative, Making Connections. Their findings, as outlined in this publication, identify three areas where social networking strategies hold great promise in aiding America’s distressed families. These are: asset building, jobs and the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for Income Security

This brief shows the racial barriers to minorities having income security and presents policy strategies to conquer embedded racial discrimination.

Race Matters: System Reform Strategies

This government-focused agency review tool outlines policies and practices that could benefit from a racial bias review.

Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities in Civic Participation

This 2006 fact sheet brings awareness to the racial side of community volunteering and shows the consequences of not being involved in your community or the political process.

A Road to Results: Results-Based Accountability in the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Education Program

This report details the Casey Foundation’s four-year effort to develop a “results-based accountability” (RBA) approach as part of its K-12 education portfolio.

Race Matters: Unequal Opportunity within the Child Welfare System

This fact shee offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of racial inequity surrounding child welfare.

Relationships Matter

How Agencies Can Support Family and Social Network Development

This report, the third in a series aimed at exploring the power of social networks, spotlights the stories of two enterprising organizations: Lawrence Community Works in Massachusetts and the Family Independence Initiative in California. Readers will navigate text infused with firsthand feedback from program participants and learn how both agencies are leveraging social networks in innovative ways to better serve America’s most fragile families.

A Framework For Learning And Results In Community Change Initiatives

Imagine. Act. Believe

This report outlines a learning while doing approach implemented by the Casey Foundation during Making Connections to evaluating community change work that is based on the premise that those who are most affected by change must lead the work.