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Way to Give

A Guide to Connecting, Giving and Asset Building

This report describes the practice of tithing within low-income congregations and illustrates how tithing is tied to asset building, based on interviews with clergy and congregation members. It includes brief summaries of different types of congregations.

Faith Matters: Race/Ethnicity, Religion and Substance Use

This report looks at the enormity of the substance abuse problem in the United States andexplores how religion may be the best hope for a solution in ethnic communities.

Kinship Care: Supporting Those Who Raise Our Children

Elders as Resources Intergenerational Strategies Series

This report presents the background on kinship care and the challenges facing kinship caregivers.

Colleges and Universities as Economic Anchors

Profiles of Promising Practices

This report shows how colleges and universities can become economic anchors for their local communities. It was written to encourage institutions of higher education to think about the economic anchor role in a cohesive and coordinated manner and not as a piecemeal afterthought.

Journey to Engagement

A First-Person Reflection on How to Engage Residents

In this report Garland Yates, Making Connections Site Team Leader in Denver, provides a firsthand account of his observations on the importance of engaging residents in community change. This report is part of “The Diarist Project” series of stories and reflections about the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Making Connections Initiative.

Interim Executive Directors

The Power in the Middle

This paper explores the benefits and basics of using an interim executive director during a leadership transition. It also highlights some considerations that organizations should take into account when deciding whether or not to use an interim executive director.

The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Achieving the Six Core Results

This summary document describes how faith-based organizations can develop services and programs to meet the economic and other needs of low-income individuals and families living in their communities.

Founder Transitions

Creating Good Endings and New Beginnings: A Guide for Executive Directors and Boards

This guide examines the unique challenges presented by transitions involving founders or long-term executives. It provides clear advice for executives and their boards in confronting the complex issues these transitions present.

Coming Home: From Prison to the Community with the Help of Faith

This document summarizes what was learned about faith-based community re-entry programs from the multiple reports funded by the Foundation for its Making Connections initiative. It also highlights the impact incarceration has on the families of those who are incarcerated.

Up Next

Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations

Research indicates that leadership transitions from the Baby Boom generation to Generations X and Y will become more common within the nonprofit sector. This report delivers a series of recommendations on how a variety of stakeholders can improve the hand-off from this generation of leaders to the next.