The High Cost of Being Poor in Hartford This report showcases the “high cost of being poor” reality by presenting the everyday budget struggles of low-income working families in Hartford, Connecticut. Read More
Many Strategies, One Goal: Empowering Residents Believing resident involvement is critical to lasting community change, the Casey Foundation has employed a variety of strategies to engage residents in shaping solutions to local challenges and to connect them to each other and the resources they need. Read More
Laying the Groundwork for Collective Impact: A Working Paper Early-Stage Advice for Multisector Collaborations This paper summarizes the literature and provides start-up advice for aligning public, private and philanthropic resources interested in “collective impact” when making community-wide changes for kids and families. Read More
Measuring Change While Changing Measures Learning In, and From, the Evaluation of Making Connections This report summarizes the insights and emerging lessons from the efforts to evaluate the Foundation’s decade-long, multisite Making Connections community change initiative. Read More
Introduction to Family Strengthening The State of Family Well-Being, Policy Brief #1 This paper describes an innovative way of looking at helping families in poverty and how this new "strengthening" ideal can affect public policy in the future. Read More
Meeting the Housing Needs of Families Technical Assistance Resources for Making Connections Cities and Site Teams This technical assistance guide outlines key ideas, effective approaches and available housing technical assistance resources for the cities and site teams of Casey's 10-year Making Connections initiative. Read More
Casey in Seattle Creating Successful Futures for Children and Families Seattle was the home of UPS founder Jim Casey and his siblings, who created the Annie E. Casey Foundation in honor of their mother and committed it to serving disadvantaged kids. This publication features some of the Casey projects and partnerships that reflect that commitment, including Seattle Jobs Initiative, a decade-long effort to link low-income men and women with a living wage; Making Connections White Center, which demonstrates how communities and residents can lead efforts to improve tough neighborhoods; and Thrive by Five, a public-private partnership that aims to improve, expand and promote early childhood education in the state. Read More
End Games: The Challenge of Sustainability This report explores how funders and grantees think about sustainability, and how to best support and prepare promising projects for post-grant sustainability. Read More
Communities for All Ages: Planning Across Generations Elders as Resources Intergenerational Strategies Series This policy brief is a modern day version of the “it takes a village to raise a child” philosophy stressing how elders in a community can pitch in and transform the way community change choices are made to benefit all age groups. Read More
Aligning Capital With Mission Lessons from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Social Investment Program This report shares the results of an in-depth evaluation of Casey’s Social Investment Program. Readers will learn if the program is making a difference, the opportunities and challenges that impact investors commonly face, and what lessons the Foundation has learned in navigating the mission investing field. Read More
