Community Engagement is Key Ingredient in Casey Recipe for Results Helping residents become meaningfully involved in efforts to address community challenges is a critical, distinguishing feature of the Casey Foundation’s work to improve outcomes for children and families — and integral to Casey's mission. Read More
Casey Connects: Spring 2007 Community Engagement Is Key Ingredient in Casey Recipe for Results This issue of Casey Connects explores different forms of community engagement and tells how the Annie E. Casey Foundation empowers and mobilizes residents to produce better results for children and families. A smaller story spotlights five resources for learning more about Casey’s latest work. Read More
Trusted Advocates A Multicultural Approach to Building and Sustaining Resident Involvement In 2006, the Annie E. Casey Foundation facilitated a peer match between two Making Connections sites: Oakland, Calif., and White Center in Seattle. The goal was to teach residents and community partners in Oakland about White Center’s Trusted Advocates program, which utilizes respected local leaders to engage minority groups in community change. This report recaps how the peer match evolved, why the Trusted Advocates model works and exactly what information the two sites exchanged. Making Connections is an ambitious 10-site, long-term initiative devoted to advancing the premise that supportive communities can help empower families and enhance outcomes for children. Read More
Connecting People to Jobs Neighborhood Workforce Pipelines This report is a comprehensive guide to building jobs “pipelines” from low-income neighborhoods to city-wide and/or regional employment sectors in ways that benefit residents and employers. 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
TARC: The Information Exchange Network of Making Connections The Technical Assistance Resource Center (TARC) served as the information exchange arm of the Casey Foundation's decade-long Making Connections community change initiative launched in 1999. Read More
A New Way To Give It Away How a small grants program has engaged residents and achieved quick successes in Boston This report by The Diarist Project for the Casey Foundation documents lessons learned from use of flexible small grant funds to help engage residents in community change efforts during the early stages of the Making Connections initiative. Read More
Help is on the Way: A Powerful Approach to Technical Assistance Communities Get the Results They Want From Peer Matches This is a comprehensive guide on using peer-to-peer technical assistance in community change efforts. Read More
Financial Services in Making Connections Neighborhoods A financial analysis of survey responses by residents living in the Making Connections sites about their use of bank services, check cashing services, payday lenders, pawn shops and credit cards, as well as how they would respond to financial emergencies. Read More
Tapping the Power of Social Networks Understanding the Role of Social Networks in Strengthening Families and Transforming Communities This report examines research and observations around the power of social networks, including the relationship between social networks and key results of the Making Connections initiative. Read More
