New Health Equity Tool Tracks How the Pandemic is Affecting Communities A new tool maps the pandemic’s impact nationwide and illustrate its disproportionately devastating toll on Black and Latino communities. Read More
Evaluation and Briefs Share Lessons Learned During Family-Centered Community Change Initiative A new evaluation report from the Urban Institute, Developing Two-Generation Approaches in Communities, shares lessons, challenges and reflections on the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Family-Centered Community Change (FCCC) strategy. Read More
Developing Two-Generation Approaches in Communities Final Report From the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Family-Centered Community Change This report is the product of a seven-year formative evaluation of the Casey Foundation’s Family-Centered Community Change (FCCC) initiative. The Urban Institute followed the initiative in Buffalo, New York; Columbus, Ohio; and San Antonio, Texas — from 2013 through the end of grant-funded programming in 2019. Read More
2021 KIDS COUNT Data Book The Casey Foundation's 2021 KIDS COUNT Data Book provides information on child well-being to help inform the work of the policymakers, researchers and advocates. Read the report here. Read More
50-State Data Report Confirms Urgent Need to Make Game-Changing Expanded Child Tax Credit Permanent As the federal government launched a new website for parents and caregivers eligible for an expanded child tax credit, the Casey Foundation released a 50-state data report that argues for making the expansion permanent. Read More
The Child Tax Credit and Payments to Parents and Caregivers The expanded federal child tax credit will begin direct payments to parents on July 15, 2021. Learn more about these payments to parents and caregivers. Read More
United Way's Suzanne McCormick on Serving Communities During the Pandemic Suzanne McCormick is the U.S. president of United Way Worldwide. Listen as Casey's Lisa Hamilton chats with McCormick about how the United Way has evolved its programs and priorities to better support communities and families during the pandemic. Read More
National Partnership to Reinvent Child Welfare Expands Thriving Families, Safer Children: A National Commitment to Well-Being has expanded its reach to include child welfare jurisdictions in 22 states that stretch from coast to coast and a sovereign tribal nation. Learn more about this effort. Read More
Results Count Program Informs Plan to Eradicate Poverty in Washington In Washington state, Governor Jay Inslee’s Poverty Reduction Work Group has released a comprehensive 10-year plan to dismantle poverty statewide. The group’s main facilitator and writer, Lori Pfingst, credits Results Count with shaping her work on the project. Read More
Food Deserts in the United States Learn about America’s food deserts — areas offering residents few to no convenient options for securing affordable and healthy foods — and how to solve them. Read More
