Faith in Communities The Annie E. Casey Foundation seeks to help faith-based organizations, such as the Providence In-town Churches Association Food Pantry, improve and expand how they serve community members in need. Read More
Casey Connects: Summer 2011 Faith, Forgiveness, Fragile Relationships, and Responsible Fatherhood This issue of Casey Connects spotlights four initiatives that the Annie E. Casey Foundation has invested in for the last decade: aiding the formerly incarcerated, promoting responsible fatherhood, supporting healthy relationships and tapping into the strengths of faith-based organizations. The end goal in each of these efforts is the same: Give kids in tough communities a better shot at success. Read More
Balancing Justice with Mercy An Interfaith Guide for Creating Healing Communities This report presents the Healing Communities detailed model of prisoner reentry, where the time for engaging members of the congregation is any time from arrest through reintegration after a “returning citizen” returns home from prison. Read More
What shall we then do? An Interdenominational Guide and Kit for Creating Healing Communities This guide, developed for an interdenominational Christian audience, explains the Healing Communities model which seeks to engage congregations in the restoration and healing of their members who have been affected by crime and incarceration. Read More
What Shall We Then Do? A Family Freedom Kit for Creating Healing Communities This guide, developed in partnership with the Progressive National Baptist Convention, explains the Healing Communities model which seeks to engage congregations in the restoration and healing of their members who have been affected by crime and incarceration. Read More
Achieving the Six Core Results The Role of Faith-Based Organizations This document presents information that describes how smaller faith-based organizations have developed services and programs to meet the economic and other needs of low-income individuals and families living in their community. Read More
Faithful Citizenship Project: Congregational Profiles A Guide to Non-Partisan Voter Registration in Religious Congregations This report describes a faith-based voter registration initiative in eight communities. The initiative focused on congregations of varying denominations to help identify non-voters and register them to vote. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
