Nearly 24 million children have parents without full-time jobs, and many others earn too little to help their families flourish. We invest in finding ways to connect parents to economic opportunity so that the family can thrive.
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In this report the reader gets an overview of how the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative created jobs and contracting work for low-income people of color, women and local Baltimore businesses during a huge community redevelopment project. The report includes lessons learned about incorporating the strategies of economic inclusion into community development, which places the East Baltimore initiative’s efforts within a national context.
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Young fathers of color face myriad challenges — from struggling to maintain housing and family-supporting jobs to keeping up with child support. At the same time, organizations, funders and others can improve how they’re supporting these fathers.
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Everyone can become a race equity and inclusion champion, and the Foundation has a growing library of resources to get you started.
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Learn how disaggregating data by race and presenting data in a meaningful, effective way uncovers hidden social and racial inequities in need of attention.
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At 1 p.m. ET, on Wednesday, April 29, the Annie E. Casey Foundation will host a webinar at on how states and counties can align a preventive child welfare practice model with the Family First Prevention Services Act.
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This one-page resource, produced by the Annie E. Casey Foundation during the coronavirus pandemic, offers helpful tips for young parents who are raising families at a stressful time.
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Children and Family Futures will host a webinar, Implementing the Substance Use Disorder Provisions of the Family First Prevention Services Act, at 2 p.m. on March 31, 2020. Register for the webinar.
The Center for Working Families Model is one way to deliver multiple services to low-income families. Learn how three sites have implemented this innovative approach.
How best to address the nation's unemployment rate? Thirteen of the country's most innovative thinkers offer big ideas worthy of consideration and potential investment.
Not all families are able to gain access to the benefits for which they are eligible. What can funders, communities and the government do to connect low-income families to these supports.