The Business Case for Economic Inclusion After intentionally shifting to support economic inclusion, Baltimore businesses have experienced stronger community ties and enhanced employee and client satisfaction. They’ve also seen workforce diversity increase — a change that has helped improve internal company decision-making, according to a new report from the Baltimore Integration Partnership. Read More
Pennsylvania Launches JDAI in Four Counties Pennsylvania is one of the newest states to join JDAI, with sites in Lancaster, Lehigh, Philadelphia, and Allegheny counties agreeing to implement detention reform. Read More
A Message from Our President & CEO on Ferguson Casey Foundation President & CEO Patrick McCarthy shares his thoughts on recent events in Ferguson, Missouri. Read More
Utah Evidence2Success Community Chooses Priorities for Better Outcomes Community and system leaders of Kearns in Salt Lake County, Utah ― one of four sites nationwide implementing the Casey Foundation’s Evidence2Success framework ― have identified key priorities to focus on in their work to improve well-being for local children and youth. Read More
Tools and Tips for Collecting and Analyzing Racial and Ethnic Data Access to racial and ethnic data provided by public institutions can often be too limited or too broad in scope to truly analyze inequities between children of color and their white counterparts. Alicia Van Orman, from the Population Reference Bureau, shared techniques for collecting publically-available data and disaggregating it by race during a webinar for the KIDS COUNT network. Read More
Casey Strengthens Infrastructure for Advancing Racial Equity The Casey Foundation is building equity into its work with help from the National Equity Project to drive organizational change. Learn more. Read More
Nominate or Apply: 2019–21 Casey Children and Family Fellowship The Annie E. Casey Foundation is seeking nominations and applications for its signature Children and Family Fellowship. The executive leadership program, which will run from April 2019 to January 2021, aims to empower child and family-serving professionals to lead major system reforms and community change initiatives that get results. Read More
Annual JDAI Conference Celebrates Success The 19th JDAI Interstate Conference in 2012 included more than 40 workshops and celebrated the initiative's past two decades of success. Read more. Read More
Foundation Welcomes 13th Class of Children and Family Fellows The Casey Foundation has selected 16 leaders for its 13th Children and Family Fellowship. Read about the program and discover its newest members. Read More
Under Armour and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Join Funders to Support Summer Programs for Baltimore Youth Under Armour and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) are joining nine of Baltimore’s largest charitable and nonprofit organizations to support high-quality summer programs for the city’s children and youth in low-income families. The deadline for applications is 5 p.m. Friday, February 17, 2017. Read More
