Tracking Credit Health — and the Role Race Plays — During the COVID-19 Pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have seen some surprising improvements in their credit health. Yet, even with these broad gains, Americans of color are still trailing their white peers on key financial metrics. Read More
Advancing Advocacy Through Youth-Adult Partnerships in Mississippi Debra Jenkins-Kearney and Claire Graves talk about the work of Mississippi Youth Voice and about the impact and importance of youth-adult partnerships in their work. Read More
Casey Foundation Efforts to Keep Kids at Southwest Border With Families Over the past few years, the Casey Foundation has supported the work of national and state grantees to protect the children of immigrants and their families. Learn how the Foundation will continue to support these efforts and ensure every child and family in America are treated with the humanity and fairness. Read More
Investing in Social Entrepreneurs Ignite Capital, with support from the Casey Foundation, engages in impact investing that helps businesses obtain funding. Learn more. Read More
Adding a Precision Approach to Culturally Informed Home Visiting With support from the Casey Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health has developed a web-based support platform designed to help an evidence-based maternal home-visiting program more quickly and precisely identify what young Native American mothers need. Read More
The Pandemic's Toll: Only 1 in 4 Eighth-Graders Proficient in Math in 2022 Just 25% of eighth graders scored proficient in math in 2022. Read how the pandemic has impacted this important academic benchmark. Read More
Strengthening Services With Two-Generation Approaches in Memphis A new research report examines an equity-focused project that aims to quickly design and test improvements for two-generation approaches. Read More
Tool Kit Puts Racial Equity at the Center of Data Integration Social service agencies and schools need well-designed data integration to meet the unique needs of kids and families. But without mechanisms that advance racial equity, these infrastructures can reinforce systemic inequities for people of color. A new tool kit from the University of Pennsylvania’s Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP) offers a blueprint for integrating data with an intentional focus on racial equity. Read More
Ben Hecht on Equity, Innovation and Opportunity in American Cities Lisa Hamilton interviews Ben Hecht, the president and CEO of Living Cities. Their conversation focuses on America’s urban landscape and explores opportunities to reduce poverty, drive innovation and promote equity and inclusion in cities across the nation. Click here to listen to the episode. Read More
A Free Tool for Making Data-Driven Decisions in Youth Justice Casey has launched a tool that makes youth justice data more accessible and actionable to probation practitioners. Learn about the tool. Read More