This report explores how funders and grantees think about sustainability, and how to best support and prepare promising projects for post-grant sustainability.
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Understanding the Role of Social Networks in Strengthening Families and Transforming Communities
This report examines research and observations around the power of social networks, including the relationship between social networks and key results of the Making Connections initiative.
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to Support Young Children, Their Families, and School Readiness
This tool kit provides resources, strategies and guidance to help communities achieve cultural and linguistic competence across all programs that help families with young children, toward a goal of promoting healthy early childhood development and school readiness.
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Part One of Family Ties: Analysis From a State-By-State Survey of Kinship Care Policies
Many states help kinship caregivers obtain foster care licenses and resources. Learn how a new federal rule can help states do more.
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The Impact of Incarcerating Youth in Detention and Other Secure Facilities
This policy brief looks at the consequences of detention on kids and communities and the positive results coming from Casey’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI).
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This report documents the progress and lessons learned through the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative, a large-scale community and economic development project to transform a distressed property into a vital residential and business community.
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The Power, Practice, and Promise of a Responsible Redevelopment Tool
The Casey Foundation convened experts on both sides of the redevelopment issue to discuss establishing community benefit agreements as a tool for helping low-income neighborhoods become a partner with business in the redevelopment process.
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Lessons from the Civic Sites
Deploying Casey’s REI Framework: Lessons from the Civic Sites documents the efforts of the Casey Foundation to embed a race equity lens in its work within its Baltimore and Atlanta programs.
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Identity and Culture
This guide supports a strengths-based exploration of identity development. It is part of the Equity Conversation Guides For Young Leaders and Partners series that aims to help leaders engage young people in conversations about dismantling racism in child-serving systems and ultimately partner with these youth to advance equity and inclusion solutions.
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Impacts of the Great Recession on Affordability and Multifamily Lending
Despite record-high vacancy rates and falling rents in some areas, the Great Recession did little to halt the long-term erosion of rental housing affordability. The number of financially stressed renters has expanded, while affordable housing available to these households has shrunk.
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