Learning In, and From, the Evaluation of Making Connections
This report summarizes the insights and emerging lessons from the efforts to evaluate the Foundation’s decade-long, multisite Making Connections community change initiative.
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Innovations in Workforce Development for Minority Job Seekers and Employers
This Jobs Initiative report explores racial discrimination against low-skilled workers in regional labor markets – and what can be done about it.
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Reflections on the Rebuilding Communities Initiative
This paper is intended to reflect and capture the lessons learned in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Rebuilding Communities Initiative, a seven-year initiative launched in 1994 to provide support to help transform troubled, destitute neighborhoods into safe, supportive and productive environments for children and their families.
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Case Studies in Changing Local Workforce Development Systems
This report evaluates the Jobs Initiative, Casey's six-city, eight-year effort to engage local institutions and stakeholders while identifying ways to improve workforce development services for disadvantaged job seekers. The ultimate goal was to find improved workforce development approaches and create large-scale, system-wide change.
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Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s
An analysis of data on neighborhood poverty suggests that the strong economy of the late 1990s did not permanently resolve the challenge of concentrated poverty. The slower economic growth of the 2000s, followed by the worst downturn in decades, led to increases in neighborhoods of extreme poverty once again.
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Creating Successful Futures for Children and Families
Seattle was the home of UPS founder Jim Casey and his siblings, who created the Annie E. Casey Foundation in honor of their mother and committed it to serving disadvantaged kids. This publication features some of the Casey projects and partnerships that reflect that commitment, including Seattle Jobs Initiative, a decade-long effort to link low-income men and women with a living wage; Making Connections White Center, which demonstrates how communities and residents can lead efforts to improve tough neighborhoods; and Thrive by Five, a public-private partnership that aims to improve, expand and promote early childhood education in the state.
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation Issue Brief
This issue brief calls on political leaders in Washington, D.C. to promote data-driven and evidence-based policymaking for juvenile justice reform.
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A Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match Between Louisville, Kentucky and Chicago, Illinois
This report summarizes an informational meeting between a Foundation-funded Making Connections grantee—Louisville, Kentucky—with peers from Chicago, Illinois. The purpose of the technical assistance match was to learn about Chicago’s HOPE VI housing revitalization efforts, with an emphasis on case management approaches for families affected by housing revitalization.
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Detention Reform Brief 2
This report gives insight into the success of detention alternatives when dealing with youth arrests.
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Protecting Sexually Active Teens in Atlanta, New Orleans and San Diego
Plain Talk is a teen pregnancy prevention program targeting low-income communities that the Case Foundation incubated.
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