Opportunities for Foundations to Strengthen the Social and Economic Well-Being of Immigrant Families
This briefing paper offers clear recommendations to foundations interested in supporting Limited English Proficient (LEP) immigrants. Readers will gain an overview of the LEP population and the challenges these newcomers face.
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Borrowing to Make Ends Meet Briefing Paper #5
While there were income gains in the late 1990s, the average American’s credit card debt rose faster than ever before. This paper documents the dramatic rise in credit card debt and provides a snapshot of these trends by race between 1992 and 2001.
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A Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match Between Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Louisville, Kentucky
This report describes how the Making Connections site in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sought help from their peers in Louisville, Kentucky on how to integrate services for families and children at the neighborhood level by getting a look at the collaboration used to establish Neighborhood Place in Louisville.
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Pursuing Permanent Children for Families and Youth
This issue of Casey Connects spotlights the Foundation’s efforts on 2 fronts: 1) helping kids in foster care find loving, permanent families; and 2) reducing racial disparities throughout the child welfare system. A smaller story recognizes 6 movers and shakers in the child welfare field, including 4 former Families Count honorees.
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Baltimore's Five-Year Action Plan for Achieving School Readiness
This report outlines the Baltimore, Maryland, Leadership in Action Program’s recommended strategies for helping to improve school readiness for the children of Baltimore.
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Findings From the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative
This report tells the story of the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative, a 17-state effort that produced a master list of critical school readiness measures. It also shares what participating states learned about using these indicators to inform policies and help kids succeed.
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A Guide to Key Ideas, Effective Approaches, and TA Resources for When Prisoners Return to the Community
This prisoner reentry report provides community-based, family strengthening solutions to help prisoners after release. Learn more about help for released prisoners now.
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A Guide to Key Ideas, Effective Approaches, and Technical Assistance Resources for Making Connections Cities and Site Teams
The document provides an overview of the importance of involving fathers in family strengthening efforts, the key elements of effective fatherhood programs and examples of programs and resource organizations for fatherhood programs.
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A Guide to Connecting, Giving and Asset Building
This report describes the practice of tithing within low-income congregations and illustrates how tithing is tied to asset building, based on interviews with clergy and congregation members. It includes brief summaries of different types of congregations.
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This report looks at the enormity of the substance abuse problem in the United States andexplores how religion may be the best hope for a solution in ethnic communities.
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