Community Investment
You are in the Community Investment section of the Casey Foundation Knowledge Center. This section contains resources published and or funded by Casey that you may download. Resources address investments and grantmaking in housing, facilities and business, and commercial development.
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Featured Publications
Fueling Fair Practices: A Road Map to Improved Public Policy For Used Car Sales and Financing
2009
This report, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, examines the importance of car ownership as it relates to families’ economic productivity and self-sufficiency, as well as highlights the problems and inequities existing in the current used car sales market. Also included in this report are recommendations at the state and federal level so as to insure that more working-class families have their own transportation to and from work.
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Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program
2011
This report presents the long-term impacts of a unique housing mobility demonstration, Moving to Opportunity (MTO), on housing and neighborhood conditions, physical and mental health, economic self-sufficiency, risky and criminal behavior, and educational outcomes.
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Building a Stronger Regional Safety Net: Philanthropy’s Role
2011
This analysis combines an original data set of foundation grants for social services with in-depth interviews to assess the role of foundations in supporting the suburban social safety net in the Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, and Detroit regions.
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Supporting Vulnerable Children and Families: Innovative Approaches for Individual Philanthropists and Small Family Foundations
2011
This report looks at new ideas for ways philanthropists can partner across sectors in order to solve some of society’s most intractable problems.
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Older Americans Working More, Retiring Less
2010
With increased emphasis on reforming Social Security, a brief from the Carsey Institute shows that a greater percentage of older Americans are staying in the workforce longer. Nearly a quarter of women and a third of men between ages 65 and 69 are still in the work force, many of them working full time.
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Measuring Poverty at the State Level: Low-Income Working Families Paper 17
2010
This report examines a study that implemented the modern poverty measure for Minnesota using the American Community Survey (ACS). The study simulated the potential effects of alternative safety net policies on poverty. The results highlight the importance of the modern poverty measuring for analyzing state policies, and decisions necessary to implement the new measure.
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