The Casey Foundation’s approach to grant making focuses on making multi-year, multi-site commitments that enable us to invest in long-term strategies and partnerships that strengthen families and communities. The following initiatives are those that have shown strong results and those for which Casey is best known.
Child Welfare Strategy Group
In 2010, Casey centralized the Foundation’s technical assistance, training, and management consultant expertise to form the Child Welfare Strategy Group. This group, which brings together the Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice, the Family to Family Initiative, and the Casey Strategic Consulting Group, uses an intensive, embedded consulting model, closely collaborating with clients to spark significant, measurable transformations in public child welfare systems.
Civic Sites
Two cities are known as our Civic Sites: Baltimore – home to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and, Atlanta – home to UPS. Each represent areas where Casey’s grantmaking integrates our best programs and approaches while remaining responsive to local opportunities for well-defined, neighborhood-based, family strengthening work aimed at improving results for disadvantaged children.
Family Economic Success
The Foundation invests heavily in a set of approaches and projects collectively called Family Economic Success (FES) that reflect our premise that strengthening families is the key to improving child outcome. These efforts address the multiple factors needed to help families find and keep work, save and grow finances, and build assets to secure better futures for their children.
Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
Launched in 1992, JDAI seeks to help youth involved in the juvenile justice system develop into healthy, productive adults through policies and programs that maximize their chance for success, reduce their likelihood of incarceration, and minimize the risk they pose to their communities.
KIDS COUNT
The Casey Foundation provides funding and technical assistance for a nationwide network of KIDS COUNT grantee projects. They collect data on and advocate for the well-being of children at the state and local levels.
Leadership Development
Casey is building upon its successful leadership development program using a talent management approach for staff, grantees and communities that ensures both the Foundation and the public sector are ready for transition into the next decade with the strongest talent available toward improving outcomes for disadvantaged children and families.
Making Connections
Making Connections is Casey’s 10-year, multi-site effort to improve the lives and prospects of families and children living in some of America’s toughest neighborhoods. Initiated in 1999, it is based on a “two-generation” approach to combating poverty and creating opportunities for families: promoting family economic success for parents, and ensuring children are healthy and succeeding in school.