Campaign Puts Racial Equity in the Center of the Social Sector Diverse leadership makes nonprofits more effective, according to research. Yet, in the nonprofit sector today, just 10% of CEOs and board chairs and 16% of board members are people of color. Leveling this professional playing field involves building organizational cultures in the social sector that place racial equity at the center of internal operations and external programing. Read More
Reshaping Workforce Development in Baltimore Ensuring Community Voice and Expertise Guide Us In Baltimore, organizations were hitting hurdles in their efforts to connect young people to training and job opportunities. Enter the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which invested in a participatory research pilot to capture both authentic community voices and the employment experiences of local youth. This report shares what the Casey Foundation learned from Baltimore residents — both interviewees and consultants — and delivers a road map for implementing similar research and engagement models. Read More
Carla Javits is Focused on Jobs (Millions of Them) Carla Javits, recently spoke to Casey’s Lisa Hamilton about REDF’s mission and impact. Their conversation explores how the traditional workforce system fails to address serious employment barriers and how social enterprises can step in to help. Read More
Helping Funders Address Neighborhood Trauma and Violence Three leaders from the Annie E. Casey Foundation recently spoke at a national conference and shared early lessons learned from supporting trauma-response and violence-intervention efforts in Atlanta. Read More
Strengthening the Foundation Strategic Evidence Building for Two-Generation Approaches A new report by the Casey Foundation highlights the ups and downs of two-generation approaches. Interest in initiatives designed to meet the needs of parents and their children at the same time is increasing the demand for stronger research on what makes two-generation strategies successful and how funders can better evaluate them. Read More
How Funders Can Help Anchor Institutions Strengthen Local Economies A new Casey-funded report explores the powerful role that funders can play in helping anchor institutions strengthen local communities. Read More
Straight to the Source: A KIDS COUNT Demographer Talks All Things Data This episode of CaseyCast covers all things data with the Population Reference Bureau's Linda Jacobsen, a veteran demographer who helps collect and analyze the child-well being statistics featured in the KIDS COUNT Data Book. Read More
Casey Shares Insights From its Journey Toward Racial and Ethnic Equity and Inclusion Casey Foundation employees learned that their staff had transformed, in less than a decade, from a workforce that was 60% white to one that was nearly 60% people of color. A new document, Operationalizing Equity, examines how this evolution unfolded. Read More
Jeff Edmondson on Getting Communities to Work Together to Get Results For the last 12 years, communities have called StriveTogether’s founder, Jeff Edmondson, to learn how they could improve their partnerships to better serve kids. This episode of CaseyCast explores what lessons Edmondson has learned along the way. Read More
Baltimore Youth Gain Summer Work Experience That Lasts a Lifetime In the summer of 2017 — thanks to a program supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation — more than 8,000 young people in Baltimore had a chance to fill their idle summer months with employment experience and a paycheck. Read More
