Making Connections Investment Summaries

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Making Connections Investment Summaries

These publications describe the status of Casey's investments in its Making Connections communities, part of its work to strengthen neighborhoods for vulnerable children and families.

Investment Summary: Making Connections Denver

This document describes how the Casey Foundation's investments in 2009–11 for the Making Connections site in Denver will build on both Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s ambitious Economic Prosperity Task Force agenda and the adoption by Mile High United Way—the Local Management Entity for the initiative—of school readiness and grade-level reading proficiency as key priorities. more >>

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Investment Summary: Making Connections Indianapolis

This investment summary details how through commitment, collaboration, and a two-generation approach, Casey’s investment in Making Connections Indianapolis has and will continue to promote resident leadership and organizing strategies that are essential to neighborhood transformation. more >>

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Investment Summary: Making Connections Louisville

The Casey Foundation's Making Connections Louisville site builds on two decades of Casey investment in Kentucky. This document describes how Casey is focusing its work for 2009–11 on embedding results and capacity building strategies within major child- and family-serving systems through strong partnerships with Jefferson Community and Technical College, Jefferson County Public Schools, Metro Government, the Community Foundation of Louisville, and other local funders. more >>

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Investment Summary: Making Connections Oakland

This investment summary details how through commitment, collaboration, and a two-generation approach, Casey’s investment in Making Connections Oakland has and will continue to promote resident leadership and organizing strategies that are essential to neighborhood transformation. more >>

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Investment Summary: Making Connections Providence

Through strong partnerships with Providence Mayor David Cicilline’s Pathways to Opportunity initiative, Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, the Providence Public School District, and others, the Casey Foundation's investments in its Making Connections Providence site are focused on expanding family economic and early grade success strategies in the Elmwood, South Providence, and the West End initiative neighborhoods at scale across the city. more >>

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Investment Summary: Making Connections San Antonio

This investment summary details how through commitment, collaboration, and a two-generation approach, Casey’s investment in Making Connections San Antonio has and will continue to promote resident leadership and organizing strategies that are essential to neighborhood transformation. more >>

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Investment Summary: Making Connections White Center/Seattle

The Casey Foundation’s investments in its Making Connections White Center/ Seattle site are demonstrating how to combat poverty and creat opportunity by by strengthening capacity to connect families in this community—home to more than 30,000 residents, including African American and multiple Asian, Hispanic, African, Middle Eastern, and Pacific Islander immigrant families—to jobs, assets, quality early education, and opportunities for civic engagement and leadership. more >>

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