The Casey Foundation's approach to philanthropy has always embraced more than making grants to achieve our goals. By both awarding funds and providing direct services, we have positioned ourselves to not only impact and influence how well agencies or organizations do their jobs, but also to put our reform ideas into practice in the field by delivering high quality services directly to some of the nation's most vulnerable kids and families.
In this capacity, we design and deliver services and interventions for foster children and their families, facilitate adoption, and help prepare at-risk youth to become successful adults. All of these services are driven by our goal of securing and supporting lifelong family connections for all children and youth. Our goal is to make a tangible difference in individual children’s lives by demonstrating how high quality, cost-effective foster care and family and youth services can contribute to improved permanence, safety, and well-being for vulnerable children. Given their centrality to our mission, principles, and values, direct services investments command more than a fifth of our annual budget.
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