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Civic Sites and Community Change

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• 8.6 million children live in neighborhoods where at least 30% of households are living below the poverty line

• The number of children living in such neighborhoods increased by 2.3 million since 2000

• High-poverty neighborhoods are much more like to have high rates of crime and violence, physical and mental health issues, unemployment and other challenges

• Our goal is to help ensure that all families live in thriving communities that support their economic success and their children’s development

Why a Kids Foundation Cares About Communities

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A Changing Landscape in Community Development

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• New federal programs

• Local and regional foundations increasing commitments to neighborhood-level work

• National foundations have either renewed their focus or shifted to regional or structural frame

• Evolving role for major national intermediaries

• Collective impact movement has strengthened focus on multi-sector approaches to complex challenges

Atlanta and Baltimore Civic Sites

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• Deep, long-term investments to build thriving communities through:

– Two-generation strategies to improve family financial stability and educational attainment and

– Neighborhood transformation efforts to build more supportive environments for children and families

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Baltimore Civic Site:East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative

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Baltimore Civic Site: Community Building

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Promote Access Connect community

stakeholders to resources to promote

engagement (information, funding,

support)

Practice Transparency

Articulate clearly, the vision and

principles that guide our work

Build Capacity Identify and fund

technical assistance to strengthen community

organizations’ authentic engagement work

Shift PowerUse our influence to help shift and

reframe key roles and relationships

Promote Collaboration

Facilitate increased capacity and

collaboration among community

organizationsPractice

Accountability Hold stakeholders

(and self) accountable to this

approach

Casey Roles in Community

Building

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• Parkview at Ashland Terrace

– 74 affordable apartments for seniors

• Ashland Commons

– 78 mixed income apartments

• Chapel Green

– 63 mixed income apartments/ town homes

• 929 Wolfe Street

– 575 student housing unira

Baltimore Civic Site: Housing in Place

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Baltimore Civic Site: Commercial and Retail

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855 N. Wolfe Street280,000 SF, completed 200895% leasedPartial tenant list:• Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute• Lieber Institute for Brain Disorders• Siemens• Biomarker Strategies• Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic

Biomedical Sciences• Howard Hughes Medical Institute • Iatrica• PGDx

1770 Ashland AvenueMaryland Public Health Lab235,000 SF, under constructionCompletion in mid-2014

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Henderson-Hopkins School

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Atlanta Civic Site

Atlanta Civic Site

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Family-Centered Community ChangeHypotheses and Theory of Change

IF we can help programs simultaneously combine targeted family economic supports and interventions to parents, skill building for parents in their role as parents, and high-quality early education and early school supports for their children,

THEN the outcomes for both parents and children will be significantly better than if only one of these interventions were delivered.

A national foundation participating as a strategic co-investor can bring two-generation approaches into an existing place-focused, community change effort in a way that strengthens the existing effort.

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FES Strategies

• Workforce and Career Development

• Access to Income and Work Support Benefits

• Financial Coaching and Education; Access to Affordable Financial Products

Capacity Building for Parents and Caregivers

• Strengthening Parents' Executive Function Skills

• Building Confidence and Leadership

• Enhance Parents’ Social Networks

• Comprehensive Supports for Families

Early Care, Education and Early Grades

• High-Quality Early Education Programs (Center Based or Home Based)

• Successful Transition to Elementary School

• Quality Elementary School Experiences

• Effective Teaching• Trusting Relationships

with Parents

Influencing Policy and Systems

Two Generation Practice: Three Simultaneous Interventions with Parents and Children

Family-Centered Community Change

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• Casey has partnered with three established local initiatives to support in adopting a two-generation approach.

• These communities are developing a more intentional alignment and integration of supports and services for young children and their parents or caregivers.

Casey’s Lessons In Community Change

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Casey’s Lessons Learned

1. Focus on two-generation, place-based community change

2. Recognize specific challenges facing each community

3. Understand the complexity of managing and measuring community change

4. Promote resident and parent engagement

5. Develop effective ways to harness and learn from data

6. Redefine success for place-based community change

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