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Civic Sites and Community Change OCTOBER 16, 2014

Civic Sites and Community Change OCTOBER 16, 2014. Why a Kids Foundation Cares About Communities. 8.6 million children live in neighborhoods where at least 30% of households are living below the poverty line

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Civic Sites and Community Change OCTOBER 16, 2014

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  1. Civic Sites and Community Change OCTOBER 16, 2014

  2. Why a Kids Foundation Cares About Communities • 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

  3. A Changing Landscape in Community Development • 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

  4. Atlanta and Baltimore Civic Sites • 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

  5. Baltimore Civic Site:East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative

  6. Baltimore Civic Site: Community Building Practice Transparency Articulate clearly, the vision and principles that guide our work Promote Access Connect community stakeholders to resources to promote engagement (information, funding, support) Build Capacity Identify and fund technical assistance to strengthen community organizations’ authentic engagement work Casey Roles in Community Building Promote Collaboration Facilitate increased capacity and collaboration among community organizations Shift Power Use our influence to help shift and reframe key roles and relationships Practice Accountability Hold stakeholders (and self) accountable to this approach 5

  7. Baltimore Civic Site: Housing in Place • 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

  8. Baltimore Civic Site: Commercial and Retail 1770 Ashland Avenue Maryland Public Health Lab 235,000 SF, under construction Completion in mid-2014 • 855 N. Wolfe Street • 280,000 SF, completed 2008 • 95% leased • Partial 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 7

  9. Henderson-Hopkins School

  10. Atlanta Civic Site

  11. Atlanta Civic Site

  12. Family-Centered Community Change Hypotheses 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.

  13. Two Generation Practice: Three Simultaneous Interventions with Parents and Children Influencing Policy and Systems

  14. Family-Centered Community Change • 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.

  15. Casey’s Lessons In Community Change

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