Family Economic Success
Resources External to NCSL
Updated April 2008
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Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
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Family Economic Success
- Family Economic Success (FES) is a comprehensive approach used by the Casey Foundation to help isolated families secure adequate incomes, accumulate savings and live in stable, economically viable neighborhoods through a combination of workforce development, family economic supports and community investment strategies.
Strengthening Rural Families
- Strengthening Rural Families is based on the principle that "children do well when their families do well, and families do better when they live in supportive communities." AECF invests in three areas to improve the outcomes of children and families in isolated and economically distressed rural communities:
KIDS COUNT
- KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the educational, economic, social, and physical well-being of children in the United States. KIDS COUNT offers data systems that allow visitors to create free, customized data reports.
- KIDS COUNT State-Level Data Online: This system contains state-level data for over 75 measures of child-well being and allows you to generate custom reports for a geographic area or to compare geographic areas on a topic.
- CLIKS: Community Level Information on Kids: This online database brings together data on the well-being of children collected by KIDS COUNT Grantees from state and local sources and includes data on counties, cities and school districts.
- KIDS COUNT Census Data Online: This online database allows you to create custom reports on over 6,000 geographic areas including counties, cities, congressional districts and state legislative districts.
- KIDS COUNT publications include:
FAMILIES COUNT
- FAMILIES COUNT celebrates organizations that improve the odds for vulnerable children by helping them have what they need most --strong, capable and economically successful families.
The Aspen Institute, founded in 1950, is an international organization dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue. Through seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry and an appreciation for timeless values.
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Economic Opportunities Program
- The Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) advances innovative and promising strategies that connect the poor and underemployed to the mainstream economy. The program operates on the premise that alleviating poverty requires changing systems and transforming an individual's relationship to money, work and assets. EOP currently is working in these areas:
The Brookings Institution is a private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions. Brookings's goal is to provide high-quality analysis and recommendations for decision-makers in the U.S. and abroad on the full range of challenges facing an increasingly interdependent world.
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The Center for Law and Social Policy is a national non-profit that works to improve the lives of low-income people. CLASP's mission is to improve the economic security, educational and workforce prospects, and family stability of low-income parents, children, and youth to secure equal justice for all.
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Workforce Development and Transitional Jobs
- CLASP examines federal and state policies that increase job advancement opportunities for low-wage workers, strengthen connections to work supports for which they may be eligible, and improve the quality of jobs. CLASP publications related to Workforce Development and Transitional Jobs include:
The Center for the Study of Social Policy was established in 1979 with the goal of providing public policy analysis and technical assistance to states and localities. CSSP strives to help states and localities implement creative and effective strategies that strengthen communities and families and ensure that children grow up healthy, safe, successful in school, and ready for productive adulthood.
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Policy Matters
- Policy Matters reports serve as such a guide by assembling research on effective policies in the areas most important to a family's opportunity and stability: employment, income and asset growth, health, education, and healthy family relationships. Policy Matters reports include:
CFED is a nonprofit organization that expands economic opportunity. Established in 1979 as the Corporation for Enterprise Development, CFED works to ensure that every person can participate in, contribute to, and benefit from the economy by bringing together community practice, public policy, and private markets.
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Assets and Opportunity Scorecard
- The Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, is a state-level snapshot of how the country is performing in six key areas: financial security, business development, homeownership, health care, education, and tax policy and accountability.
- The Assets and Opportunity Scorecard publications include:
2007 Development Report Card for the States
- The Development Report Card for the States (DRC) is intended as a tool for policymakers, practitioners, and advocates to understand how their states' economies, and the factors that promote healthy economies, are faring relative to other states.
Individual Development Accounts (IDAs)
- This site provides basic information on starting and operating an IDA program, resources and support services available to IDA practitioners, federal policy that will take IDAs to scale, new research on IDAs and asset building, and events for the entire field. Publications related to IDAs and asset building include:
State Microenterprise Systems
- The State Microenterprise Systems initiative supports innovative statewide programs engaged in significant activities which can lead to important and replicable break-through developments in the growth and sustainability of state level microenterprise development.
The National League of Cities is the oldest and largest national organization representing municipal governments throughout the United States. Its mission is to strengthen and promote cities as centers of opportunity, leadership, and governance. NLC provides resources and networking forums to assist in the sharing of knowledge about good city practice.
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Family Economic Success
- NLC's Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (IYEF) offers municipal leaders a broad range of resources and ideas for promoting family economic success. NLC publications on Family Economic Success include:
Family Economic Success
This project is a partnership of the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The NCSL contact is Mary Fairchild.
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