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The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a nonprofit organization which is based in Baltimore. The Casey Foundation makes grants to communities for reforms and policies designed to help disadvantaged children and families. The organization was created in 1948 by UPS founder Jim Casey and his siblings in Seattle; it is named in honor of their mother. In 1994, the foundation moved its headquarters from Seattle to Baltimore; because of this, many Casey Foundation projects are located in or near Seattle and Baltimore. Douglas W. Nelson is the current president of the foundation. The organization has projects throughout the United States, and currently runs the following "Casey Place" initiatives in Mary...
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a nonprofit organization which is based in Baltimore. The Casey Foundation makes grants to communities for reforms and policies designed to help disadvantaged children and families. The organization was created in 1948 by UPS founder Jim Casey and his siblings in Seattle; it is named in honor of their mother. In 1994, the foundation moved its headquarters from Seattle to Baltimore; because of this, many Casey Foundation projects are located in or near Seattle and Baltimore. Douglas W. Nelson is the current president of the foundation. The organization has projects throughout the United States, and currently runs the following "Casey Place" initiatives in Maryland: Casey Family Services, Civic Sites, Family to Family, Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative and KIDS COUNT. All the initiatives are located in Baltimore except for Family to Family, which has locations in Wicomico, Anne Arundel and Princes George's counties in Maryland. Casey Family Services is a child welfare agency that provides programs to help both children and families. Civic Sites is a localized grant program. Family to Family is a child welfare reform program. Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative focuses on reforming the juvenile detention system. KIDS COUNT is a program designed to track the well-being of children on a national and state level.
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Forum to address Latino children's challenges
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County will hold a forum addressing academic barriers specific to children of Latino immigrant families from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Friday at the World Trade Center at 400 E. Pratt St. in Baltimore. The forum,...Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, Migration, Minority Groups, Family
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Two with Md. ties tapped for Obama administration
President Barack Obama announced his intention to add two more individuals with Maryland ties to his administration, the White House said Friday. Patrick A. Corvington of Baltimore's Annie E. Casey Foundation will be nominated as CEO of the Corporation...Tags: Heads of State, The White House, Government, Barack Obama
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Child poverty in Baltimore declines
Despite a decrease in poverty among city children, nearly one in five Baltimore residents were living below federal poverty levels in 2008, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Census Bureau data showed that 19 percent of Baltimore's...Tags: Population and Census, Demographics, People, Poverty, World War II (1939-1945)
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Making finance fun?
One of the big hurdles of teaching personal finance to children and young adults is how to do so without boring or confusing them with lectures about compound interest and annual percentage rates.
Now there's a growing effort to reach and teach kids on...Tags: Finance, Defense, Museum Dioramas, Tim Collins, Credit and Debt
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Helping out the helpers
The group of teens and twentysomethings had no problem summoning an audience for a presentation on community building recently at a West Baltimore youth center. After all, instead of offering suggestions, they're offering money. Big money. To young people...Tags: Teen-agers, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Emergency Planning, People
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Head of Annie E. Casey Foundation to retire
Baltimore Sun reporterDouglas W. Nelson, who led the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation during two decades when its philanthropy on behalf of disadvantaged children and families grew more than sixfold, will retire from his post in April. Nelson, 62, described the...Tags: Employment, Family, Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Browning faces a life in prison
When Nicholas W. Browning is sentenced in December for the fatal shootings of his parents and two younger brothers, the 16-year-old Cockeysville honors student with no prior criminal record will likely join a state prison population that includes hundreds...Tags: Punishment, Academic Progress, Juvenile Delinquency, Judges, Trials
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Stopping same-sex unions protects no one
David Blankenhorn, who heads up a think tank in New York, writes in his Sept. 19 Times Op-Ed article that because marriage is historically a means to provide children with legitimacy, it must so always remain. I do not agree that this is the sole reason...Tags: Glendora, Gays and Lesbians, Los Angeles Unified School District, Family, Marriage
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Report has good and bad news on risks faced by Broward children
South Florida Sun-SentinelFirst, the bad news: Children and teens in Broward County are less likely to feel safe in school, more likely to be victims of violence while on campus and more likely not to graduate compared with their Florida peers. The good news: They are less likely...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teen-agers, Physical Fitness, Juvenile Delinquency, Gang Activity
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Coaching life, not play, is at heart of 'Big Game'
There are images I won't soon forget: Teenage boys, trapped between childhood and adulthood, sitting around and talking about kites, of all things. One of the football players doing a backflip off the cafeteria wall. Tears welling in the eyes of a player...Tags: Ethics, Values
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Squeezed in a pinch
247-4767Donna Gray knows it would probably be cheaper to cash her monthly disability checks at a bank rather than at a check casher, but a bank refused her an account, she said, citing negative items on her credit report. So, fees at a local check cashing outlet...Tags: Vehicles, Credit and Debt, Alan Greenspan, Colonial Heights (Colonial Heights, Virginia), Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Conditions at Hickey shocked Md. officials
Sun StaffWhen the state assumed control of its sprawling Charles H. Hickey Jr. School from a private contractor on April 1, it found an out-of-control wreck of a juvenile detention center where housing units reeked of urine, graffiti covered walls, and locks didn'...Tags: Teen-agers, Advanced Training, Academic Progress, Juvenile Delinquency, Civil Rights
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