SI 74 the Annie E Casey Foundation 060113

CASE: SI-74 DATE: 03/29/05 (R EV’D 09/01/06) Lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and Victoria Chang prepared this case as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. The Stanford Graduate School of Business gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Giving 2.0 (giving2.com) in the development of this case. Copyright © 2013 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Publically available free cases are distributed through ecch.com. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, used in a spreadsheet, or transmitted in any form or by any means –– electron ic, mechanic al, photocop ying, recordin g, or otherwise –– without permission of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Every effort has been made to respect copyright and to contact copyright holders as appropriate. If you are a copyright holder and have concerns, please contact the Case Writing Office at [email protected] or write to the Case Writing Office, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Knight Management Center, 655 Knight Way, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5015. THE ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION Jim Casey, one of the founders of United Parcel Service, established the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation with his siblings in 1948. The foundation was named in honor of their mother, and its mission was “to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States” and to “foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families.” 1 According to the foundation, despite the economic boom in the 1990s, more than 12 million, or 17 percent of all kids under the age of 18, still lived in poverty as of 2003—a higher proportion than in 1974. 2 As the foundation grew, it developed a grantmaking strategy that included making grants to organizations that focused on: (1) improving major systems serving disadvantaged children and families, (2) transforming neighborhoods, and (3) promoting accountability and innovation. The first area involved helping distressed neighborhoods by changing child-welfare, mental health, and other public systems serving disadvantaged children and families. The second area involved demonstrating ways that states, localities, and neighborhood groups could reorganize themselves and integrate their efforts to support vulnerable families and improve distressed neighborhoods. This included decentralizing large public bureaucracies, pooling funding streams for children and family services across agency lines, and formalizing the involvement of communities in the design and delivery of human services. The third area involved supporting a range of activities that provided the best available data and analysis on critical issues affecting disadvantaged children and families. 1 The Annie E. Casey Foundation, “Home,” http://www.aecf.org/ (July 25, 2006). 2 “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003,” U.S. Census Bureau, August 2004, http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/p60-226.pdf (July 25, 2006).

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