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Annie E. Casey Foundation: the child welfare systems change and family well-being framing

The Annie E. Casey Foundation funds child welfare systems change and family well-being. Frame your proposal as changing the child welfare system — not as providing services within it. They fund family preservation, not just foster care.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is the largest funder of child welfare systems change in the US. Their core strategy is to keep families together and reduce the need for foster care. If your proposal is we will provide foster care services, it is misaligned. If it is we will prevent foster care entry by strengthening families in crisis, you are in their lane. The family preservation framing: Casey funds…

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