The Casey Fund

The Casey Fund TCF works to support community-based organizations that address the needs of at-risk youth & formerly incarcerated people.

09/02/2026

It’s disheartening, if unsurprising, what’s happening in Gary, Indiana.

A majority-Black city that’s been forgotten about after severe storms wrecked the power grid.

As climate change accelerates the frequency and intensity of these storms, events like these will multiply. And they will disproportionately impact communities of color.
“I paid $2500 for power — two weeks later I’m still out of power.”

We went to Indiana, where thousands of people still haven’t had the power switched back on.

In Gary, Merrillville, and Hammond schools are closed, families are throwing away spoiled food, people are driving to Illinois to get ice for insulin.

Power rates are higher than ever, but people in the region are being put through hell just two years after Blackstone bought into their power company.

Now residents are fighting back against the utility company — filing a class action lawsuit against it for negligence.

Producer: Eivin Sandstrom
Editor: Andrew “Disco” Rivera
Videographer: Peter Lyngso
Supervising Producers: Victoria Hammett, Court Fuller

08/26/2026

RIP Dolly Parton, a great American and a great Tennessean.

Her Imagination Library has, to date, sent over 300 million books to children all over the world. It’s one of her proudest accomplishments as she notes here. May we all user her heart and spirit as an example to be better members of our community. ❤️

08/18/2026

Wise words and perspective here from Clint Smith. How people’s lives end up is, very often, not up to them, but a product of their arbitrary circumstances. Keeping this in mind allows us to be better people and form stronger communities.
It was teaching a poetry class at a prison in Massachusetts that helped me more fully understand that but for the arbitrary nature of birth and circumstance, any of us could find ourselves in dramatically different circumstances. Because of this, we should move through the world with the empathy, the humility, and the generosity that comes with recognizing how easily someone else’s lives could have been our own.

A moment from my commencement address at American University.

08/11/2026

Make no mistake about it. This new policy is designed to give agents another tool in their toolbox to profile, arrest, and detain Black people. That is the goal. Not safety. Not “immigration enforcement.”
Haitian immigrant Monsanto Maler collapsed to the ground in tears after leaving with an ankle monitor from an ICE check-in on Sunday in Blue Ash, Ohio.

Learn more at the link in bio.

08/05/2026

This is so well said by Iain De Jong.

Without stable housing, how is a person expected to survive? To heal? To live? To be a “productive” member of society? Housing is the foundation for everything. It is a human right.

Think about your own interactions with the homeless. Do you try to avoid eye contact? Do you step over them? Do you say “I don’t carry cash” when someone asks you for a dollar? These are all societal, environmental behaviors we can unlearn. We can and should be kinder to our neighbors. If it were us, that’s what we’d want.

08/03/2026

This is such a beautiful program that helps mothers in need all around Nashville. Thank you Metro Public Health Department and congrats on two years of Nashville Strong Babies!

07/31/2026

The fact that this place still exists in America in 2026 is disgusting. Facilities like Angola are not focused on rehabilitation; instead they’re focused on punitive treatment. And we all know it doesn’t work.
The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs by Kojo Koram is out now!

07/29/2026

This is such beautiful work by Anti-Recidivism Coalition. Treating the formerly incarcerated with love, kindness, and dignity goes a long way. ❤️ ARC held it’s 22nd annual river rafting trip where we take formerly incarcerated youth to experience nature, many for the first time.

The trip is fun, of course, but more importantly, healing. Check out our Director of Youth Programming, Edwin Paragas’ take on the intersection between nature and healing past traumas.

Thank you to Jeremy for the drone footage and everyone for your phone footage of the trip!

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