Meet Our Director
Filis M. Casey, Esquire
Executive Director
Filis M. Casey, J.D. is the Founder of the Alliance
for Children, Inc. (the Alliance), a non profit, international
adoption agency located in Massachusetts and established in
1974. She served as the Alliance's Executive Director for
32 years. During that time, Mrs. Casey helped create and expand
over 5,000 families throughout the United States and Europe
including her own, adopting her daughter Marisa at the age
of three from Bogotá, Colombia in 1982.
Mrs. Casey's leadership and direction made the
Alliance the oldest, most experienced agency in Massachusetts.
She maintains the agency's midsize to ensure special consideration
for each child who needs a home and personal attention to
each family who wishes to welcome a child into their home.
After her 32 years of managing the Alliance's daily operations,
assuming primary responsibility for communicating with the
agency's longstanding international resources, and attending
meetings of the Board of Directors, Mrs. Casey recognized
the need to help the forgotten children who were not able
to be adopted. She Founded the Alliance for Children Foundation
(the Foundation) in 2000 through a leadership gift from an
Alliance adoptive family. She is the Executive Director and
Primary fundraiser for the Foundation since her retirement
from the Alliance adoption agency in 2008.
The Foundation, established in 2000 through a leadership gift from an Alliance adoptive family, is an international relief
organization helping the world's most vulnerable children
living in impoverished orphanages in Asia, Eastern Europe,
and Latin America to receive the most basic of all needs:
food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. These children,
due to their ages or special needs, are less likely to be
adopted and will most likely spend their childhood and young
adulthood in an orphanage with little hope for a bright future.
Along with Mrs. Casey's commitment to the Alliance and the
Foundation, she is a frequent lecturer for the Open Door Society
Parent Organization regarding various adoption issues; an
active member of the Adoption Roundtable, a discussion group
of Executive Directors whose main focus is supervising fundraising
and relief efforts in an international arena; and a member
of the Joint Council on International Children's Services,
the largest group of international adoption professionals
worldwide.
Mrs. Casey is coauthor of Born in Our Hearts (HCI: June 2004), a collection of essays related to adoption from various perspectives, which she compiled with her daughter Marisa. Mrs. Casey has been interviewed by CNN, The Boston Globe, NPR, and the local Boston affiliates of ABC, NBC, and CBS. Mrs. Casey holds a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Suffolk University Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University. She lives in Newton with her husband Robert Casey and in her free time enjoys reading, gourmet cooking, traveling and spending time with her children Marisa, Sarah & Matthew.
Other Board Members: Howard M. Cooper, Karen T. Bacardi, J. Robert Casey, Raymond J. Ciccolo, Grace Ciccolo, Michelle Giordano, Emmy Lewis, Charles Platt, Laurence Wintersteen.
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