Children's Defense Fund

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The Voice for All the Children of America

The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked relentlessly for 35 years to ensure a level playing field for all children.

Their mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

Find out how you can write to congress to urge them to invest in every child's future.

Ensuring every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start,
a Safe Start and a Moral Start.

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The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked relentlessly for 35 years to ensure a level playing field for all children.
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Our programs are designed to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life.

The Measure of Our Success on Amazon

The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

Amazon Price: $4.60 (as of 05/31/2012)Buy Now

Edelman, founder and president of the Childrens Defense Fund, passes on the values of hard work, service, responsibility, and faith that her parents not only preached, but also lived.

Her 25 lessons for life eloquently distill the essence of her rich heritage.

Cradle to Prison Pipeline Initiative Slideshow

A very moving video with a very moving song about the Children's Defense Funds Cradle to Prison Pipeline Initiative.
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The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small in the Amazon Spotlight

The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation

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In The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small, Marian Wright Edelman asks difficult questions about what we truly value, and looks hard at what we can--and must--do to build a nation fit for all children.

Edelman challenges everyone to end the epidemic physical and spiritual poverty afflicting millions of our children.

Secure the Future

Tell Your Members of Congress
to Invest in Every Child

Write to Congress - For Our Children

In the richest nation on earth, 9.4 million children still are without health coverage and nearly 13 million live in poverty - 5.5 million of them in extreme poverty.

We must demand that our leaders commit to helping children as a condition of our vote.

Whether Members of Congress are liberal, conservative or moderate; Democrat, Republican or Independent, children need all of them to vote, lobby, speak for and protect them. We must listen carefully to what our Members of Congress say they will do for children and families and then hold them accountable for their votes.
Tell Your Members of Congress to Invest in Every Child: Secure the Future
Follow the link or visit the Children's Defense Fund Website to make your voice heard.

Reese Witherspoon Present The Children's Defense Fund on YouTube

On April 7, 2008 Idol Gives back featured Children's Defense Fund as a selected charity. Reese Witherspoon introduced her work with Children's Defense Fund and their Freedom Schools.
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Children's Defense Fund an Idol Gives Back Beneficiary

Children's Defense Fund: American Idol Charity :: Idol Gives Back
Children's Defense Fund (CDF) was featured on Idol Gives Back, a special fundraising broadcast of American Idol on April 9, 2008 to benefit select U.S. and International charities that help fight child poverty and champion health care for children.

Dear Lord

Be Good to Me
The Sea is So Wide
and My Boat is So Small.

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Wasting America's Future on Amazon

Wasting America's Future

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An early report from the Children's Defense Fund in which author Sherman argues strongly that our failures to alleviate the poverty of the millions of children in our midst results not only in tragic human costs for them and their families but also tremendous economic and social costs for the nation as a whole.

Sherman makes a compelling case for all elements of the private and public sector to mount a concerted effort on several fronts to end child poverty.

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More Books by Children's Defense Fund Founder Marian Wright Edelman

Support Children's Defense Fund by purchasing one of these Books from Children's Defense Fund Founder Marian Wright Edelman.

I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children by Marian Wright Edelman

I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children by Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman has drawn from a variety of cultures more...0 points

Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors by Marian Wright Edelman

Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors by Marian Wright Edelman

Throughout her life and work, Marian Wright Edelman more...0 points

Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America

Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America

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Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing World by Alison Wright, Marian Wright Edelman

Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing World by Alison Wright, Marian Wright Edelman

Perhaps best known for her photography of Tibet an more...0 points

Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations for Our Children by Marian Wright Edelman

Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations for Our Children by Marian Wright Edelman

Here areĀ  prayers and meditations for parents and more...0 points

Children from Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic Journey Around the World by Maya Ajmera, Anna Rhesa Versola, Global Fund For Children (Organization)

Children from Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic Journey Around the World by Maya Ajmera, Anna Rhesa Versola, Global Fund For Children (Organization)

Vibrant color photographs portray positive images more...0 points

No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention (Bill and Alice Wright Photography Series) by Steve Liss

No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention (Bill and Alice Wright Photography Series) by Steve Liss

"Here are our fellow human beings young Ameri more...0 points

Powerful Words: More Than 200 Years Of Extraordinary Writings By .... (Powerful Words) by Wade Hudson

Powerful Words: More Than 200 Years Of Extraordinary Writings By .... (Powerful Words) by Wade Hudson

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Hope for Children in Poverty: Profiles and Possibilities

Hope for Children in Poverty: Profiles and Possibilities

Forward by Marian Wright Edelman. Both "as ci more...0 points

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Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures) by Marian Wright Edelman

Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures) by Marian Wright Edelman

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Blog Posts about the Children's Defense Fund from Google

Study: More Minnesota children in poverty
... a long streak of boasting one of the nation's lowest rates of children living in poverty, Minnesota has been ?slipping? in recent years compared to the rest of the nation, said research director Kara Arzamendia with the Children's Defense Fund.
CHILDWATCH - Time To Stop 'Stop and Frisk'
by Marian Wright Edelman This Father's Day, June 17, the Children's Defense Fund-New York and I will be joining George Gresham, president of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East and the Children's Defense Fund national board member; Ben Jealous, ...
Haute Event: J,J. Abrams Hosts Rooftop Coach Party To support Children's ...
by Abernathy Miller The who's-who of Hollywood A-listers stepped out for a shopping excursion at director JJ Abrams' private rooftop to support the Children's Defense Fund last Wednesday. Ellen Pompeo, Mena Suvari, Mindy Kaling, Olivia Munn and Whitney ...
Calif. Children's Medical Therapy facing cuts
'Cascading cuts' Michele Stillwell-Parvensky, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit Children's Defense Fund of California, said Brown's proposal is just one of many "cascading cuts" that have hit children - particularly disabled kids - in recent years as ...

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  • Tipi Feb 8, 2012 @ 11:57 am | delete
    Children are our greatest natural resource and we should invest in them and their futures. The Children's Defense Find is doing a great work for us all. :)

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