CDF-NY recognized our founder and President Emerita Marian Wright Edelman with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her tireless service for our nation's children.
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CDF-NY responds to the Governor's FY 2020 Executive Budget.
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Learn about our CDF-NY 2019 State Legislative and Budget Priorities.
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The 27th Annual Children’s Sabbath Celebration, “Realizing Dr. King’s Vision for Every Child: Lives of Hope, Not Despair,” is observed this weekend (October 19-21).
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New data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals New York has the 4th largest number of children living in poverty behind California, Texas and Florida.
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"Getting to Zero: A 50 State Study of Strategies to Remove Youth from Adult Jails," analyzes national data sets and state laws to provide concrete policy change recommendations to remove youth from adult jails across the country.
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On July 18th, our NYC Freedom Schools, took to the streets of the city for a common cause: voter registration. Freedom schools are CDF’s summer literacy programs modeled on the principles of the civil rights movement.
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Now more than ever we need to renew our commitment to work together to protect our most vulnerable and precious resource, our children. We must collaborate to elevate and amplify our voices through non-violent protests, our media, and consistently demanding that our elected officials resist the harmful policies being advanced. We must partner with others to make sure that every individual eligible to vote is registered, engaged and by mobilizing voter turnout in the 2016 elections and beyond.
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