National Archives - Page 11 of 261 - Children's Defense Fund

Following Footsteps, Breaking Barriers

August 23, 2024 | National

Conference

2025 Hall-Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry

Come sing and pray, strategize and struggle, organize, and advocate with us at the next Hall-Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry.

July 21-24, 2025

National

Fannie Lou Hamer’s Convention

August 16, 2024 | National

National Observance of Children's Sabbaths® Celebration

In communities nationwide, places of worship join in the meaningful observance of Children’s Sabbaths. These observances occur during customary worship, prayer, educational, or community gatherings. Some places of worship collaborate with others, creating joint events. Others connect with numerous faith leaders and worship spaces for expansive, multi-faith community-wide celebrations.

October 19-20

National

Child Poverty

Statement: Children’s Defense Fund’s Response to Senate Vote Rejecting the Child Tax Credit, Bipartisan Tax Package

The President and CEO of America’s largest child and youth advocacy organization said the Senate’s decision to vote against a bipartisan tax package, which included an expanded child tax credit, ‘failed our children.’

August 1, 2024 | National

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board Elects Starsky D. Wilson, DMin, MDiv, as Next Chair of the Board of Trustees

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced today the designation of Starsky D. Wilson, DMin, MDiv, as the next chair of its Board of Trustees. Rev. Dr. Wilson, who has served as a Trustee since 2020, will become the Foundation’s eighth chair, and the first Black person and faith leader to chair the Board in the Foundation’s 52-year history.

July 30, 2024 | National

The Country We Need to Create

At a moment of so much uncertainty over where our nation is headed and what national unity really means, I return again to the wise words of my late friend Dr. Vincent Harding, the revered historian, theologian, social justice activist, and visionary who never lost sight of the “beloved community” his dear colleague Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed our nation and world could become.

July 19, 2024 | National

“Dream and Labor”

As our nation continues to mourn Rev. Lawson’s own death last month, his words are resonating deeply again right now. Rev. Lawson was honoring “the conscience of Congress” during another perilous political moment, and wanted to tell us what he believed our nation needed to do in order to move forward.

July 5, 2024 | National

Gun Violence

Gun Violence: Acknowledging a Crisis

In the midst of this season’s joyful graduation celebrations, one commencement ceremony stood out in a heartbreaking way because of the friends who were missing.

June 28, 2024 | National

Education

CDF Freedom Schools® Program Launches ‘60 for 60 Read Aloud Campaign’ to Protect the Freedom to Read, Fight Book Bans Across America

In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, the CDF Freedom Schools Program has launched the ‘60 for 60 Read Aloud Campaign.’

June 24, 2024 | National