National

  • Early Childhood

    The Best of What Education Can Be

    The CDF Freedom Schools model is indeed designed to light a spark and be an example of the best of what education can be. CDF Freedom Schools sites provide summer and after-school enrichment through a research-based and multicultural program model that supports students, or “scholars,” in grades K-12 and their families.

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  • Child Health

    Medicaid Turns 60: Celebrate Coverage, Not Cuts 

    For six decades, Medicaid has served as a lifeline, protecting children’s health and strengthening communities. Now, as Medicaid marks this milestone, that promise has been broken.

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  • Education

    “Strong Schools Brighter Futures!”

    More than 12,000 scholars in CDF Freedom Schools programs participate in National Day of Social Action, a collective organizing effort centered around CDF’s mission to build community so young people grow up with dignity, hope, and joy.

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  • National

    Medicaid Turns 60: Celebrate Coverage, Not Cuts

    Your policymakers voted to use Medicaid funding cuts to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. Now is the time to call and tell them: protect children’s health care, protect Medicaid, and CHIP!

    July 22, 2025

  • Being Loving Champions for Justice

    For people whose hearts are broken by seeing news of parents, families, and children suffering anywhere, this has been a difficult week.

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  • Fourth of July Lessons from Frederick Douglass

    On a Fourth of July when many Americans are expressing profound concerns about whether the government’s orders, decisions, and votes are representing their voices and asking questions about what we the people means today, it is an opportune time to return to the keynote speech Frederick Douglass gave in Rochester, New York, at an Independence Day celebration on July 5, 1852.

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  • Child Welfare

    CDF Listening Tour to Stop in Allentown as President and CEO Starsky Wilson Listens to Families About Their Pressing Needs

    On Tuesday, Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, president and CEO of the national youth advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), will visit Allentown to hear directly from children and families in the Lehigh Valley about the challenges they face, and the solutions they envision, amid continued uncertainty around the economy and essential education and health programs.

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