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About tile C11ildren]s Defense Fund 

The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child BehincP and 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 com- 

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munities. 

CDF provides a strong, effective voice for all the children of America who cannot 

vote, lobby, or speak for themselves. We pay particular attention to the needs of poor and 

minority children and those with disabilities. ,CDF educates the nation about the needs of 

children and encourages preventive investment before they get sick or into trouble, drop out 

of school, or suffer family 'breakdown. 

CDF began in 1973 and is a private, nonprofit organization supported by foundation 

and corporate grants, and individual donations. We have never taken government funds. 

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CDF Board of Directors 

CDF Management Team 

A Message from the President 

Summary of Key 1999 Accomplishments 

Langston Hughes Library Dedication 

1999 Financial Report 

1999 Contributors 

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Children's Defense Fund 


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David W. Hombeck, Chair 

Superintendent of Schools 

School District of Philadelphia 

Philadelphia, PA 

Geoffrey Canada 

President and Chief Executive Officer 

Rheedlen Centers for Children 

and Families 

New York, NY 

John D. Deardourff 

President 

Deardourff - The Media Company 

McLean, VA 

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Carol Oughton Biondi 

Commissioner 

Los Angeles County Commission for 

Children and Families 

Los Angeles, CA 

Maureen A. Cogan, Vice Chair 

Child Advocate 

New York, NY 

Marian Wright Edelman, Esq. 

President 


Washington, DC 

Angela Glover Blackwell, Esq. 

President 

PolicyLink 

Oakland, CA 

Leonard S. Coleman Jr. 

Director 

Cendant 

New York, NY 

Winifred Green 

President 

Southern Coalition for Educational 

EqUity 

Jackson, MS 

Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell 

Senior Pastor 

The Windsor Village - 

SI. John's United Methodist Churches 

Houston, TX 

Leslie Cornfeld·Urfirer, Esq. 

Deputy Chief 

U.S. Attorney's Office 

Brooklyn, NY 

Howard H. Haworth, Vice Chair 

President 

The Haworth Group 

Charlotte, NC

Annual Re~ort 1999 


Dr. Dorothy I. Height 

President Emerita and Chair of Board 

National Council of Negro Women 


Heidi G. Miller 

Senior Executive Vice President and 

Chief Financial Officer 

priceline.com 

New York, NY 

Susan P. Thomases, Esq. 

Retired Partner 

Willkie Farr & Gallagher 

New York, NY 

Deborah left, Esq. 

President and Chief Executive Officer 

'America's Second Harvest 

Chicago,IL 

leonard Riggio 

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 

Barnes & Noble, Inc.- 

New York, NY 

Thomas A. Troyer, Esq. 

Partner 

Caplin & Drysdale 


Marylin B. levitt, D.S.W. 

Assistant Professor 

Department of Psychiatry 

George Washington University Medical 

School 


Dennis Rive;a 

President 

1199 National Health & Human Service 

Employees Union, SEIU, 

AFL-CIO 

New York, NY 

A~igail S. Wexner, Esq. 

Attorney and 

Community Advocate 

New Albany, OH 

William lynch .Jr., Vice Chair 

President 

Bill Lynch Associates, LLC 

New York, NY 

.J. Michael Solar, Esq. 

Managing Partner 

Solar & Fernandes, L.L.P. 

Houston, TX


CDP ManageJnent 'Teanl 

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Marian Wright Edelman 

President 

Barbara Kelley Duncan 

Vice President for Leadership Development 

and the Black Community.Crusade for 

Children 

Susanne Martinez 

Senior Vice President-Policy 

'Jodie Torkelson 

Vice President of Operations 

Grace Reef 

Director of 

Intergovernmental Relations 

Laura Dromerick 

Director of Finance 

and Administration 

Peggy Lewis 

Director of Communications

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Message fro111 tl1e President 

~~-~ ..._~- hat kind of people do we seek to 

be in the 21~ century What kind of 

people do we want our children to 

be What kind of moral, personal, 

community, political, and policy 

choices are we adults prepared to make at this turn of the 

century and millennium to realize a more just and compassionate 

and less violent society and world-one 

where we Leave No Child BehindS 

The Republican candidate for president, 

Governor George W. Bush, and the Republican Party 

have adopted CDF's mission and legal trademark-Leave 

'No Child Behind-as a key theme in their campaign. Vice 

President Gore has also used our trademark in speeches 

as has General Colin Powell and other leading 

Republicans. Our task is to hold them all accountable for 

going beyond rhetoric to action and to make sure that 

children get the health care and child care and education they need. 

Amidst unprecedented prosperity, huge federal and state budget surpluses, hundreds of billions 

of tobacco settlement monies, eight years of continuous and unprecedented economic growth, and a 

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presidential boast that the state of the union has never been better, 13.5 million children are poor in the 

wealthiest nation on earth. One in five preschoolers is poor during their greatest period of brain development. 

A child is more likely to be poor now than in any year between 1966 and 1980, and the gap 

between rich and poor is the greatest ever. Worse, in 1998,5.8 million children lived in extreme povertywith 

incomes below half the poverty line of $6,500 a year or less than $6 a person a day in a three-person 

family. Behind presidential and gubernatorial political spin about the success of ending welfare as we 

know it, rampant child hunger, homelessness, insecurity, and suffering persist. 

How long will we stand mute and indifferent in a nine trillion dollar economy as poverty, poor 

health and housing, poor education, and family and community disintegration rob millions of children's 

lives and futures; gnaw at their bellies; chill their bodies and spirits to the bone; scratch away their 

resilience; snatch awaY,. their families and sense of security; and make them wish they had never been 

born When has the time ever been riper to end immoral child poverty, hunger, and homelessness and to 

make America a safe and compassionate home for all our children 

During the last election year of the 20 lh century in the world's sale remaining superpower, many 

of our political leaders are bogged down again in partisan political bickering, horse trading between 

special interests seeking the highest bidders for their votes, and sparring over how big a tax break 

to give mostly to the non-needy from a projected one to two trillion dollar federal budget surplus in our 

two-tiered economy. The politically protected budget tier insulates the rich, the powerful, big defense 

contractors who finance re-election of members, and well-organized voting blocks against budget cuts.

Ch Idren's Defense Fund 

The unprotected budget tier is for the rest of Americans: hard-working, middle- and low-income working 

people; women struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over their children's heads and who are 

stressed beyond endurance trying to find child care when they work and health care when their children 

are sick; the disabled, immigrants, and children. 

It's time for a revolution in values and political priorities that we can and must accomplish if 

we believe we can; if we speak out passionately and unceasingly; and if we organize effectively for our 

children's sakes. The only thing our affluent nation will guarantee all American children today is a costly 

detention or prison cell after they get into serious trouble. We will not guarantee them the chance for a 

healthy birth with prenatal care. We will not guarantee all children the health insurance or the social security 

we correctly provide our senior citizens to cushion against poverty. We will not protect all children 

against poor quality child care when we require a parent to work or insist on minimal health, safety, and 

quality standards as we do in nursing homes for our elderly. Anybody can open up a family day care 

facility without a single hour of training or minimal health and safety standards in many states. We make 

no commitment to help all Children get a high quality education or expect every child to achieve. 

The first step we can take is to seize this historic and prosperous moment to Leave No Child 

Behind and provide our children an alternative vision for living. Now is the time to get America to make a 

positive rather than negative compact with our children. Now is the time to give our children a sense of 

being valued by structuring family and community life and public policies with the needs of children as 

the first rather than last concern. In every ,sphere of our personal, community, and national life, we as 

adults should ask ourselves three questions: (1) Would we want our child or grandctiild or any child to 

see, know about, or emulate our conduct (2) Will our actions or inactions make it easier or harder for 

children to grow up healthier, safer, and compassionate (3) Will our actions make it easier or harder for 

parents to raise healthy children and to balance work and family responsibilities 

The second step is to strengthen women's-especially mothers and grandmothers-voices, 

values, and power in every sphere and crucial institution of American life. Although women constitute a 

majority of the population, of voters, of those in religious institutions, and of those who take primary care 

of children, we lack commensurate power. This must change now. And women, when they gain power, 

must not seek to emulate the values and actions of many men in power but bring a new moral dimension 

drawn from the insights of our struggles and marginality. We must insist and work together on groundbreaking 

investments and protections for our children each year until the whole of our children's needs 

are met and our children's compact is realized. It is time for America to treat its children fairly. 

The third ste'p is to vote for and with children and monitor how those you vote for protect chil- 

. dren. Be a good citizen and citizen-mentor for your children and grandchildren. Hold governors, state 

legislatofs, county and city officials in every state accountable for protecting children in this era of devolution. 

If states, counties,' and cities made a commitment to reach out to and see that every child and 

family receive available benefits, millions of children could escape hunger, homelessness, and poverty. 

The fourth step is to never lose hope and faith or doubt that transforming change is as possible 

as it is necessary.

Annual Report 1999 

Finally, do your part. Do what you can right now to mentor and support a child and advocate for 

all children. Do not wait for everyone to come along. They never will. In your time on this earth, decide to 

make a difference for children. 

You will read about CDF's significant accomplishments over the past year in this report. But as 

you can see, there is so much more to do. To achieve our goals, we urgently need your continued support. 

The achievements of the past year would not have been possible without your help and we are so very 

grateful to you. As we enter the 21" century, we know our most significant contributions lie ahead. With 

your help we will build an America where we Leave No Child Behind. 

CDF completed the sixth in a series of forums on Children, Race, and Poverty in March 1999 

with the dedication of the Langston Hughes Library at Haley Farm. The last unfinished building on the 

property, the library was designed by Vietnam Veter~lns Memorial architect Maya Lin and underwritten by 

CDF board member and Barnes & Noble, Inc. Chairman, Len Riggio, and his wife, Louise. Four-hundred 

fifty leading writers, artists, and scholars attended the three-day National Symposium on Arts and 

Scholarship in addressing the issues of children, race, and poverty. The wide range of distinguished 

symposium presenters included: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton; Toni Morrison; Maya Angelou; 

Dorothy Allison; Walter Dean Myers; Joyce Carol Oates; John Edgar Wideman; Dr. John Hope Franklin; 

U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman; U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove; Rockefeller Foundation President 

Dr. Gordon Conway; and Smith College President Dr. Ruth Simmons. Symposium panels included: 

"Books that Changed and Inspired Lives," "Writing about Poverty: Fiction and Nonfiction," "~rt as a Force 

for Social Change," "Making History Work for Us: Informing Social Policy and Inspiring. Community 

Action," "Setting the Research Agenda for African American Scholarship in the Next Century," and 

"Growing Up in America: The Importance of Race and Culture." 

Photographs from the library dedication and the symposium give only a small hint of the intellectually 

and spiritually stimulating weekend. The library reading room was dedicated to Dr. John Hope Franklin 

and Dr. Maya Angelou with a'Mrs. Rosa Parks sitting area. 

I, hope each of you will visit Haley one day soon. It is CDF's school for building a successor generation 

of 21 st -century leaders for children who are strong inside and effective in every arena. 

In faith and hope, 

}1A:-4,r~J..t_.- 

. Marian Wright Edelman


SUl1l111ary of Key 1999 Acco111 p lisll111el1ts 

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n 1999, CDF's 26'" year of working to Leave No 

Child Behind" and to ensure every c;hild 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, we can report progress on many 

important fronts. 

Child Health: Ensuring Every 

Child A Healthy Start 

CDF continued in 1999 to devote significant 

resources to implementing the Children's Health 

Insurance Program (CHIP) signed into law on 

August 5, 1997. CHIP is the most significant investment 

in children's health coverage since Medicaid's 

enactment in 1965. It authorizes $48 billion over 10 

years to provide health care to 5 million uninsured 

children. A CDF-convened national coalition of more 

than 200 organizations, the Child Health Now! campaign, 

was crucial to passage of this historic legislation 

co-sponsored by Senators Orrin Hatch and Ted 

Kennedy. 

CDF reached out to a broad network of people 

abo~t the availability and importance of the new program 

and the need to aggressively ensure that eligible 

families are aware of and enroll their children. By 

mid-1999, 1.3 million children were enrolled in CHIP. 

This was far short of the estimated 5 million children 

it is intended to rlilach. We have intensified our 

e!forts and entered into a collaborative public education 

and enrollment campaign with Martha Stewart 

Omnimedia and Kmart. Over 80 health fairs have 

been held at Kmart stores. 

In 1999, CDF: 

• Published a toolkit, Insuring Children's Health: A 

Community Guide to Enrolling Children in Free and 

Low-Cost Health Insurance to provide communities 

with easy-to-follow, step-by-step information 

on enrolling children in CHIP and Medicaid. 

• Disseminated information through our Child 

Health Information Project Iistservs, which provide 

frequent factual updates to over 4,500 key child 

health contacts including academics, federal and state 

officials, advocates, providers, and legislative staff. 

• Maintained a Web site on key children's health 

insurance information, which is visited by more than 

3,000 groups and individuals each week. Sign Them 

Up provides simple information on who may be eligible, 

how to enroll: a state-specific parent flyer, links 

to state Web pages, and online applications. 

Advocates also get information about successful 

outreach and enrollment activities. 

• In 1997, CDF began a series of toll-free conference 

calls for state advocates in collaboration with 

Families USA, the National Association of Child 

Advocates, and the National Association of 

Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions on 

CHIP implementation. Those unable to participate in 

a live conference call are provided a digital replay. 

In '1999, we averaged 115 live callers per conference 

call. 

• Provided specific state-by-state information to 

advocates, families, and organizations on CHIP programs 

through CDF's 1-800 hotline. 

• Worked with community groups in c:;DF's 10 target 

states to test different outreach and enrollment models 

that have the potential for replication and sustainability. 

CDF provided "mini-grants" to local community 

groups in the 10 states to help develop and implement 

CHIP enrollment pilot projects ~hrough child 

care centers, health centers, hospitals, religious 

congregations, colleges, and community-based 

organizations. 

• Defended CHIP against congressional efforts to 

divert funds to offset other budget expenditures. 

CDF provided information to congressional offices 

about the importance of not reducing CHIP funding 

just as states were starting its implementation.

Annual Report .1999 

Strong opposition from CDF, other advocates, and 

state oHicials prevailed. 

• Briefed a wide range of state, regional, and 

national conferences. CDF staff spoke at national 

conferences sponsored by the Robert Wood 

Johnson Foundation's Covering Kids Campaign, the 

National and Regional WIC Directors' Conference, 

the National Association of Physician Assistants, the 

National Conference of Women of the Evangelical 

Lutheran Church, the Pennsylvania Partnership for 

Children's Annual Conference, the Massachusetts 

Children's Health Coalition, the National AME 

Missionary Women's Conference, the Minority 

Health Conference at the University of North 

Carolina, and numerous state and local meetings. In 

November 1999, CDF and Families USA co-hosted 

a national CHIP conference for 100 state and local 

advocates to discuss CHIP and Medicaid implementation 

problems and solutions. 

Child Care, Early Childhood 

Development, and School Readiness: 

Ensuring Every Child A Head Start· 

In 1998, CDF launched a campaign for more 

accessible and affordable quality child care and 

sought to focus the nation's attention on the crucial 

importance of early childhood development and 

school readiness. In 1999, CDF employed a variety 

of strategies to broaden support for increased child 

care investments. CDF: 

• Collected and disseminated information on state 

investments and policy developments, innovative 

policies and programs, and new research in child 

care and early education. CDF's Child Care division 

has established a reputation for having the most upto-date 

informqtion concerning Child Care and early 

.education developments across the country. Published 

Seeds of Success: State Prekindergarten Initiatives 

1998-1999, our second major survey of state


prekindergarten initiatives. It will be followed by 

short reports that look more intensively at. programs 

as they operate on the ground in local communities. 

• Strengthened child care and early education leadership 

by providing a range of opportunities for information 

sharing, training, skills bUilding, networking, 

and building a cadre of emerging leaders. For 11 

years, CDF has brought together child care and 

early educaiion leaders working at the state level 

through an annual State Child Care and Early 

Education Policy Leaders' Institute. It provides them 

an opportunity to share strategies for ~xpanding 

high quality child care and early education options 

and to learn about creative new ideas anc;l developments. 

We have developed A Policy and Advocacy 

Institute for Emerging Child Care and Early 

Education Leaders, which will be accompqnied by 

ongoing efforts to promote fellowship and communication 

among leaders and with CDF child care staff 

and others in the field. Our Emerging Leaders 

Institute targets promising state and local child 

advocates who demonstrate the commitment, energy, 

determination, and creativity to lead new initiatives 

to improve early care and educatiOn policies. 

Each year, a diverse class of 25 to 35 new leaders 

will be chosen through a competitive process. The 

Emerging Leaders program increases young advocat.es' 

exposure to 'a range of substantive early 

childhood issues; leadership skills; new faces in the 

field; and new strategies and approaches to 

expanding and improving early care and education. 

• Offered continuing suppori and training to an 

extensi've network of over 5,200 early care and education 

leaders through our weekly e-mail newsletter. 

• Supported federal policy development in early 

care and education and school-age care. CDF 

worked closely with key members of the Senate to 

promote expanded investments in child care, resulting 

in four separate bipartisan votes in the Senate in 

favor of such investments. Unfortunately, final enactment 

of increased funding for the child care block 

gra~t 

did not take place, although increases were 

provided for the 21" Century Community Lea'rning 

Program-($250 million) and Head Start ($607 million). 

Community Monitoring of Welfare Refonn 

and Addressing Child Poverty in America: 

Ensuring Every Child A Fair Start 

Wher welfare policies change, when employers 

drop health coverage for families, or when parents 

cannot afford qL!ality child care, what happens to 

children These are the questions CDF's Community 

Monitoring Project seeks to answer by working with 

service providers, child advocates, and policy makers 

at the state and local levels to collect information 

about the well-being of children and fa.milies. 

To assist and increase the capacity of local groups 

to mQnitor the impact of welfare law changes and other 

federal and state laws affecting poor families, CDF: 

• Developed an'd disseminated a community moni- . 

toring toolkit (with a uniform survey instrument in 

both English and Spanish and a how-to guide) to 

hundreds of organizations that have regular contact 

with low-income families. 

• Provided assistance to monitoring coalitions in 40 

cities in the development of local databases using 

the community monitoring survey instrument. Once 

collected, the data is scanned into a national database 

at CDF and returned to local communities for 

their use. CoalitiOns collected information from more 

than 3,000 families during the first half of 1999 that 

we are analyzing and will publish in 2000. 

• Developed new training On effective con:munication, 

public education strategies, and data collection 

so that the information collected will be used effectively 

at the loca'i level. CDF facilitated workshops at 

conferences of natiOnal organizatiqns including the 

Child Welfare League of America, the National 

Alliance to End Homelessness, Wider Opportunities 

for Women, the Center on Budget and Policy


Priorities, the National Association of 

Rural Social Workers, and the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services. 

• Developed new community monitoring 

networks within and among states. We 

are working with local monitors to form 

statewide coalitions in Ohio, Arizona, 

Delaware, Illinois, Connecticut, Florida, 

Indiana, Texas, and Mississippi to 

increase the efficiency and impact of 

their work. In Florida, we are working with 

the Making WAGES Work coalition to 

train low-income families alld bring new 

voices to the policy-making process. We 

are working with the New Jer.sey 

Immigrant Policy Network and their allies 

around the country to monitor issues of 

greatest concern to the immigrant community. 

• Continued to disseminate information on child 

poverty and developed strategies to help families lift 

their children out of poverty. CDF helped persuade 

the Clinton administration to use its regulatory power 

to allow states the flexibility to provide non-time-Iimited 

help to families under certain circumstances and to 

clarify how states can provide education and training 

and other supports for poor families. Much of 

what CD~ sought was included in the Department of 

Health and Human Services' final rules fDr the 

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 

program. A CDF report showing a one-year jump in 

the number of extremely poor children (during the 

first year the 1996 welfare law was i~plemented) 

was highlighted in an ABC News segment in August. 

Violence Prevention, .Juvenile .Justice 

Legislation, and Children in Crisis: 

Ensuring Every Child A Safe Start 

In 1999, CDF worked hard to ensure that all 

children receive a Safe Start and to put a child's 

face on gun violence. This recent work builds on 

earlier media campaigns about children killing children 

and being killed by guns every two hours and 

on our long-standing child welfare work to prevent 

abuse and violence against children 

Toward that end, CDF: 

• Highlighted the importance of addressing the 

problems of alcohol and drug abuse in troubled 

families by organizing a Senate briefing on alcohol 

and drugs and child protection. With representatives 

of state child welfare and alcohol and drug agencies, 

the Child Welfare League of America, and tM Legal 

Action Center, a prQposal for a partnership was 

developed to fund joint initiatives in state child welfare 

and alcohol and drug agencies to meet the needs of 

families with substance abuse problems Who come 

to the attention of the child welfare system. 

• Highlighted the importance of addressing 

the impact of domestic violence on children by participating 

in the development of Guidelines for 

Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child 

Maltreatment Cases, published by the National 

Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.


opposed measures to put children in adult jails, 

weaken the juvenile justice system, and to repeal 

reGjuirernents to reduce the disproportionate 'confinement 

of minority children. Regressive juvenile 

justice legislation was not enacted because of 

~ongress' 

inability to reach agreement on modest 

gun safety measures attached to the juvenile justice 

legislation. 

• Increased awareness of child protection problems 

by developing a new Child Abuse Modul:, for Child 

Watch highlighting strategies to engage ihe community 

in protecting children and conducted a survey 

of our Juvenile and Family Court Judges' State 

Leadership Council to identify effective community 

child protection strategies, 

• Disseminated information on the impact of gun 

violence on children in a new report, Children and 

Guns, showing over 4,000 child gun deaths according 

\0 the latest data and evaluating state efforts to 

enact common-sense gun laws. A new print ad campaign 

was developed to focus attention on the 

impact of guns on children's lives and a new CDF 

Web site section shares resources to help advocates 

and communities reduce gun violence. A 

revisededition of a violence brochure to protect children 

instead of guns includes facts and information 

on the impact of gun violence on children, myths 

and realities about gun violence, and 10 steps to 

protect children from violence in homes, communities, 

and in the media. 

• Advocated greater investments in preventing 

juvenile crir:ne through summer and after-school pro- 

. grams and .violence prevention measures. CDF 

Child Watch: Opening the Eyes and 

Hearts of Community Leaders to the 

Children Behind the Statistics 

The Child Watch Visitation Program adds the faces 

and stories of real children to the statistics and 

reports through its four main components: (1) on-site visits 

to programs serving children and families, (2) written 

background material, (3) briefings by public policy 

experts and others. and (4) experiential activities. 

• Dl,Iring 1999, Child Watch Visitation programs 

were held in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, 

Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, 

Montana, New Jersey, Nevada, North Carolina, 

6klahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,Tennessee, 

Texas. and Virginia. 

• Child Watch training workshops were conducted 

in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, 

Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia. 

R~ligious 

Child A Moral Start 

In 1999, CD( 

Affai..rs: Ensuring Every 

it Published an interfaith resource manual for the 

eighth annual National Observance of Children's 

Sabbaths, Wonderfully Made: Preparing Children to 

Learn and Succeed. Thousands of religious congregations 

lifted up the needs of children in prayer, 

worship, and action during the third weekend in' 

October. 

• Sponsored the fifth annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor 

Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry, July 19-23 at 

the Haley Farm. Over 300 participants heard the


Great Preachers: Bishop Charles E. Blake, Rev. Fred 

Shuttlesworth, Father J. Bryan Hehir, and Dr. Robert 

M. Franklin, Jr.; Children's Concerns speakers: 

Dorothy Colton, Dr. Edward Cornwell, III, and 

National Urban League head Hugh B. Price; and 

morning devotions, theological reflections, and 

music led t;>y Rev. Otis Moss, Jr., Rev. Eileen Lindner, 

and Director of Music H.Q. Thompson. A new cadre 

of seminarians and college-age leaders were 

engaged in training tracks on a variety of children's 

needs and how congregations and people of faith 

can address them. 

• At CDF's national conference in Houston, Texas, workshops 

were held on model faith-based programs 

that serve at-risk youth using community resources, 

volunteers, and mentors. The Religious Affairs division 

organized the interfaith worship service attended 

by nearly 2,000 people at the national conference. 

1be Black Community CnIsade for Children 

(BCCC): Leaving No Child Behind 

• The former Alex Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, 

is CDF's and BCCC's center for spiritual renewal, 

servant-leadership development, and intergenerational 

mentoring. Over 3,100 community and youth 

leaders participated in leadership development 

training meetings and events during 1999 at Haley. 

• The BCCC sponsored a number of workshops 

during CDF's national conference in Houston, Texas, 

to educate participants about its work and to continue 

mobilizii"!g Black leaders from "a variety of disciplines 

to advocate for children. BCCC held three full-day 

training tracks: (1) the Juvenile and Family Court 

Judges' Leadership Council's (JLC) Institute for 

c;.ultural Competency; (2) a Rites of Passage seminar; 

and (3) training for operating summer and afterschool 

Freedom School programs. 

• CDF's BCCC Southern Regional Office convened 

a meeting of children's leaders fro;n southern states 

at Haley in July 1999 and comi"]lilted to work with 

state legislators and public officials and to expand 

coalitions in each state to encourage the better use 

of child care and welfare reform funds to help families 

struggling to get and keep jobs. 

• The Marlboro County South carolina project 

developed and implemented a Rites of Passage 

after-school program for Black males ages 14-18. 

Support from parents, caregivers, mentors, religious 

and other community members is being enlisted to 

help young Black males gain the necessary skills to 

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successfully make the transition from adolescence 

to adulthood. COF's Marlboro County office instituted 

a Leadership Class in 1999 that meets weekly' 

with local high school students to promote reading, 

encourage positive behavior and attitudes with and 

among their peers, and identify and cultivate possible 

candidates to become Freedom School interns. 

Freedom Schools': Providing Positive 

Teacher-Mentors, Alternatives to the 

Streets, Reading and Conflict 

Resolution Skills, and Building a . 

Successor Generation of Leaders 

In 1999, the seeds planted for six years yielded 

an abundant harvest. We increased our capacity to 

serve more children by training more young people 

in the summer of 1999 than ever before. Operating 

42 sites for more than 3,000 children, Freedom 

Schools continued to provide training, technical 

assistance, and educational materials to sponsoring 

organizations across the country. 

• Strategic planning meetings were convened to 

'increase our ability to provide this educational enrichment 

program to low-income communities. A 

January meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, of representatives 

from different Freedom Schools reflected 

on current program successes and created a vision 

to expand and strengthen them. 

• Freedom Schools conducted several national 

trainings during 1999 to address the specific knowledge 

and skills required for successful program 

operation at Haley Farm. They included a February 

Sponsors Orientation meeting focused on key program 

components, overall program operation, 

fund raising strategies, and contractual relationships. 

An April Program Management meeting focused on 

program components, roles and responsibilities of 

local Freedom School staff, curriculu'm training, and 

team building. A new Philadelphia Project trained 140 

high school servant-leaders in May. A comprehensive 

training session was conducted in June for 320 

college-aged servant-leaders responsible for teaching 

the integrated summer curriculum to children. 

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Annual Report 9 9.9 

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The Freedom Schools curriculum developed in 

CDF's Marlboro County, South Carolina, office 

empowers children to make a difference and provides 

them the reading and personal developmeot 

tools to do so, A new Latino curriculum focuses on 

Hispanic culture: traditions, and role models and a 

new after-school curriculum pilote;d in the 1997-1998 

academic year was made availabl~ in 1999, 

o 

Philadelphia's school district operated eigh't 

Freedom Schools serving 700 children. Two veteran 

Philadelphia Freedom School sites served as 

anchors and provided technical assistance to this 

new public-private collaboration. The district coordinated 

a city-wide youth leadership development initiative 

that employed 140 high school students as 

"junior servant-leaders" to work with 70 college-aged 

mentor-teachers. The junior servant-leaders received 

four days of training at the Haley Farm in May, 

o 

The Latino curriculum was piloted at the 

Cleveland Elementary School in Pasadena, California. 

The Pasadena school district partnered with the 

Cleveland Healthy Start Family Center to' spread the 

vision of Freedom Schools to the larger community, 

Fifty percent of the children served at the Pasadena 

site were Black and 50% were Latino. Although the 

original summer curriculum use's themes and examples 

that transcend ethnic barriers, the Latino curriculum 

supplement ensured that Black and Latino 

cultural and traditional themes were celebrated to 

bridge the cultural gaps in that school and community. 

o 

National Freedom Schools staff responded to 

growing demand by increasing the number of training 

sessions and workshops outside Haley Farm in 

Wilmington, Delaware; Bennettsville, South Carolina; 

Albany, New York; and'Pasadena, California. 

Student Leadership Network for 

Children (SLNC): Building an Effective 

Successor Generation of Young 

Leaders Devoted to Service 

SLNC is a national network of servant-leaders 

ages 18-30 committed to improving the quality of life 

for children. SLNC's mission is to mobilize a new 

generation of leaders to stand up for children 

through community service and advocacy, SLNC 

members attend quarterly Advanced Service and 

Advocacy Workshops (ASAWs) at the Haley Farm 

and at CDF's national headquarters. 

Students participate in 

trust-building exercises 

at the Haley Farm.

eh Idren's Defense Fund 

• A "Campaign 2000: Children Need Our Vote!'" 

seminar was held October 29-31 for 51 young servant-leaders. 

This hands-on, galvanizing weekend 

workshop educated youths on children's needs and 

motivated them for active nonpartisan involvement 

during the 2000 presidential and other national, 

state, and local election campaigns. Facilitators 

discussed strategies for getting out the vote, 

encouraging responsible citizenship in local communities, 

and ways to put children's needs higher on 

the candidates' agendas in 2000. 

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In 1999: 

• Forty-three SLNC members attended a Haley 

seminar, "Gifted and Called: Faith, Leadership, and 

Service on Behalf of Children," to gain a historical 

perspective of the children's movement and the skills 

necessary to become effective advocates for children 

in the next century. 

• Thirty-five college servant-leaders attended a 

two and one-half day Haley workshop, "Mobilizing 

the Movement for a New Century and a New 

Generation," to identify key characteristics of effective 

leaders and learn effective strategies for community 

building. 

• "Principles of Nonviolence" was the focus of a 

two-day july workshop co-facilitated by Reverend 

Fred Shuttlesworth and Mrs. Dorothy Cotton, pioneers 

in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 

key partners of Dr. King. presenters examined how 

nonviolence was used in the 1960s and how participants 

could incorporate these principles in their 

daily lives and in the contemporary children's movement. 

CDF seeks to establish four nonviolence 

philosophy workshops at Haley annually for young 

leaders and to develop a model that can be used in 

religious congregations across the nation in 2000 

and beyond. 

Juvenile and Family Court Judges' 

Leadership Council (JLC): Ensuring 

Juvenile Justice for Minority Youth 

• Juvenile judges sponsored a Nationwide Day in 

Court Week by inviting federal, state, and local 

. . 

how policies enacted in Washington, DC and state 

. elected officials to their courtrooms to see first hand 

capitals impact children in communities. The JLC 

completed training for the One Church. 

. Ten 

Families project enabling Juvenile Court Judges to 

refer troubled. children (and their families) to a local 

congregation as an alternative to detention. 

Ministers and church representatives from the five 

pilot sites met during. the 1999 Haley Farm Samuel 

DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry 

tb discuss how to evaluate the project's effectiveness. 

The Judges Institute of Cultural Competency 

(ICC) met in August 1999 to develop a training curriculum 

to sensitize all juvenile judges to the cultures 

of minority children. Forty participants participated 

in a JLC three-day fall symposium at Haley Farm 

examining "The Next 100 Years: The Juvenile and 

Family Court in The New Millennium." During the 

1999 Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) 

Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference, the 

JLC co-sponsored a juvenile justice forum with 

Representatives Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH), 

Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Bobby Scott (D-VA) 

on Juvenile Justice: .the Federal Response. 

I·

The Langston Hughes 

Library 

Located at tI,e former Alex 

llaley Farm in Clinton, 

Tel1l1essee, tile library was 

dedicated in Marcl, J999. 

'VitI, its Jol7l1 Hope 

Franklil1-Maya Al1gelou 

Readil1g Room and }01rs. 

Rosa Parks Sittil1g Area, 

it offers a place to read, 

study, meditate, and 

renlember our 11crilage, 

J7croincs, and I,eroes. A 

small but special library, it 

was designed by renowned 

Vietnam Veterans 

il1emorial arcl'iteet, l\1aya 

Iil1, to inspire tI,e I,earts 

and mil1ds ofall wl10 come 

here. The library was 

made possible by tI,e 

generosity ofLen and 

Louise Riggio.


Research and Public Education: 

Creating the Spiritual and Political 

Will to Protect Children 

CDF's annual State of America's Children 

Yearbook 1999, released in April, provides the latest 

developments and data on child poverty, family 

income, child health, child 

care and early child development, 

'education, readiness 

for school and learning, children 

and families in crisis, 

and juvenile justice and 

youth development. A companion 

publication, Children 

in the States 1999, detai Is 

the state-by-state status of 

children and participation in 

federal nutrition, disability, health, foster care, adoption 

assistance, and education programs in a userfriendly 

format that allows advocates to examine how 

their state's children fare compared to other states. 

State Level Advocacy: Monitoring and 

Holding States Accountable for 

Protecting and Investing in Children 

One of the strongest recommendations adopted 

by CDF's Board of Directors'from a two-year strqtegic 

planning process was to greatly strengthen 

CDF's presence at the state and local levels. 

Drawing on years of successful. state-level advocacy 

on a variety of children's issues in Ohio (a statewide 

office as well as a local off~~e in Cincinnati), New 

York, Minnesota, and Mississippi (addressing. children's 

needs in a five-state southern region), CDF 

expanded its state and local presence in key states 

with new statewide offices in California and in Austin 

and Houston, Texas. CQF has targeted 10 states 

where a majority of all children, all minority, and all 

poor children live. 

CDF·Ohio made significant gains for children 

in Ohio's two-year state budget enacted in 1999 

that: 

• Expanded eligibility for the Children's Health 

Insurance Program (CHIP) from 150% to 200% of 

poverty beginning in mid-2000. Since CHIP's passage 

in January 1998, over 144,000 Ohio children 

have been enrolled in health insurance. 

• Expanded Medicaid for pregnant women from 

133% to 150% of poverty starting January 2000 and 

for parents earning up to 100% of poverty starting 

July 2000. 

• Increased accountability and community input at 

the local level for Ohio Work First (OWF)-Ohio's 

welfare-to-work program-and modified OWF poli- 

. cies to red\Jce inappropriate sanctions and permit 

families under sanction to continue to receive 

employment and training-related services. 

• Secured $15.5 million each year in the budget for 

summer reading intervention for children failing OhiO'S 

fourth-grai;le reading proficiency test. 

• Maintained funding for 22,000 children to participate 

in Ohio's state-funded Head Start program and 

set aside $4.5 million over two years for teacher 

training in literacy. 

• Expanded child care to serve 85,000 children, up 

from 62,000 children in 1998, and helped families by 

establishing a one-year eligibility period and limiting 

co-payment to no more than 10% of income. The new 

law also permits Ohio to serve families earning up to 

200% of poverty up from 185% of poverty in 1998. 

• CDF-hio published two county-by-county fac! 

books, Helping Children Learn 19,99-2000, and Teen 

Births. The New Faces Series was introduced in 

September 1999 with The New Face of Child Poverty in 

Ohio profiling Ohio's struggling working families. A 

majority of Ohio's poor children live in working families. 

CDF·Minnesota enhanced life for Minnesota 

children in a number of ways in 1999. 

• Received a Covering KitJs grant' from. the Robert 

Wood Johnson Foundation to lead efforts to reach at • 

least half of the currently uninsured chirdren. 

• Implemented a Fiscal Policy Project focused on 

making families and children budget priorities in 

Minnesota. CDF-Minnesota proposed an alternative


budget including a state child tax credit, parental 

leave incentives, increases in the earned income tax 

credit, and child care policies that supp'ort children 

and families. 

• Helped win a significant expansion of the school 

breakfast program, an increase in the state earned 

income tax credit, and increased funding for safer, 

better quality state child care. Funding also was 

increased for the Minnesota Family Investment 

Program to assure all families moving off welfare 

incomes at or above 120% of poverty. 

• Collaborated with the Minnesota Joint Religious 

Coalition in a Minnesota KIDS COUNT project, which 

is part of a nationwide, mUlti-year Casey Foundation 

project to document trends in the well-being of children. 

A cOfDprehensive report on eleven indicators 

of child well-being was published and shared with 

groups across the state. 

• Sponsored three Freedom 'Schools that served 

180 children from the Minneapolis/SI. Paul area led by 

college-aged teacher-mentors. Nearly 1,000 people 

attende.d CDF-Minnesota's annual Beat the Odds e 

banquet, which honors and provides scholarships to 

high school seniors who have beat the oddS. 

CDF-New York has focused much of its 

attention on Child Health Now!, a major public education 

and outreach campaign to implement the 

State Children's Health Insurance Program. Its goal 

is to reach every potentially eligible child in the state. 

Patterned after CDF-NY's highly successful immunization 

campaign, which increased preschool 

immunization rates for New York City's children under 

two from 52% to 81 %, CDF-NY has: 

• Reached out to community-based organizations, 

health and human service providers, government 

representatives, policy makers, unions, educators, . 

faith-based groups, and coalitions not traditionally 

involved in health insurance ·activities. CDF-NY staff 

spent six months organizing fifteen community 

forums on New York's expanded and improved 

Medicaid and Child Health Plus programs. 

• Organized a Children's Health Insurance and 

Immigrant Families conference attended by 200 

people to address barriers immigrant families face in 

enrolling their children in health insurance. The conference 

was supported by Bell Atlantic and co-sponsored 

by the New York Immigration Coalition, the 

New York Task Force on Immigrant Health, and 

other service providers and advocates for the immigrant 

community. CDF-NY has hired an immigration 

attorney to monitor the implementation of the children's 

health insurance for immigrant families and 

children, reach. !ut to community-based organizations, 

health care prOViders, and attorneys serving 

immigrants, and organize immigrant service organizations 

to focus on available children's health insurance 

coverage .. 

• Implemented an innovative student child health 

outreach project to bring in new student voices to 

'w9rk on the Child Health Now! campaign. High 

school, college, medical, and graduate students 

have all been incorporated in the model Student 

Health O,utreach project, or SHOUT, piloted in the 

chi'ld vaccination community networks in Harlem and 

Washington Heights. A 1999 SHOUT summer project 

sent high schoo'l and college siudents to a variety of 

child-centered sites like summer lunch feeding programs, 

day ca~ps, summer school programs, 

health fairs, and outdoor concerts to enroll children. 

CDF-NY has now expanded SHOUT to cQlleges 

statewide and through the student chapter of the 

Medical Society of New York State. Nearly 200 high 

school and college students have been trained. The 

American Medical Association and AMSA have 

adopted SHOUT as their national service project 

over the next year. 

• Launched a new partnership with Kmart and 

Martha Stewart Living to promote Child Health 

enrollment in a three-month campaign in New York, 

New Jersey, and Connecticut involving 140 Kmart's 

stores. It featured in-store information, assistance 

with enrollment, and· a public service television, 

radio, and print media campaign featuring Martha 

~tewart. 

Sixty and 30-second television spots in 

English and a 10-second television spot in Spanish, 

60-, 30-, 15-, and 10-second radio spots in English

Ann u a I 'R e p 0 r t 1 9 9 9 

and Spanish, and print ads have been widely distributed. 

Between October 2 and 23, 1999, about 50 

organizations supported 80 health fairs that reached 

about 9,000 families. 

CDF's BCCC Southern Regional Office is 

headql,lartered in Jackson, Mississippi. It works to 

expand child advocacy and positive outcomes for 

children in five southern states: Alabama, Florida, 

Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana. During the past 

year, the BCCC S'outhern Regional Office, state 

leaders, and advocates worked to ensure eligible 

children health care and protect poor children and 

families under the Temporary Assistance for Needy 

Families (TAN F) program-the 1996 welfare law. 

Advocacy efforts expanded CHIP eligibility to 200% 

of poverty in four of the states with the fifth, 

Louisiana, moving from 150% to 200% in 2000. We 

are focusing efforts on increasing child health out- 

reach and enrollment, continuing a large-scale 

Community Monitoring Project to document the 

needs of families transitioning off welfare who lack 

needed supports including child care, transportation, 

and health care. About 150 grassroots leaders 

in Mississippi have been trained to administer the 

uniform community monitoring survey in every county. 

A southern regional training meeting at Haley 

Farm convened advocates to share experiences and 

strategies across the South. 

CDF·California's first year focused on implementation 

of the new State Children's Health 

Insurance Program through a collaborative effort with 

Children Now and the Children's Partnership. This 

"100% Campaign" seeks to expand health coverage 

to 100% of California's uninsured children. In 1999, 

the "100% Campaign": 

• Established a network of community-based organizations, 

the Children's Health Insurance Feedback 

Loop, to monitor outreach and enrollment activities 

in California and seek policy changes by showing 

state and local decision makers the barriers and 

successes local programs are experiencing. 

Feedback Loop reports have stimulated changes 

like a shorter application form, better coordination 

'between county and state computer systems, and 

increased state resources devoted to communitybased 

strategies. 

• Led organizing efforts to build constituencies for 

improved children's health programs, including the 

first statewide outreach forum held in January 1999 

in Palo Alto. Our child health coalition expanded 

CHIP eligibility to 250% of poverty, allowed work 

deductions in determining CHIP eligibility, and 

expanded coverage to immigrant children who 

entered the courHry after August 22, 1996. 

According to the state legislative analyst's office, 

these changes will increase health coverage for an 

additional 169,000 children. Changes also simplified 

th~ 

Medi-Cal application process for parents and 

streamlined quarterly reporting requirements. 

CDF·Texas' new office focused on children's 

health coverage, working closely with other Texas 

children's advocates to achieve a major victory with 

the passage of state CHIP legislation with an eligibility 

level at 200% of poverty. CDF's 1999 annual conference 

in Houston helped bring together many Texas 

child advocates and included a Beat the Odds" luncheon 

honoring Texas children who had overcome 

tremendous life obstacles. The luncheon also honored 

former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen.


, 

The State of America's Children Yearbook 1999 

Children in the States 1999 

• Seeds of Success: State Prekindergarten Initiatives 1998-1999 

Wonderfully Made: Preparing Children to Learn and Succeed 

• School-Age Care: Federal Funding Opportunities 

Insuring Children's Health: A Community Guide to Enrolling 

Children in Free and Low-Cost Health Insurance Programs 

• Making the Case for Investing in Children with Tobacco Settlement Funds: 

Tips for Advocates 

Congressional Workbook: Basic Process and Issue Primer 

The Waiting Game' 

Summer Freedom School and After-School Curriculum'Guides and 

Booli Lists, and Latino Supplement and Book List 

A Parent's Guide to Child Support 

• Community Monitoring Handbook 

Children and Guns 

1999 

Children ill 

the States 

... 

Extreme Child Poverty Rises Sharply in 1997 

• Child Watch Child Abuse & Neglect Module 

• Key Facts About Child Care and Early_ Education: 

A Briefing Book, 1999 

State Child Care and Early Education Developments: Highlights and Updates for 1999


1999 Financial Report ' 

This financial report covers the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and its affiliate, the separately incorporated 

CDF Action Council. Stand for Children is not included in this 1999 report, and it is a separately incorporated 

organization. 

1999 was an enormously successful program year as well as one of continued financial growth. Through 

the skillful financial stewardship of CDF's Investment Committee, our endowment grew by 83.9% allowing the 

Children's Defense Fund to have less dependence on outside sources for funding and greater freedom from 

outside influence. CDF hopes to cbntinue building its endowment to allow us to eventually become self-sustaining. 

• 

QUMMARY REVENUES EXPENSES 

Children's Defense Fund (CDF) 

CDF Action Council 

Total 

$38.7 

.1.2 

$39.9 

(in millions of dollars) 

$18.2 

QJt 

$19.1 

Revenues reflect a 34% percent increase in investment income due in larg,e part to the extraordinary rate 

of returns experienced in the stock market for CDF's endowment. As of December 31,1999, the market value of 

'the CDF Investment Porforlio was $45.5 million, up from $24.7 million as of December 31,1998. 

The chart on the left provides a,n' analysis of sources of revenue for the Children's Defense Fund for the 

year ending December 31, 1999. CDF doe~ not accept government funds. 

The chart on the right provides the percentage breakdown of CDF expenses for the year ending December 

31,1999. 

, REVENUES· CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND EXPENSES· CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND 

Fundralsing 

11% 

"General and 

Administrative 

9% 

Haley Farm Leadership 

programs ,;,.,0,......- 

6% 

Indlvldlual contributions 

10% 

"Excluding capital gain on Investment 

• Excluding Investment Taxes 

Policy and program 

development and 

Implementation 

20% 

Public education 

and publicatIons 

10% 

•

Children',s Defense Fund 

CDF program services and 1999 accomplis,h-. 

ments described previously are assembled under 

several program categories in the financial statements 

and in the chart on the previous page. Many 

of the programs are integrated across categories 

and are captured here for presentation purposes 

under one program category. 

Leadership ~evelopmentand 

Community Capacity Building 

Examples of this program category include: 

CDF's Annual National Conference, Healthy 

Start, Achieving Children, Successful Futures, 

held in Houston, Texas; 

State and regional trainin§j meetings for community 

monitoring of welfare reform; 

• The work accomplished at state and local 

offices in Ohio, New York, and Minnesota; 

• National Observance of Children's Sabbath; 

• Child Watch Visitation Program and training 

meetings. 

Haley Farm Leadership Programs 

The former Alex Haley Farm was purchased by 

CDF in 1994. It is our center for spiritual renewal, 

character and leadership development, intergenerational, 

interracial, and interdisciplinary communication. 

'Haley is a place to rekindle the spirit, to learn 

new skills, to meet people who share a common mission, 

to debate and discuss, and to build a sense of 

community. In 1999, more than 3,000 leaders came 

to Haley to sing, pray, learn, write, share, laugh, tell 

, ' 

stories, listen to great preachers, and catch the spirit 

of the burgeoning movement for children. 


• The Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute 

for Child Advocacy Ministry; 

• Langston Hughes Library expansion and 

dedication; 

• Freedom Schools National Training Programs, 

which train over 400 college-age youths, 150 

high school-age youths, and additional 

adults. The program sponsored 42 Freedom 

Schools, conducted in 23 cities and 15 states; 

• The Annual January Women's Spiritual Retreat; 

• BCCC Working Committee and Task Force 

Meetings on school reform; 

• BCCC and the Student Leadership Network 

for Children's Advanced Service and Advocacy 

Workshops for young leaders; 

• Child care training institute for emerging leaders. 

Black Community Crusade 'or Children 

(BCCC) 


• The Freedom Schools, which teach reading, 

conflict resolution, skills building, and emphasize 

leadership development, trained more 

than 400 college-age servant leaders from 42 

sites and served more than 3,000 poor children 

in 1999. The CDF curriculum development 

site, headquartered at the Marlboro 

County office in South Carolina, produced four 

curriculum guides, a Latino supplement, and 

after-school curriculum guides; 

• The Black Church Initiative, which includes 

hundreds of religious leaders and congregations 

and service and advocacy including a 

One Church ... Ten Families program; 

• Support of the B8CC Southern Regional 

Office in Mississippi; 

• Juvenile and Family Court Judges' Leadership 

Council; 

• The Student Leadership Network for Chidren, 

to train a successor generation of leaders for 

children; 

• The Ella Baker Child Policy Training Institute.


Public Education and Publications 

Examples of this program category include CDF 

publications: 

The State ofAmerica's Children Yearbook 1999; 

Seeds of Success: State Prekindergarten 

Initiatives 1998-1999; 

• Wonderfully Made: Preparing Children to Learn 

and Succeed: 1999 Children's Sabbath Manual; 

Summer Freedom School and After-School 

Curriculum Guides and Book Lists; 

• Children and Guns; 

• Insuring Children's Health: A Community 

Guide to Enrolling Children in Free and Low 

Cost Health Insurance Programs; 

• all other CDF publications in 1999; 

• maintenance of CDF's award-winning Web 

site, www.childrensdefense.org. 

/ 

Policy and Program Development 

and Implementation 


Development of numerous policy papers, 

training, and technical assistance in CDF program 

and policy areas: Child Care and 

School Readiness, Education, Child Health, 

the Children's Health Insurance Program 

Implementation Clearinghouse, Family 

Income, Community Monitoring of Welfare 

Reform and Child Poverty, and Child Welfare; 

• All the research work that supports the policy 

analyses; 

• The work accomplished at our state offices in 

Camornia and Texas. 

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Ch Idren's Defense Fund 

[ 1999 Financial Highlights 1999 1998 % Change 

(in millions of dollars and percentage changes) 

Increase in net assets $20.8 $11.8 76.3% 

Children's Defense Fund 20,5 11.6 

CDF Action Council 0.3 (0.2) 

Stand for Children 0.4 

Revenues $39.9 $29.8 33.9% 


Operating Fund 19.6 17.2 

Endowment Fund 191 106 

CDF Action Council 1.2 1.3 

Stand for Children 1.3 

Inter-affiliate transactions (06) 

Assets 

Endowment 

Market Value $45.0 $24.7 82.2% 

Investment return 81.1% 22.7% 

Fixed-assets additions 0.5 0.8 

Long-term debt $8.6 $8.8 -2.3% 

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1999 Combined Statement of Financial Position for the Children's Defense Fund 

and the CDF Action Council 

For the year ending December 31, 1999 

Assets 

1999 1998 % Change 

Cash and cash equivalents $5,345,474 $2,167,510. 146.6% 

Grants receivable 5,687,775 5,760,421 -1.3% 

Other assets 1,289,662 1,102,866 16.9% 

Fixed assets, net 14,271,871 14,500,776 -1.6% 

Investments 45502990 24745492 Jl3..9.%. 

Total assets $72,097,772 $48,277,065 49.3% 

Liabilities 

Accounts payable and 

accrued expenses $5,657,876 $2,069,209 173.4% 

Deferred revenue 103,672 

Bonds payable 8630000 8820000 -=2...2.%,' 

Total liabilities $14,391 ,548 $10,889,209 32.2% 

Net assets 

Unrestricfed $29,661,490 $18,657,729 59.0% 

Temporarily restricted 20,938,134 11,623,527 80.1% 

Permanently restricted 7 106600 7 106600 ~ 

Total net assets $57,706,224 $37,387,856 54.3% 

Total liabilities and net assets $72,097,772 $48,277,065 49.3%


1999 Combined Statement of Changes in Net Assets for the Children's Defense Fund and 

eDF Action Council 

For the year ending December 31,1999 

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Revenues 

Contributions and donations 

Foundations and corporations 

Individuals 

Organizations and groups 

Sale of publications 

National conference 

Special events 

Training fees 

Investment income 

Earned challenge grant 

Miscellaneous 

Total revenues, gains 

and support 

Expenses 

Program Services 

Policy and program development 

and implementation, 

Public education and publications 

Leadership development and 

community capacity building 

Haley Farm leadership programs 

Black Community Crusade 

for Children 

Stand for Children 

Total program services 

Supporting Services 

General and administrative 

Fundraising 

Total supporting services 

Total expenses 

Change in net assets 

1999 1998 % Change 

$14,370,460 $12,790,070 12.4% 

3,315,458 3,840,555 -13.7% 

666,735 902,709 -26.1 % 

611,210 849,550 -28.1% 

229,730 415,799 -44.7% 

932,096 2,509,933 -52.9% 

505,215 195,572 158.3% 

19,194,191 4,927,103 289.6% 

3,327,136 -100.0% 

.n...Q.13 23....5.3Q ~ 

$39,898,108 $29,801,957 33.9% 

$3,324,629 2,083,526 7.8% 

1,697,281 2,272,152 -25.3% 

5,597,006 $5,016,085 11.6% 

993,001 550,835 80.3% 

2,142,835 1,881,783 13.9% 

789,560 -100.0% 

$13,754,752 $13,593,941 1.2% 

$3,378,167: $1,741,943 93.9% 

$1 923354 $2 635 272 ::.2.L.ill'2 

$5,301,521 $4,377,215 21.1% 

$19,056,273 $17,971,156 6.0% 

$20,841,835 $11,830,801 76.2% 

• 

·Includes $1.4 million for 

. Endowment Taxes on earnings

Children's Defens.e Fund 

INDIVIDUAL DONORS 

$100,000 and above 

Anonymous 

$50,000 . $99,999 

Anonymous 

Frank and Carol Biondi 

Leslie Cornfeld-Urfirer 

Abigail and Les Wexner 

$25,000 . $49,999 

Matthew O..Case 

Marshall and Maureen Cogan 

Marian Wright Edelman 

Gail Kinn 

Donald A. Pels 

$10,000· $24,999 

Anonymous 

Anonymous 

Edgar Bronfman 

B. Andrew and LuAnn Heinen Brown 

Dr. Nancy Jo Coburn 

Charles D. Ellis 

E. Marianne Gabel 

Dr. and Mrs. David W. Hornbeck 

Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Levitt 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rantz 

Kathy and Jim Rutherford 

$5,000 . $9,999 

Jane E. Aaron 

Anonymous 

Anonymous 

Anonymous 

Lan Bentsen 

Lawrence Berman and Rhea Rubin 

James L. Burnett 

Charlotte Carter 

Nancy M. Folger 

Harvey and Alice Galper 

Doyle Graham, MD. and Aglaia N. 

O'Quinn, MD. 

Sallie Krawcheck 

Linda and Ken Lay and Family 

Mary E. Liebman 

Charles E. Merrill 

Heidi G Miller 

William T. Mitchell 

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Peretz 

Lisa Roumel 

Marie F. Shepard 

Constance B. Swain 

Barbara Trueman 

Paul Weill 

$1,000 . $4,999 

Henry and Ruth Aaron 

Dr. William Z. Abrams, DD.S. 

The Hon'orable Madeleine Albright 

Alan and Arlene Aida 

MillieAlmy 

John P Andelin and Virginia C 

Geoffrey 

Sandra Anderson 

Anonymous 

Anonymous 

Judith Areen 

Jacoba Atlas 

Anna R. Austin 

Bridget B. Baird 

Samuel Baker 

Betty Bardige 

Mary Adams Barrie 

Margaret Bash 

Deborah A. Batcha 

James A. Bazelon 

Derrick A. Bell 

Michael D. Benjamin 

Dr. Kathleen S. Berger. 

Sharon Brandford 

Barbara and David Brandt 

George Brockway 

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brokaw 

Morton B. Browne 

Susan Harker Brunn 

Reverend and Mrs. Frederick Buechner 

Linda Stafford Burrows 

Phyllis E. Byers 

Elizabeth S. Calfee 

Joyce Campbell ' 

Arthur L. and Linda Carter 

Charles H. Christensen 

Andrew B. Cogan 

Mr. and Mrs. George Cohen • , 

Betty Cohen 

Dr. Henry Alfred Coleman 

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Coleman 

Olive W. COVington 

David A. Cramer and Susan Stodolsky 

LoAnn Crane 

Mr. and Mrs. Morris Creedon-McVean 

Alonzo A. and Gwendolyn Crim 

Liz Crowell 

Cecilia Cullman 

Paul G. Curtis . 

Kenneth and Judy Dayton 

Ralph B. Dell and Karen Hein 

Mr. and Mrs. Joe F. Dempsey 

Carol 'and Charles M. Denny, Jr. 

Denise M. DiPasquale 

Mr: and Mrs. Frank J. Dixon 

Betsy Drake 

Robert and Shirley Duncan 

Patricia A.. Eagan 

Susan Amalia Edelman 

Mary and Thomas Ehrlichmann 

John F. Eisberg 

R.ichard Emens and Bea Wolper 

Diana and Rick England 

Karin Falencki 

Adelardo M. Ferrer 

Barbara D. Finberg 

Virginia Fleming 

Minar Ford 

Alice D. Ford 

Gina French and Karen E. Sept 

Sam and Gigi Fried 

Marjorie and Bob Garek 

Don and Eydie Garlikov 

Jane M. Gelb 

Mr. and Mrs. DA Gerard 

Jim Gilchrist and Lynn Nichols 

Linda G. Gochfeld 

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Goldberger 

Alfonso Gonzalez and Maria Del 

Castillo-Gonzalez 

Joan Goody 

Ethel M. Gordon 

Samuel J. Gorlitz 

Peter Grant 

Pete and Beth Grimes 

Marjorie Grinnell 

Gary R. Grossman and 

Marcia Kirkpatrick 

Jacques Guicharnaud 

Alzeda Crockett Hacker 

Russell and Luaina Hagen 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Halperin 

Margaret Hannigan 

A. Lorraine Hardison 

Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Harmin 

Dr. Julie Hauer 

Mr. and Mrs. Loren W. Hershey 

Joseph R. Higdon 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hinson 

Ruth M. Holland 

Susan D. Hopkins 

Helen Howe 

Albert James Hudspeth and 

Ann Packard 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Imershein 

Karen James 

Anna Faith Jones 

Michael Kang 

Colleen Kapklein 

David Kass 

Thomas and Marlene Kayser 

Ruth and Ezekiel Kennedy 

Alan and Pamela Kosansky

Ann u a Report 1999 

Ronya Kozmetsky 

John M. Kuldau and 

Christiana Leonard 

Philine R. Lachman 

Stephen Lakis 

Charlie and Sally Lannin 

Marta Jo Lawrence 

Bob and Mary Lazarus 

Ruth P. Ledbetter 

Margaret T. Lee 

Deborah Leff 

Tom Lehrer 

Virginia Kent Leslie 

Beth and Ira Leventhal 

Kathryn J. Lewis 

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lieberman 

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lindenbaum 

Holly Link 

Mr. and Mrs. Randall M. Lipton 

J. Bruce Llewellyn 

Carolyn A. Longacre, M.D. 

Ruth Lord 

Jeffrey and Sivia Loria 

Ellie and Robert Lucas 

Bill and Betsy MacLean 

Bryan F. MacPherson 

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan B. Marks 

John and Linda McCarty 

Vincent McGee 

Mrs. Albert W. Merck 

Dr. Steven and Joline Gitis Miles 

Pauline P. Miller 

Philip L. Milstein 

Charles M. Mitchell and Olive E. Harris 

David Mitchell and Connie Foote 

Rebecca Morgan 

Grant Morrow and Corde Robinson 

Don and Jane Moses 

Mr. and Mrs. John Mudd 

Katharine D. Myers 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Mygatt 

Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Nelson , 

Maureen Nelson 

Irene Nevil 

Stephanie Nickerson 

Benjamin and Lynn Oehler and Family 

James O'Hara and Marla Romash 

Alberto and Ivanna Omeechevarria 

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Overman 

John R Padova and Judge Thomas 

O'Neill Jr. 

Dr. Marjorie H. Parker 

Anne C. Patterson 

Dr. Richard M. Peters 

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Peterson 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pfleeger 

Candace Pidcock 

Beatrice O. Pine 

William Poole VIII and 

Janet L. Levinger 

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Raines 

George E. Ramsey 

Larry Redmond 

Deberah Jo Rennels 

Eleanor Revelle 

Lois Rice 

Dorothy J. Richardson 

Patricia Richardson 

Lillian M. and Jon Ricker 

Mr. and Mrs. David Riemer 

The Honorable and Mrs. John D. 

Rockefeller 

Edward Rogers 

Regina J. Rogers 

Frank Roosevelt 

Sarah Ryan 

Harriet W. Rylaarsdam 

Beverly Sackler 

Michael and Robin McCormick 

Scandrett 

Elizabeth Schaaf 

William H. Scheide 

Eric and Melanie Schottenstein 

Rick Schubert 

Susan and Myron Frans Segal 

Timothy Seldes and Susan Shreve 

Roger L. Selfe 

Charlotte Selver 

Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Senn 

Margaret E. Senturia 

Ruth E. Shinn 

R.G.S. Silten 

Elizabeth S. Silverman 

Adele Simmons 

Gregory C. Simon and Margo Reid 

Priscilla Sloss 

William Y. Smith 

Chris Smith 

Datus C. Smith, Jr. 

Bella Spewack Article Fifth Trust 

Betty J. S\ebman 

Marion Steel and Kathy Ament 

M~. and Mrs. Joseph M. Steele 

Douglas and Carol Steenland 

Morton Stein and Gayle Donsky 

Jane T. Strandberg 

Susan Swanson 

Lucy and Edward M. Sylvester 

Anne Talbot 

Skip Thorpe 

Mark and Adrienne Tobin 

The Honorable and Mrs. Alexander H. 

Trowbridge 

Judy and Steve Tuckerman 

Marianne S. Udow 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Ullman 

Annick Van der Moer 

Stephen and Yvonne Vance 

Priscilla Vivio 

Elizabeth Wachs 

Mr. and Mrs. Rodney B. Wagner 

Clara Wainwright 

Winston and Maxine Wallin 

David M. Wark and Mary Ann Barrows 

Audrey and Ken Weil 

Peggy E. Weil and Richard Hollander 

Douglas and Judy Weinstock 

Susan J. Wildau 

Harold R. and Benna Wilde 

Brian J. and April Williamson 

Marianne Williamson 

Peter Martin Wortmann and 

Cassandra Cook 

Harry S. Wright, Jr: 

Lorraine Zippiroli 

$500· $999 

Suzanne Adams 

Marc and Sarah Anderson 

Anonymous 

Anonymous 

Joyce O. Appleby 

Nevah Assang 

Nancy Atherton 

Elisha and Elizabeth Atkins 

Roberta A. Ballard 

Frank R. Baumgartner and 

Gretchen G. Casper 

Kathleen Bell 

lona Benson 

Kay Berkson 

Terry Black 

Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Blake 

Herbert L. Block 

Jay P. and Ann S. Boekhoff 

Mr. and Mrs. David A. Borglum 

Robert and Sandra K. Boynton 

Jane Buel Bradley 

Orrin and Virginia Broberg 

James L. Brooks 

Cynthia G: Brown 

Mr. and Mrs. Bernei B. Burgunder 

Renee R. Burrows 

Peter Buttenwieser 

Susanne F. Buxton 

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Byers 

Anne and Guido Calabresi 

Michael J. Caplan and Jo Anne Burger 

Robert W. Carlson, Jr. 

Lisle C. Carter and Jane S. Livingston 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H.•Castles 

Elizabeth Caswell 

Patience M. Chamberlin 

Mr. and Mrs: Aldus H.Chapin 

Jean Cox Chase 

Mr. and Mrs. Colburn T. Cherney 

Anne R. Childs 

Sylvia Civin 

Robert Clements 

Rita Cohen 

Dr. Johnetta B. Cole 

Mrs. John R. Collins 

Robert A. Cook 

Anne Covert 

Fred M. Cox 

Armine G. Cuber 

Ms. Helena Curtis 

Bingham Dana 

Linda Davidoff 

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Frances Fabyan Davis 

Warren Davis 

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan E. Davis 

Deborah De Berry Long 

David E. and S,tacia M. Debuhr 

Dee Dempsey' 

Gertrude Deyle 

Michelle Dilorenzo 

Alice Du Plessis 

Laura F. Dukess . 

Margaret Dulany 

Daniel and Toby Edelman 

Jo Ann Eder 

Scott Eller and Christine Bennett 

Ruth A. Elswood 

Mr. and Mrs. Todd Evans 

Deborah and Patrick Fallon 

Deborah and. Ellyn Wolfenson Fallon 

Ms. Welcome S. Fawcett 

Richard M. Fink 

Chuck Finkle 

Burton R. and Janet A. Fisher 

Carolyn D. Fiterman 

Joanne Flathers 

Marc Flingou 

Diane D. Friebe 

Timothy W. Galligan 

Jane Garrettson 

Carol D. Gaumond 

Dr. and Mrs. Carl Glickman 

Laurie Glimcher 

Ronald Gold 

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene G. Grace, III 

Jane B. Grant 

Stanley N. Griffith and Ann E 

Schauffler 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Gross 

Michael Gross ' 

Fred Grossman 

Ann O. Hamilton 

Ellen S. Haring 

Gina Harman 

Roger D. Hatch 

Barbara Hauck-Mah 

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hechinger 

Ms. Scottie Held 

. 'Louise C. Henslee 

Dr. and Mrs. Howard Hiatt 

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Hiatt 

Constance Hickey 

Fera K. Hill 

Lisa and Alan Hinson 

Elizabeth Hirsch 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hofheimer 

Nataline Horwitz 

'Roger Howley and Rosemary Frazel 

Steven Hunegs 

Jennifer M. Huntington 

John and Marion Hyson 

Virginia Insley 

Susan Insley 

Polly F. Jackson 

Kaye Jacobs 

Nigel J. Jaquiss and Margaret 

Remsen 

Jennifer R. Jones 

James Jones and Linda S. Auwers. 

Susan Joseph 

Richard W. Kahlenberg 

Holly and Brad Kastan 

Gadi Kaufmann 

Anne B. Keiser 

Edwin and Carol Kemp 

Jerry Kennedy 

Susan Petersen Kennedy 

James and Elizabeth Kilbreth 

Lois Kimbol 

Mr. Donald Klawiter 

Steven and Diane Knapp 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knox 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kolton 

Jim and Lora Koppel 

Ulrich and Mary Kruse 

Tom and Kristi Kuder 

Kathryn Langston 

Maree Larson , 

Dorothy Laybourne 

Carolyn Leach, M.D. 

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Lehrer 

Dale P. Lenzner 

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lynch Leonard 

Roger A. and Joan Lewin 

Renee D. Lewis 

Mr. and Mrs. F. Bruce Lewis 

Elsa Limbach 

Clara Link 

Laurie A. Logan and Alice M. Bachop 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lorch 

Lucile C. Lowery 

Ruth A. Lucas 

Craig Lucas 

Catherine A. Lutz 

Betty S. MacColl 

Kathleen MacDonnell 

Peter R. and Carol Mack 

Amy Madigan 

Mary. D. Mairs 

Nancy Malkiel 

Jean Mannino 

Steve Markusen 

Nancy Marlin 

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Marlin 

Margaret E. Martin 

Susanne Martinez 

Karl and Elizabeth Mathiasen 

Dr. and Mrs. Stuart W McCalley 

James L McClelland 

Cynthia and David McGrath 

Margit Meiss.ne~ 

Dr. Mary B Metcalf 

Elisabeth Haley Meyer 

The Gertrude G. Michelson Trust 

Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Minter 

Douglas Mishkin and Wendy Jennis 

Art and Emily Monaghan 

Ross Mongiardo 

Nathaniel P. Moore 

James R. and Elizabeth P. Moore 

Mr. and Mrs. Uncoln Moses 

Reverend Alyce and Roy M. Mullen 

Barbara D. Murphy 

Burton and Marisol Ogarrio Myers 

Randa Nachbar 

Eric Naumburg and Rebecca 

Zeligman 

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Needhammer 

Gaylord Neely 

Evelyn S. Nef 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Neilley 

Martha Newell 

Maxine G. Newmann 

Mr. and Mrs. James Newmyer 

Pamela K. Nolen 

Dan Nordley 

Ellen Nusblatt 

JamesH. Oestreich and 

Judith Frankfurt 

Blanca O'Leary 

Mark Olive 

Paul Oppenheim 

Eunice B. Ordman 

Dr. Betty Ann Ottinger 

Joan Palevsky 

Richard Parsons 

Dr. Richard M. Peters 

Zachary M. Pine and Rachel Trachten 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pineault 

Winslow and Mary Potter Engel 

General and Mrs. Colin L. Powell 

Natalie Prager-Hertzmann 

Leslie R. Price 

Charles H. Price, II 

Sandra Priebe 

Dr. Beryl A. Radin ' 

Paul B. and Jane H. Radin 

Janice A. Ramsay 

Mary Ratcliff 

Lillian Redlich 

Diane L. Renfroe 

Paul Rheingold 

Winifred W. Rhodes 

Esther Leah Ritz 

Dr. Linda Rock 

David J. Rodd 

John H. Rodgers 

Dwight Rogers and M. Gail Gillespie 

Leonard·X. Rosenb~rg 

Esther Rosenberg 

Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rosenwald II 

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander C. Ross 

Audrey M. Roth 

Kennon and Nina Rothchild 

Patricia 1. Rouse

• • ••• & 

999 

Jennifer Roy 

Nancy T. Russell 

Susan Russell 

Barbara J. Sabol 

Jennifer Glimpse Saltzman 

Susan Sarandon 

Mr. and Mrs. Homer Schaaf 

John Scheide 

Leonard Schneider 

Daniel J. Schneider and 

Michelle Stockton 

Thomas Scott 

Dr. Lewis B. Sheiner 

Elizabeth J. Sherer 

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Shoor 

Mr. and Mrs. 'Clyde E. Shorey 

Marcia Sigler 

Jan Slawinski 

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas G. Smith 

Marilyn M. Smith 

Dr. and Mrs. Jud Staller 

William D. Stempel and Ann Lindbeck 

Kristin ilnd Justin Stets 

Sharon Stone 

Jennifer K. Stoos 

Alan Stopper and Janis M. Zloto 

Monroe W. Strickberger and 

Ursula Rolfe 

Lucy B. Stroock 

Therese Stukel 

Jonathan Sugar and Nancy R. Barbas 

Dean Sundquist 

Edward P. Sykes III 

Dr. Linda E. Thomas 

Scott A Thorpe, III 

Jodie R. Torkelson 

Marcia T. Trainer 

Audrey and Brian Tuckerman 

William A. Volckhausen 

Matthew Wagner and 

Jessica Case Wagner 

lise D. Wahle 

Thomas W. Wahman 

Anne Wainwright 

Robert Waldinger 

Suzanne Wal~er 

Marcy Wilkov Waterman 

and Kay Welsch 

Dela~e 

P. Maureen White 

Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Whitman 

Emily Williams 

Dr. and Mrs. T. Franklin Williams 

Dr. Dorothy B. Windhorst 

Kenneth I. Winston 

Patricia A Wittman 

Dr. Ruth H. Young 

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred D. Youngwood 

Brian Zack and Virginia August 

The Children's Defense Fund is 

grateful to those who have 

remembered us in times of great 

joy. Listed below are gifts of $500 

and above. 

Honors 

Shirley Cooper 

Carol Cox-Nickles 

Teresa Feil 

Debra Glick 

Dr. Carol Horn 

Jennifer Johnson 

Gaylord and Carrie Nelson 

Arlene Boxerman Rosenberg 

Runa Stephen 

Tamah Wiegand 

Dr. Carol W. Williams 

Gabriel Winant. 

$1,000,000 and above' 

The Ford Foundation 

W.K. Kellogg Foundation 

$500,000 . $999,999 

The Da"id and Lucile Packard 

Foundation 

$100,000· $499,999 

Booth Ferris Foundation 

Carnegie Corporation of New York 

Annie E. Casey Foundation 

Citigroup Foundation 

The Cleveland Foundation 

The Columbus Foundation 

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

The Joyce Foundation . 

- The John 0 and Catherine T. 

MacArthur Foundation 

The Edna McConell Clark Foundation 

The McKnight Foundation 

The Charles Stewart Molt Foundation 

The William Penn Foundation 

The prudential Foundation 

The Charles H. Revson Foundation 

The Rockefeller Foundation 

The Surdna Foundation 

$50,000 . $99,999 

AT&T Foundation 

William and Francoise Barstow 

Foundation 

The George Gund Foundation 

Jp Morgan Charitable Trust 

The Edna Wardlaw Charitable Trust 

The Norman and Rosita Winston 

Foundation 

$25;000 . $49,999 

The Cameron Baird Foundation 

The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein 

Foundation 

The Morton K. and Jane BlausJein 

Foundation 

Laura R. Chasin Fund 

The Commonwealth Fund 

The Charles and Mary Grant 

Foundation 

The Health Foundation of Greater 

Cincinnati 

The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial 

Fund, Inc. . 

Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation, Inc. 

The Minneapolis Foundation 

Mt. Carmel Health System Foundation 

The Nationwide Insurance Enterprise 

Foundqtion - • 

Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation 

SC Ministry Foundation 

.The Spencer Foundation 

The Tides Founaation 

van Ameringen Foundation, Inc. 

$10,000· $24,99g 

The Abraham Foundation 

The Susan and Donald Babson 

Charitable Foundation 

Otto Bremer Foundation 

Butler Family Fund 

The Ingram-White Castle Foundation 

Harry Chapin Foundation 

The Diebold Foundation, Inc. 

Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation 

The Jane Gray Dustan Fund. 

Fannie Mae Foundation 

General Mills Foundation 

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation 

Higginbotham Family Insurance Trust 

The Kurz Family Foundation 

Lear Fund olThe Proteus' Fund Inc. 

The A L. Mailman Family. 

Foundation, Inc. 

MCA 'Foundation, LTD 

The Medtronic Foundation 

The Nord Family Foundation 

North Dakota Community Foundation 

. Ohio Children's Foundation 

The Rutherford Foundation 

'St"r Tribune Foundation 

James R. Thorpe Foundation 

United Hospital Fund of New York 

The Rose and Sherle Wagner 

Foundation 

$5,000 . $9,999 

The Ann, Don, Cathy and Laura Family 

Fund of the Community Foundation 

for the National Capital Region 

The Edward R. Bazinet Foundation 

Belford Charitable Trust 

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The Bench Trail Fund 

The Clarke, Edwards, Spencer 

Foundation Fund of the Greater 

Cinncinnati Foundation 

The Comer Family Foundation, Inc. 

The Ettinger Foundation, Inc. 

Gannett Foundation 

The Eleanor R. Gerson 

Philanthropic Fund 

Phoebe W. Haas Charitable Trust 

Metropolitan Life Foundation 

Nacht / Hilbrands / Rackoff 

Families Fund 

The o'rchard Foundation 

The Painted Flower Foundation, Inc. 

The Jay and .Rose Phillips Family 

Foundation 

The Louis and Harold Price 


Richard Robioson and Helen Benham 

Charitable Trust Fund 

The Grace J6nes Richardson Trust 

The Shifting Foundation 

The Stride Rite Charitable 


The Susan Willens Family Fund of the 

Community Foundation for the 

National Capital Region 

The Wilson Fund . 

The Marjorie Wyman Charitable 

Annuity Trust 

$1,000 . $4,999 

Elmer L. and Eleanor Andersen 

Foundation 

Hugh J. AnderseA Foundation 

The Annenberg Foundation 

The Jean Axelrod Memorial 

Foundation 

The Arnold Baggins Foundation 

The Bandier Family Foundation 

Barr Charitable Trust 

Bernstein Family Fund 

The. Braeside Foundation 

Bull's Head Foundation, Inc. 

Catto Charitable Foundation 

Citicorp Foundation 

Compton Foundation 

Crane Plastics 

Crestar Foundation 

Gay Block and Maika Drucker 

Philanthropic Fund 

Edith Edelman Charitable Trust 

Ethel and Irwin Edelman Foundation 

The Dorothy Epstein Charitable 

Lead Trust 

Samuel and Jean Frankel Foundation 

Freddie Mac Foundation 

Funding Exchange 

The Jackson and Irene Golden 


Aaron and Cecile Goldman 

Foundation 

The Edward S. Gordon Foundation 

The Lee Gottlieb Fund, Inc. 

The William Caspar Graustein 

Memorial Fund 

Alan C. Greenberg Foundation 

Conrad Hilton Foundation 

The Louise and Herb Horvitz 


Jewish Communal Fund 

JKW Foundation 

Kadrovach-Duckworth F

Ann u' a" R e' p 0 r t 1 9 9 9 

Express 

Halleland, Lewis, Nilan, Sipkins & 

Johnson 

Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc. 

Merck & Company, Health E.ducation 

Liaison 

Norwest Bank Minnesota 

Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP 

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. 

Resource International 

Ross Products Division of Abbott 

Laboratories· 

SGM Scholarship Fund 

Sony Electronics, Inc. 

Sony Music Entertainment 

The St. Paul Companies, Inc. 

Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP 

Wells Fargo & Company 

Woodstock Corporation 

Xerox Corporation 

$5,000 . $9,999 

Bath & Body Works 

Bloomberg LP 

Borden, Inc 

Chase Bank of Texas 

Colucci & Umans 

Columbia Gas of Ohio 

Continental Office Interests 

Davis, Polk & Wardwell 

Huntington Investment Company 

May Department Stores 

Merrill Lynch 

National City 

The Novick Group 

Porter. Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP 

Resource Marketing, Inc. 

Schottenstein Corporation 

Sony USA Foundation, Inc. 

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP 

Tennessee Valley Authority 

United Healthcare of Ohio, Inc. 

Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering 

$1,000 . $4,999 

American Electric Power 

Applied Information Resources Air, Inc. 

Arent, Fox, Kinter, Plotkin & 

Kahn PLLC 

Arthur Anderson LLP 

Banc One Capital Market 

The Bass Companies 

Bell Atlantic 

Bindery & Specialties, Inc. 

BlueCross BlueShield of Minnesota 

Employees Community Fund of 

Boeing Puget Sound 

Burston-Marsteller 

Capital Mortgage Services, Inc. 

Chadbourne & Parke 

Charles Penzone Grand Salons 

CIBER Information Services 

Clear Solutions, Inc. 

Columbus City Center Mall 

CompuServe 

Dain Rauscher, Inc. 

DC Chartered Health Plan, Inc. 

Debevoise & Plimpton 

Dorsey & Whitney LLP 

East West Connection, Inc. 

EI Paso Energy Corporation 

Engage Energy US LP 

Ernst & Young LLP 

FirstStar Bank 

Fontheim & Hammonds 

F(iedman & Huey Associates LLP 

Grandview Grille 

Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz & 

Siverman 

Halliburton Company . 

Health Insurance Plan of Greater 

New York 

Health Plus Prepaid Health Services 

Plan, Inc. 

Houston Chronicle 

IB[v1 

Key Bank 

KTIV I Fox 11 

Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen, 

Holstein PLLP 

LS Manufacturing 

Mil Schottenstein Homes, Inc. 

McGladrey & Pullen LLP 

McGough Construction 

Memorial Hermann Healthcare System 

Microsoft Matching Gifts Program 

Minnesota Eye Consultants, PS, 

NBC4 

Northern States Power Company 

Northwest Airlines 

Norwest Equity Partners 

Olsten Central Ohio LLC 

Park National Bank 

Parker, Chapin, Flattau & Klimpl 

Parsinen, Kaplan, Levy, Rosberg & 

Gotlieb, PA 

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & 

Garrison 

The Pillsbury Company 

Piper Jaffray Inc. 

Reliant Energy HL & P 

RG Barry, Inc. 

Rhino Entertainment Company I Turner 

Home Entertainment. 

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP 

Ryan Companies US, Inc. 

Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn 

Select Comfort Corporation 

Sive I Young Rubicam LP 

Smith & Hale 

Smith Parker PLLP 

Southern California Edison 

Steptoe & Johnson 

Sun Country Airlines 

SYMIX 

Time Warner Communications 

Tol-O-Matic 

US Bancorp Piper Jaffray 

Wedge Group Incorporated 

Weisman Enterprises, Inc. 

West Group 

White Castle Systems, Inc. 

Wyeth-Ayerst Global Pharmaceuticals 

$500· $999 

ABC, Inc. 

Access Data Supply, Inc. 

Becton Dickinson an, Company 

Best & Flanagan LLP 

Calvert Asset Management 

Company, Inc. 

Chester, Willcox & Saxbe LLP 

Cochran Public Relations, Inc. 

Cooperating Fund Drive 

Corna/Kokosing Construction 

Company 

Costello's Incorporated 

Edison Electric Institute 

Grand Avenue Restaurants 

Jerry Hammond & Associates 

Kohr, Royer, Griffith Realtors, Inc. 

The Landmark Corporation of St. Paul 

The Law Offices of Delores Boyd 

Lindsay Strand Associates, Inc. 

Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge 

Margaret Weber Consulting 

Matrix Integrated Psychological 

Services, Inc. 

The McGraw-Hili Companies 

McKinsey & Company Inc. 

New Hope Project, Inc. 

New Learning Developments Inc. 

Paisanos Pizza and Hot Hoagies 

ProCom International 

St. Paul Developmen\ Corporation 

ORGANIZATIONAL DONORS 

$100,000 and above 

The Tides Center 

$50,000 . $99,999 

Columbus Medical Association 

Foundation 

$25,000 . $49,999 

None 

$10,000· $24,999 

AARP 

Central New Jersey Chapter of Linc, Inc. 

Children's Hospitals and Health Care 

Episcopal Society of Christ Church 

Healthy Learners Board 

The Houston Endowment, Inc. 

New York University 

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·Children's Defense 

Fund 

" 

Women's Missionary Society of the 

African Methodist Episcopal Church 

- 2nd District 

$5,000 . $9,999 

CHUMS, Inc. 

International Union - United Auto 

Workers 

OhioHealth, Grant/Riverside Methodist 

Hospitals 

Ronald McDonald House Charities 

$1,000 . $4,999 

American Federation of Teachers 

Behr and Abramson 

Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. 

Cleveland Area Metropolitan Library 

System (CAMLS) 

Coon Rapids Medical Center 

Flaherty Professional Association 

Garfield Middle School 

Greater Minneapolis Council of 

Churches 

HealthParlners 

The Joint Religious Ed.ucation and 

Research Fund 

LaCreche Early Childhood Centers, Inc. 

Leonard, Street and Deinard 

Professional Association 

Management Compensation Group / 

Healthcare 

Martin Luther King Observance 

Committee 

Maryland Charity Campaign 

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits 

Minnesota Hospitals and Health Care 

Partnership 

National Geographic Society 

The National Sorority of 

Phi Delta Kappa' 

The New Louisiana Cafe 

.New York City Transit Authority 

, Ohio Head Start Association, Inc. 

The Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc. 

Public Allies - Cincinnati 

Retreat For Clergy Wives 

Dave Parker Celebrity River Stadium 

Festival Golf Tournament 

Sawatdee Thai Restaurant 

Second Baptist Church 

SI. Bartholomew's Church' 

SI. Michael Parish 

Sweet Honey in the Rock, Inc. 

UCare Minnesota 

United Nonprofit Operations, Inc. 

United Way of King County 

United Way of the Bay Area 

United Way of Tri-State 

University of Minnesota, Pediatric 

Residency Program 

University of Minnesota, Department of 

Pediatrics 

ThE) University of Texas Health 

Science Center at Houston 

Women of the Evangelical Lutheran 

Church in America 

$500. $999 

Astrodome Dental Careers Center 

Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual 

Adoration 

Columbus State Community College 

Dispute Resolution Services 

Education Minnesota 

Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota 

Gay Street United Methodist Women 

of MI. Vernon, Ohio 

Grace United Methodist Church 

Hennepin County Medical Center, 

Department of Pediatrics 

Houston Area Urban League, Inc. 

The Joint Religious Legislative 

Coalition 

Kidsafety of America 

Mayflower Community Congregational 

Church 

Minneapolis Public Schools 

Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board 

National Association of Colored 

Women's Club, Inc. 

Ohjo School Boards Association 

Palmetto Conference Branch Womens 

Missionary Society 

Portage High School Choir 

Princeton University Chapel 

Project RAP. 

Ryan Community. Health Network 

San Jacinto Girl Scouts 

Service .Employees International Union 

South Lake Pediatrics 

Triangle Park Creative 

United Food and Commercial Workers 

International Union 

United Way of Kitsap County • 

United Way of Southeastern 

Pennsylvania 

United Way of the County of 

Santa Clara 

University of Houston 

University of Minnesota 

Westminster Presbyterian Church. 

The Children's Defense Fund is 

deeply moved by the large number 

of individuals andfamilies who have 

remembered us in times ofgreat 

sorrow. Listed below are those 

gifts of$500 and above. 

Bequests 

Estate of Mary S. Weaver 

Estate of Clara Rabinowitz 

Estate of Alice Cook 

Memorials 

Esther C. Abrams 

Dr. Phoebe Mellinger Anderson 

Dale and FIQreine Burns 

David and Ida Carmel 

Candy Coonerty 

Elizabeth W. tiaynes 

Judge Leon Higginbotham 

Lana Hostetler 

Guthrie Ellison Howard 

Thomas Henry Manning 

Dr. Mary 'Mame" Mcilwain 

Nancy S. Mitchell 

Lynn Myers 

Judge Barrington D. Parker 

Joshua Charles Price

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