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CDF Board of Directors 2 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- , 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. Cover Photos (Front) © Human Issues Collaborative· (Back) © Cleo Freelance Photography © 2000 Children's Defense Fund. All rights reserved. INSIDE PHOTOS © Cleo Photography (Inside Front Cover)' Gigi Hinton, Todd Rosenberg, Anourack Chinyavong, DigitalVision (page 1)' Michael Collopy (page 5) • Harry Cutting (page 9) ~ Cleo Photography (page 11) • Steve Morrell (page 12) • Todd Rosenberg (pages 14-20) • Cleo Photography (page 27) • DigitalVision (page 36) • Todd Rosenberg (Inside Back Cover) - - . Contents ." '. ~., '. ." . ~ . •- .. '; .+"-,. - ~ CDF Board of Directors 2 CDF Management Team 4 A Message from the President 5 Summary of Key 1999 Accomplishments 8 Langston Hughes Library Dedication 17 1999 Financial Report 25 1999 Contributors 30 Children's Defense Fund CDF Board of Directors • David W. Hombeck, Chair Geoffrey Canada John D. Deardourff Superintendent of Schools President and Chief Executive Officer President School District of Philadelphia Rheedlen Centers for Children Deardourff - The Media Company Philadelphia, PA and Families McLean, VA New York, NY ~-,, f...i.A i.• \ =Jf2' ' .'1Carol Oughton Biondi Maureen A. Cogan, Vice Chair Marian Wright Edelman, Esq. Commissioner Child Advocate President Los Angeles County Commission for New York, NY Children's Defense Fund Children and Families Washington, DC Los Angeles, CA Angela Glover Blackwell, Esq. Leonard S. Coleman Jr. Winifred Green President Director President PolicyLink Cendant Southern Coalition for Educational Oakland, CA New York, NY EqUity Jackson, MS Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell Leslie Cornfeld·Urfirer, Esq. Howard H. Haworth, Vice Chair Senior Pastor Deputy Chief President The Windsor Village - U.S. Attorney's Office The Haworth Group SI. John's United Methodist Churches Brooklyn, NY Charlotte, NC Houston, TX Annual Re~ort 1999 CDF Board of Directors Dr. Dorothy I. Height Heidi G. Miller Susan P. Thomases, Esq. President Emerita and Chair of Board Senior Executive Vice President and Retired Partner National Council of Negro Women Chief Financial Officer Willkie Farr & Gallagher Washington, DC priceline.com New York, NY New York, NY Deborah left, Esq. leonard Riggio Thomas A. Troyer, Esq. President and Chief Executive Officer Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Partner 'America's Second Harvest Barnes & Noble, Inc.- Caplin & Drysdale Chicago,IL New York, NY Washington, DC Marylin B. levitt, D.S.W. Dennis Rive;a A~igail S. Wexner, Esq. Assistant Professor President Attorney and Department of Psychiatry 1199 National Health & Human Service Community Advocate George Washington University Medical Employees Union, SEIU, New Albany, OH School AFL-CIO Washington, DC New York, NY William lynch .Jr., Vice Chair .J. Michael Solar, Esq. President Managing Partner Bill Lynch Associates, LLC Solar & Fernandes, L.L.P. New York, NY Houston, TX Children's Defense Fund CDP ManageJnent 'Teanl • Marian Wright Edelman President Barbara Kelley Duncan Susanne Martinez 'Jodie Torkelson Vice President for Leadership Development Senior Vice President-Policy Vice President of Operations and the Black Community.Crusade for Children Grace Reef Laura Dromerick Peggy Lewis Director of Director of Finance Director of Communications Intergovernmental Relations and Administration Annual Report 9 9 9' 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 com­ passionate 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 . 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 develop­ ment. 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 poverty­ with 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 20lh 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.
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