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
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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
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.'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
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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. We must insist and work together on ground breaking 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 devo lution. 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 gen eration 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 Children's Defense Fund
SUl1l111ary of Key 1999 Acco111 p lisll111el1ts
n 1999, CDF's 26'" year of working to Leave No • Disseminated information through our Child Child Behind" and to ensure every c;hild a Health Information Project Iistservs, which provide I Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe frequent factual updates to over 4,500 key child Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful pas health contacts including academics, federal and state sage to adulthood with the help of caring families officials, advocates, providers, and legislative staff. and communities, we can report progress on many • Maintained a Web site on key children's health important fronts. insurance information, which is visited by more than 3,000 groups and individuals each week. Sign Them Child Health: Ensuring Every Up provides simple information on who may be eligi Child A Healthy Start ble, how to enroll: a state-specific parent flyer, links CDF continued in 1999 to devote significant to state Web pages, and online applications. resources to implementing the Children's Health Advocates also get information about successful Insurance Program (CHIP) signed into law on outreach and enrollment activities. August 5, 1997. CHIP is the most significant invest • In 1997, CDF began a series of toll-free confer ment in children's health coverage since Medicaid's ence calls for state advocates in collaboration with enactment in 1965. It authorizes $48 billion over 10 Families USA, the National Association of Child years to provide health care to 5 million uninsured Advocates, and the National Association of children. A CDF-convened national coalition of more Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions on than 200 organizations, the Child Health Now! cam CHIP implementation. Those unable to participate in paign, was crucial to passage of this historic legisla a live conference call are provided a digital replay. tion co-sponsored by Senators Orrin Hatch and Ted In '1999, we averaged 115 live callers per confer Kennedy. ence call. CDF reached out to a broad network of people • Provided specific state-by-state information to abo~t the availability and importance of the new pro advocates, families, and organizations on CHIP pro gram and the need to aggressively ensure that eligi grams through CDF's 1-800 hotline. ble families are aware of and enroll their children. By • Worked with community groups in c:;DF's 10 target mid-1999, 1.3 million children were enrolled in CHIP. states to test different outreach and enrollment models This was far short of the estimated 5 million children that have the potential for replication and sustain it is intended to rlilach. We have intensified our ability. CDF provided "mini-grants" to local community e!forts and entered into a collaborative public edu groups in the 10 states to help develop and imple cation and enrollment campaign with Martha Stewart ment CHIP enrollment pilot projects ~hrough child Omnimedia and Kmart. Over 80 health fairs have care centers, health centers, hospitals, religious been held at Kmart stores. congregations, colleges, and community-based In 1999, CDF: organizations. • Published a toolkit, Insuring Children's Health: A • Defended CHIP against congressional efforts to Community Guide to Enrolling Children in Free and divert funds to offset other budget expenditures. Low-Cost Health Insurance to provide communi CDF provided information to congressional offices ties with easy-to-follow, step-by-step information about the importance of not reducing CHIP funding on enrolling children in CHIP and Medicaid. just as states were starting its implementation. Annual Report .1999
Strong opposition from CDF, other advocates, and Child Care, Early Childhood state oHicials prevailed. Development, and School Readiness: • Briefed a wide range of state, regional, and Ensuring Every Child A Head Start· national conferences. CDF staff spoke at national In 1998, CDF launched a campaign for more conferences sponsored by the Robert Wood accessible and affordable quality child care and Johnson Foundation's Covering Kids Campaign, the sought to focus the nation's attention on the crucial National and Regional WIC Directors' Conference, importance of early childhood development and the National Association of Physician Assistants, the school readiness. In 1999, CDF employed a variety National Conference of Women of the Evangelical of strategies to broaden support for increased child Lutheran Church, the Pennsylvania Partnership for care investments. CDF: Children's Annual Conference, the Massachusetts • Collected and disseminated information on state Children's Health Coalition, the National AME investments and policy developments, innovative Missionary Women's Conference, the Minority policies and programs, and new research in child Health Conference at the University of North care and early education. CDF's Child Care division Carolina, and numerous state and local meetings. In has established a reputation for having the most up November 1999, CDF and Families USA co-hosted to-date informqtion concerning Child Care and early a national CHIP conference for 100 state and local .education developments across the country. Published advocates to discuss CHIP and Medicaid implemen Seeds of Success: State Prekindergarten Initiatives tation problems and solutions. 1998-1999, our second major survey of state Children's Defense Fund
prekindergarten initiatives. It will be followed by ment of increased funding for the child care block short reports that look more intensively at. programs gra~t did not take place, although increases were as they operate on the ground in local communities. provided for the 21" Century Community Lea'rning • Strengthened child care and early education lead Program-($250 million) and Head Start ($607 million). ership by providing a range of opportunities for infor mation sharing, training, skills bUilding, networking, Community Monitoring of Welfare Refonn and building a cadre of emerging leaders. For 11 and Addressing Child Poverty in America: years, CDF has brought together child care and Ensuring Every Child A Fair Start early educaiion leaders working at the state level Wher welfare policies change, when employers through an annual State Child Care and Early drop health coverage for families, or when parents Education Policy Leaders' Institute. It provides them cannot afford qL!ality child care, what happens to an opportunity to share strategies for ~xpanding children? These are the questions CDF's Community high quality child care and early education options Monitoring Project seeks to answer by working with and to learn about creative new ideas anc;l develop service providers, child advocates, and policy mak ments. We have developed A Policy and Advocacy ers at the state and local levels to collect information Institute for Emerging Child Care and Early about the well-being of children and fa.milies. Education Leaders, which will be accompqnied by To assist and increase the capacity of local groups ongoing efforts to promote fellowship and communi to mQnitor the impact of welfare law changes and other cation among leaders and with CDF child care staff federal and state laws affecting poor families, CDF: and others in the field. Our Emerging Leaders • Developed an'd disseminated a community moni- . Institute targets promising state and local child toring toolkit (with a uniform survey instrument in advocates who demonstrate the commitment, ener both English and Spanish and a how-to guide) to gy, determination, and creativity to lead new initia hundreds of organizations that have regular contact tives to improve early care and educatiOn policies. with low-income families. Each year, a diverse class of 25 to 35 new leaders • Provided assistance to monitoring coalitions in 40 will be chosen through a competitive process. The cities in the development of local databases using Emerging Leaders program increases young advo the community monitoring survey instrument. Once cat.es' exposure to 'a range of substantive early collected, the data is scanned into a national data childhood issues; leadership skills; new faces in the base at CDF and returned to local communities for field; and new strategies and approaches to their use. CoalitiOns collected information from more expanding and improving early care and education. than 3,000 families during the first half of 1999 that • Offered continuing suppori and training to an we are analyzing and will publish in 2000. extensi've network of over 5,200 early care and edu • Developed new training On effective con:munica cation leaders through our weekly e-mail newsletter. tion, public education strategies, and data collection • Supported federal policy development in early so that the information collected will be used effec care and education and school-age care. CDF tively at the loca'i level. CDF facilitated workshops at worked closely with key members of the Senate to conferences of natiOnal organizatiqns including the promote expanded investments in child care, result Child Welfare League of America, the National ing in four separate bipartisan votes in the Senate in Alliance to End Homelessness, Wider Opportunities favor of such investments. Unfortunately, final enact- for Women, the Center on Budget and Policy Annual Report 1999
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 earlier media campaigns about children killing chil greatest concern to the immigrant community. dren and being killed by guns every two hours and • Continued to disseminate information on child on our long-standing child welfare work to prevent poverty and developed strategies to help families lift abuse and violence against children their children out of poverty. CDF helped persuade the Clinton administration to use its regulatory power Toward that end, CDF: to allow states the flexibility to provide non-time-Iimited • Highlighted the importance of addressing the help to families under certain circumstances and to problems of alcohol and drug abuse in troubled clarify how states can provide education and train families by organizing a Senate briefing on alcohol ing and other supports for poor families. Much of and drugs and child protection. With representatives what CD~ sought was included in the Department of of state child welfare and alcohol and drug agencies, Health and Human Services' final rules fDr the the Child Welfare League of America, and tM Legal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Action Center, a prQposal for a partnership was program. A CDF report showing a one-year jump in developed to fund joint initiatives in state child welfare the number of extremely poor children (during the and alcohol and drug agencies to meet the needs of first year the 1996 welfare law was i~plemented) families with substance abuse problems Who come was highlighted in an ABC News segment in August. to the attention of the child welfare system. • Highlighted the importance of addressing Violence Prevention, .Juvenile .Justice the impact of domestic violence on children by par Legislation, and Children in Crisis: ticipating in the development of Guidelines for Ensuring Every Child A Safe Start Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child In 1999, CDF worked hard to ensure that all Maltreatment Cases, published by the National children receive a Safe Start and to put a child's Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. face on gun violence. This recent work builds on Children's Defense Fund
opposed measures to put children in adult jails, weaken the juvenile justice system, and to repeal reGjuirernents to reduce the disproportionate 'con finement 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.
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 • Increased awareness of child protection problems background material, (3) briefings by public policy by developing a new Child Abuse Modul:, for Child experts and others. and (4) experiential activities. Watch highlighting strategies to engage ihe commu • Dl,Iring 1999, Child Watch Visitation programs nity in protecting children and conducted a survey were held in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, of our Juvenile and Family Court Judges' State Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Leadership Council to identify effective community Montana, New Jersey, Nevada, North Carolina, child protection strategies, 6klahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,Tennessee, • Disseminated information on the impact of gun Texas. and Virginia. violence on children in a new report, Children and • Child Watch training workshops were conducted Guns, showing over 4,000 child gun deaths accord in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, ing \0 the latest data and evaluating state efforts to Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia. enact common-sense gun laws. A new print ad cam paign was developed to focus attention on the R~ligious Affai..rs: Ensuring Every impact of guns on children's lives and a new CDF Child A Moral Start Web site section shares resources to help advo In 1999, CD(
cates and communities reduce gun violence. A it Published an interfaith resource manual for the revisededition of a violence brochure to protect chil eighth annual National Observance of Children's dren instead of guns includes facts and information Sabbaths, Wonderfully Made: Preparing Children to on the impact of gun violence on children, myths Learn and Succeed. Thousands of religious congre and realities about gun violence, and 10 steps to gations lifted up the needs of children in prayer, protect children from violence in homes, communi worship, and action during the third weekend in' ties, and in the media. October. • Advocated greater investments in preventing • Sponsored the fifth annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor juvenile crir:ne through summer and after-school pro- Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry, July 19-23 at . grams and .violence prevention measures. CDF the Haley Farm. Over 300 participants heard the Annual Report 1999
Great Preachers: Bishop Charles E. Blake, Rev. Fred leaders participated in leadership development Shuttlesworth, Father J. Bryan Hehir, and Dr. Robert training meetings and events during 1999 at Haley. M. Franklin, Jr.; Children's Concerns speakers: • The BCCC sponsored a number of workshops Dorothy Colton, Dr. Edward Cornwell, III, and during CDF's national conference in Houston, Texas, National Urban League head Hugh B. Price; and to educate participants about its work and to continue • morning devotions, theological reflections, and mobilizii"!g Black leaders from "a variety of disciplines music led t;>y Rev. Otis Moss, Jr., Rev. Eileen Lindner, to advocate for children. BCCC held three full-day and Director of Music H.Q. Thompson. A new cadre training tracks: (1) the Juvenile and Family Court of seminarians and college-age leaders were Judges' Leadership Council's (JLC) Institute for engaged in training tracks on a variety of children's c;.ultural Competency; (2) a Rites of Passage semi needs and how congregations and people of faith nar; and (3) training for operating summer and after can address them. school Freedom School programs. • At CDF's national conference in Houston, Texas, work • CDF's BCCC Southern Regional Office convened shops were held on model faith-based programs a meeting of children's leaders fro;n southern states that serve at-risk youth using community resources, at Haley in July 1999 and comi"]lilted to work with volunteers, and mentors. The Religious Affairs divi state legislators and public officials and to expand sion organized the interfaith worship service attended coalitions in each state to encourage the better use by nearly 2,000 people at the national conference. of child care and welfare reform funds to help fami lies struggling to get and keep jobs. 1be Black Community CnIsade for Children • The Marlboro County South carolina project (BCCC): Leaving No Child Behind developed and implemented a Rites of Passage • The former Alex Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, after-school program for Black males ages 14-18. is CDF's and BCCC's center for spiritual renewal, Support from parents, caregivers, mentors, religious servant-leadership development, and intergenera and other community members is being enlisted to tional mentoring. Over 3,100 community and youth help young Black males gain the necessary skills to Children's Defense Fund
successfully make the transition from adolescence • Strategic planning meetings were convened to to adulthood. COF's Marlboro County office institut 'increase our ability to provide this educational enrich ed a Leadership Class in 1999 that meets weekly' ment program to low-income communities. A with local high school students to promote reading, January meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, of repre encourage positive behavior and attitudes with and sentatives from different Freedom Schools reflected among their peers, and identify and cultivate possi on current program successes and created a vision ble candidates to become Freedom School interns. to expand and strengthen them. • Freedom Schools conducted several national Freedom Schools': Providing Positive trainings during 1999 to address the specific knowl Teacher-Mentors, Alternatives to the edge and skills required for successful program Streets, Reading and Conflict operation at Haley Farm. They included a February Resolution Skills, and Building a . Sponsors Orientation meeting focused on key pro Successor Generation of Leaders gram components, overall program operation, In 1999, the seeds planted for six years yielded fund raising strategies, and contractual relationships. an abundant harvest. We increased our capacity to An April Program Management meeting focused on serve more children by training more young people program components, roles and responsibilities of in the summer of 1999 than ever before. Operating local Freedom School staff, curriculu'm training, and 42 sites for more than 3,000 children, Freedom team building. A new Philadelphia Project trained 140 Schools continued to provide training, technical high school servant-leaders in May. A comprehen assistance, and educational materials to sponsoring sive training session was conducted in June for 320 organizations across the country. college-aged servant-leaders responsible for teaching the integrated summer curriculum, to children. Annual Report 9 9.9
o The Freedom Schools curriculum developed in original summer curriculum use's themes and exam CDF's Marlboro County, South Carolina, office ples that transcend ethnic barriers, the Latino cur empowers children to make a difference and pro riculum supplement ensured that Black and Latino vides them the reading and personal developmeot cultural and traditional themes were celebrated to tools to do so, A new Latino curriculum focuses on bridge the cultural gaps in that school and community.
Hispanic culture: traditions, and role models and a o National Freedom Schools staff responded to new after-school curriculum pilote;d in the 1997-1998 growing demand by increasing the number of train academic year was made availabl~ in 1999, ing sessions and workshops outside Haley Farm in o Philadelphia's school district operated eigh't Wilmington, Delaware; Bennettsville, South Carolina; Freedom Schools serving 700 children. Two veteran Albany, New York; and'Pasadena, California. Philadelphia Freedom School sites served as anchors and provided technical assistance to this Student Leadership Network for new public-private collaboration. The district coordi Children (SLNC): Building an Effective nated a city-wide youth leadership development ini Successor Generation of Young tiative that employed 140 high school students as Leaders Devoted to Service "junior servant-leaders" to work with 70 college-aged SLNC is a national network of servant-leaders mentor-teachers. The junior servant-leaders received ages 18-30 committed to improving the quality of life four days of training at the Haley Farm in May, for children. SLNC's mission is to mobilize a new o The Latino curriculum was piloted at the generation of leaders to stand up for children Cleveland Elementary School in Pasadena, California. through community service and advocacy, SLNC The Pasadena school district partnered with the members attend quarterly Advanced Service and Cleveland Healthy Start Family Center to' spread the Advocacy Workshops (ASAWs) at the Haley Farm vision of Freedom Schools to the larger community, and at CDF's national headquarters. Fifty percent of the children served at the Pasadena site were Black and 50% were Latino. Although the
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 ser vant-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 com munities, and ways to put children's needs higher on the candidates' agendas in 2000.
Juvenile and Family Court Judges' Leadership Council (JLC): Ensuring Juvenile Justice for Minority Youth • Juvenile judges sponsored a Nationwide Day in In 1999: Court Week by inviting federal, state, and local • Forty-three SLNC members attended a Haley . elected. officials to their courtrooms .to see first hand seminar, "Gifted and Called: Faith, Leadership, and how policies enacted in Washington, DC and state - ~ Service on Behalf of Children," to gain a historical capitals impact children in communities. The JLC perspective of the children's movement and the skills completed training for the One Church. . Ten necessary to become effective advocates for children Families project enabling Juvenile Court Judges to in the next century. refer troubled. children (and their families) to a local • Thirty-five college servant-leaders attended a congregation as an alternative to detention. two and one-half day Haley workshop, "Mobilizing Ministers and church representatives from the five the Movement for a New Century and a New pilot sites met during. the 1999 Haley Farm Samuel Generation," to identify key characteristics of effective DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry leaders and learn effective strategies for community tb discuss how to evaluate the project's effective building. ness. The Judges Institute of Cultural Competency • "Principles of Nonviolence" was the focus of a (ICC) met in August 1999 to develop a training cur two-day july workshop co-facilitated by Reverend riculum to sensitize all juvenile judges to the cultures Fred Shuttlesworth and Mrs. Dorothy Cotton, pio of minority children. Forty participants participated neers in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and in a JLC three-day fall symposium at Haley Farm key partners of Dr. King. presenters examined how examining "The Next 100 Years: The Juvenile and nonviolence was used in the 1960s and how partici Family Court in The New Millennium." During the pants could incorporate these principles in their 1999 Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) daily lives and in the contemporary children's move Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference, the ment. CDF seeks to establish four nonviolence JLC co-sponsored a juvenile justice forum with philosophy workshops at Haley annually for young Representatives Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH), leaders and to develop a model that can be used in Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Bobby Scott (D-VA) religious congregations across the nation in 2000 on Juvenile Justice:.the Federal Response. and beyond.
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.
Annual Report 1999
Research and Public Education: • Expanded eligibility for the Children's Health Creating the Spiritual and Political Insurance Program (CHIP) from 150% to 200% of Will to Protect Children poverty beginning in mid-2000. Since CHIP's pas CDF's annual State of America's Children sage in January 1998, over 144,000 Ohio children Yearbook 1999, released in April, provides the latest have been enrolled in health insurance. developments and data on child poverty, family • Expanded Medicaid for pregnant women from income, child health, child 133% to 150% of poverty starting January 2000 and care and early child develop for parents earning up to 100% of poverty starting ment, 'education, readiness July 2000. for school and learning, chil • Increased accountability and community input at dren and families in crisis, the local level for Ohio Work First (OWF)-Ohio's and juvenile justice and welfare-to-work program-and modified OWF poli- youth development. A com . cies to red\Jce inappropriate sanctions and permit panion publication, Children families under sanction to continue to receive in the States 1999, detai Is employment and training-related services. the state-by-state status of • Secured $15.5 million each year in the budget for children and participation in summer reading intervention for children failing OhiO'S federal nutrition, disability, health, foster care, adop fourth-grai;le reading proficiency test. tion assistance, and education programs in a user • Maintained funding for 22,000 children to partici friendly format that allows advocates to examine how pate in Ohio's state-funded Head Start program and their state's children fare compared to other states. set aside $4.5 million over two years for teacher training in literacy. State Level Advocacy: Monitoring and • Expanded child care to serve 85,000 children, up Holding States Accountable for from 62,000 children in 1998, and helped families by Protecting and Investing in Children establishing a one-year eligibility period and limiting One of the strongest recommendations adopted co-payment to no more than 10% of income. The new by CDF's Board of Directors'from a two-year strqte law also permits Ohio to serve families earning up to gic planning process was to greatly strengthen 200% of poverty up from 185% of poverty in 1998. CDF's presence at the state and local levels. • CDF-?hio published two county-by-county fac! Drawing on years of successful. state-level advocacy books, Helping Children Learn 19,99-2000, and Teen on a variety of children's issues in Ohio (a statewide Births. The New Faces Series was introduced in office as well as a local off~~e in Cincinnati), New September 1999 with The New Face of Child Poverty in York, Minnesota, and Mississippi (addressing. chil Ohio profiling Ohio's struggling working families. A dren's needs in a five-state southern region), CDF majority of Ohio's poor children live in working families. expanded its state and local presence in key states CDF·Minnesota enhanced life for Minnesota with new statewide offices in California and in Austin children in a number of ways in 1999. and Houston, Texas. CQF has targeted 10 states • Received a Covering KitJs grant' from. the Robert where a majority of all children, all minority, and all Wood Johnson Foundation to lead efforts to reach at • poor children live. least half of the currently uninsured chirdren. CDF·Ohio made significant gains for children • Implemented a Fiscal Policy Project focused on in Ohio's two-year state budget enacted in 1999 making families and children budget priorities in that: Minnesota. CDF-Minnesota proposed an alternative Children's Defense Fund
budget including a state child tax credit, parental people to address barriers immigrant families face in leave incentives, increases in the earned income tax enrolling their children in health insurance. The con credit, and child care policies that supp'ort children ference was supported by Bell Atlantic and co-spon and families. sored by the New York Immigration Coalition, the • Helped win a significant expansion of the school New York Task Force on Immigrant Health, and breakfast program, an increase in the state earned other service providers and advocates for the immi income tax credit, and increased funding for safer, grant community. CDF-NY has hired an immigration better quality state child care. Funding also was attorney to monitor the implementation of the chil increased for the Minnesota Family Investment dren's health insurance for immigrant families and Program to assure all families moving off welfare children, reach. !?ut to community-based organiza incomes at or above 120% of poverty. tions, health care prOViders, and attorneys serving • Collaborated with the Minnesota Joint Religious immigrants, and organize immigrant service organi Coalition in a Minnesota KIDS COUNT project, which zations to focus on available children's health insur is part of a nationwide, mUlti-year Casey Foundation ance coverage .. project to document trends in the well-being of chil • Implemented an innovative student child health dren. A cOfDprehensive report on eleven indicators outreach project to bring in new student voices to of child well-being was published and shared with 'w9rk on the Child Health Now! campaign. High groups across the state. school, college, medical, and graduate students • Sponsored three Freedom 'Schools that served have all been incorporated in the model Student 180 children from the Minneapolis/SI. Paul area led by Health O,utreach project, or SHOUT, piloted in the college-aged teacher-mentors. Nearly 1,000 people chi'ld vaccination community networks in Harlem and attende.d CDF-Minnesota's annual Beat the Oddse Washington Heights. A 1999 SHOUT summer project banquet, which honors and provides scholarships to sent high schoo'l and college siudents to a variety of high school seniors who have beat the oddS. child-centered sites like summer lunch feeding pro CDF-New York has focused much of its grams, day ca~ps, summer school programs, attention on Child Health Now!, a major public edu health fairs, and outdoor concerts to enroll children. cation and outreach campaign to implement the CDF-NY has now expanded SHOUT to cQlleges State Children's Health Insurance Program. Its goal statewide and through the student chapter of the is to reach every potentially eligible child in the state. Medical Society of New York State. Nearly 200 high Patterned after CDF-NY's highly successful immu school and college students have been trained. The nization campaign, which increased preschool American Medical Association and AMSA have immunization rates for New York City's children under adopted SHOUT as their national service project two from 52% to 81 %, CDF-NY has: over the next year. • Reached out to community-based organizations, • Launched a new partnership with Kmart and health and human service providers, government Martha Stewart Living to promote Child Health representatives, policy makers, unions, educators, . enrollment in a three-month campaign in New York, faith-based groups, and coalitions not traditionally New Jersey, and Connecticut involving 140 Kmart's involved in health insurance ·activities. CDF-NY staff stores. It featured in-store information, assistance spent six months organizing fifteen community with enrollment, and· a public service television, forums on New York's expanded and improved radio, and print media campaign featuring Martha Medicaid and Child Health Plus programs. ~tewart. Sixty and 30-second television spots in • Organized a Children's Health Insurance and English and a 10-second television spot in Spanish, Immigrant Families conference attended by 200 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 distrib • Established a network of community-based orga uted. Between October 2 and 23, 1999, about 50 nizations, the Children's Health Insurance Feedback organizations supported 80 health fairs that reached Loop, to monitor outreach and enrollment activities about 9,000 families. in California and seek policy changes by showing CDF's BCCC Southern Regional Office is state and local decision makers the barriers and headql,lartered in Jackson, Mississippi. It works to successes local programs are experiencing. expand child advocacy and positive outcomes for Feedback Loop reports have stimulated changes children in five southern states: Alabama, Florida, like a shorter application form, better coordination Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana. During the past 'between county and state computer systems, and year, the BCCC S'outhern Regional Office, state increased state resources devoted to community leaders, and advocates worked to ensure eligible based strategies. children health care and protect poor children and • Led organizing efforts to build constituencies for families under the Temporary Assistance for Needy improved children's health programs, including the Families (TAN F) program-the 1996 welfare law. first statewide outreach forum held in January 1999 Advocacy efforts expanded CHIP eligibility to 200% in Palo Alto. Our child health coalition expanded of poverty in four of the states with the fifth, CHIP eligibility to 250% of poverty, allowed work Louisiana, moving from 150% to 200% in 2000. We deductions in determining CHIP eligibility, and are focusing efforts on increasing child health out- expanded coverage to immigrant children who reach and enrollment, continuing a large-scale entered the courHry after August 22, 1996. Community Monitoring Project to document the According to the state legislative analyst's office, needs of families transitioning off welfare who lack these changes will increase health coverage for an needed supports including child care, transporta additional 169,000 children. Changes also simplified tion, and health care. About 150 grassroots leaders th~ Medi-Cal application process for parents and in Mississippi have been trained to administer the streamlined quarterly reporting requirements. uniform community monitoring survey in every coun- CDF·Texas' new office focused on children's ty. A southern regional training meeting at Haley health coverage, working closely with other Texas Farm convened advocates to share experiences and children's advocates to achieve a major victory with strategies across the South. the passage of state CHIP legislation with an eligibility CDF·California's first year focused on imple level at 200% of poverty. CDF's 1999 annual confer mentation of the new State Children's Health ence in Houston helped bring together many Texas Insurance Program through a collaborative effort with child advocates and included a Beat the Odds" lun Children Now and the Children's Partnership. This cheon honoring Texas children who had overcome "100% Campaign" seeks to expand health coverage tremendous life obstacles. The luncheon also honored to 100% of California's uninsured children. In 1999, former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. the "100% Campaign": Children's Defense Fund
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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 1999 Booli Lists, and Latino Supplement and Book List Children ill A Parent's Guide to Child Support the States • Community Monitoring Handbook ... Children and Guns
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 Annual Report 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
(in millions of dollars) Children's Defense Fund (CDF) $38.7 $18.2 CDF Action Council .1.2 QJt Total $39.9 $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%
Public education and publicatIons 10% Indlvldlual contributions 10% Policy and program development and Implementation "Excluding capital gain on Investment • Excluding Investment Taxes 20%
• Children',s Defense Fund
CDF program services and 1999 accomplis,h-. • Freedom Schools National Training Programs, ments described previously are assembled under which train over 400 college-age youths, 150 several program categories in the financial state high school-age youths, and additional ments and in the chart on the previous page. Many adults. The program sponsored 42 Freedom of the programs are integrated across categories Schools, conducted in 23 cities and 15 states; and are captured here for presentation purposes • The Annual January Women's Spiritual Retreat; under one program category. • BCCC Working Committee and Task Force Meetings on school reform; Leadership ~evelopmentand • BCCC and the Student Leadership Network Community Capacity Building for Children's Advanced Service and Advo Examples of this program category include: cacy Workshops for young leaders; CDF's Annual National Conference, Healthy • Child care training institute for emerging leaders. Start, Achieving Children, Successful Futures, held in Houston, Texas; Black Community Crusade 'or Children State and regional trainin§j meetings for com (BCCC) munity monitoring of welfare reform; Examples of this program category include: • The work accomplished at state and local • The Freedom Schools, which teach reading, offices in Ohio, New York, and Minnesota; conflict resolution, skills building, and empha • National Observance of Children's Sabbath; size leadership development, trained more • Child Watch Visitation Program and training than 400 college-age servant leaders from 42 meetings. sites and served more than 3,000 poor chil dren in 1999. The CDF curriculum develop Haley Farm Leadership Programs ment site, headquartered at the Marlboro The former Alex Haley Farm was purchased by County office in South Carolina, produced four CDF in 1994. It is our center for spiritual renewal, curriculum guides, a Latino supplement, and character and leadership development, intergenera after-school curriculum guides; tional, interracial, and interdisciplinary communica • The Black Church Initiative, which includes tion. 'Haley is a place to rekindle the spirit, to learn hundreds of religious leaders and congrega new skills, to meet people who share a common mis tions and service and advocacy including a sion, to debate and discuss, and to build a sense of One Church ... Ten Families program; community. In 1999, more than 3,000 leaders came • Support of the B8CC Southern Regional to Haley to sing, pray, learn, write, share, laugh, tell Office in Mississippi; , ' stories, listen to great preachers, and catch the spirit • Juvenile and Family Court Judges' Leadership of the burgeoning movement for children. Council; • The Student Leadership Network for Chidren, Examples of this program category include: to train a successor generation of leaders for • The Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute children; for Child Advocacy Ministry; • The Ella Baker Child Policy Training Institute. • Langston Hughes Library expansion and dedication; Annual Report 1999
Public Education and Publications Policy and Program Development Examples of this program category include CDF and Implementation publications: Examples of this program category include: The State ofAmerica's Children Yearbook 1999; Development of numerous policy papers, Seeds of Success: State Prekindergarten training, and technical assistance in CDF pro • Initiatives 1998-1999; gram and policy areas: Child Care and School Readiness, Education, Child Health, • Wonderfully Made: Preparing Children to Learn / and Succeed: 1999 Children's Sabbath Manual; the Children's Health Insurance Program Summer Freedom School and After-School Implementation Clearinghouse, Family Curriculum Guides and Book Lists; Income, Community Monitoring of Welfare • Children and Guns; Reform and Child Poverty, and Child Welfare; • Insuring Children's Health: A Community • All the research work that supports the policy Guide to Enrolling Children in Free and Low analyses; Cost Health Insurance Programs; • The work accomplished at our state offices in • all other CDF publications in 1999; Camornia and Texas. • maintenance of CDF's award-winning Web site, www.childrensdefense.org. 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% Children's Defense Fund 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% 28
1999 Combined Statement of Financial Position for the Children's Defense Fund and the CDF Action Council
For the year ending December 31, 1999
1999 1998 % Change Assets 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% Annual Report 1999
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
Revenues 1999 1998 % Change • Contributions and donations Foundations and corporations $14,370,460 $12,790,070 12.4% Individuals 3,315,458 3,840,555 -13.7% Organizations and groups 666,735 902,709 -26.1 % Sale of publications 611,210 849,550 -28.1% National conference 229,730 415,799 -44.7% Special events 932,096 2,509,933 -52.9% Training fees 505,215 195,572 158.3% Investment income 19,194,191 4,927,103 289.6% Earned challenge grant 3,327,136 -100.0% Miscellaneous .n...Q.13 23....5.3Q ~ Total revenues, gains and support $39,898,108 $29,801,957 33.9% Expenses Program Services Policy and program development and implementation, $3,324,629 2,083,526 7.8% Public education and publications 1,697,281 2,272,152 -25.3% Leadership development and community capacity building 5,597,006 $5,016,085 11.6% Haley Farm leadership programs 993,001 550,835 80.3% Black Community Crusade for Children 2,142,835 1,881,783 13.9% Stand for Children 789,560 -100.0%
Total program services $13,754,752 $13,593,941 1.2% Supporting Services
General and administrative $3,378,167: $1,741,943 93.9% Fundraising $1 923354 $2 635 272 ::.2.L.ill'2 Total supporting services $5,301,521 $4,377,215 21.1%
Total expenses $19,056,273 $17,971,156 6.0%
Change in net assets $20,841,835 $11,830,801 76.2%
·Includes $1.4 million for . Endowment Taxes on earnings Children's Defens.e Fund
INDIVIDUAL DONORS $1,000 . $4,999 Robert and Shirley Duncan Henry and Ruth Aaron Patricia A.. Eagan $100,000 and above Dr. William Z. Abrams, DD.S. Susan Amalia Edelman Anonymous The Hon'orable Madeleine Albright Mary and Thomas Ehrlichmann Alan and Arlene Aida John F. Eisberg $50,000 . $99,999 MillieAlmy R.ichard Emens and Bea Wolper Anonymous John P Andelin and Virginia C Diana and Rick England Frank and Carol Biondi Geoffrey Karin Falencki Leslie Cornfeld-Urfirer Sandra Anderson Adelardo M. Ferrer Abigail and Les Wexner Anonymous Barbara D. Finberg Anonymous Virginia Fleming $25,000 . $49,999 Judith Areen Minar Ford Matthew O..Case Jacoba Atlas Alice D. Ford Marshall and Maureen Cogan Anna R. Austin Gina French and Karen E. Sept Marian Wright Edelman Bridget B. Baird Sam and Gigi Fried Gail Kinn Samuel Baker Marjorie and Bob Garek Donald A. Pels Betty Bardige Don and Eydie Garlikov Mary Adams Barrie Jane M. Gelb $10,000· $24,999 Margaret Bash Mr. and Mrs. DA Gerard Anonymous Deborah A. Batcha Jim Gilchrist and Lynn Nichols Anonymous James A. Bazelon Linda G. Gochfeld Edgar Bronfman Derrick A. Bell Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Goldberger B. Andrew and LuAnn Heinen Brown Michael D. Benjamin Alfonso Gonzalez and Maria Del Dr. Nancy Jo Coburn Dr. Kathleen S. Berger. Castillo-Gonzalez Charles D. Ellis Sharon Brandford Joan Goody E. Marianne Gabel Barbara and David Brandt Ethel M. Gordon Dr. and Mrs. David W. Hornbeck George Brockway Samuel J. Gorlitz Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Levitt Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brokaw Peter Grant Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rantz Morton B. Browne Pete and Beth Grimes Kathy and Jim Rutherford Susan Harker Brunn Marjorie Grinnell Reverend and Mrs. Frederick Buechner Gary R. Grossman and $5,000 . $9,999 Linda Stafford Burrows Marcia Kirkpatrick Jane E. Aaron Phyllis E. Byers Jacques Guicharnaud Anonymous Elizabeth S. Calfee Alzeda Crockett Hacker Anonymous Joyce Campbell ' Russell and Luaina Hagen Anonymous Arthur L. and Linda Carter Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Halperin Lan Bentsen Charles H. Christensen Margaret Hannigan Lawrence Berman and Rhea Rubin Andrew B. Cogan A. Lorraine Hardison James L. Burnett Mr. and Mrs. George Cohen •, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Harmin Charlotte Carter Betty Cohen Dr. Julie Hauer Nancy M. Folger Dr. Henry Alfred Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Loren W. Hershey Harvey and Alice Galper Mr. and Mrs. William R. Coleman Joseph R. Higdon Doyle Graham, MD. and Aglaia N. Olive W. COVington Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hinson O'Quinn, MD. David A. Cramer and Susan Stodolsky Ruth M. Holland Sallie Krawcheck LoAnn Crane Susan D. Hopkins Linda and Ken Lay and Family Mr. and Mrs. Morris Creedon-McVean Helen Howe Mary E. Liebman Alonzo A. and Gwendolyn Crim Albert James Hudspeth and Charles E. Merrill Liz Crowell Ann Packard Heidi G Miller Cecilia Cullman Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Imershein William T. Mitchell Paul G. Curtis . Karen James Mr. and Mrs. Martin Peretz Kenneth and Judy Dayton Anna Faith Jones Lisa Roumel Ralph B. Dell and Karen Hein Michael Kang Marie F. Shepard Mr. and Mrs. Joe F. Dempsey Colleen Kapklein Constance B. Swain Carol 'and Charles M. Denny, Jr. David Kass Barbara Trueman Denise M. DiPasquale Thomas and Marlene Kayser Paul Weill Mr: and Mrs. Frank J. Dixon Ruth and Ezekiel Kennedy Betsy Drake Alan and Pamela Kosansky Ann u a Report 1999
Ronya Kozmetsky Deberah Jo Rennels Douglas and Judy Weinstock John M. Kuldau and Eleanor Revelle Susan J. Wildau Christiana Leonard Lois Rice Harold R. and Benna Wilde Philine R. Lachman Dorothy J. Richardson Brian J. and April Williamson Stephen Lakis Patricia Richardson Marianne Williamson Charlie and Sally Lannin Lillian M. and Jon Ricker Peter Martin Wortmann and Marta Jo Lawrence Mr. and Mrs. David Riemer Cassandra Cook Bob and Mary Lazarus The Honorable and Mrs. John D. Harry S. Wright, Jr: • Ruth P. Ledbetter Rockefeller Lorraine Zippiroli Margaret T. Lee Edward Rogers Deborah Leff Regina J. Rogers $500· $999 Tom Lehrer Frank Roosevelt Suzanne Adams Virginia Kent Leslie Sarah Ryan Marc and Sarah Anderson Beth and Ira Leventhal Harriet W. Rylaarsdam Anonymous Kathryn J. Lewis Beverly Sackler Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lieberman Michael and Robin McCormick Joyce O. Appleby Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lindenbaum Scandrett Nevah Assang Holly Link Elizabeth Schaaf Nancy Atherton Mr. and Mrs. Randall M. Lipton William H. Scheide Elisha and Elizabeth Atkins J. Bruce Llewellyn Eric and Melanie Schottenstein Roberta A. Ballard Carolyn A. Longacre, M.D. Rick Schubert Frank R. Baumgartner and Ruth Lord Susan and Myron Frans Segal Gretchen G. Casper Jeffrey and Sivia Loria Timothy Seldes and Susan Shreve Kathleen Bell Ellie and Robert Lucas Roger L. Selfe lona Benson Bill and Betsy MacLean Charlotte Selver Kay Berkson Bryan F. MacPherson Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Senn Terry Black Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan B. Marks Margaret E. Senturia Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Blake John and Linda McCarty Ruth E. Shinn Herbert L. Block Vincent McGee R.G.S. Silten Jay P. and Ann S. Boekhoff Mrs. Albert W. Merck Elizabeth S. Silverman Mr. and Mrs. David A. Borglum Dr. Steven and Joline Gitis Miles Adele Simmons Robert and Sandra K. Boynton Pauline P. Miller Gregory C. Simon and Margo Reid Jane Buel Bradley Philip L. Milstein Priscilla Sloss Orrin and Virginia Broberg Charles M. Mitchell and Olive E. Harris William Y. Smith James L. Brooks David Mitchell and Connie Foote Chris Smith Cynthia G: Brown Rebecca Morgan Datus C. Smith, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bernei B. Burgunder Grant Morrow and Corde Robinson Bella Spewack Article Fifth Trust Renee R. Burrows Don and Jane Moses Betty J. S\ebman Peter Buttenwieser Mr. and Mrs. John Mudd Marion Steel and Kathy Ament Susanne F. Buxton Katharine D. Myers M~. and Mrs. Joseph M. Steele Mr. and Mrs. William E. Byers Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Mygatt Douglas and Carol Steenland Anne and Guido Calabresi Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Nelson , Morton Stein and Gayle Donsky Michael J. Caplan and Jo Anne Burger Maureen Nelson Jane T. Strandberg Robert W. Carlson, Jr. Irene Nevil Susan Swanson Lisle C. Carter and Jane S. Livingston Stephanie Nickerson Lucy and Edward M. Sylvester Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H.•Castles Benjamin and Lynn Oehler and Family Anne Talbot Elizabeth Caswell James O'Hara and Marla Romash Skip Thorpe Patience M. Chamberlin Alberto and Ivanna Omeechevarria Mark and Adrienne Tobin Mr. and Mrs: Aldus H.Chapin Mr. and Mrs. William L. Overman The Honorable and Mrs. Alexander H. Jean Cox Chase John R Padova and Judge Thomas Trowbridge Mr. and Mrs. Colburn T. Cherney O'Neill Jr. Judy and Steve Tuckerman Anne R. Childs Dr. Marjorie H. Parker Marianne S. Udow Sylvia Civin Anne C. Patterson Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Ullman Robert Clements Dr. Richard M. Peters Annick Van der Moer Rita Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Peterson Stephen and Yvonne Vance Dr. Johnetta B. Cole Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pfleeger Priscilla Vivio Mrs. John R. Collins Candace Pidcock Elizabeth Wachs Robert A. Cook Beatrice O. Pine Mr. and Mrs. Rodney B. Wagner Anne Covert William Poole VIII and Clara Wainwright Fred M. Cox Janet L. Levinger Winston and Maxine Wallin Armine G. Cuber Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Raines David M. Wark and Mary Ann Barrows Ms. Helena Curtis George E. Ramsey Audrey and Ken Weil Bingham Dana Larry Redmond Peggy E. Weil and Richard Hollander Linda Davidoff Children's Defense Fund
Frances Fabyan Davis Polly F. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Minter Warren Davis Kaye Jacobs Douglas Mishkin and Wendy Jennis Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan E. Davis Nigel J. Jaquiss and Margaret Art and Emily Monaghan Deborah De Berry Long Remsen Ross Mongiardo David E. and S,tacia M. Debuhr Jennifer R. Jones Nathaniel P. Moore Dee Dempsey' James Jones and Linda S. Auwers. James R. and Elizabeth P. Moore Gertrude Deyle Susan Joseph Mr. and Mrs. Uncoln Moses Michelle Dilorenzo Richard W. Kahlenberg Reverend Alyce and Roy M. Mullen Alice Du Plessis Holly and Brad Kastan Barbara D. Murphy Laura F. Dukess . Gadi Kaufmann Burton and Marisol Ogarrio Myers Margaret Dulany Anne B. Keiser Randa Nachbar Daniel and Toby Edelman Edwin and Carol Kemp Eric Naumburg and Rebecca Jo Ann Eder Jerry Kennedy Zeligman Scott Eller and Christine Bennett Susan Petersen Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Earl Needhammer Ruth A. Elswood James and Elizabeth Kilbreth Gaylord Neely Mr. and Mrs. Todd Evans Lois Kimbol Evelyn S. Nef Deborah and Patrick Fallon Mr. Donald Klawiter Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Neilley Deborah and. Ellyn Wolfenson Fallon Steven and Diane Knapp Martha Newell Ms. Welcome S. Fawcett Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knox Maxine G. Newmann Richard M. Fink Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kolton Mr. and Mrs. James Newmyer Chuck Finkle Jim and Lora Koppel Pamela K. Nolen Burton R. and Janet A. Fisher Ulrich and Mary Kruse Dan Nordley Carolyn D. Fiterman Tom and Kristi Kuder Ellen Nusblatt Joanne Flathers Kathryn Langston JamesH. Oestreich and Marc Flingou Maree Larson , Judith Frankfurt Diane D. Friebe Dorothy Laybourne Blanca O'Leary Timothy W. Galligan Carolyn Leach, M.D. Mark Olive Jane Garrettson Mr. and Mrs. James C. Lehrer Paul Oppenheim Carol D. Gaumond Dale P. Lenzner Eunice B. Ordman Dr. and Mrs. Carl Glickman Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lynch Leonard Dr. Betty Ann Ottinger Laurie Glimcher Roger A. and Joan Lewin Joan Palevsky Ronald Gold Renee D. Lewis Richard Parsons Mr. and Mrs. Eugene G. Grace, III Mr. and Mrs. F. Bruce Lewis Dr. Richard M. Peters Jane B. Grant Elsa Limbach Zachary M. Pine and Rachel Trachten Stanley N. Griffith and Ann E Clara Link Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pineault Schauffler Laurie A. Logan and Alice M. Bachop Winslow and Mary Potter Engel Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Gross Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lorch General and Mrs. Colin L. Powell Michael Gross ' Lucile C. Lowery Natalie Prager-Hertzmann Fred Grossman Ruth A. Lucas Leslie R. Price Ann O. Hamilton Craig Lucas Charles H. Price, II Ellen S. Haring Catherine A. Lutz Sandra Priebe Gina Harman Betty S. MacColl Dr. Beryl A. Radin ' Roger D. Hatch Kathleen MacDonnell Paul B. and Jane H. Radin Barbara Hauck-Mah Peter R. and Carol Mack Janice A. Ramsay Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hechinger Amy Madigan Mary Ratcliff Ms. Scottie Held Mary. D. Mairs Lillian Redlich . 'Louise C. Henslee Nancy Malkiel Diane L. Renfroe Dr. and Mrs. Howard Hiatt Jean Mannino Paul Rheingold Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Hiatt Steve Markusen Winifred W. Rhodes Constance Hickey Nancy Marlin Esther Leah Ritz Fera K. Hill Mr. and Mrs. David H. Marlin Dr. Linda Rock Lisa and Alan Hinson Margaret E. Martin David J. Rodd Elizabeth Hirsch Susanne Martinez John H. Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hofheimer Karl and Elizabeth Mathiasen Dwight Rogers and M. Gail Gillespie Nataline Horwitz Dr. and Mrs. Stuart W McCalley Leonard·X. Rosenb~rg 'Roger Howley and Rosemary Frazel James L McClelland Esther Rosenberg Steven Hunegs Cynthia and David McGrath Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rosenwald II Jennifer M. Huntington Margit Meiss.ne~ Mr. and Mrs. Alexander C. Ross John and Marion Hyson Dr. Mary B Metcalf Audrey M. Roth Virginia Insley Elisabeth Haley Meyer Kennon and Nina Rothchild Susan Insley The Gertrude G. Michelson Trust Patricia 1. Rouse 999
Jennifer Roy $25;000 . $49,999 Nancy T. Russell The Children's Defense Fund is The Cameron Baird Foundation Susan Russell grateful to those who have The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Barbara J. Sabol remembered us in times of great Foundation Jennifer Glimpse Saltzman joy. Listed below are gifts of $500 The Morton K. and Jane BlausJein Susan Sarandon and above. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Homer Schaaf Laura R. Chasin Fund John Scheide Honors The Commonwealth Fund • Leonard Schneider Shirley Cooper The Charles and Mary Grant Daniel J. Schneider and Carol Cox-Nickles Foundation Michelle Stockton Teresa Feil The Health Foundation of Greater Thomas Scott Debra Glick Cincinnati Dr. Lewis B. Sheiner Dr. Carol Horn The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Elizabeth J. Sherer Jennifer Johnson Fund, Inc. . Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Shoor Gaylord and Carrie Nelson Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. 'Clyde E. Shorey Arlene Boxerman Rosenberg The Minneapolis Foundation Marcia Sigler Runa Stephen Mt. Carmel Health System Foundation Jan Slawinski Tamah Wiegand The Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Mr. and Mrs. Douglas G. Smith Dr. Carol W. Williams Foundqtion -• Marilyn M. Smith Gabriel Winant. Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Jud Staller SC Ministry Foundation William D. Stempel and Ann Lindbeck .The Spencer Foundation
Kristin ilnd Justin Stets •• ••• & The Tides Founaation Sharon Stone van Ameringen Foundation, Inc. Jennifer K. Stoos $1,000,000 and above' Alan Stopper and Janis M. Zloto The Ford Foundation $10,000· $24,99g Monroe W. Strickberger and W.K. Kellogg Foundation The Abraham Foundation Ursula Rolfe The Susan and Donald Babson Lucy B. Stroock $500,000 . $999,999 Charitable Foundation Therese Stukel The Da"id and Lucile Packard Otto Bremer Foundation Jonathan Sugar and Nancy R. Barbas Foundation Butler Family Fund Dean Sundquist The Ingram-White Castle Foundation Edward P. Sykes III $100,000· $499,999 Harry Chapin Foundation Dr. Linda E. Thomas Booth Ferris Foundation The Diebold Foundation, Inc. Scott A Thorpe, III Carnegie Corporation of New York Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Jodie R. Torkelson Annie E. Casey Foundation The Jane Gray Dustan Fund. Marcia T. Trainer Citigroup Foundation Fannie Mae Foundation Audrey and Brian Tuckerman The Cleveland Foundation General Mills Foundation William A. Volckhausen The Columbus Foundation The Greater Cincinnati Foundation Matthew Wagner and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Higginbotham Family Insurance Trust Jessica Case Wagner The Joyce Foundation . The Kurz Family Foundation lise D. Wahle - The John 0 and Catherine T. Lear Fund olThe Proteus' Fund Inc. Thomas W. Wahman MacArthur Foundation The A L. Mailman Family. Anne Wainwright The Edna McConell Clark Foundation Foundation, Inc. Robert Waldinger The McKnight Foundation MCA 'Foundation, LTD Suzanne Wal~er The Charles Stewart Molt Foundation The Medtronic Foundation Marcy Wilkov Waterman The William Penn Foundation The Nord Family Foundation Dela~e and Kay Welsch The prudential Foundation North Dakota Community Foundation P. Maureen White The Charles H. Revson Foundation . Ohio Children's Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Whitman The Rockefeller Foundation The Rutherford Foundation Emily Williams The Surdna Foundation 'St"r Tribune Foundation Dr. and Mrs. T. Franklin Williams James R. Thorpe Foundation Dr. Dorothy B. Windhorst $50,000 . $99,999 United Hospital Fund of New York Kenneth I. Winston AT&T Foundation The Rose and Sherle Wagner Patricia A Wittman William and Francoise Barstow Foundation Dr. Ruth H. Young Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Alfred D. Youngwood The George Gund Foundation $5,000 . $9,999 Brian Zack and Virginia August Jp Morgan Charitable Trust The Ann, Don, Cathy and Laura Family The Edna Wardlaw Charitable Trust Fund of the Community Foundation The Norman and Rosita Winston for the National Capital Region Foundation The Edward R. Bazinet Foundation Belford Charitable Trust Children's Defense Fund
The Bench Trail Fund The Edward S. Gordon Foundation $500· $999 The Clarke, Edwards, Spencer The Lee Gottlieb Fund, Inc. The Arent Charitable Foundation Foundation Fund of the Greater The William Caspar Graustein Claire Phillips Barnet Foundation: Inc. Cinncinnati Foundation Memorial Fund Conrad Calritz Charitable Trust The Comer Family Foundation, Inc. Alan C. Greenberg Foundation Children's Hospital Research The Ettinger Foundation, Inc. Conrad Hilton Foundation Foundation Gannett Foundation The Louise and Herb Horvitz The Clements Foundation The Eleanor R. Gerson Charitable Foundation The Elizabeth and Thomas' • Philanthropic Fund Jewish Communal Fund Cuthbertson Fund of the Foundation Phoebe W. Haas Charitable Trust JKW Foundation for the Carolinas Metropolitan Life Foundation Kadrovach-Duckworth F<\mily The David and Margaret Engel Nacht / Hilbrands / Rackoff Foundation Family Foundation Families Fund Harris'and Eliza Kempner Fund Judith and David Falk Charitable Trust The o'rchard Foundation The B. Herbert and Harriet K. of the Community Foundation for The Painted Flower Foundation, Inc. Keyserling Fund of the Community the National Capital Region The Jay and .Rose Phillips Family Foundation General Electric Fund Foundation The L Family Foundation The Benjamin S. Gerson Family The Louis and Harold Price The Lion and Hare Fund of the New Foundation Foundation, Inc. York Community Trust The Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Memorial Richard Robioson and Helen Benham Louis J. and Ruth G. Herr Foundation Charitable Trust Charitable Trust Fund Leland T. Lynch and.Terry Saario Irwin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation The Grace J6nes Richardson Trust Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation The Joyce S. Prudden and Michael D. The Shifting Foundation McCombs Foundation, Inc. Shoop Family Fund of the! The Stride Rite Charitable The Minneapolis Foundation Minneapolis Foundation Foundation, Inc. Minnesota Justice Foundation The Kuelthau Family Partnership, LP The Susan Willens Family Fund of the Monterey Peninsula Golf Foundation The Medwick Foundation, Inc. Community Foundation for the New Prospect Foundation New Directions Foundation National Capital Region Northwestem Mutual Life Foundation, Inc. Pilgrim Family Trust The Wilson Fund . The Cissy Patterson Trust , The Edward H. Richard Foundation, Inc. The Marjorie Wyman Charitable Paul Goldstein Family and Children's The Samuels Foundation Annuity Trust Foundation The San Francisco Foundption Piersol Foundation, Inc. The Seattle Foundation $1,000 . $4,999 The Raiser Foundation The Solo Cup Foundation Elmer L. and Eleanor Andersen Harold K. Raisler Foundation, Inc. The Ruth and Oliver Stanton Foundation The Henry and Anne Reich Family. . Foundation Hugh J. AnderseA Foundation Foundation, Inc. Wolfensohn Family Foundation The Annenberg Foundation Rockefeller Brothers Fund The Jean Axelrod Memorial The Nancy and Miles Rubin CORPORATE DONORS Foundation Foundation The Arnold Baggins Foundation Joseph E. and Norma G. Saul $100,000 and above The Bandier Family Foundation Foundation, Inc. Kmart Corporation Barr Charitable Trust The John W. and Eva A. Schulz Fund Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. Bernstein Family Fund of the New York Community Trust Burton G. Bettingen Corporation The. Braeside Foundation Scurlock Foundation The Limited Bull's Head Foundation, Inc. Segal Family Foundation Fallon McElligott Catto Charitable Foundation Shefa Fund Citicorp Foundation Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts $50,000 . $99,999 Compton Foundation The Sirus Fund CIBC Oppenheimer Corporation Crane Plastics The Slivka Family Foundation, Inc. Working Assets Crestar Foundation St. Paul Foundation Gay Block and Maika Drucker Strode and Douglas Family Charity $25,000 . $49,999 Philanthropic Fund Fund of the Fidelity Charitable The Kroger Company Edith Edelman Charitable Trust Gift Fund The Longaberger Company Ethel and Irwin Edelman Foundation Stephen and Nan Swid Foundation Major League Baseball Properties The Dorothy Epstein Charitable Szekely Family Foundation Nickelodeon/MTV Networks Lead Trust The W. Talcott Family Foundation, Inc. Nordstrom Samuel and Jean Frankel Foundation The Thomas and Sally Troyer Fund of The Procter & Gamble Company Freddie Mac Foundation the Community Foundation for the Wolfe Enterprises, Inc. Funding Exchange . National Capital Region The Jackson and Irene Golden The Wallin Foundation $10,000. $24,999 Charitable Foundation The W~lton Family Foundation Bob Evans Farms, Inc. Aaron and Cecile Goldman Wasserstrom Foundation Clearpool, Inc. Foundation Wilkinson Foundation Discovery Communications, Inc. Ann u' a" R e' p 0 r t 1 9 9 9
Express Clear Solutions, Inc. SYMIX Halleland, Lewis, Nilan, Sipkins & Columbus City Center Mall Time Warner Communications Johnson CompuServe Tol-O-Matic Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc. Dain Rauscher, Inc. US Bancorp Piper Jaffray Merck & Company, Health E.ducation DC Chartered Health Plan, Inc. Wedge Group Incorporated Liaison Debevoise & Plimpton Weisman Enterprises, Inc. Norwest Bank Minnesota Dorsey & Whitney LLP West Group Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP East West Connection, Inc. White Castle Systems, Inc. • The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. EI Paso Energy Corporation Wyeth-Ayerst Global Pharmaceuticals Resource International Engage Energy US LP Ross Products Division of Abbott Ernst & Young LLP $500· $999 Laboratories· FirstStar Bank ABC, Inc. SGM Scholarship Fund Fontheim & Hammonds Access Data Supply, Inc. Sony Electronics, Inc. F(iedman & Huey Associates LLP Becton Dickinson an,? Company Sony Music Entertainment Grandview Grille Best & Flanagan LLP The St. Paul Companies, Inc. Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz & Calvert Asset Management Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP Siverman Company, Inc. Wells Fargo & Company Halliburton Company . Chester, Willcox & Saxbe LLP Woodstock Corporation Health Insurance Plan of Greater Cochran Public Relations, Inc. Xerox Corporation New York Cooperating Fund Drive Health Plus Prepaid Health Services Corna/Kokosing Construction $5,000 . $9,999 Plan, Inc. Company Bath & Body Works Houston Chronicle Costello's Incorporated Bloomberg LP IB[v1 Edison Electric Institute Borden, Inc Key Bank Grand Avenue Restaurants Chase Bank of Texas KTIV I Fox 11 Jerry Hammond & Associates Colucci & Umans Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen, Kohr, Royer, Griffith Realtors, Inc. Columbia Gas of Ohio Holstein PLLP The Landmark Corporation of St. Paul Continental Office Interests LS Manufacturing The Law Offices of Delores Boyd Davis, Polk & Wardwell Mil Schottenstein Homes, Inc. Lindsay Strand Associates, Inc. Huntington Investment Company McGladrey & Pullen LLP Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge May Department Stores McGough Construction Margaret Weber Consulting Merrill Lynch Memorial Hermann Healthcare System Matrix Integrated Psychological National City Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Services, Inc. The Novick Group Minnesota Eye Consultants, PS, The McGraw-Hili Companies Porter. Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP NBC4 McKinsey & Company Inc. Resource Marketing, Inc. Northern States Power Company New Hope Project, Inc. Schottenstein Corporation Northwest Airlines New Learning Developments Inc. Sony USA Foundation, Inc. Norwest Equity Partners Paisanos Pizza and Hot Hoagies Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP Olsten Central Ohio LLC ProCom International Tennessee Valley Authority Park National Bank St. Paul Developmen\ Corporation United Healthcare of Ohio, Inc. Parker, Chapin, Flattau & Klimpl Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Parsinen, Kaplan, Levy, Rosberg & ORGANIZATIONAL DONORS Gotlieb, PA $1,000 . $4,999 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & $100,000 and above American Electric Power Garrison The Tides Center Applied Information Resources Air, Inc. The Pillsbury Company Arent, Fox, Kinter, Plotkin & Piper Jaffray Inc. $50,000 . $99,999 Kahn PLLC Reliant Energy HL & P Columbus Medical Association Arthur Anderson LLP RG Barry, Inc. Foundation Banc One Capital Market Rhino Entertainment Company I Turner The Bass Companies Home Entertainment. $25,000 . $49,999 Bell Atlantic Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP None Bindery & Specialties, Inc. Ryan Companies US, Inc. BlueCross BlueShield of Minnesota Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn $10,000· $24,999 Employees Community Fund of Select Comfort Corporation AARP Boeing Puget Sound Sive I Young Rubicam LP Central New Jersey Chapter of Linc, Inc. Burston-Marsteller Smith & Hale Children's Hospitals and Health Care Capital Mortgage Services, Inc. Smith Parker PLLP Episcopal Society of Christ Church Chadbourne & Parke Southern California Edison Healthy Learners Board Charles Penzone Grand Salons Steptoe & Johnson The Houston Endowment, Inc. CIBER Information Services Sun Country Airlines New York University ·Children's Defense Fund
Women's Missionary Society of the Sawatdee Thai Restaurant Ryan Community. Health Network African Methodist Episcopal Church Second Baptist Church San Jacinto Girl Scouts - 2nd District SI. Bartholomew's Church' Service.Employees International Union SI. Michael Parish South Lake Pediatrics $5,000 . $9,999 Sweet Honey in the Rock, Inc. Triangle Park Creative CHUMS, Inc. UCare Minnesota United Food and Commercial Workers International Union - United Auto United Nonprofit Operations, Inc. International Union Workers United Way of King County United Way of Kitsap County • OhioHealth, Grant/Riverside Methodist United Way of the Bay Area United Way of Southeastern Hospitals United Way of Tri-State Pennsylvania Ronald McDonald House Charities University of Minnesota, Pediatric United Way of the County of Residency Program Santa Clara $1,000 . $4,999 University of Minnesota, Department of University of Houston American Federation of Teachers Pediatrics University of Minnesota Behr and Abramson ThE) University of Texas Health Westminster Presbyterian Church. Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. Science Center at Houston Cleveland Area Metropolitan Library Women of the Evangelical Lutheran System (CAMLS) Church in America The Children's Defense Fund is Coon Rapids Medical Center deeply moved by the large number Flaherty Professional Association $500. $999 of individuals andfamilies who have Astrodome Dental Careers Center Garfield Middle School remembered us in times ofgreat Greater Minneapolis Council of Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual sorrow. Listed below are those Churches Adoration gifts of$500 and above. HealthParlners Columbus State Community College The Joint Religious Ed.ucation and Dispute Resolution Services Bequests Research Fund Education Minnesota Estate of Mary S. Weaver LaCreche Early Childhood Centers, Inc. Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota Estate of Clara Rabinowitz Leonard, Street and Deinard Gay Street United Methodist Women Estate of Alice Cook Professional Association of MI. Vernon, Ohio Management Compensation Group / Grace United Methodist Church Memorials Healthcare Hennepin County Medical Center, Esther C. Abrams Martin Luther King Observance Department of Pediatrics Dr. Phoebe Mellinger Anderson Houston Area Urban League, Inc. Committee Dale and FIQreine Burns Maryland Charity Campaign The Joint Religious Legislative David and Ida Carmel Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Coalition Candy Coonerty Kidsafety of America Minnesota Hospitals and Health Care Elizabeth W. tiaynes Mayflower Community Congregational Partnership Judge Leon Higginbotham National Geographic Society Church Lana Hostetler The National Sorority of Minneapolis Public Schools Guthrie Ellison Howard " Phi Delta Kappa' Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board Thomas Henry Manning The New Louisiana Cafe National Association of Colored Dr. Mary 'Mame" Mcilwain .New York City Transit Authority Women's Club, Inc. Nancy S. Mitchell , Ohio Head Start Association, Inc. Ohjo School Boards Association Lynn Myers The Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc. Palmetto Conference Branch Womens Judge Barrington D. Parker Missionary Society Public Allies - Cincinnati Joshua Charles Price Retreat For Clergy Wives Portage High School Choir Dave Parker Celebrity River Stadium Princeton University Chapel Festival Golf Tournament Project RAP. •
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