The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is 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 communities.

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 encourages preventive investment before children 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 photo: One of the children who survived Hurricane Katrina now participates in a CDF Freedom Schools® program in Mississippi.

© 2007 Children’s Defense Fund. All rights reserved.

Cover photos © Charles Smith and Photodisc Inside photos © Michael Cunningham, Sharon Farmer, Cheryl Gerber, Alyssa Holt, Steve Liss, David Rae Morris, T.C. Perkins, Jr., Alison Wright, Photodisc and iStockphoto Annual Report2006

Contents

CDF Board of Directors 2 Message from the Board Chair 4 Message from the President 5 Each Day in America 8 Key CDF Achievements 11 • A Healthy Start 11 • A Head Start 15 • A Fair Start 17 • A Safe Start 19 • A Moral Start 21 • Successful Passage to Adulthood 22 • State and Regional Organizing and Advocacy 26 • CDF-California 26 • CDF-Louisiana 26 • CDF-Minnesota 27 • CDF-New York 28 • CDF-Ohio 29 • CDF-Southern Regional Office 29 • CDF-Texas 30 Financial Report • Financial Overview 33 • Consolidated Financial Statements 34 • Accounting Policies 36 • Donors 38 • Seals of Approval 45 2006 CDF Publications 46 2006 CDF Board of Directors

Robert F. Vagt, Chair Carol Oughton Biondi Angela Glover Reverend Kirbyjon President Emeritus Child Advocate/Commissioner Blackwell, Vice Chair Caldwell Davidson College Los Angeles County Founder and Chief Senior Pastor Davidson, NC Commission for Children Executive Officer The Windsor Village– and Families PolicyLink St. John’s United Methodist Los Angeles, CA Oakland, CA Churches Houston, TX

Geoffrey Canada, Leonard Coleman, Jr. Leslie Cornfeld, Esq. Marian Wright Edelman Vice Chair Cendant Corporation Director, Mayor’s Task Founder and President New York, NY Force on Child Welfare Children’s Defense Fund President and Chief and Safety Washington, DC Executive Officer New York, NY Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc. New York, NY

James Forbes, Jr. James Forman, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Winifred Green Senior Minister Emeritus Associate Professor Chair, Department of President, Southern The Riverside Church Georgetown Law School African and African Coalition for New York, NY Co-Founder, Maya Angelou American Studies Educational Equity Charter School Harvard University New Orleans, LA Washington, DC Cambridge, MA

2 | Children’s Defense Fund Dr. Dorothy Height Ruth-Ann Huvane William Lynch, Jr. Katie McGrath President Emerita Child Advocate President Child Advocate Chair of Board Los Angeles, CA Bill Lynch Associates, LLC Los Angeles, CA National Council of Negro New York, NY Women, Inc. Washington, DC

Ivanna Omeechevarria Wendy Puriefoy J. Michael Solar, Esq. Thomas A. Troyer, Esq. Child Advocate President Solar & Associates, LLP Partner Alexandria, VA Public Education Network Houston, TX Caplin & Drysdale (PEN) Washington, DC Washington, DC

Laura Wasserman Reese Witherspoon Deborah Wright, Esq. Movie Music Supervisor Actress President and Chief Executive Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA Officer, Carver Bancorp, Inc. New York, NY

Lisle Carter, Jr. Howard H. Haworth Charles E. Merrill, Jr. Chair 1973-1986 David Hornbeck Board of Laura Rockefeller Chasin Leonard Riggio Chair 1994-2005 Hillary Rodham Clinton James Joseph Donna E. Shalala Directors Chair 1986-1992 Chair 1993-1994 Chair 1992-1993 Maureen A. Cogan Marylin Levitt Susan P. Thomases Emeritus

2006 Annual Report | 3 2006 Message from the Board Chair

It is obvious from Marian’s fulsome report this was another active year for CDF, its staff and those volun- teers who play such a vital role in its work. As has been the case since the founding of CDF, the continu- ing challenge is to bring into focus for all of us in this country, citizen and legislator alike, the plight of so many of this country’s young—to give name and face to poverty, hunger, homelessness, illiteracy and medical need. Robert F. Vagt, CDF Board Chair

Concurrent with raising our consciousness of the with, and in direct support of, the Children’s Defense needs of our youth, we have worked with others at the Fund; and we encourage you to become even more local and national levels to define what is essential to directly engaged in your communities. accomplish on behalf of those too young to fend for I believe I speak on behalf of the entire Board themselves. What we must do for our children has when I say that it has been both a challenge and a never been a matter of choice—optional programs and privilege to serve this year as volunteers to CDF as it services if there happen to be unspent funds—but a seeks to shape a world that holds out its hands to sup- matter of what is absolutely necessary. We have a social port its children. contract with our children and we must fulfill our obligation. This is an issue that transcends political affiliation, for it is vital to all of us who value what this country holds dear: its national treasure, its future... and that is its children. CDF is not doing this alone; for, to be successful demands the exercise of conscience, the Robert F. Vagt exercise of moral leadership, on the part of each and all of us. We are very grateful for what so many do

4 | Children’s Defense Fund 2006 Message from the President

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said there are two kinds of leaders: thermometer leaders and thermostat leaders. The former stick their fingers in the air to feel the political temperature and adjust; the latter seek to change the political climate to promote justice for all. For 34 years CDF has sought to be a thermostat leader and to follow Mahatma Gandhi’s often repeated statement as he sought to free India from colonial rule without despondency: “Full effort is full

victory.” Marian Wright Edelman, CDF President

CDF has always tried to discern, after careful All Healthy Children Campaign – research, analysis and field work, what children need. CDF National Office Then through policymakers and public awareness, CDF’s 2006 and continuing 2007 top national engagement and multiple advocacy strategies at the and state policy priority is ensuring health coverage for national, state and community levels, we try to create all nine million uninsured children in America. We the climate and promote the actions required to meet believe that every child’s life is sacred and of equal those needs. Our calling is not to be political realists or value. After many months of consultation with to fit children’s needs into the prevailing views of what numerous leaders and organizations, we developed the is possible. Our calling is to push the boundaries of All Healthy Children Act (S. 1564/H.R. 1688) to what is possible and to transform over time the mis- ensure a level child health playing field as the State guided priorities of the richest nation on earth that Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) comes leave millions of children without health coverage and up for renewal by September 30, 2007.* Its key princi- in poverty, failing schools and violence-saturated com- ples are: munities. Coverage of all nine million uninsured children and Something is awry in a nation where the only universal pregnant women; child and youth policy is a jail or detention cell after a child gets into trouble. It is morally wrong and practi- A national eligibility standard for all children and cally foolish that states spend nearly three times more pregnant women at or below 300 percent of the fed- per prisoner than per public school pupil. It’s time for eral poverty level with a right of families above 300 a new and more just paradigm. percent to buy in;

* It has been introduced in the House and the Senate. Its 64 House sponsors constitute the largest of any pending child health coverage bill. CDF has a (C)(4) Action Council that supports our annual legislative agenda for children. We do everything that the law permits to advocate for children and nothing that it prohibits.

2006 Annual Report | 5 Comprehensive benefits (Medicaid’s Early and CDF-Minnesota continued to organize for cover- Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment age for all Minnesota children, succeeding in getting [EPSDT] benefit package) for all uninsured and more than 35,000 uninsured children covered in 2006. SCHIP-eligible children; CDF-Ohio supported its Governor’s efforts to raise A streamlined and blended child health program so child eligibility to 300 percent of the federal poverty that the 5 to 6 million children currently eligible but level, up from 200 percent, which enables 32,000 not enrolled in SCHIP or Medicaid do not continue children to gain coverage. They are also organizing to fall through the cracks; and women leaders to provide a powerful Ohio advocacy voice for powerless mothers and children beginning Elimination of bureaucratic barriers to child enroll- with the issue of health care. ment and renewal through automatic enrollment at birth and at other critical junctures in a child’s life CDF-Southern Regional Office made more visi- and for all children in means-tested programs. ble Mississippi’s shameful infant mortality rates and fought enrollment barriers that have resulted in more Over 1,200 national and local faith, public official, than 61,000 children losing health coverage. child advocacy, education and child and family service provider organizations and leaders in all 50 states rep- CDF-Louisiana worked successfully to expand resenting over 100 million citizens have endorsed child health investments for nearly 60,000 of that CDF’s All Healthy Children Campaign. beleaguered state’s children and provided direct health All Healthy Children Campaign – and mental health services and art therapy to children ® CDF State Offices in the CDF Freedom Schools program through a mobile medical van donated by UNICEF. Twenty-five While advocating for a national health safety net CDF Freedom Schools sites are operating in Louisiana— for all uninsured children, CDF continues to work 10 in New Orleans—serving 1,600 children. CDF’s simultaneously in states to expand and improve child report, Katrina’s Children: Still Waiting, was health coverage with significant success. Almost researched and written during 2006 and released in 800,000 children will gain health coverage through March 2007. our combined state advocacy efforts. Developing a New Generation CDF-New York worked with Governor Eliot of Servant-Leaders Spitzer, who included in his budget a proposal to cover The CDF Freedom Schools program continued to all 385,000 uninsured children in New York State grow in quality and quantity. Almost 1,200 college-age and to lift New York’s child health eligibility level to teacher-mentors, Ella Baker Child Policy Institute 400 percent of poverty—the highest in the nation. trainers and community sponsors spent a week in CDF-Texas, with the extraordinary help of the training at CDF Haley Farm in preparing to operate CDF-Texas Advisory Board and a strong bipartisan 124 CDF Freedom Schools sites and provide a high quality coalition, succeeded in restoring SCHIP benefits to Integrated Reading Curriculum for more than 8,300 127,000 children with 12-months continuous eligi- children in 25 states and 65 cities. Philliber Associates’ bility. CDF-Texas’ report, In Harm’s Way: True Stories first and second year evaluations of Kansas City CDF of Uninsured Texas Children, researched and written Freedom Schools sites showed significant reading gains in 2006, played a major role in that state’s reforms. among the poorest middle school children in 2005 and CDF-California helped gain coverage for almost 2006. The CDF Freedom Schools programs and Beat the 100,000 new children working with partners Children Odds® celebrations of high school students overcom- Now and California Partnership. Together we con- ing tremendous obstacles in their lives highlight the tinue to work with state officials to cover all strengths of young people and give them hope—which Californians up to 300 percent of the federal poverty is the best protective buffer for children at greatest risk level including children. of being sucked into the “Cradle to Prison Pipeline.” Two hundred CDF Freedom Schools participants, Beat the

6 | Children’s Defense Fund Odds scholarship recipients, Katrina youths and young Continuing to Build a Movement to Truly people from other CDF youth leadership development Leave No Child Behind networks gathered in July 2006 and 2007 for five days at For 34 years, grounded in and guided by the Civil CDF Haley Farm with faith leaders to foster intergen- Rights Movement, CDF has been planting and erational communication and action and hope. nurturing seeds for the next urgently needed trans- America’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Crisis forming movement to build a nation and world safe and fit for every child. If the child is safe, everyone is A Black boy born in 2001 has a 1 in 3 chance of safe. Empowering women and young people is essential going to prison in his lifetime; a Latino boy has a 1 in to achieving justice for poor women and children at 6 chance. A CDF Summit about this profound and home and globally. Eleanor Roosevelt believed that invisible American child tragedy will take place at only powerful women would protect powerless women Howard University on September 25–26, 2007, and and that a woman’s will is the strongest thing in the culminate in a Congressional Black Caucus Town Hall world. The inextricably linked fate of women and chil- meeting on the morning of September 27, 2007. dren has led us to take steps to forge a new, unified, Solutions and best practices developed during 2006 independent and nimble global and national women’s will be highlighted as we try to inform and mobilize voice for powerless women and children across race, key leaders across every sector to name, understand income, faith and age. The Southern Rural Black and address a growing catastrophe that will turn back Women’s Initiative, led by CDF Southern Regional the clock of racial and social progress. Office Director Oleta Fitzgerald and other women vet- Over the next five years, CDF will seek to partner erans of the Civil Rights Movement, seeks to empower with and connect others working on pieces of the women to assert their human rights in 77 rural Delta Pipeline into a more united whole. Our goals are to counties in the South. The Global Women’s Action reweave the torn fabric of family and community, Network for Children (GWANC), which CDF coor- rekindle the strong Black tradition of self help, re- dinates, seeks to make far more visible the morally instill an ethic of personal responsibility and achieve- obscene and human scandal of 14.4 million maternal, ment in all our children, provide children with posi- infant and young child deaths each year in our world, tive mentors and alternatives to the streets, disseminate most of which are preventable. If we can move our and assist in scaling up best practices and build a own powerful nation to protect its powerless children strong and effective intergenerational voice for policies and mothers, it will give impetus to greater U.S. moral that ensure all children a healthy, fair, safe and moral and social leadership for all the world’s children—who start in life and successful transition to adulthood. A also are our children. CDF report about the Cradle to Prison Pipeline crisis All of us at CDF thank all of you whose support will be published in September 2007, including case enables us to provide a strong, independent, proactive studies in Ohio and Mississippi written by Pulitzer and persistent advocacy voice for voiceless children. Prize-winning reporter Julia Cass. Alleviating Child and Family Poverty In faith and hope, Poverty and race are the two primary driving forces behind the Pipeline. CDF seeks to end child poverty in the richest nation on earth by 2015. One piece of the strategy we have implemented for the last few years towards this goal is comprehensive tax and benefits outreach. In 2006, we helped poor working Marian Wright Edelman families recoup almost $170 million in refunds through our direct Volunteer Income Tax Assistance sites and by collaborating with and training others.

2006 Annual Report | 7 2006 Each Day in America...

5 1 Children or teens commit suicide. Mother dies in childbirth. 2 Children under age 5 die in homicides.

Moments in the Lives of Children in America

Every second a public school student is suspended. 11 seconds a high school student drops out. 2,411 15 seconds a public school student is corporally punished. Babies are born into 20 seconds a child is arrested. poverty. 36 seconds a baby is born into poverty. 47 seconds a baby is born with no health insurance. minute a baby is born to a teen mother. 2 minutes a baby is born at low birthweight. 4 minutes a child is arrested for drug abuse. 8 minutes a child is arrested for a violent crime. 19 minutes a baby dies before its first birthday. 3 hours a child or teen is killed by a firearm. 4 hours a child or teen commits suicide. 6 hours a child is killed by abuse or neglect. 18 hours a mother dies in childbirth. 8 Children or teens are 8 | Children’s Defense Fund killed by firearms. 1,879 Children are born with 1,153 no health insurance. Babies are born to 77 teen mothers. Babies die before their first birthday.

4 Children are killed by abuse or neglect. 4,302 2,261 Children are arrested. High school students drop out.

2006 Annual Report | 9

2006 Key CDF Achievements

CDF’s mission identifies five major program ship and raise awareness about the problem, with the objectives that, when met, ensure all children a level goal of spurring state and national policymakers to playing field. CDF’s Leave No Child Behind® mission take action to improve child health coverage generally, is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head and specifically in the context of the 2007 State Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) reau- life and successful passage to adulthood with the help thorization. of caring families and communities. CDF achieves Major CDF Child Health Initiatives these objectives by building a national conscience and movement for children, using and sharing a range of All Healthy Children Campaign advocacy tools, including public awareness and educa- To prepare for the All Healthy Children Campaign, tion, leadership and community development, and staff analyzed data, evaluated research, contracted with research and policy analysis. The authenticity and external experts and used this information to develop effectiveness of CDF’s efforts rest on the persistent, child health principles, messages and policies that will strategic integration of information and action at the continue to be useful in 2007 and beyond. CDF staff: local, state and federal levels on behalf of children. Created accurate portraits of need using national While these objectives and advocacy tools remain statistics. CDF’s research team analyzed the most constant over the years, CDF shifts its focus as new recent U.S. Census Current Population Survey data challenges or opportunities arise. to describe who the uninsured children are by race, ethnicity, family income, age, family structure, A Healthy Start parental work and citizenship, and developed esti- mates of uninsured children in each state using three The Problem years of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. There are nearly nine million uninsured children in America. Compiled detailed information about current child enrollment and eligibility under Medicaid Every 47 seconds, another baby is born and SCHIP, including implications of the data for uninsured in America. the child health coverage debate. These included, but were not limited to, current enrollment figures, Almost 90 percent of uninsured children live in spending per child, spending on children compared a working household. to adults in Medicaid and other cost-related analyses. Uninsured children are at risk of living sicker and Researched and published two reports, both dying sooner than their insured counterparts. Not relevant to understanding the current state of child only is this situation unnecessary and cruel to children health coverage and where specifically improvements and their families, but it is a penny-wise and pound- are necessary and possible: foolish policy for our nation not to provide compre- hensive health services to children. • Outreach Strategies for Medicaid and SCHIP: An Overview of Effective Strategies and Activities In 2006, CDF made an organization-wide com- was written at the request of the Kaiser Family mitment to build a national campaign in support of Foundation for the national “Cover the Unin- comprehensive health and mental health coverage for sured Week.” This report was disseminated via all children in America. With the generous support of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s website at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Atlantic www.kff.org. Philanthropies, among others, CDF was able to research and develop a logical, achievable child-appro- • Improving Children’s Health: Understanding Children’s priate policy solution to the plight of uninsured and Health Disparities and Promising Approaches to underinsured children. CDF also began building a Address Them was supported by the Aetna strong policy and grassroots network to provide leader- Foundation. Copies were printed for use at a

2006 Annual Report | 11 conference convened by CDF in Washington, D.C., where leaders in the field discussed health CDF-Hart Associates polls and surveys found: disparities and next steps. The report remains • 78% of those polled think it is “very or extremely available online at www.childrensdefense.org important” for government to focus on ensuring under Latest Reports. insurance coverage for children’s health needs. • 75% said that, compared to other problems the Generated focus groups and polling to under- country faces, lack of health coverage for all children stand Americans’ attitudes toward child health was “a very serious problem” or a “crisis.” coverage. Working closely with Peter D. Hart • 88% said all children in public health programs Research Associates, one of the leading survey should have access to the same health services, research firms in the United States, CDF convened no matter where they live. focus groups across the United States to get the pub- • 73% believe uninsured children should have com- lic’s reaction to the issue of uninsured children. prehensive benefits, including preventive visits, Supplementing these focus groups, Hart Research immunizations, emergency care, mental, dental surveyed 1,014 registered voters to find out more and vision coverage and care for disabilities. about Americans’ attitudes about children’s health • 70% think the federal government is doing too lit- care and lack of coverage. The data collected helped tle to help children who have no health insurance. CDF craft a child health coverage proposal and • 83% said that providing health care to all children campaign. was “The right thing to do,” “The smart thing to do” and “The fair thing to do.” They added that Defined critical principles for child health cove- the most important reason for doing this was rage based on the CDF mission, research findings because “Children cannot take care of themselves, and it is especially important they get regular and focus group/polling data. medical care to grow up healthy.” Created cost, benefits and coverage estimates. Using the most recent data available, CDF worked with the Lewin Group to build and adjust various closely with the Fallon Worldwide advertising agency models of health coverage for children. This process (with whom we have collaborated successfully for helped our All Healthy Children campaign to design over 20 years on such campaigns as teen pregnancy, a rational policy solution that could have an imme- gun violence, and federal budget cuts that hurt chil- diate effect on reducing the number of uninsured dren) to develop the concepts, images and messages and underinsured children. to be used in a multimedia child health campaign. The result was the “Elect Susie” campaign, giving a Developed a legislative proposal—the All Healthy child “candidate” the chance to deliver a clear and Children Act—to provide comprehensive, cost- nonpartisan message to advocate for improvements effective health coverage for more than nine mil- lion uninsured children, pregnant women and to children’s health care, which the majority of former foster youth for introduction in the U.S. Americans want elected officials to enact. Senate and House of Representatives. Strengthened CDF alliances, inside and outside the Compiled research documenting the effective- Beltway, in the consultation process to develop the ness of health coverage for pregnant women All Healthy Children Act proposal and the resulting and children in the womb, during childhood and child health coverage campaign. throughout life for use in the All Healthy Children Established new and strengthened existing rela- Campaign. tionships with elected officials and their staff to Developed a national public education/advertis- educate them about the importance of child health ing campaign on child health. Using the results of coverage, CDF’s child health coverage principles and CDF’s national research and the qualitative evidence the All Healthy Children Act. gathered through our state offices, CDF worked

12 | Children’s Defense Fund Took action to strengthen, improve, and expand national solution to these problems and against the State Children’s Health Insurance Program additional program attacks, particularly in the context (SCHIP), which is up for reauthorization in 2007. of the upcoming SCHIP reauthorization debate. CDF worked hard for SCHIP’s original enactment This work is an integral part of defining the real in 1997 to expand eligibility for health care services need for comprehensive federal child health legisla- for children in low- and moderate-income families. tion that will eliminate the lottery of geography that Between SCHIP and children’s Medicaid, more than currently characterizes the child health coverage 30 million children now have health coverage. Yet “safety net” in the United States. nationwide, almost nine million children remain uninsured—approximately six million of whom are Continued ongoing CDF efforts to preserve and already eligible for coverage under Medicaid or protect existing health coverage for children. SCHIP. CDF staff, national and state, worked Over the past few years, both Medicaid and SCHIP steadily throughout 2006 to increase the number of have come under attack at various times at both the eligible children enrolled in Medicaid and SCHIP state and federal levels. CDF state and national staff with a number of different strategies, including have been vigilant in raising the alarm and in fighting defining problems in program structure and imple- back against proposed cuts and policy changes that mentation, identifying best practices to be replicated make it more difficult for uninsured children to get in other areas of the country, and advocating for a coverage and for insured children to access services.

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2006 Annual Report | 13 Renaissance Village trailer park, 10 miles outside of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is where 1,670 people displaced by Hurricane Katrina live; more than 700 of them are children. The trailer park has no playground, library or after-school programs.

Special Help for Katrina’s Children CDF revisited these questions and communities later in 2006. New evidence uncovered in CDF interviews Throughout 2006 CDF continued to pay particu- with teachers, health and social service professionals, lar attention to the health needs of especially vulnerable pastors and parents found that the slow recovery in groups of children, including those surviving disasters Katrina-devastated areas’ basic infrastructure—educa- such as Hurricane Katrina. After the winds of tion, housing, transportation and health systems—was Hurricane Katrina ceased and the extent of human continuing to have a profound negative impact on devastation became apparent, CDF asked: Given the children’s physical health, mental health, ability to tragedies experienced by Gulf Coast families, were develop social relationships, and access to the very there special impacts on the children who survived? health care needed to help them. What are the policy implications for the future? In early 2006, CDF published Katrina’s Children: A Call to CDF’s follow-up report, Katrina’s Children: Still Conscience and Action, which laid out in graphic terms Waiting (compiled and written in 2006 for publication the extent of the problems facing children immediately in early 2007), lays out the specific impacts on after the storm. children suffering trauma from disasters like Katrina and

14 | Children’s Defense Fund urges our country not to ignore how fragile their psyches children whose school life has been interrupted or and bodies are when dealing with these disasters. compromised by crises of poverty, disaster and low self-esteem;

A Head Start Beginning each program day with a self- and com- munity-affirming celebration; The Problem Feeding children on a healthy and consistent basis; For the past six decades, researchers have docu- mented how crucial the earliest years of life are to chil- Providing children with the consistency of a pre- dren’s future success. The nation’s Head Start program dictable daily schedule; was launched in 1965 based on this bedrock of Surrounding children with a well-staffed and caring research. It provides early childhood education for group of young adults focused on meeting the needs poor children, integrating nutrition, health care, phys- of the children; ical coordination and activities, emotional and social Training young adults to be lifelong servant-leaders development, and the involvement of parents to learn in their communities; and how to help their children develop readiness to succeed in school. It also encourages volunteers and parents to Investing parents in the CDF Freedom Schools program work in the program, motivating them to get further to enrich their children’s lives. education themselves and to see helping children as a worthy professional career. This was CDF’s national Growth of CDF Freedom Schools Sites model of how a publicly supported program, with community leaders, faith organizations, parents and Year 2005 2006 Increase professionals working together, can offset the risks and # of Sites 76 102 34% fortify the fragile realities poor children face. # of Children 5,684 7,696 35% CDF also fully understands the need for consis- # of Interns 648 829 28% tent, quality education throughout a child’s life, # of Cities 42 49 17% including the need for a child to grow and learn during # of States (and D.C.) 22 24 9% the summer months and after the traditional school # of Sponsor Org. 49 68 39% day ends. CDF continues its work today to support # of New Sponsors 16 36 125% programs and policies that will ensure every child a Head Start in life. The CDF Freedom Schools national office conducted Major CDF Early Childhood Initiatives an evaluation of the Louisiana Emergency CDF CDF Freedom Schools® Program Freedom Schools sites during the summer of 2006. Operating 15 emergency programs in the wake of the Created in 1995, the CDF Freedom Schools model devastation left by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita intensified incorporates the totality of CDF’s Leave No Child the challenges faced by staff and sponsor partners to Behind® mission by fostering summer and after- ensure high quality programming. Our evaluations school environments that support children and young indicated that even when implemented in a trauma- adults and encourage them to excel and believe in stricken community, participation in the CDF their ability to make a difference in themselves and in Freedom Schools program transforms everyone involved their homes, schools, communities, nation and world. and produces positive changes. The research suggests In 2006 the CDF Freedom Schools program continued that a majority of children regarded as “unreachable” to work with 68 sponsor partners to meet the needs of or “unteachable,” with difficult attitudes and low self- children and families by: esteem, made great improvements after participation Maintaining an academically and culturally enrich- in CDF Freedom Schools programs. Over 80 percent of ing experience for young people, and especially for the children reported having a “good time” and three-

2006 Annual Report | 15 quarters felt “like something good is going to happen,” Many organizations and individuals across the despite great loss and trauma. Seventy percent of the country generously supported the growth of CDF children reported they were “just as good as other chil- Freedom Schools sites in 2006, in particular, the Ewing dren,” an increase of 13 percent. Marion Kauffman Foundation for programs in Missouri and Kansas, and the Rockefeller and Ford Philliber Research Associates of New York released Foundations for the new work conducted in Louisiana its second-year results of a three-year comprehensive and Mississippi. evaluation of the CDF Freedom Schools program oper- ating in Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, CDF’s Supporting Partnerships to Assure Kansas. One of the most exciting findings in the Ready Kids (SPARK®) 2006 Philliber evaluation is the positive gain that chil- dren make in reading, resulting directly from partici- This key CDF program, supported by the W.K. pation in the CDF Freedom Schools program. This is Kellogg Foundation, brings together parents, schools, the second year that such gains have been demonstrat- child care and early education providers, local child ed by children enrolled in CDF Freedom Schools pro- advocacy groups, Head Start providers, state and local grams. Reading gains among children were greatest government agencies and private businesses to ensure among some of the hardest-to-serve groups. Middle school readiness and academic success. Last year, 2006, school students gained more than younger students, marked the fourth year of this program’s impact on and scholars from low-income families gained more 800 children in five school districts in Mississippi, than those who were more affluent. coordinated by CDF’s Southern Regional Office.

CDF Freedom Schools® students learn how to access a world of information through the use of computers at a CDF Freedom Schools site in Mississippi, opened after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

16 | Children’s Defense Fund The CDF SPARK program organized “parent resource fairs” emphasizing the importance of reading to children early and often, and alerting parents to the academic and developmental skills this promotes in children. Fairs also focused on transitioning to Head Start from day care and to elementary school from Head Start; how to register children in available pro- grams; and the importance of and where to get immu- nizations—all done in a one-stop-shop for parents. CDF SPARK also held a “Day at the Capitol” to train parents about the legislative process and how to contact and work with state legislators to increase state funding for more high quality early childhood educa- tion. The CDF SPARK model itself has become a “best practice,” which CDF staff presented during 2006 at various conferences and to Mississippi’s educa- tion committee. The CDF Emerging Leaders® Project CDF Freedom Schools student gets help from a college student Servant-Leader Intern. Since 1999 this CDF program has brought together each year child care and early education pro- fessionals and advocates to provide training, resources, education. CDF-Texas with TECEC generated wide- networking and technical assistance to increase their spread participation in a 2006 national satellite broadcast leadership capacities and their effectiveness to advocate called Pre-K Now, hosted by ABC News and featuring for improved child care and early childhood education. governors from states across the U.S. Efforts were so effective that participation by CDF-Texas’ 37 commu- In 2006, with significant support from the Annie nities accounted for over 30 percent of the broadcast E. Casey Foundation, CDF held the Eighth Annual participation nationwide. CDF Emerging Leaders Fall Institute at CDF Haley Farm with 39 new fellows, selected from 21 states A Fair Start through a highly competitive application process. This year’s Institute featured a dynamic session entitled, The Problem “Leaders as Change Agents: Supporting and Developing Effective Leaders,” to help these trusted professionals Poverty has an enormous impact on every aspect take on expanded leadership roles in their communities. of a child’s survival, health, safety, and capacity to An interactive email listserv created in 2006 now pro- learn and to grow. Yet in the United States in 2006: vides ongoing communication about new research and One child was born into poverty every information, legislative updates and alerts, best prac- 35 seconds. tices and idea exchanges to keep the 258 CDF Emerging Leaders alumni closely knit. In total, almost 13 million children were living in poverty. Promote increased availability of high quality early childhood education programs Over 70 percent of poor children lived in families with at least one working parent. Led by CDF-Texas and its Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition (TECEC), a study was released in Low wages, high costs of housing, insurance and 2006 done jointly with the Bush School of Government transportation, illness, accidents and other factors at Texas A & M University, showing detailed findings contributed to parents’ continuing struggle to of the short- and long-term benefits of early childhood provide basic necessities for their children.

2006 Annual Report | 17 The federal government recognized that just as CDF also provided financial literacy information important as incentives for parents to work, many and advice to EITC families so they could use their working families needed additional income to supple- refunds wisely. A refund check is welcome, but it is ment their wages to take care of their children ade- often not enough to help families understand how to quately. Since 1975, the IRS has used the Earned use their assets to climb out of poverty. CDF repeatedly Income Tax Credit (EITC) for this purpose. The pro- found that poor families do not have bank checking or gram has received wide bipartisan support and lifts savings accounts, have poor or no credit, and often pay four million people—roughly half of them children— high interest fees to get paychecks cashed or refunds out of poverty each year. Despite these benefits, many expedited. With information and assistance, they can eligible families are not taking full advantage of the learn to better use their EITC refund and employ EITC program, in large part due to poor outreach simple financial budgeting and money management efforts. If all qualifying families with children in our techniques to leverage their earnings and refunds. With nation got the cash benefits and food assistance for support from the Freddie Mac Foundation, the which they are eligible, child poverty would be Prudential Foundation and JPMorgan Chase, CDF reduced by 20 percent and the number of families living developed materials and programs to deliver such in extreme poverty would be reduced by 70 percent. financial literacy skills. The results of our efforts—and the excellent partnerships we forged and sustained— Major CDF Initiatives to Lift Children paid off for working poor families. Out of Poverty CDF’s Tax and Benefits Outreach Initiative CDF State and Partner VITA Sites This national effort, now in its third year, has Results in 2006 for Tax Year 2005 helped increase the number of eligible families request- ing the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the Child # # Refunds VITA Returns to Tax Credit and related benefits to ensure children and CDF Office Sites Filed Families working families receive the tax, income, health insur- ance and other benefits for which they are eligible. California 134 22,515 $17,168,300 CDF’s program works with and through a range of Minnesota 32 17,457 22,727,336 existing federal, state and local offices, faith- and com- New York 37 57,152 97,043,725 munity-based organizations and local businesses when- ever possible. Key components to increase families’ Ohio 39 4,770 1,144,062 participation include: South Carolina 4 128 123,591 Southern Regional 45 5,283 18,191,061 I Educate the public about the benefits available to them through a comprehensive media strategy, Tennessee n/a n/a 211,987 direct notices, and work with many faith and com- Texas 33 6,350 7,799,843 munity partners. Washington, D.C. 20 3,991 4,863,403

I Educate employers and help them assist their workers Total 344 117,647 $169,274,308 to apply for these benefits.

I Promote and multiply the number of free tax prepa- ration sites across the country, including Volunteer In addition to these achievements, through our Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites. work with VITA sites, CDF helped families save approximately $11.6 million in tax preparation fees I Build the capacity of free tax preparation sites to and an additional $4 million in fees associated with link families to other local, state and federal benefits Refund Anticipation Loans. and programs for which children are eligible.

18 | Children’s Defense Fund Toddler Marianne Esparza from Houston, Texas

In America in 2006, millions of children experi- A Safe Start enced one or many of these family risks: The Problem 28,105 babies died before their first birthday.

Children are born totally vulnerable. Without 420,845 babies were born to teen mothers. food, care, communication and loving support, they die, fail to thrive or do not develop physically, mentally 883,647 children were victims of abuse or emotionally to their full potential. What then hap- or neglect. pens to a baby born to a poor mother? A teen mother? At least 1.5 million children had a parent in A mother addicted to drugs or alcohol who gets no jail or prison. help? Into a family where there is physical abuse? Or into a family that is homeless? Into a family living in a Nearly 1 million children were in families who neighborhood where crime and violence, gunshots and were homeless. drug deals are commonplace? Or into a family that 2,920 children were victims of gunfire struggles or falls apart because a parent dies, is in prison homicides; 1,825 committed suicide. or suffers from a serious illness?

2006 Annual Report | 19 406,980 high school students dropped out. to children living in foster care with non-relatives, children living with relatives experience greater sta- More than 2 million children lived with bility and connection to siblings and cultural heritage relatives with no parent present. while in care. CDF policy experts worked to build: CDF continued its efforts to promote safe and • The Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program permanent families and nurturing communities for (KinGAP) to allow states to use federal funds to children by looking closely at the details of “best prac- subsidize relatives caring for children in foster tices,” how programs are funded and administered at care who have or want legal guardianship of them the federal, state and local levels, publicizing findings and who commit to caring for them permanently. for the public, professionals and policymakers and advocating needed improvements in how systems can • A national network of Kinship Navigator improve outcomes for children. Programs to help grandparents and other relative caregivers “navigate” the various local, state and Major CDF Child Welfare Initiatives federal systems and services, linking them to support CDF held the second annual Cradle to Prison groups, respite care programs and special services Pipeline® Institute at CDF Haley Farm with 36 key for children whose parents are incarcerated. leaders from the fields of child health and mental • Notice to relatives when children enter foster health. CDF provided data on the components and care so that relatives can intervene early to provide a risk factors leading children and youth into the home or other important family support for the Pipeline, and led discussions of specific interven- child. tions, system changes, data, and best practices from these fields to keep children from falling into the • Separate appropriate licensing standards for Pipeline. Through the Cradle to Prison Pipeline ini- relatives and non-relatives providing homes tiative, CDF briefed specific organizations about the for foster children. disproportionate effects of Pipeline risk indicators Highlighted lessons learned and recommenda- on their constituents. During 2006 at meetings held tions for strengthening federal policy to promote at Haley Farm, CDF staff met with Black and permanent families for children included in a Latino community leaders to address the racial dis- CDF report produced with Casey Family Services parities of children caught in the Pipeline—and entitled, Making Permanence a Reality for Children remedies their organizations could help advocate. and Youth in Foster Care. These disparities are striking: a Black boy born in Highlighted facts about the status of children in 2001 has a 1 in 3 chance of ending up in prison in the child welfare system, including federal funding his lifetime. For a Latino boy, the chance is 1 in 6. levels for key programs, relevant pending federal leg- Worked to prevent families from losing their islation, and national and state initiatives designed children to the child welfare system by increasing to promote improvements in child welfare. CDF’s treatment resources for parents with substance Child Welfare Fact Sheets, prepared jointly with the abuse problems. Up to 80 percent of the children Center for Law and Social Policy, are posted on entering foster care are from families with substance CDF’s website. abuse problems. In 2006, CDF national policy staff convened a group of organizations to promote Convened with Children’s Rights a federal Child workable options for Congressional staff as they Welfare Workforce Policy Group to develop considered funding prevention and treatment for federal policy recommendations for improving the child welfare workforce, which identified parental substance abuse through the Promoting essential components of a quality child welfare Safe and Stable Families Program. workforce and federal policy options to promote Expanded permanency options for children being specific improvements for staff working with children. raised by their relatives as guardians. Compared

20 | Children’s Defense Fund Opposed efforts at the national level to make Delinquency Prevention Act. The Coalition held structural changes or cut funding and supports for briefings in both the U.S. Senate and House of vulnerable children, including those living with Representatives to highlight the importance of fund- grandparents, and opposed new tax breaks that ing for prevention and treatment of youth who are would erode federal revenues available for these vital at risk of entering or are already in the juvenile justice services. system. Published CDF’s annual report on gun violence and children. Protect Children, Not Guns analyzed A Moral Start the most recent data from the U.S. Centers for The Problem Disease Control and Prevention on firearm deaths and injuries of children and teens nationally and in We believe faith allies can help inspire millions of each state. The report also highlighted program children and youth to regain their innate hope and to models and opportunities for families and local inspire their creativity, compassion and strength to communities across the country to help stop the overcome life’s obstacles and experience the joy and violence. meaningfulness of service and sharing. Sacred texts, teachings and traditions of every religion call for pro- Exposed mistreatment of children in the juvenile tecting and nurturing children. This same moral justice system. CDF-California worked closely with imperative underlies CDF’s work. It informs CDF’s national staff to organize a “CDF Child Watch” in strategies to work in partnership with the religious Eastland Juvenile Correction Center in Los Angeles community, forging alliances that embrace service to where reports of dire conditions for youth confined and advocacy on behalf of children as a holy charge there were brought to the media’s and policymakers’ and calling. CDF works with our faith allies to com- attention. municate to our leaders that the real strength of our Co-chaired the Juvenile Justice Coalition, which nation is the vitality, preparation, education and cre- worked to maintain and increase funding ativity of its children. for juvenile justice programs and support the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and

CDF Haley Farm is the Children’s Defense Fund’s home for spiritual renewal and leadership development.

2006 Annual Report | 21 Major CDF Faith Community Initiatives Advocacy Ministry at CDF Haley Farm. He was a remarkable servant of God, whose credo for his work CDF Haley Farm: CDF’s Center for Spiritual with CDF was: and Moral Renewal Those of us who have inherited benefits we did In 1994, CDF purchased Haley Farm in Clinton, not earn or deserve must help those who have Tennessee, from the estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning inherited deficits they did not earn or deserve to author Alex Haley. It is CDF’s center for spiritual help them learn and earn what we take for renewal, character and leadership development, inter- granted. generational mentoring, interracial and interfaith dialog about children’s issues, interdisciplinary com- In 2006, the 12th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor munication and a safe haven in which to brainstorm Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry entitled, and refine ideas to reach the goal of leaving no child “Congregations Stand for Healthy Children: Bringing behind. Since 1994, thousands of leaders of all races Hope and Healing,” gathered over 375 participants for and ages have come to CDF Haley Farm for seminars four days of learning, preaching, praying, networking, and retreats, study and training. CDF added the and sharing stories, best practices, skills, facts and keys Langston Hughes Library in 1999 and the Riggio-Lynch to ongoing local, state and federal advocacy efforts on Chapel in 2004, both designed by award-winning behalf of children. The seriousness of the topics and architect Maya Lin. wealth of information were leavened by the laughter of children and youth enrolled at the CDF Freedom National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths® Schools program held on site; the choir and hymns Celebrations punctuating the days; times dedicated to meditation CDF’s Children’s Sabbaths celebrations are orga- and reflection; and the perspectives of young leaders nized each year during the third weekend of October to present at the Institute. encourage prayer, education and service to help children. An advisory board of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Successful Passage to Adulthood Buddhist, Bahá’í and other faith leaders guide the events. In 2006: CDF is deeply committed to building capacity in Congregations across America held special worship leaders at all levels to make courageous, difficult and services, education programs and other activities to visionary decisions that invest in children and help help people of faith learn more about problems them in a successful passage to adulthood. For almost facing children and poor families. Over 15,000 copies 35 years, CDF has worked to plant the seeds to create of CDF’s National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths a successor generation of servant-leaders to reweave the Manual were used by faith communities to guide these fabric of community for children and youths. By lead- services. ers, we mean those inside and outside of government— Reflecting the priority work in child health, CDF’s women, faith leaders, youth and minorities among so National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths Manual many others. Good leaders can make a huge difference included special fact sheets and multimedia in how laws and programs are implemented. They are also resources to help faith leaders educate their congre- the driving force behind community and national gations and lead interfaith dialogues about the facts, transformation, inspiring and making systemic changes human effects and policy solutions to improve child for long-term improvements for all children. health care. For Youth Leaders and Leaders-in-Training Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child CDF Freedom Schools® Training for Advocacy Ministry Servant-Leaders The Reverend Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor was the The CDF Freedom Schools model inspires college first pastor-in-residence at CDF’s Institute for Child students, parents and adult site coordinators to deliver

22 | Children’s Defense Fund services to children and help them learn to love reading. CDF’s Beat the Odds® Scholarship Program In the process, the importance of servant leadership is The CDF Beat the Odds program identifies, rewards, emphasized, and college students take these skills back and trains young people who have experienced great to their communities. Students’ choices for higher adversity to become strong future adult leaders. education and subsequent career and civic leadership Started in 1990, it affirms the success of young people goals also are affected. who have overcome tremendous obstacles in their In 2006, CDF trained 829 Servant-Leader Interns lives, demonstrated academic excellence and given and served 7,696 children at 102 sites in 49 cities in back to their communities. 23 states and the District of Columbia during the Renee Zellweger, George Stephanopoulos and Ali summer. Additionally in 2006, CDF: Wentworth hosted the Washington, D.C., Beat the Trained and employed in Mississippi 86 college-age Odds Awards Dinner where the 2006 winners each Servant-Leader Interns (and other adults to serve as received $10,000 in college scholarships, laptop site coordinators) to provide 26 weeks of emergency computers and $500 in gifts. The Freddie Mac after-school enrichment to 600 children at program Foundation was the prime sponsor of this 2006 event. sites in Jackson, Columbia, Metcalfe and Cleveland, Four CDF state offices (California, Minnesota, New Mississippi. York and Texas) held their own Beat the Odds com- Established 15 program sites in New Orleans and petitions, awards ceremonies and ongoing training Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which served more than events. Support was also expanded for many of the 1,000 child survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. scholarship recipients by providing a mental health counselor, a job coach and internship opportunities. Trained and employed Servant-Leader Interns and a site coordinator to operate summer and after-school Many of the 600 Beat the Odds alumni participate in programming for 50 children at the CDF storefront ongoing child advocacy, community development located in New Orleans. and related policy and research work. In 2006, more

CDF’s Washington, D.C., Beat the Odds® Awards Dinner, held in November 2006, was hosted by Renee Zellweger, George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth.

2006 Annual Report | 23 than 50 Beat the Odds scholarship winners partici- CDF Scholastic Fellows Program pated with other youth leaders in various states in Last year the successful collaboration continued CDF’s Young Adult Leadership Training program, between CDF and Scholastic, Inc., one of the nation’s specifically focusing on effective advocacy, as well as largest and most respected publishers of educational in national and community-based programs such as materials for children and youth. Begun at CDF’s the CDF Freedom Schools program and local poverty, impetus in 2002 to create more culturally relevant tax benefits, health care and other program initia- materials for minority children, the program reaches tives. out to college students of diverse backgrounds to CDF Young Adult Leadership Training (YALTSM) develop their interest in publishing careers, hoping to gain fresh perspectives from their insights. In 2006, YALT attracts 200 young adults to participate in a five fellows received rigorous training in business lead- week-long training to learn about critical issues for ership skills and worked alongside Scholastic execu- children in their community, develop leadership skills tives in multiple aspects of the publishing industry. to organize and advocate for positive change, and to network with other young leaders from across the CDF Internship Program country. YALT participants then implement action plans developed at the conference in their own local The CDF Internship Program gives approximately 70 communities. Started in 2005, YALT continues to be a top college students each year the opportunity to work focal point in CDF’s effort to identify and train the in CDF’s national, state and regional offices. Interns next generation of child advocates. are placed throughout different departments under the supervision of top policy, research and program special- CDF Student Health Outreach (CDF SHOUT®) ists and participate in a range of experiences including Program official briefings, guest speakers, specific skill or The CDF SHOUT program began in New York knowledge training and networking with other national, City with graduate and undergraduate students from state and local organizations. Columbia University and now has colleges and univer- For Women Leaders sities in several states steering students to be trained to deliver community service in areas such as the impact Global Women’s Action Network for Children of insurance and health care on children and families, (GWANC) local and national statistics, health coverage programs CDF convened, under the patronage of Her available for eligible families (especially SCHIP) and Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, the sec- skills in how to reach out to and help families complete ond international summit to launch the action agenda SCHIP applications. for the Global Women’s Action Network for Children. CDF Student Poverty Reduction Outreach This is CDF’s first international initiative designed to (CDF SPROUT®]) Program create a new generation of women leaders to catalyze moral and political will and to draw international, The CDF SPROUT program provides students regional and national attention to the preventable with training and specific projects to find, explain and deaths of more than 14 million mothers, infants and help all eligible families receive the public benefits that children each year and to some 55 million school-age can lift children out of poverty, including EITC, girls presently out of school globally. GWANC is com- SCHIP, Medicaid, Child Tax Credits and Food Stamps, mitted to connecting existing organizations and other among others. The CDF SPROUT p]rogram is networks to work together to improve maternal, infant implemented with National Student Partnerships, the and child survival rates and overall health status and to nation’s only student-driven volunteer service organi- enhance educational opportunities for girls. zation that links individuals in need with critical per- sonal, social and business resources to help them obtain The 2006 Summit in Jordan was co-convened by and maintain regular employment. CDF President Marian Wright Edelman; former U.S.

24 | Children’s Defense Fund Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; former President of Ireland and U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson; Mahnaz Afkhami, President of the Women’s Learning Partnership; and Melanne Verveer, Chair of Vital Voices, and carried out under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan. The Conference brought together more than 200 women leaders from 38 countries spanning diverse faiths, generations and disciplines including two Nobel Laureates, a former President, six First Ladies, numerous Ministers and senior government officials, corporate leaders, and heads of international and national agencies and civil society organizations. As agreed by the Conference participants, the first steps of a GWANC action plan commenced in 2006. These steps include:

Launch of a GWANC website to serve as a knowl- edge sharing tool for the network supporters (www.childrensdefense.org/gwanc).

Design and implementation of a global advocacy campaign to raise public awareness of maternal, infant and child mortality rates and increase demand for and supply of resources at the local, national and international levels needed to accel- erate reductions in these rates. Led by GWANC and with technical assistance from Advocacy Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan at the International in the United Kingdom, work pro- second international summit of the Global Women’s gressed during 2006 to design the strategy of the Action Network for Children. campaign and its branding materials.

Create the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Scholarship Mary Grant, Samuel Rubin, National Network of Program, in honor of Liberia’s President, to train Sector Partners, The Sister Fund and MS Foundation. 50 promising young women at U.S. colleges who Its programs target low-income women in 77 counties will return qualified to assume a leading role in comprising the Black Belt of Alabama, southwest the reconstruction and economic and social Georgia and the Mississippi Delta, training them in development of Liberia. GWANC designed a human rights, culture and policy initiatives. Major ini- Scholarship Concept Note and started negotiations tiatives included the following: with the Government of Liberia to train young Liberian women in the subject areas that are of par- SRBWI held trainings during 2006 at Tuskegee ticular importance to the public sector of this country. University in Alabama for 200 women, bringing the total trained to more than 1,000 women. Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for SRBWI now tracks these women’s leadership roles in Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI) their own communities, with many demonstrating SRBWI, having completed its third year, began with their capacity to create and pursue solutions to a planning grant from the Ford Foundation, under poverty and injustice, increasingly exert control over CDF’s direction, and has been sustained by grants their lives and participate in economic development from Ford, Kellogg, Marguerite Casey, Charles and and child advocacy activities.

2006 Annual Report | 25 In July 2006, SRBWI held the second Unita Black- Objective 2: Increase the number of eligible poor well Young Women’s Leadership Institute, a lead- working families receiving tax credits and related ership training program specifically aimed at the benefits. region’s young women to build awareness of the sig- Congresswoman Diane Watson formally recog- nificant social and human rights movement that took nized CDF-California for its tax and benefits work, place in the South and what is needed to be done to which included county-shared analysis of 1,000 surveys achieve economic justice for women today. Eighty- from families using Volunteer Income Tax Assistance five young women participated in the program. (VITA) sites to pinpoint needed improvements. The Since 1973, local and state organizing and advocacy IRS reported that the work of CDF-California and our have played a crucial role in CDF’s strategies and results. fellow members of the Greater Los Angeles EITC CDF’s initial Jackson, Mississippi, office influenced the Campaign Partnership resulted in an increase of priorities and remedies sought by CDF Washington, 227,178 (26.4 percent) EITC claimants in 2006, receiv- D.C., staff and piloted or evaluated the impact of ing refunds totaling $1.6 billion. CDF-California- nationally inspired programs or legislation and reported created policy was also reflected in Speaker Fabian results that were heard nationwide. The Mississippi Nunez’s state legislation requiring paid tax preparers to office grew to cover Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia alert taxpayers in writing of fees and loans with high and Louisiana, becoming CDF’s Southern Regional interest rates. Office (SRO). Objective 3: Expand youth leadership develop- ment and mobilization. CDF continually expanded its state and regional organizing efforts for children: Ohio in 1982; Minnesota CDF-California doubled the number of its CDF and Texas in 1984; New York in 1992; California in SHOUT volunteers, with 65 pre-med college students 1998; and due to the special efforts needed after enrolling children in low or no-cost health insurance Hurricane Katrina, SRO’s Louisiana office was strength- and providing information on other public benefits ened in 2005. at free tax sites, shelters, and CDF SHOUT health fairs with support from Union Bank, the Endeavor Foundation, the California Endowment and the Kayne State and Regional Organizing Foundation. CDF-California also initiated quarterly and Advocacy Young Adult Leadership Trainings (YALTSM) for 100 youth advocates that included self-advocacy, life and Major CDF State and Regional financial skills, and community organizing. Achievements CDF-Louisiana CDF-California Objective 1: Respond to the many families and children in New Orleans and other Gulf Coast Objective 1: Increase the number of children communities dealing with crises as a result of with health coverage so they get the care they Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. need to grow healthy and strong. This included addressing needs of children whose Partnering with the 100% Campaign, CDF- parents and/or siblings were scattered to other states or California continued to steadily reduce the number of localities during evacuation; the homeless who were uninsured children in California by improving Medi- moved to transitional trailers; children needing to be Cal and the Healthy Families programs through enrolled in new schools; electricity, health care, food, Senate Bill 437 and the 2006–2007 Budget Act, and counseling and services for many post-traumatic resulting in an estimated 97,000 more children who challenges. It was important to inspire hope that these will receive comprehensive health, mental health, den- children’s lives could be healed, their families reunited, tal and vision coverage. their classes continued, their medicines provided, their safety assured and their futures possible.

26 | Children’s Defense Fund Objective 2: Be a trusted voice for children Objective 3: Work toward providing all children throughout the post-Katrina period. with access to quality health and child care. Among many other things, CDF-Louisiana orga- In 2006, approximately 68,000 of Minnesota’s nized and hosted ten Katrina Child WatchSM visits, children did not have health coverage and, overall, had including the “Prominent Women” visit on May 8, some of the highest racial disparities of health coverage 2006, with CDF Board Members Carol Biondi, Ruth- in the country. Additionally, 10,000 fewer children Ann Huvane, Katie McGrath and Reese Witherspoon, received child care assistance due to past cuts to the as well as other prominent women, including Karen programs. Continuing its efforts around health care Binswanger, Malak Compton-Rock, Jennifer Garner, and child care policies, CDF-Minnesota supported the Felicia Henderson, Jane Kaczmarek, Charmaine Children’s Health Security Act, legislation that would Neville, Deborah Newmyer, CCH Pounder, Cicely ensure all Minnesota children access to affordable, Tyson and Ali Wentworth, to raise awareness of the comprehensive health care coverage. Through grass- actual conditions and multiple challenges children continue to experience post-Katrina. To reach the American public with the plight of these children, CDF-Louisiana hosted visits from representatives from the FDIC, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, BET and CBS’ “60 Minutes.” CDF-Minnesota Objective 1: Reduce childhood poverty through out- reach for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and other benefits for eligible families. In addition to helping families receive more than $22.7 million in tax credits and refunds, CDF- Minnesota trained 100 volunteers for the 2006 tax season, and a total of 4,300 families and individuals were screened through Minnesota’s tax and benefits website to help them access public work support pro- grams including health insurance, food supports, child care assistance and energy assistance. Objective 2: Inform the public about the state of Minnesota’s children. CDF-Minnesota educated the public through its website, publication of its bi-monthly newsletter (14,000 circulation), e-mail communications to 2,500 child advocates, and with regular media alerts, press events, and editorials; by hosting statewide KIDS COUNT coffees to review local data on trends in child well-being; holding community forums through- out the state on child care funding and children’s Actress and CDF Board Member Reese Witherspoon health coverage; and organizing media events to publi- and actress Jennifer Garner were among several cize research findings, which generated significant TV, prominent women who took part in a CDF-sponsored radio, and print coverage statewide. Katrina Child WatchSM visit to New Orleans.

2006 Annual Report | 27 As part of CDF-Minnesota’s health care coverage outreach, new families in the Minneapolis school district are enrolled in health care programs like SCHIP and Medicaid. roots organizing and direct advocacy, CDF-Minnesota’s children, a number made even more serious because it efforts significantly increased awareness among state represented a 17 percent increase over the number of legislators about barriers to children’s health coverage, 2005 uninsured children—the first increase in uninsured resulting in 40 legislative co-authors for the Children’s children in New York in nearly a decade. CDF-New Health Security Act. CDF-Minnesota also advocated York developed a comprehensive proposal to provide with partners to re-establish funding levels to child health insurance coverage to every needy child in New care, increasing child care funding by $52 million over York State by (1) expanding eligibility levels to 400 three years. percent of the federal poverty level and (2) streamlin- ing enrollment practices to reach the 70 percent of CDF-New York uninsured children who were currently eligible but not Objective 1: Expand public health insurance enrolled. In 2007, newly elected Governor Eliot programs for children to provide every child in Spitzer made good on his campaign pledge and made New York accessible and affordable health health insurance coverage for all children in New York insurance coverage. a reality by adopting CDF’s legislative proposal in his CDF-New York launched “Closing the Gap,” a budget. new campaign to reach the state’s 400,000 uninsured

28 | Children’s Defense Fund Objective 2: Promote access and enrollment in Wallace College in Cleveland to teach college students public health programs. how to become advocates for change in their respective CDF-New York continued to lead its successful communities. Students received college credit for par- Child Health Now! Coalition, now in its seventh year, ticipating in the program. Additional Ohio universities with over 100 member organizations. This coalition such as Myers, Cleveland State Community College and promotes access and enrollment into public health Case Western Reserve University now use this curricu- insurance programs by sharing public policy updates lum to train a new generation of child advocates. and coordinating advocacy activities. The Coalition Objective 3: Reduce child poverty by informing also includes the Facilitated Enrollment Lead Agency and assisting taxpayers in applying for credits and Workgroup, which monitors public health insurance other assistance for which they are eligible. enrollment, retention and program utilization, and CDF-Ohio, with a new coalition of over 64 orga- works with policymakers at the local and state level to nizations, worked throughout the state raising awareness devise solutions to the issues identified. of the EITC and Child Tax Credits, free tax preparation Objective 3: Reduce child hunger. and asset-building resources, which resulted in a total of $7.8 million being returned to working families CDF-New York’s Child Nutrition Initiative expanded either through tax refunds or savings from tax prepara- participation and improved implementation of the tion and avoiding Refund Anticipation Loans. School Breakfast and Summer Meals Programs and WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for CDF-Southern Regional Office (SRO) serving Women, Infants and Children). Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi CDF-Ohio Objective 1: Increase the number of children with Objective 1: Reduce poverty in families with children. health coverage. In addition to the Southern Rural Black Women’s Completing the fourth year of an initiative funded Initiative discussed on page 25, CDF-SRO focused by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called intensive EITC publicity and outreach in the three “Covering Kids and Families,” CDF-Ohio held a SRBWI states to increase the numbers of working poor statewide conference with more than 120 child health families who apply for and receive EITC and other advocates and stakeholders to address next steps to benefits for which they and their children are eligible. increase health coverage for children; distributed over CDF-SRO efforts assisted 50 free EITC volunteer centers 4,000 bilingual “Medical Health Cards” to Latino to help these families, resulting in nearly $9 million in immigrants and agencies to address the growing prob- refunds and shared information on savings and check- lem of language barriers between patients and medical ing accounts, as well as financial literacy training. service providers; and released over 250 copies of Objective 2: Improve early childhood and public Promising Practices, a book of key activities and initia- education opportunities. tives to enroll eligible children and families in Healthy Start Healthy Families (Ohio’s SCHIP program), as Along with CDF’s Supporting Partnerships to ® well as over 200 copies of the Employer Tool-Kit: Healthy Assure Ready Kids (SPARK ) program, the Mississippi Start Healthy Families, a collection of best practices for Adequate Education Program (MAEP) was SRO’s employers to use in educating and enrolling employees major 2006 policy initiative, advocating successfully in Ohio’s Medicaid and SCHIP programs. for Mississippi to adopt a formula to ensure every school district has adequate resources to educate all Objective 2: Highlight the problems and the students—especially poor and at-risk students—from leadership potential of Ohio’s youth. kindergarten through 12th grade, regardless of the wealth CDF-Ohio developed a new “Youth in the of their community. Working vigorously with partners Movement” program in partnership with Baldwin throughout the state, CDF-SRO was successful in get-

2006 Annual Report | 29 ting the Mississippi legislature to approve full funding of eligible SCHIP children. The state ultimately for MAEP, which will begin in the 2007 school year. reduced the privatization contract and reinstated more Objective 3: Enroll more eligible children in SCHIP than 900 state employees to process eligible Texas chil- and Medicaid. dren; and, with help from the RGK Foundation, the Houston Endowment and the Simmons Foundation, Through CDF’s All Healthy Children Campaign, reached out to school districts and nursing staff to help which began in September 2006, CDF-SRO helped thousands of children get health coverage. re-enroll 3,000 children cut from Medicaid and SCHIP because of a state policy change requiring face- Objective 2: Reduce child poverty. to-face re-certification. CDF-SRO received hundreds In the last five years, CDF-Texas’ office in the Rio of calls from families, ran radio and newspaper ads to Grande Valley has become the premier child advocacy help them find solutions and continued to work with organization, directly affecting the lives of more than families dropped from Medicaid and SCHIP to get 150,000 children, generating $1.5 million in federal them re-enrolled and call public attention to the need tax refunds, including EITC and other IRS refunds for for health coverage for all children without cumber- low-income working families (and securing $1.7 million some restrictions. in grants from the RGK, Trull, Michael and Susan CDF-Texas Dell and Marguerite Casey Foundations for continuing program implementation). Objective 1: Improve coverage, eligibility and enrollment of children in Texas’ State Children’s Objective 3: Aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Health Insurance Program. CDF-Texas, along with the Houston Food Bank, Because Texas has the highest rate of uninsured children New Home Ministries and Hope for Families CDC, in the nation (20.2 percent—1.4 million children), distributed over six tons of food to more than 21 CDF-Texas’ priority in 2006 was to raise public apartment complexes housing Katrina/Rita evacuee awareness about the needs of these children, get them families; conducted financial literacy seminars in enrolled in Medicaid or SCHIP and pressure lawmakers English and Spanish to families affected by Katrina; to enact laws to provide health coverage for these children. and assisted in planning and recruiting families to CDF-Texas analyzed data and interviewed families and participate in the Gulf Coast Discussion of the providers across the state in preparation for its publica- Unified New Orleans Plan for Redevelopment in city- tion, In Harm’s Way: True Stories of Texas Uninsured wide conferences held in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Children, published in early 2007; exposed the failings Atlanta, Dallas and Houston. of a massive SCHIP privatization initiative that lead to hundreds of errors, resulting in wrongful termination

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USC SHOUT organized a Los Angeles community health fair to assist in enrolling uninsured children in low- or no-cost health insurance programs.

2006 Annual Report | 31

2006 CDF Financial Overview

CDF exists to provide a voice for all children in America who cannot speak, vote or lobby on behalf of their needs. CDF, the nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization, uses public support for nonpartisan analyses of data, policies and programs affecting children and disseminating results and recommendations to the public. The CDF Action Council, a 501(c)4 organization, shares the same mission and was formed to conduct additional lobbying activities and grassroots mobilizations advocating legislation to meet the needs of children. The work of these two organizations is managed by a common staff. Funds for both are summarized together below to show their allocations across program and administrative activities. CDF has never sought or accepted government money. This policy ensures that CDF remains totally independent and free to monitor, analyze and report on all aspects of laws, policy and program effects on children. The pie charts below illustrate CDF’s sources of revenue and its allocation of expenses. They are based on financial information reported in greater detail on the following pages for the year ending December 31, 2006. This financial overview is a summary only of the CDF and CDF Action Council consolidated financial position as of December 31, 2006. The complete audited financial statements can be viewed on CDF’s website.

Revenue Expenses

CDF Haley Farm (5%) Administrative (9%)

Endowment interest Gains on and dividends (4%) investment Fundraising (9%) (18%) Other (1%) A Healthy Start (3%) CDF Haley Farm fees (1%) State & regional Foundations and organizing & CDF Freedom Schools (5%) corporations advocacy (50%) (49%) A Head Start (9%) Special events (6%)

Sales of publications Individuals A Fair Start (1%) and merchandise (1%) (13%) A Safe Start (3%) Organizations and A Moral Start (2%) groups (1%) Successful passage to adulthood (10%)

2006 Annual Report | 33 2006 CDF and CDF Action Council

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position

December 31, 2006 (With Summarized Financial 2006 2005 Information as of December 31, 2005) Operating Endowment Total Total

Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 665,685 - $ 665,685 $ 1,104,242 Investments 86,153 31,801,725 31,887,878 30,109,508 Pledges receivable, net 9,260,645 - 9,260,645 12,120,695 Property and equipment, net 13,606,189 - 13,606,189 14,040,617 Other assets 994,629 399 995,028 823,114

Total assets $ 24,613,301 $ 31,802,124 $ 56,415,425 $ 58,198,176

Liabilities and Net Assets

Liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 1,358,717 - $ 1,358,717 $ 1,124,138 Bonds payable 6,995,000 - 6,995,000 7,260,000

Total liabilities 8,353,717 - 8,353,717 8,384,138

Net assets Unrestricted Children’s Defense Fund 1,855,919 21,380,595 23,236,514 23,807,928 Children’s Defense Fund Action Council 82,720 - 82,720 77,125

Total unrestricted 1,938,639 21,380,595 23,319,234 23,885,053

Temporarily restricted 14,320,945 3,314,929 17,635,874 18,822,385 Permanently restricted - 7,106,600 7,106,600 7,106,600

Total net assets 16,259,584 31,802,124 48,061,708 49,814,038

Total liabilities and net assets $ 24,613,301 $ 31,802,124 $ 56,415,425 $58,198,176

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Consolidated Statement of Activities and Changes in Net Assets

Year Ended December 31, 2006 (With Summarized Financial Information Temporarily Permanently 2006 2005 for the Year Ended December 31, 2005) Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Total

Revenue, gains and other support Contributions and donations Foundations and corporations $ 689,174 $ 9,991,092 - $ 10,680,266 $ 12,080,462 Individuals 2,706,146 183,500 - 2,889,646 2,700,891 Organizations and groups 286,476 - - 286,476 264,191 Other Sales of publications and merchandise 162,637 - - 162,637 122,011 Special events 1,259,368 - - 1,259,368 1,019,117 Training fees 1,109,658 - - 1,109,658 772,790 Haley Farm Fees 128,922 - - 128,922 75,777 Miscellaneous 278,854 - - 278,854 230,768 Investment income Endowment Interest and dividends 515,729 248,657 - 764,386 625,524 Realized and unrealized gains, net of manager fees 2,689,743 1,296,856 - 3,986,599 2,094,599 Operating 57,940 - - 57,940 24,284 Net assets released from restrictions 12,906,613 (12,906,616) - - - Total revenue 22,791,263 (1,186,511) - 21,604,752 20,010,414

Expenses Program services Leadership development and state and community capacity building 1,818,260 - - 1,818,260 1,856,753 Policy and program development and implementation 7,762,461 - - 7,762,461 7,779,980 Public education, media campaigns, Internet outreach and publications 1,299,909 - - 1,299,909 1,325,357 Black Community Crusade for Children 8,319,786 - - 8,319,786 5,100,473 Total program services 19,200,416 --19,200,416 16,062,563

Supporting services General and administrative 2,162,424 - - 2,162,424 2,218,552 Fundraising 1,994,242 - - 1,994,242 972,573 Total supporting services 4,156,666 --4,156,666 3,191,125 Total expenses 23,357,082 --23,357,082 19,253,688 Change in net assets (565,819) (1,186,511) - (1,752,330) 756,726 Beginning net assets 23,885,053 18,822,385 7,106,600 49,814,038 49,057,312 Ending net assets $23,319,234 $17,635,874 $7,106,600 $48,061,708 $49,814,038

2006 Annual Report | 35 2006 Financial Report Summary of

Basis of Consolidation Investment earnings, including net gains or losses, are accounted for in the applicable net assets classifica- The consolidated financial statements include the tion based upon any donor-imposed restrictions. accounts of the Children’s Defense Fund and the Children’s Defense Fund Action Council (collectively Property, Plant and Equipment referred to as CDF). Because the organizations are under Property, equipment and intangible assets are stated common management, they have been consolidated as at cost and are depreciated using the straight-line required under accounting principles generally accepted method over the estimated useful lives of the assets as in the United States of America. All intercompany follows: accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Buildings 30 years Building improvements 5 to 30 years Basis of Accounting Furniture, equipment and software 2 to 10 years The consolidated financial statements have been Expenditures for major repairs and improvements prepared on the accrual basis of accounting, which is are capitalized. Upon the retirement or disposal of an in accordance with accounting principles generally asset, the cost and accumulated depreciation are elimi- accepted in the United States of America. nated from the respective accounts and the resulting Cash and Cash Equivalents gain or loss is included in revenue or expenses.

CDF considers demand deposits, money market Intangible Assets funds and commercial paper with original maturities The Children’s Defense Fund capitalizes expenses of three months or less as cash and cash equivalents. related to trademarks. These expenses are amortized Uninvested cash held in certain endowment investment over a period of ten years. Intangible assets are included accounts are considered investments as such amounts with “Other Assets” on the Statement of Financial are not to be used for general operating purposes. CDF Position. maintains a legal right of offset with certain financial institutions, allowing any potential overdrafts to be Net Assets offset with funds from other accounts held at the same institution. Unrestricted net assets represent resources that are not restricted, either temporarily or permanently, by Investments donor-imposed stipulations. They are available for support of all organizational operations and services. Investments are comprised of common and pre- ferred stock, money market funds, fixed income funds, Temporarily restricted net assets represent gifts real estate, and equity shares of limited partnerships. and other assets whose use is limited by donor-imposed Common and preferred stocks, money market funds, stipulations. These restrictions are temporary in that real estate, and fixed income funds are carried at fair they either expire by the passage of time or by the ful- value based on quoted market prices. Investments in fillment of certain actions of CDF pursuant to those limited partnerships are carried at the value determined stipulations. by applying the value of a partnership unit to the number of partnership units held. The value of a partnership Permanently restricted net assets represent gifts of unit is determined by the general partner based upon cash and other assets that are received with donor stip- the fair market value of the partnership’s capital. ulations requiring that the original gift amount be held in perpetuity and only the earnings be used for the purposes designated by the donor, if any.

36 | Children’s Defense Fund Significant Accounting Policies

Endowment Fund Program Services Definitions

CDF has established an endowment fund to “Leadership Development and State and Com- account for gifts that are required by donors to be held munity Capacity Building” expenses relate to child advo- in perpetuity and to account for internally designated cacy services to children and public education, technical endowment funds. The gifts, grants, contributions and assistance and information on children’s needs, and investment income of the endowment fund are recorded solutions to religious congregations, local leaders, service as either unrestricted, temporarily restricted or perma- providers, child advocates and others. nently restricted revenue and support, depending on “Policy and Program Development and Imple- the restrictions imposed by the donors, if any. All inter- mentation” expenses represent costs associated with nally designated endowment funds and related income the collection and analysis of data and analysis of are classified as unrestricted. The endowment fund is man- problems of children, private and governmental health, aged according to the guidelines and policies estab- family income, teen pregnancy prevention, child care, lished by CDF’s investment committee and approved child protection and violence prevention. by the Board of Directors. Revenue Recognition “Public Education, Media Campaigns, Internet Outreach and Publications” expenses are related to Contributions, including unconditional promises external communications and publications. to give, are recognized when received. All contributions “Black Community Crusade for Children® are considered to be available for unrestricted use unless (BCCC)” expenses represent those that seek to weave specifically restricted by the donor. Contributions that and reweave the rich fabric of community that histori- are restricted by the donor for a specific time or purpose cally has been the cornerstone of the healthy develop- are reported as temporarily or permanently restricted ment of Black children; tap into and strengthen the contributions based on the nature of the restriction. strong Black community tradition of self-help; rebuild When a donor restriction expires, that is, when a stipu- the bridges between generations and between the lated time restriction ends or purpose of the restriction Black middle class and poor; assist and galvanize current is accomplished, temporarily restricted net assets are Black leadership around specific goals for ALL children; reclassified to unrestricted net assets and are reported in and identify, train, nurture, link and empower a new the consolidated statement of activities as net assets generation of effective Black servant-leaders younger released from restrictions. Conditional promises to give than 30. are not included as support until the conditions are substantially met. Use of Estimates

Allocation of Functional Expenses The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles The costs of providing the various programs and generally accepted in the United States of America other activities have been summarized in the accompa- requires management to make estimates and assump- nying Consolidated Statement of Activities. Costs that tions that affect certain reported amounts and disclo- cannot be specifically identified with a particular function sures. Accordingly, actual results may differ from and that benefit more than one functional category are those estimates. allocated based on either the portion of time expended by the staff on the various functions, the square footage of space assigned to each division or the average number of people in the division.

2006 Annual Report | 37 2006 Donors

Foundations Fannie Mae Foundation Robert and Shirley Harris David & Margaret Engel Family Bill and Melinda Gates Family Foundation Foundation $1,000,000 and above Foundation The Hauptman Family The Ford Foundation Matching The Ford Foundation* Charles M. and Mary D. Grant Philanthropies Gift Program W.K. Kellogg Foundation* Foundation* Jack and Jill of America The David Geffen Foundation The Prudential Cares Disaster Foundation, Inc. The Gravestar Foundation $500,000–$999,999 Relief Fund Larson Charitable Foundation The Have Mercy Ministry Fund Marguerite Casey Foundation The Norman and Rosita The Mead Foundation John Hirschi Donor Advised The Robert Wood Johnson Winston Foundation, Inc. Metlife Foundation Fund/Wichita Falls Area Foundation* The Shifting Foundation Community Foundation Ewing Marion Kauffman $10,000–$24,999 Samuel and Helene Soref Houston Jewish Community Foundation* Hugh J. Andersen Foundation Foundation Foundation The Steven and Deborah Black Union Bank of California The Samuel and LaTanya R. $100,000–$499,999 Foundation Foundation Jackson Foundation Otto Bremer Foundation* Friedman Family Foundation, Inc. The Joseph Charitable Trust The California Endowment* Friedman Foundation $2,500–$4,999 Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund The Annie E. Casey General Mills Foundation Elmer L. & Eleanor J. Andersen The Lautenberg Foundation Foundation* Richard and Rhoda Goldman Foundation Andrea and Steven E. Levy The Cleveland Foundation Fund The Susan A. and Donald P. Foundation The Faro Foundation Hess Foundation, Inc. Babson Charitable The LJCPJE Foundation Freddie Mac Foundation* The Kevin Huvane Trust Foundation The Milken Family Foundation The Houston Endowment, Inc. Kansas Health Foundation The Charles E. and Edna T. Monterey Fund, Inc. The McKnight Foundation* The Leibowitz and Greenway Brundage Foundation Nour Foundation, Inc. The Prudential Foundation Family Charitable Nancy M. Daly Foundation Pfizer Foundation Matching RGK Foundation* Foundation Faith Partnerships, Inc. Disaster Gifts Program The Rockefeller Foundation Mardag Foundation Relief Fund Piersol Foundation, Inc. United States Fund for Mazon: A Jewish Response to Samuel & Grace Gorlitz Sylvia Ritzenberg Charitable UNICEF Hunger Foundation Trust Mechia Foundation William Caspar Graustein Scurlock Foundation $50,000–$99,999 The Barry and Wendy Meyer Memorial Fund Sky Trust Altman Foundation Charitable Foundation I Do Foundation The Anning and Doris Smith Booth Ferris Foundation The Powell Foundation* The Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation The Dr. Phil Foundation The Grace Jones Richardson Family Foundation The Bella Spewack Article Health Foundation of Greater Trust The Lanier Operation 5th Trust Cincinnati* Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Foundation The Ruth and Oliver Stanton Ronald McDonald Charities Charitable Foundation The Riordan Foundation Foundation House The Else Sackler Foundation Philip W. Riskin Charitable Cathrine S. Steck Foundation The Meadows Foundation Schott Foundation Foundation The Leonard Street and Deinard Milagro Foundation The Sheltering Arms The Judy & Michael Steinhardt Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation Foundation* Foundation Barbra Streisand Foundation, Inc. MS Foundation for Women, Inc. The Sirus Fund Suchanyc Charitable The New York Community United Hospital Fund* $1,000–$2,499 Foundation Trust* WCA Foundation Adams Cowan Foundation Susman Family Foundation Wasserman Foundation The Attias Family Foundation The John and Marilyn Wells $5,000–$9,999 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Family Foundation $25,000–$49,999 Amerigroup Charitable Minnesota Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Annenberg Foundation Foundation The Braeside Foundation Foundation Biel Fund of Goldman Sachs The Bench Trail Fund The Eli & Edythe L. Broad Carol and Tom Wheeler Philanthropy Fund Cardinal Health, Inc. Foundation Foundation The Brown Foundation* Catawamteak Fund of DC California Community Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Carnegie Corporation of Cincinnati Bar Foundation Foundation Foundation New York Connemara Fund Comer Family Foundation, Inc. World Bank Community Filomen M. D’Agostino The Danem Foundation Horace Dawson Foundation Connections Fund Foundation Edward & Verna Gerbic Family Directions for Rural Action Fund Foundation Joe Elman Memorial Fund

*includes payments on multi-year pledges

38 | Children’s Defense Fund $500–$999 Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Essence Communications, Inc. $10,000–$24,999 CDF Foundation, Golden Regenstreif, LLP Faegre & Benson LLP Health Partners/Regions Valley, Minnesota Management 360 Fairbank & Vincent Hospital Central Minnesota Jack and Pauline Freeman Nordstrom Southwest Peter Farrelly Management Group Health Foundation Paramount Pictures Google Matching Gifts Program Chums, Inc., National GE Foundation Thomson West IBC International Bank of Education Association Greater Houston Community William Morris Agency Commerce Second Baptist Church of Foundation Wireless Generation, Inc. Nickens Keeton Lawless Farrell Los Angeles Centennial Fund A. and C. Horn Trust Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, & Flack LLP Solutions for Progress* The Jaffe Family Foundation Fischer & Gilbert Personal Resources Investment UCare Minnesota S. Kann Sons Company & Strategic Management, Inc. United Federation of Teachers Foundation $5,000–$9,999 Pipeline Supply, Inc. Westminster Presbyterian Church Joe Levit Family Foundation A. Finkl & Sons Co. Prudential Financial AP Windsor Village United Minikes Charitable Foundation Black Entertainment Television Regency Enterprises Methodist Church The Saint Paul Foundation Cardinal Health, Inc. Sony Pictures Entertainment The Samuels Foundation Conde Nast Publications Swidler Berlin Shereff $5,000–$9,999 Edmund and Mary Shea Family Fallon Worldwide Friedman, LLP Accountability Minnesota Foundation Home Box Office, Inc. University Bank American Federation of Teachers The Sierra Fund IBM Corporation Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Center on Budget and Policy Stainman Family Foundation, Inc. IBM Employee Giving Program Priorities* The Summer Fund Marathon Oil Company $500–$999 Council for Professional Thunen Family Foundation Maxxam, Inc. Thomas and Claire Calloway Recognition Unity through Sharing Fund of NASCAR Associates Crispus Attucks Community the Jewish Community Nordstrom The Crisis Publishing Center Foundation Oceaneering International, Inc. Company, Inc. Hunger Solutions Minnesota Abe and Rae Weingarten Fund Shell Oil Company Dynamic Worldwide Morino Institute Wertheimer Foundation Tiffany & Co. Development NAACP-Legislative Black Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. From You Flowers, LLC Caucus Katrina Relief Fund Corporations Universal City Studios, Inc. Fun & Sports National Network of Sector Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Grancell, Lebovitz, Stander, Partners* $50,000–$99,999 The Whittier Trust Company Barnes and Reubens Women’s Division of the Time Warner, Inc. The Grapevine Agency, LLC United Methodist Church $2,500–$4,999 Kinder Transport Association, Inc. $25,000–$49,999 Ayrshire Corporation Landry Restaurant $2,500–$4,999 Citigroup Business Services Beck, Redden and Secrest Los Angeles Dodgers 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Dell USA, LP Blue Cross of California National Rice Company Workers East Discovery Communications* CenterPoint Energy Production Solutions, Inc. CD Tech Community Endeavor Agency, LLC Charity Folks, Inc. Rocket Ball, Ltd. Development Technologies In Style Magazine The CW, Washington TV Ventana Productions, Inc. Center JPMorgan Chase* Every Picture Tells a Story, Inc. Wells Fargo & Company First Congregational Church Twentieth Century Fox Fiesta Mart Wilson Financial Group, Inc. Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance Flying Colors USA, LLC MissionFish $10,000–$24,999 Marcum Entertainment Organizations National Urban League, Inc. Advance Magazine Group Scholastic, Inc. Rutgers Presbyterian Church American Program Bureau, Triten Corporation $100,000 and above St. George’s University Inc./University of Richmond Pre-K Now, A Project of The Texas Children’s Health Plan Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. $1,000–$2,499 Institute for Educational Working Assets Youth Focus Coca Cola Company, The AT&T Workplace Campaign Leadership Fund Creative Artists Agency CBIZ, Inc. Delta Dental Plan of Minnesota Center for Urban Ministry, Inc. $25,000–$49,999 $1,000–$2,499 Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. Convio, Inc. Center for Public Policy American Baptist Churches of Fifth Third Bank Covington & Burling LLP Priorities Metropolitan New York GMMB, Inc.* Covington Associates, LLC Center for the Study of Cathedral International Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Crown Iron Works Company Social Policy The Children’s Courtyard, Inc. Hoberman, Newman, Doyle Printing & Offset Clothes Off Our Back Church of Christ, Mount Warren & Richman, LLP Company, Inc. United Way of New York City Washington, Mass. EMA Events by Maya & Allyson Diocese of Galveston-Houston

*includes payments on multi-year pledges 2006 Annual Report | 39 Educational First Steps The Episcopal Church of the $10,000–$24,999 Michael and Beth Klein Family Service Association of Holy Spirit Anonymous Andrew Kurth San Antonio, Inc Epworth United Methodist Anonymous Damon and Heidi Lindelof Greater Houston Convention & Church Ms. Yvette L. Bowser Carla Lynton Visitors Bureau Fifth Episcopal District’s Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. David and Jean Maxwell Greater Twin Cities United Way Women’s Missionary Society Chenault Philip D. and Tammy Murphy Hesed Social Action Club First Congregational Church Malaak Compton-Rock Bobby and Deborah Newmyer Brooklyn Chapter, Jack and Jill Hampshire College Sondra Eddings Thomas M. Racciatti of America Charity Heritage Universalist Unitarian E. Marianne Gabel and Donald Kenneth Olin and Patricia Wettig Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Church Lateiner Haim and Cheryl Saban Southeastern Region Iowa Conference United William R. Guthy and Victoria Roger and Victoria Sant Jackson 2000 Methodist Women Jackson Robert and Anne Simonds Martin Luther King New York City Transit Laurette Herman J. Michael and Patricia Solar Observance Committee of Authority Juanita Vanoy Jordan Michael Stern and Lisa Kudrow Morristown, N.J. Norris Religious Fellowship Jane Kaczmarek and Bradley Constance Swain Minneapolis Department of Northern California Nevada Whitford Elizabeth Vargas Health & Family Support Conference United Church Peter and Judy Kovler Alex L. Wallau National Association of School of Christ Rob and Beth Letterman Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wilson Nurses, Inc. Ohio School Boards Association Tonya Lewis Lee Drs. Myra and Burton Wise National Grand Chapter, O.E.S. Our Lady of the Elms Alberta and Katharine Merck Selim Zilkha and Mary Haley Neighborhood Centers, Inc. Elementary School Jonathan and Rica Orszag Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Play for Your Cause Abe and Irene Pollin $2,500–$4,999 Louisville, Ky. Point Dume Marine Science Erica and Antonio Reid Madeleine Albright Public Allies, Inc. School Latanya Richardson Jackson Anonymous Redemption Christian Center, Rio Grande Conference/The Holly Robinson-Peete Anonymous Hammond, Louisiana United Methodist Church Regina Rogers Richard H. Ault Riverdale Country School, Inc. Schreiber Memorial United Deleon Sheffield Jon R. Baitz The Riverside Church in the Methodist Church Mr. and Mrs. Emmitt J. Smith III James A. Bazelon City of New York SEIU Carol Sutton Lewis Caitlin Blue and Eric Waterman St. Michael Catholic Community Sisters of the Holy Cross Robert F. and Ruth Ann Vagt David and Katherine Bradley The Saint Paul Area Council of Texas Children’s Hospital Denzel and Pauletta Judith M. Buechner Churches United Methodist Church in Washington Will and Kristina Catto Seed Public Charter School, The Wayne Tanya Young Williams Dr. Johnnetta Cole Shiloh Baptist Church United Way California Capital Bert and Jo Ann Eder Texas Elementary Principals and Region $5,000–$9,999 Leslie and Jane Gelb Supervisors Association Jules Bernstein and Linda Kent George and Nina Triangle Park Creative Individuals Lipsett Houghton United Way of Southeastern Reverend Kirbyjon and Suzette Winifred A. Green Pennsylvania $100,000 and above H. Caldwell Stephen Gunther Jeffrey Abrams and Kathleen Bill and Marjorie Coleman Ron S. Hartmann $500–$999 McGrath Egil and Sidney Croff Howard and Patricia Haworth Aberdeen Proving Ground Reese Witherspoon Mr. James Dimon Phyllis C. Johnson (APG) Gospel Congregation Peter and Marian Wright Ronya Kozmetsky Adobe Systems Incorporated $50,000–$99,999 Edelman Blair Kutrow Matching Gift Program Anonymous Mathea Falco and Peter Tarnoff Marta Jo Lawrence American Association of Retired Paul Tudor Jones Nancy Folger and Sidney Ruth Lord Persons (AARP) Deborah and Carlos Santana Werkman Ronal Lubis Angels Howl for Women’s Mr. and Mrs. Adam Forbes Dr. Cassandra McLaurin Rights and Creative Music $25,000–49,999 David Fury and Elin Hampton Charles E. Merrill, Jr. Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Lan Bentsen Erika J. Glazer Ronald and Kelly Meyer Adoration, Clyde, Mo. Frank and Carol Biondi David and Becky Hornbeck Martha P. Newell Bethesda United Methodist Richard and Laura Chasin Ruth-Ann Huvane Eileen Norton Church, Bethesda, Md. Leslie Cornfeld, Esq.* Ann K. Johnson Alberto and Ivanna Canaan Baptist Church Richard and Brittany Lovett Richard E. and Susan Jones Omeechevarria County of Santa Clara Malcolm and Lou Street Christopher Keyser and Susan Roberto Orci and Melissa Blake Combined Giving Campaign Ali Wentworth and George Sprung Lisa and John Pritzker Stephanopoulos Mr. and Mrs. Michael King Frank and Wendy Raines *includes payments on multi-year pledges

40 | Children’s Defense Fund Robin Reed Mr. and Mrs. James H. Carney II Geoffrey Garin Maree Larson Stewart and Lynda Resnick Mr. and Mrs. Mark Chayet Marjorie Garrard Romi and Tom Lassally Sharon and James D. Ruley Colburn T. and Dionette Elenore Garton Miriam W. and Robert Laughlin Gita and Ali Saberioon Cherney Marc P. and Tricia Geiger Gerard and Lilo Leeds Arnold and Louise Sagalyn Mary G. Clark and Craig R. Marian Gerecke Dr. LaSalle D. and Ruth Leffall Stuart Sender and Julie Schaffer Audrey D. Gerson James C. and Kate Lehrer Berger-Sender Joseph and Mary Clifford Michael and Jamie Giacchino Tom Lehrer Marc and Jeri Shapiro Dale M. Cochran David and Irma Goldknopf Carol Leifer Mace Siegel Maureen A. Cogan Mark Gordon Peter Y. Levin and Gia Russo Dr. and Mrs. Jud A. Staller John Cohn Nancy Goroff-Whitney Mr. and Mrs. Clay Levit Michael Stevens John W. Cork Lynn Greenberg and Michael Michael and Ronnie Levine Thomas and Sally Troyer Drs. Edward and Maggie Rothschild Mr. and Mrs. Charles Liebman Bryan and Elyse Weadock Cornwell Joseph and Marjorie Grinnell Blaine and Crystal Lourd Douglas and Judith Weinstock Reverend Dr. Janet Corpus Barbara Grodd Jeanne M. Luboja Deborah Wright Olive W. Covington Elizabeth Rice Grossman Merle and Ben Lustig Jean Wyman Michael and Patricia Curry Dr. Edith Grotberg Michael and Jamie Lynton Michael and Kathleen Curtin Helen Grove Jonathan and Nina Marks $1,000–$2,499 Bonnie and Houston Curtis Linda Hagan-Brandts Ori and Alyson Marmur Dr. Henry J. and Ruth Aaron Carlton and Christiane Cuse Thomas Hall Margaret Martin Gerald and Carol Abrams Carol L. Cushman Frederic and Robin Hassani Jeffrey Mason Ronald Abramson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Roger Hatch and Joyce Baugh Karl and Betsy Mathiasen Ware and Ellen Adams Cuthbertson Seymour and Elizabeth Hersh Seth Matlins and Eva Karelsen Amy Adelson and Dean Edwin and Jane Darling Robert and Constance Hickey Roz Mazer and David Valentine Linda S. Dauphin Jutta Hicks Holzworth Meredith and Jesse Alexander Katharine B. Davis Elizabeth B. Hirsch Reverend Patricia McClurg Roger C. Altman and Jurate Mark B. Dayton Rand and Judy Holston Mary McCormick Kazickas Denise M. DiPasquale Winifred M. Hoppert Ayse McCracken Dita Amory Nickson Dr. and Mrs. Richard Dorsay Bradley Hoyt Kathleen K. McKay Christopher Anderson Betsy Drake Rae N. Hunter Trina McNeely Anonymous Peggy Dulany Robert and Marjorie Imershein Charles and Beth Miller Anonymous Lynne DuVivier Mary D. Janney Reverend Robert and Barbara Anonymous Patricia A. Eagan Anne Hale Johnson Miller Robin Antin and Megan Zaitz Ezra Edelman William and Margaret Jones Michael Mills Nancy Atherton Cynthia Edwards Helen E. Jones-Kelley, Esq. William and Mary Sue Morrill Karl and Marsha Austen Thomas E. and Mary Vernon and Ann Jordan Michael Morris and Mary Clarence and Jacqueline Avant Ehrlichmann Claudia Kahn McCormack Linda B. Avila Nora Ephron and Nicholas Evan Kanon Carolyn G. Mugar Mr. and Mrs. Irving Azoff Pileggi Charles and Angeliki Keil Barbara Murphy Lotte Bailyn Quinn Ezralon Anne Keiser and Douglas Lapp Katharine D. Myers Spencer and Lara Baumgarten Dr. Heidi Feldman and James Laura Keller Reg and Becky Myers Robert Berens L. McClelland Robert and Nan Keohane Stephen and Louisa Mygatt Alan and Marilyn Bergman Philip Fier Jimmy Kimmer Lew and Amanda Nash Leslie S. and Ashish Bhutani Daniel and Tessa Fisher Ethan King and Celene Dr. and Mrs. George W. Diana J. Bingham David and Marianna Fisher Guzman Naumburg Patricia Blessing and Jeffrey Bell Dr. Franklin and Ellen Fisher Luce A. Klein Daniel and Brooke Neidich Beau Brammer Tim Flaherty and Sarah Kleppe Deborah Klein and Marcus Benjamin and Meta Neilson Douglas and Samara Braunstein Timothy and Mary Flaherty Mort William and Louisa Newlin John P. and Jean Brennan Virginia D. Fleming Jo Anna Korngute Hall James M. and Virginia W. Ronald R. Browder Charles and Lily C. Foster Nathan and Mary Lynn Kotz Newmyer Gretchen Buchenholz John T. Frankenheimer Tim Kreutzen Thomas Nides and Virginia Reverend Carl F. Buechner Mr. and Mrs. Peter Frankfurt Ronald Krietemeyer and Moseley William Buffett Beatrice Friedman Kathleen Ceronsky Seth Novatt and Priscilla Dr. JoAnne Burger and Meyer and Florence Frucher Alex Kurtzman and Samantha Natkins Professor Michael Caplan Margaret R. Fuller Counter Peter O’Malley Elizabeth S. Calfee Harvey and Alice Galper Helen Labdon Laura Owens and Jack Bender Christian Carino Victor Garber Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Lannin Annabell Page

*includes payments on multi-year pledges

2006 Annual Report | 41 Mary Parent and Javier Chapa Sid and Lorraine Sheinberg Reverends Philip and Betty Jean B. Bernei and Amelie Benjamin F. Payton Andrew and Dana Shore Young Burgunder Beverly Peters Barry Silverman Gaden Yves Bryan Burk Richard M. Peters, Jr., M.D. Daniel and Maxine Singer Brian E. Zable and Mary Joseph E. and Felicia Bute Kenneth and Simona Peterson Gabriella and Douglas Smith Olsovsky Brenda S. Butzel Dr. Deirdre Phillips Dr. Marilyn M. Smith Jeremiah Cameron Michael and Heather Pineault Saira Soto $500–$999 Colleen C. Camp Robert W. Pittman and James M. and Joyce Spain Dr. Rosalind and Robert Sarah Caplan Veronique Choa Pittman David and Aruna Spencer Abernathy Trisha Cardoso Mr. and Mrs. Marc Platt Donna J. Spindel John and Kathryn Adamiak Elizabeth Case Andrew and Leslie Price Traci St. Geme Alfred and Dorothee Aeppli Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wendy D. Puriefoy Lois F. Stark Joseph Albright and Marcia Chadwick Michael and Joyce Rappeport Joseph and Martha Steele Kunstel Stockard Channing Amelie Ratliff Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Steier Stanford and Joan Alexander Samuel and Beth Chapin Mary Ratcliff Jean Stein John D. Allen Craig Clark Lillian Redlich Marc and Eva Stern Lydia E. Andersen Robert L. Clark Kevin and Cristan C. Reilly Donald and Isabel Stewart Rosalyn Anderson Sarah Clark Tracy Reilly Gary Stewart Joseph Angier Robert and Marilyn Clements Josh and Pamela Reims Daniel and Lucy Stroock Mary B. Arnstein Mary Clifford Robert Reiner and Michele William and Villabeth Taylor Miriam Arond Nancy J. Cline Singer Reiner Peter and Laura Terpenning Ann M. Ashton Edmund and Violet Coffin Burton and Judy Resnick Oliver Thomas Robert and Wanda Auerbach Armand Cohen Caroline Rhea Bonnie E. Thomson and Anna R. Austin Mr. and Mrs. David Cohen Lois D. Rice Eugene Tillman Helen H. Bacon Karen D. Cohen Ron and Iva Rifkin Jeno Topping and Chris Moore Herbert Bain Shelley Cohen Barbara C. and Brian Robinson Zachary F. Treadwell and Mima and Warren Baird Edwin J. Cohn Senator and Mrs. John D. Langka Domberger Paul and LaVonne Batalden Henry Alfred Coleman, Ph.D. Rockefeller Dr. Richard and Gail Ullman Chapin Bates Denise Connolly Johnathan A. and Royal Russell Vandenbroucke and Weda W. Baughns Stephanie A. Connor Kennedy Rodgers Mary Dilg Martha E. Becker Warren and Clara Copeland Martin Rodgers Dr. Vasundara V. Varadan Dr. Rebecka and Arie Nina Corbett-Fields and Adam Richard and Ann Romer Judith and Milton Viorst Belldegrun Fields Tracy and Jono Rosen Daniel and Patricia Voydanoff Jim and Jenny Belushi William Corbin Lynn A. Rosenberg Jessica and Matt Wagner Abigail Benkeser Rufus Cormier, Jr., and Yvonne Michael and Shannon Sheila Walker Joan G. Berkley Cormier Rotenberg David and Mary Ann Barrows Mary Berwick David Cramer and Susan Dr. Linda Rothschild and Dr. Wark John and Marilyn Best Stodolsky Salah Baouendi Janet and Ricardo Weinstein Terry R. Black Stacy Cramer Mark Rosenthal and Lisa Janice R. Welsch Dr. Jeffrey and Julie K. Blake Ann Crittenden and Roumell Alan Wertheimer and Sharon Kathi Blatt Thonet John B. Henry Barbara N. Rubin Bernhardt-Wertheimer Gloria Bleil Areta and Clarence Crowell Miles and Nancy Rubin Brad Weston Karen Blumenthal Barbara Cuneo Thomas and Mary Rutledge Elizabeth Wexler Abib Bocresion and Phillipa Kelly Currie Elizabeth Schaaf Stephen H. and Elizabeth Rubins Linda Curtiss William Scheide Whisnant Jay and Ann Boekhoff Yvonne C. Cyphers Stanley and Kay Schlozman Mr. and Mrs. James F. George and Eleanor Bollag Arlene Daniels Daniel and Lee Schorr Whitaker Avis Boutell Manohla Dargis John and Toni M. Schulman J. McDonald and Ellen William and Dixie Bradley Arliss Davis Roger L. Selfe Williams Grace Brinker Joseph F. and Paula Dempsey Pankaj Shah Rhea Williams-Bishop Joseph B. Brinkmann Tom and Gun Denhart Dr. Donna E. Shalala Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wilson Drs. Donald and Judith Broder Jonathan and Marie Dixon Matthew F. Shannon and Dorothy B. Windhorst, M.D. Kevin and Catherine Broderick Nathaniel R. Dixon Lorelia Smith Laura Witherspoon John S. Brown, Jr. Annick M. Doeff Stephen Shapiro Stephen and Beth James Wolf Michael Brown Lynn B. Donaldson Stanley and Betty Sheinbaum Pandit Wright Andrew and Barbara Buckley Catherine J. Douglass

*includes payments on multi-year pledges

42 | Children’s Defense Fund Daniel and Toby Edelman Sarah P. Hendley Paul and Anne Koeppe Jeanne Matlock Kerry Edwards James Henle Stephen and Stephanie Koff Stuart F. McCalley, M.D. John Eisberg and Susan Kline Barbara Herjanic Lynn and Jay Kogen Bernice McCarthy Jeanne Eisenstadt Martha Hertzberg Edward G. Kohan Lisa and Brian McCarthy Carole S. Eisner Dr. Howard and Doris Hiatt Robert Konigsberg Palmer S. and Elizabeth McGee Mark Eisner, Jr. Robert W. Hickmott and Diane Florence Koplow Margaret McLellan Debra and Robert Ekman Dewhirst Arthur D. and Betty Kowaloff Abbie Melnick and Joel Lipsitch Scott D. Eller Dr. David and Marja Hilfiker Brian and Janet Kramer Dr. Regalena Melrose Hamilton and Lillian Emmons Deon Hilger Irwin S. and Dona Kruger Joseph S. Merola Bonnie S. Englebardt Elizabeth W. Hill Charles Kubal Caroline Ramsey Merriam Marc and Gayle Ezralow Sara Hinckley Victor S. La Cagnina Gertrude G. Michelson Bonita Farrall Kathryn S. Hirsch Todd and Dara La Porte Dr. Jeanne Middleton-Hairston Carol Faulb Carol and Max Hittle Peter Laarman Elizabeth H. Miller Natalie and John Fenn Mr. and Mrs. David Hoberman Christine Lahti and Thomas Sondra R. Miller-Shegog Michael J. Fijolek Joseph Hoffheimer Schlamme Christopher J. and Hilary Jeri and Joel Finard Lucienne Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Bruce P. Lanphear Misiano Florence Fiscella Nancy Hoffman Adele G. Lebowitz Gwen and Donald Moffat Michael Fishman Richard Hogen Brian Lee Charles and Victoria Mogilevsky Clarence Fogelstrom Eric and Sharon Holder Serena Lee Mr. and Mrs. Michael Barbara K. Foltin and Julie Holland and Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Adam R. Leos Monforth Todd A. Stiers Gluckman Dr. Norma B. Lerner Marianne Morris Patsy and Greg Fourticq Bradley Honoroff Judith Lesch Kenneth and Katherine Barbara C. Freeman Susan Davis Hopkins Adrienne Levin Mountcastle Mary and James Frey Craig and Andrea Horowitz Carolyn S. Levin John and Lucia Mudd Tendaji W. Ganges Dr. Elizabeth A. Hostetler Jennifer S. Levin Richard J. and Mary Murnane Jennifer Garner Janet L. Hubbard Ed and Evelyn Lieberman Randall K. Murphy Todd and Shana Garner Phyllis Huettner Jeffrey Lieberman Dr. Martin Nachbar Vilma H. Garrett Wallace Irwin Maryam Lieberman Elizabeth Naumburg and Susan L. Gates and Donald Jill Iscol Walter and Mary Ligon Carl Hoffman L. Kahl Jay Ittleson Walter and Conny Lindley Marian O. Naumburg Carol Gaumond Peter H. and Karen Jakes Peter Lindsay and Mary Kate Sara Ohly Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Gavlin Marina and David James Murphy Michael J. Olinger Joseph and Diane Genova Dorothy Jenney Priscilla R. Linn Mary S. Olmsted Priscilla A. Gilman Reverend and Mrs. Robert W. Mr. and Mrs. David Lonner Jean R. Olsen Judy Glickman Jewett Peter M. and Catherine Kristina Omari Dr. Marvin C. and Muriel Atlas J. Jones Bach Lopez Gilbert Omenn and Martha Goldman Dr. Nancy and James Joye Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lord Darling Eugene G. and Jolinda Grace, III Judy Judd Barbara T. Lyford Joseph and Margot Onek Judith Green David Kaden Hugh Lynch Allen S. Orton Suzanne Greenberg Albert J. Kallis Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Lyons Dr. Betty Ann Ottinger Dr. Elaine F. Greene Catherine Kaplan Peter and Carol Mack Carmel Owen Dr. Michael and Mary Gross Jo Kaplan Linda and Harry Macklowe Nicole and Bruce Paisner Alice Hall Tina Kashef Haghighi Amy Madigan Lawrence Pakula Samuel and Marlene Halperin K. Brian and Despina Keegan Dr. John and Billie Maguire Sanford and Kristen Panitch Judith Ham Brian C. Kelly Louise and Michael Malakoff Imogen S. Papadopoulos Sarah F. Hammet Nancy Kennaway Nancy and Burton Malkiel Reverend Edgar C. Peara Naomi C. Hample Stuart Kieffer Gerald and Madeline Malovany James Penn Lawrie and Chris Harbert Francine Kim Virginia Mancini Robert and Victoria Pennoyer Drs. Alden H. and. Laurel S. Helen Kinnear Jay P. Mandelbaum Samuel R. Peterson Harken Sheila Kinsey Paul and Laurice Mangelsdorf Barbara Y. Phillips Skila Harris and Fred Graham Donald and Marie Klawiter Robert and Theresa Manning Constance A. Pike Elizabeth Harris Adina S. Kleiman Martha Martin Jeff and Maya Pinkner Jeanne Heberle Jeffrey and Jody Kleinman John and Connie Marty Julie Pitt Anne and Thomas Heck Miriam S. Klempner Mr. and Mrs. William Susan Plotkin Roger F. Heegaard Phyllis R. Kline Masterton

*includes payments on multi-year pledges

2006 Annual Report | 43 Deborah T. Pollack and Robert Schumann Valerie Vanaman Tribute Gifts Barry Pelzner W. F. and Susan Schumann Steven Vandora Katharine L. Poor Contee and Margaret Seely Polly N. Victor Douglas P. and Mary Powell Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Segal Bruce A. Vinokour In Honor of Dick Allington Mr. and Mrs. Phil Priesman Eleanor Sellstrom Robert J. Waldinger and (by International Reading Philip and Dixie Prince Priscilla Selsam Jennifer Stone Association) Eric and Karen Pulaski Margaret E. Senturia Casey and Laura Wasserman In Honor of Maya Angelou Christina Quinn Alexander and Patricia Shakow Rosemary J. Weich (by Conde Nast Publications) Doreen Quinn Esther Shay Catherine W. Weiss In Honor of Maureen Cogan Dr. Beryl A. Radin Barbaranne B. Shepard Thomas H. Wheadon (by The Ruth and Oliver Tony and Judy Raphael Stacey Sher and Kerry Brown Alonzo W. and Roselyn White Stanton Foundation) Larry and Kendra Rasche Page Shields Zoe Whitehead In Honor of Kirk Franklin William and Sondra Raspberry David and Marybeth Shinn Donna Whitt (by Grand Rapids-Kent Ed Redlich and Sarah Bernard and Edith Shoor Laura Wilkening County) Timberman Susanna Shopsin Aimee Wilkin In Honor of the Graff and Robert Reisch Robert P. Sigfried Judith Williams Brysk Family; Julie, Ryan & Diane Renfroe and Michael John Silva Margie A. Williams and Mark Taylor Wells; The Galanty- Smith Rose Sime E. Anderson Gallagher Family; Craig Mr. and Mrs. Ted Reynolds Sandra Simon Robert and Diane Willis Wells & Sandy Keith; and Michelle Richman Daniel and Margo Sinclair Saundra Willis The Dials Toni A. Ritzenberg Ellen Singer Garen Wintemute (by Harvey Graff) Carrie Roach Janet Singer Diane Wohl In Honor of Daniel Limone’s Dr. Linda Rock Matthew Slater and Faith Sandra Wolens Bar Mitzvah Lynn Roddy Roessel Ellen Wormser (by Daniel Limone) Arlene Rodenbeck and Rick Harriet Slivka Miriam Wosk In Honor of Aaron Maccabee Morgan Barbara J. Smith Charles and Loren Wright (by Alan Shavit-Lonstein, Yale and Anita Roe Mr. and Mrs. Brewster Smith Josh Wright and Eliza Leighton Vivien Bacaner, Randi Roth, Edward and Bettie Rogers Margaret Smith Edmond D. Wulfe Robert Rothstein, Katherine Laura E. Roper Richard Solomon and Patsy Yike Conner, D. & G. Engelen- Ruth and David Rosen Franca Virgili Ruth H. Young Eigles, Harlan Stern, Stuart Dr. Lucille Rosenberg Joseph and Carol Sonderleiter Virginia Young Morgan, Shimon Harosh, Carla Zingarelli Rosenlicht Nancy Spears Rosalyn S. Zakheim and Gayle Joshua Kohnstamm) Daniel M. Rosenthal William and Jean Staples Dukelow In Honor of Barry and Rosalyn Ann Rosewater William D. Stempel and Diane and Larry Zent Margolis (by Eric Pulaski) Alexander and Mary Ross Dorothea Lindbeck In Honor of John Nelson William and Joan Roth Richard and Margot Stephenson Planned Gifts and (by Buck’s Furniture, Inc.) Patricia T. Rouse Barbara Stimmel Bequests In Honor of Regina Rogers Jennifer J. Roy and Marc Kellie Stoddart (by Joe Levit Family Thompson John and Janice Stratton Jane Buel Bradley Estate Foundation) Keri Russell Nicholas and Kelly Styne Thelma Browne Trust In Honor of Lee Stolzman Nancy T. Russell Dr. Kathy Sweetman Dorothy Epstein Memorial Trust (by Harriet Gordon, Karen Peggy Lee C. Russell Evelyn Swenson Jackson and Irene Golden 1989 MacVeigh, Michelina Fazzino) Carol and Gene Saffold Dr. Zia Taheri Charitable Trust In Honor of Susan P. Thomases Laura Salladin and Mark D. Charles Talcott Estate of Tillie R. Hamelstein (by Catherine Douglass, Baganz John and Marji Tate Michael Z. Irvin Trust Susan Patricof) William L. Saltonstall Sara Taylor and Steven S. Kydd Estate of Carol R. Lubin In Honor of Nichole R. Torian Shirley Samis Patricia A. Thomas Estate of Elizabeth W. McNeill (by The Vanguard Group) Zoe L. Sanders Barrie Thorne Eric and Joan Norgaard In Honor of Melissa Omafray Aubrey Sarvis Richard and Beth Tompkins Charitable Trust Townley (by Marcia Townley) Mr. and Mrs. Homer Schaaf Albertha Toppins Goldie Otter’s Trust In Honor of Alex Wallau, Kim Imogen S. Schaetzel Marcia Townley Mary Joan Palvesky Living Trust Rozenfeld, Nick Pepper, Peter Schildkraut Lawrence and Jennifer Trilling Estate of Winston H. Taylor Mark Pedowitz, Julia Franz, Erica Schoenberg Dr. Reed V. Tuckson Estate of Juanita Van Dorn Mike Benson, Janice Meryl L. Schreibstein Ruth Usem Elizabeth F. Wallace 1996 Trust McGoff, Kevin Brockman, Joseph Schulman Elsie P. Van Buren Estate of Mildred Willenbrock Steve McPherson, Ann Robert J. Schulman E. E. Van Loon Sweeney, Howard Devine,

44 | Children’s Defense Fund Josh Barry, Barry Jossen, In Memory of Kathleen Keefe C. Overfield, Julia Robinson, Honoraria Morgan Villegas, Ayo Davis, (by Eleanor Frenier, Susan Curtis Ettesvold, Harlan Keli Lee, Evelyn Geraci, Bill Teece, Clara Fennessey) Weers, Alrene Jens, Donald Sarine, Bruce Gersh, Amy In Memory of David Lacy and Wojciechowski, Betsy Husting, American Program Bureau, Inc./ Astley, Jeff Fordis, Charissa Jack Bellwood Walker (by Ronald Tschetter, Gordon University of Richmond Gilmore, Erin Felentzer, Robert Mathes, Jack Walker) Kalland, Jere Ettesvold, James Asheville School Brenda Kyle, Jim Gaston, In Memory of Billie Jo Koppel, Jane Weiss, Stacy Brown University Melissa Harling, Francie Morhauser (by Susan and Machula, Kathryn Lowery, The Cambridge School, Inc. Calfo, Suzanne Patmore- Antonio DeFrancesco) Linda Elston, Deborah The University of Chicago Gibbs, Jocelyn Diaz, Nicole In Memory of Pauline C. Clemmensen, Nancy Biele, Dell USA, LP Norwood, Roger Shook, Protogeropoulos (by Dorothy Catherine Langer, Todd Emory University Ettore Zuccarelli, Nne Bong Morris, Bernice Gleaton, Ramsey,Timothy and Jane Fairfield County Community (by Jeffrey Abrams) Robert Kaloosdian, Laurie Kretzmann, Cathleen Crafton, Foundation, Inc. LeBlanc, Carolyn Mugar, Connie Sagstetter, Darrel Jack and Jill of America Memorials Carolyn DeMassi, Sylvia Weers, Karen Siven, Barbara Foundation, Inc. Weiser, Janet Corpus, George Nordley, Barbara John Carroll University In Memory of Margot Clarke Kaiser, Hutchings Barsamian Frederickson, Robert Farnham, Mechia Foundation (by Stanley Elson; Mark Cross Mendelcom & Muriel Vomhof, Susanna The New York Avenue Burstein; Teri Stayner; Zeytoonian, LLP, The Kloven, Janet Howad, Mary Presbyterian Church Victoria Ridge; Ninth Church Gravestar Foundation, Samet Theisen-Mitchell, Kim Wolf, University of North Carolina of Christ, Scientist) and Company PC) Rosemary Howley, John at Asheville In Memory of Dorothy Epstein In Memory of Abraham Corlett,Carol Mollner, David Saint Alban’s Parish (by Dorothy Epstein Memorial Rudnick (by Michael Brugg, Hoyt, Corinne Shindelar, Washington University in Trust) Elizabeth Germaine) Mark Bowen, Susan St. Louis In Memory of Betty Friedan In Memory of Irving Sigel (by Knollenberg, Terrance Wofford College (by Thomas Banks, The Lois Dowey, Susan Wilson, Crowley, Michael Herman, Martin Sarkees Corporation) Dylan Wiliam, Walter Marjorie Goldsmith, Audrey In Memory of Ellen Greene Emmerich, Esther Dresner, Naylor, Zoe Nicholle, Emily (by Richard Miller, Ernst Fred Greenstein, Bryan Singer, Anderson, Stefani and Maas, Milton Shore, Philip Judith Bronston, Marilyn Nicholas Weber, Cindy and Mast, Michele Wilkins, Hoskin, Joseph Masling, James Sam Orbovich, David West, Downtown Baltimore Randall, Edward Chittenden) Charles Slocum, John Farrell, Child Care, Inc.) In Memory of Margaret Weber Brandon Hopkins) In Memory of Minnie Foster (by Jerod Peterson, Hugh In Memory of Irma Weisskopf Harris (by Wayne Chester, Fitzpatrick, Earlene Smith, (by Barbara Cullman, A. Natalie Deadwyler, Thelma Philipp Muessig, Gary Gilmore, Ruth Nagler, Duncan, D. Paul Karnes) Cunningham, Lois Quam, Fagan Financial Planners)

The 2006 Children’s Defense Fund donors listing reflects cash gifts and pledge payments made during fiscal year 2006 (January 1, 2006 – December 31, 2006). Every effort has been made to accurately report the names of donors but, if an error has occurred, please contact the Development Office at (202) 662-3526.

2006 Annual Report | 45 2006 CDF National Publications

A Prayer for Children Making Permanence a This moving poem by Ina Hughes is Reality for Children and read by CDF President Marian Youth in Foster Care Wright Edelman with footage of Recommendations for federal policy children. DVD. 3 min. $6.00 improvements to promote permanence for children in foster care. Prepared with Casey Family Services. 23 pgs. Free. CDF Action Council® Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard This objective compilation of National Observance of public voting records documents Children’s Sabbaths® Manual Congressional delegations’ votes on This year’s multi-faith toolkit for key decisions affecting children in conducting local Children’s Sabbath 2006. 40 pgs. Free. celebrations includes special materials to motivate and educate communities about child health: Congregations Stand for Healthy Children: Bringing CDF Freedom Schools® Hope and Healing. 235 pgs. $10.00 Curriculum Guide Updated and expanded, this educational, activity-based cur- riculum serves children ages 5-16. Outreach Strategies for 232 pgs. Available only to CDF Medicaid and CHIP Freedom Schools sites. Free. Prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation, this report explores strategies and best practices to reach and enroll children and families in Improving Children’s health care programs. 33 pgs. Free. Health Data on health disparities by racial/ethnic/poverty categories, and Protect Children Not Guns their impact on minorities and the poor. Prepared for the Aetna This annual CDF analysis documents Foundation. 93 pgs. Free. how many children and teens are lost to gun violence in towns, cities, and rural areas all across America. Contains latest data from the Centers Katrina’s Children: for Disease Control and Prevention, A Call to Conscience statistical profiles of these young and Action victims and what can be done to Interviews with families of young stop the violence. 4 pgs. Free. victims of Hurricane Katrina, how our nation’s government failed them and what needs to be done so these children and families can put their lives back together. 31 pgs. Free.

46 | Children’s Defense Fund CDF State Publications

CDF–Minnesota The Wonder Years: Early Childhood in Minnesota: 2006 KIDS COUNT data book Child Defender Newsletters Examines the health, safety, Six issues filled with useful informa- economic security and education tion: analysis of the latest legislative of Minnesota’s young children; session, updates on new reports, more than 15 national and state data on the status of Minnesota data sources; county-by-county children, CDF state activities to data on the status of Minnesota’s advocate on their behalf and how children. 56 pgs. Free. readers can too! Free.

CDF–New York Family Support Snap Shot #1: School Breakfasts and Coordinating New York’s Lunches Medicaid and Food Stamp Latest data on free and reduced-cost Programs school meal programs in Minnesota How best to coordinate New York’s and the need to expand this vital Medicaid and Food Stamp programs support for eligible families and so families can access these critical children. 4 pgs. Free. public benefits. 28 pgs. Free.

Family Support Snap Shot #2: Energy Assistance Program Getting Your Taxes Done for Reveals how children in families that Free in Your Neighborhood receive help paying energy bills were It’s your money. You earned it. Now less likely to be undernourished and claim it! A directory listing free tax underweight, and hospitalized less preparation sites throughout New York frequently than young children in City. 6 pgs. Free. families without energy assistance. 4 pgs. Free.

A Guide to Federal Food Health Care Report – Programs The Road Not Traveled Provides information on government Examines how Minnesota children food programs for community groups are increasingly falling through the and social service agencies serving cracks in the health care system, low-income children and families in allowing tens of thousands of New York City. 10 pgs. Free. children to go without health care coverage. 22 pgs. Free.

Missed Opportunities Still Hunger in the Midst of Plenty Produce Costly Outcomes Analysis of participation in federal Updated child care report on food programs in New York City Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance and federal dollars lost from under- Program providing low-income utilization. 6 pgs. Free. working families with financial assis- tance for early care and education. Most recent data and outcomes from the 2006 legislative session. 11 pgs. Free.

2006 Annual Report | 47 Keeping What They’ve CDF–Texas Earned: Working New Yorkers and Tax Credits Children’s Sabbath Toolkit This report educates families for Texas Faith Communities about available tax credits and how Enroll, Renew, Advocate for Children’s to avoid expensive commercial tax Health Coverage has sample bulletins preparation and Refund and pulpit announcements on child Anticipation Loans [RALs] when health so congregations can advocate for filing for the Earned Income Tax and help enroll every eligible Texas child Credit. 24 pgs. Free. in health care coverage. 16 pgs. Free.

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Losing Ground: The Universally Accessible Unanticipated Increase Pre-Kindergarten in Uninsured Children Education in Texas in New York State A CDF-led Texas Early Childhood This white paper outlines the Education Coalition (TECEC) com- policy changes that contributed to missioned this report from the Bush the increase in the number of School of Government and Public uninsured children in New York Service at Texas A & M University. state. 7 pgs. Free. Important objective projections on investments in early childhood educa- tion for Texas children and outcomes CDF–Ohio on the state’s future workforce and economy. 134 pgs. Free. Employer Toolkit: Healthy Start, Healthy Families This collection of pull-out inserts helps employers share information Keeping What They’ve Earned about Ohio’s Healthy Start Healthy Families Medicaid/SCHIP program with their employees. 10 pgs. Free. “The working poor lose millions of dollars every year Promising Practices: Ohio using commercial Covering Kids and Families tax preparers Best practices used by agencies and high interest throughout Ohio that have improved refund loans. We children’s access to health care, can stop this.” focusing on outreach, simplification and coordination. 32 pgs. Free. Best practices accessing EITC and related benefits; warns about “Refund Anticipation Loans” marketed to low-income working families. National version Status of Ohio’s Children: plus separate reports for California, Minnesota, Juvenile Justice for Ohio’s Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Children? Texas and Washington, D.C. 4 pgs. each. Free. Comprehensive data reports the status of juvenile justice throughout the state of Ohio; specifics on each of Ohio’s 88 counties. 104 pgs. Free.

48 | Children’s Defense Fund CDF National Office Senior Management Team

Marian Wright Edelman President Children’s Defense Fund Marjorie Newman-Williams Chief Operating Officer 25 E Street, NW Susan L. Gates General Counsel Washington DC 20001 Karen Lashman Vice President of Policy Tel: (202) 628-8787 G. Neel Lattimore Special Advisor to the President www.childrensdefense.org for Strategic Communications Kristin May Chief Financial Officer Jeanne Middleton-Hairston CDF Freedom Schools® Director Carmel Owen Vice President of Development

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