CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ANNUAL REPORT ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND

.!I!!. he mission ofthe Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind"' and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. CDF provides a strong, effective voice for all the children ofAmerica who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves. We pay particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF educates the nation about the needs of children and encourages preventive invest­ ment before they get sick or into trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown. CDF began in 1973 and is a private, nonprofit organization supported by foundation and corporate grants, and individual donations. We have never taken government funds.

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The Langston Hughes Library designed by Maya Lin at the former Alex Haley Farm. It is CDF's center for spiritual renewal and leadership development to build a movement to Leave No Child Behind.

© 1999 Children's Defense Fund. All rights reserved. CONTENTS

CDF Board of Directors ...... 2

CDF Management Team ...... 4

A Message from the President...... 5

25th Anniversary Celebration Events 7

A Summary of Key 1998 Accomplishments 8

1998 Financial Report 18

1998 Donors 22 CDF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

·~ .. 71 David W. Hornbeck, Chair Geoffrey Canada John D. Deardourff Superintendent of Schools Director and Chief Executive Officer President School District of Philadelphia Rheedlen Centers for Children & Deardourff- The Media Company Philadelphia, PA Families McLean, VA New York, NY

Carol Oughton Biondi Maureen A. Cogan, Vice Chair Marian Wright Edelman Community Advocate Child Advocate President Los Angeles, CA New York, NY Children's Defense Fund Washington, DC ,fr . . Angela Glover Blackwell Leonard S. Coleman Jr. Winifred Green President President President PolicyLink National League of Professional Southern Coalition for Educational Oakland, CA Baseball Equity New York, NY Jackson, MS

Kirbyjon Caldwell Leslie Cornfeld-Urfirer, Esq. Howard H. Haworth, Vice Chair Senior Pastor Deputy Chief President The Windsor Village - U.S. Attorney's Office The Haworth Group St. John's United Methodist Churches Brooklyn, NY Charlotte, NC Houston, TX

2 Children's Defense Fund CDF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dr. Dorothy I. Height Leonard Riggio Thomas A. Troyer, Esq. President Emerita and Chair of Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Partner National Council of Negro Women Barnes & Noble, Inc. Caplin & Drysdale Washington, DC New York, NY Washington, DC

Dr. Marylin B. Levitt Dennis Rivera Abigail S. Wexner, Esq. Assistant Professor President Attorney and Community Advocate Department of Psychiatry 1199 National Health & Human New Albany, OH George Washington University Service Employees Union, SEIU, Medical School AFL-CIO Washington, DC New York, NY

William Lynch Jr., Vice Chair J. Michael Solar, Esq. Vice President Managing Partner MacAndrews & Forbes Solar & Fernandes, L.L.P. New York, NY Houston, TX

Heidi G. Miller Susan P. Thomases, Esq. Executive Vice President and Chief Retired Partner 7:inancial Officer Willkie Farr & Gallagher Citigroup New York, NY New York, NY

Annual Report 1998 3 CDF MANAGEMENT TEAM

Marian Wright Edelman President

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Barbara Kelley Duncan Susanne Martinez Jodie Torkelson Vice President for Leadership Senior Vice President-Policy Vice President of Operations Development and the Black Community Crusade for Children

Grace Reef Laura Dromerick Director of Director of Finance Intergovernmental Relations and Administration

Peggy Lewis Jill Bokor Director of Communications Director of Development

4 Children's Defense Fund MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

1998 marked the beginning of the Children's Defense Fund's second quarter century of research, public education, and advocacy for America's children. Coming of age brings with it change: growing pains as well as many achievements. In this • new stage of our maturity, we have seen policies and programs reach fruition that have benefited millions of children. But we also have seen the necessity for new initiatives and for vigi­ lance in staying on the creative edge of change. Happily, we can report that more people than ever before have joined CDF's crusade to Leave No Child Behindoo and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. Sadly, our job is far from over. Littleton, Colorado's massacre of children by children underscores this fact. That a Littleton happens quietly almost every day in America as nearly thirteen children are killed by gun violence - a classroomful every two days ­ underscores the urgency of our work. It is time for every adult to commit to keeping our children safe and getting all of our children ready to learn and ready to succeed in school and in life. It is unacceptable that in the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth: 1 in 3 children will be poor at some time in childhood 1 in 3 is a year or more behind in school 1 in 4 is born poor 1 in 7 lacks health insurance 1 in 8 never graduates from high school A child who cannot read, write, compute, and operate a computer is sentenced to economic and social death in our knowledge-based American and global economies. Yet millions of American children cannot read at their grade level and too many children enter school not ready to learn. Millions more who graduate from high school are still unable to read well enough to pass an entry level job test or get an above-poverty wage job in our economy. We must and will change this with your help. That 200 children will drop out of school, 45 children will be born into poverty, 16 will be born at low birthweight, five will be arrested for violent crime, and one child will be wounded by gunfire in the next half hour is a far greater threat to American democracy and to every American's security than any external threat. Yet the budget for purported military readiness in the post-Cold War era is being greatly increased while the budget for school readiness for every child is being cheated. The social and health security of vot­ ing senior citizens is correctly at the top of every politician's agenda for investment while the social and health security of non-voting children are at or near the bottom, if the

Annual Report 1998 5 measure is actual level of investment and child outcomes rather than political rhetoric. And corporate welfare still takes precedence over child welfare. This is not right, sensible, or cost-effective. It is time for America to be fair to its children and to invest the same level of leadership, attention, and resources we invest in assuring that senior citizens, non-needy adults, and corporate and military interests are protected. In this time of unprecedented economic prosperity, federal and state budget surpluses, and a booming $8.6 trillion economy, our children's needs can and must be met. This will require a powerful movement led by people of faith, women, especially mothers and grandmothers, and youths raising an insistent and persistent voice for children. You will read about CDF's significant accomplishments over the past year in this report. In the years ahead, we seek to assure every child safety, health insurance, quality child care, good schools, and the early childhood foundation and youth development supports they need to reach their God-given potential in life. To achieve our goals, we will be implementing a massive and long-range strategic communication and organizing plan for children and training a successor generation ofleaders to carry us into the future. We seek to position children at the center of policy-maker and citizen concern and action, as the environmental movement did in another era. The achievements of the Children's Defense Fund this past year would not have been possible without your help and we are so very grateful to you. Special thanks to those who made our 25'" anniversary such a success. Maureen and Marshall Cogan, Carol and Frank Biondi and Universal Studios, Whitney Houston, Mrs. Deloris Jordan, Dwayne Crompton, Les and Abigail Wexner, and the Sara Lee Corporation sponsored a series of benefits to ensure CDF long-term stability. As we enter our second quarter century, we know our most significant contributions lie ahead. With your help we will build an America where no child is left behind.

In faith and hope, J!k:- 4"~JJ_·- Marian Wright Edelman

6 Children's Defense Fund 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENTS

25th Anniversary All-Star Gala Celebration • "Beat the Odds" Celebration and Benefit· May 11, 1998 October 19 & 20, 1997 African American History Museum, Detroit, Michigan Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Avery Fisher Hall, A special tribute evening to outstanding Detroit area New York, New York high school students. Four thousand children and families from all over New York City participated in a Children's Sabbath service A Celebration of Children' May 13, 1998 and performance at the Cathedral of St. John the The Limited Corporate Headquarters, Columbus, Ohio Divine. Rosie O'Donnell, Glenn Close, Iman, and others The Children's Defense Fund's Annual Ohio Benefit hosted joined First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a star­ by The Limited Inc. and CDF board member Abigail Wexner studded gala and dinner hosted by CDF Board Vice and her husband Leslie Wexner for CDFs Ohio office. Chair Maureen Cogan and Marshall Cogan at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, which raised $1.4 million. Stand For Quality Child Care Day/CDF Alumni Celebration . May 29-31, 1998 "Beat the Odds" Celebration and Benefit· March 25, 1998 Washington, DC Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California Present and former Children's Defense Fund staffand A special tribute evening to Quincy Jones and to out­ volunteers built and renovated nine playgrounds standing Los Angeles area high school students hosted throughout Washington, D. C., to provide safe spaces for by Maya Angelou. children as part ofthe nationwide June 1st Stand For Quality Child Care Day. The weekend concluded with a The President's Initiative on Race· March 28, 1998 gospel concert at Shiloh Baptist Church. Youth and Community Forum, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California KCMC (Karing for Children is Our Main Concern) . Dr. John Hope Franklin and members ofthe President's September 17, 1998 Initiative on Race held a dialogue with young people "Successful Starts," Kansas City, Missouri about their concerns and proposed solutions to growing With Honorary Chairs Mayor and Mrs. Emanuel racial and income divisions in America at CDF's Cleaver IIand Co-Chairs Lou Smith, President ofthe Annual National Conference moderated by Anna Kauffman Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Rwhard Cray. Deavere Smith and attended by 2,500 advocates. This special evening highlighted the achievements offive individuals who participated in the KCMC program "Beat the Odds" Celebration and Benefit· April 16, 1998 25 years ago. For more than a generation, KCMC Child St. Paul, Minnesota Development Corporation has designed and implemented A special tribute evening to outstanding high-quality, affordable child care for families with Minneapolis / St. Paul area high school students. parents who work outside ofthe home.

"Beat the Odds" Celebration and Benefit·April 22, 1998 Concert of Celebration . November 17, 1998 Cincinnati, Ohio John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, A special tribute evening to outstanding Cincinnati area Washington, DC high school students. A star-studded gala held at the Kennedy Center con­ cluding the year-long 25th anniversary celebration was Chicago Gala, Dinner, and Auction'April 27, 1998 hosted by Sidney Poitier and his daughter, Sydney Chicago, Illinois Tamiia Poitier. Also featured were Phylicia Rashad, A gala co-chaired by Mrs. Deloris Jordan, First Lady of Graham Nash, The Duke Ellington School ofthe Arts Chicago Mrs. Maggie Daley, and Mrs. Marilyn Miglin Choir, Patti Davidson-Gorbea, Pedro Porro, Elisabeth with special guest and former CDF Board Chairperson, Shue, N'kenge Simpson, Susan Kidd, Baakari Wilder, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Proceeds were Louis Johnson's Children's Dance Theatre Workshop of matched by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. the Henry Street Settlement, and Denyce Graves. We are grateful to Lady Catherine Meyer and Sir Christopher Back to the Future' May 4-5, 1998 Meyer for hosting a pre-benefit reception at the British A Forum on Ending Child Poverty As We Know It, Civil Embassy, and to the Sara Lee Corporation for under­ Rights Museum, Memphis, Tennessee writing the Kennedy Center gala. Community leaders and child advocates from across the South reported on how welfare reform and child health Dedication of the Langston Hughes Library, with a Maya insurance legislation are being implemented in the Angelou and John Hope Franklin Reading Room and Rosa South. Ambassador Andrew Young and Pulitzer Prize­ Parks Sitting Area· March 19-21, 1999 winning author Taylor Branch were the opening speak­ Clinton, Tennessee ers for the two-day action forum. A report on Child A library and reading rooms, donated by Le1\.f!:nd Poverty in the South was released. Louise Riggio and designed by Maya Lin, were dedicated at the former Alex Haley Farm, CDF's center for "Beat the Odds" Celebration and Benefit· May 5, 1998 spiritual renewal, leadership development, and Memphis, Tennessee intergenerational, interracial, and interdisciplinary A special tribute event to outstanding Memphis area communication. high school students. Annual Report 1998 7 A SUMMARY OF KEY 1998 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

.~~he Children's Defense Fund's 25" anniver­ our separately incorporated affiliate organiza­ sary year was enormously successful on a tion, Stand For Children, and October number of fronts. As we celebrated our past Children's Sabbath weekend on quality child and looked to the future with hope and care and after-school programs. More than determination to Leave No Child Behind, 1,200 local Stand for Quality Child Care events we continued our work to ensure that every child were held. They included a gathering of nearly has a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a 30,000 children, parents, and child advocates in Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful the East Meadow of Central Park in New York passage to adulthood with the help of caring fami­ City, and a Cyber-Stand, which attracted tens lies and communities. of thousands of additional participants. developed an organizer's kit for child care lead­ Child Care and School Readiness ers, providing them a range of strategies, tools, Some of our accomplishments in 1998 included and techniques for expanding support for child launching a campaign for more quality, accessible, care and after-school care in their states and affordable child care and focusing the nation's communities. attention on early childhood development and provided support for state policy leaders, religious school readiness. CDF: leaders, and advocates through on-site state convened Child Care Now!, a broad-based meetings, technical assistance, workshops at national coalition representing over 100 national and regional conferences, a leadership women's, children's, education, labor, health, and conference for diverse leaders in child care, and religious organizations to work for $20 billion in our annual training institute for state-level child increased federal investments in quality child care policy leaders at the former Alex Haley Farm. care and after-school programs. We provided worked extensively with the memberships of special briefings, reports, and public education many national organizations (including the materials on state and federal child care poli­ National Council of Jewish Women, Save the cies and practices, Head Start, and child care Children, Catholic Charities, the National needs for special children. School-Age Child Care Alliance, the National developed, with our pro bono ad agency, Fallon Head Start Association, and United Way of McElligott, a print and television media cam­ America) to provide information, training, and paign to educate technical assistance about child care and after­ the public on the school care issues. critical need for provided ongoing information and technical quality pre­ support to a broad range of state and national school and after­ leaders through regular mailings of important school programs. policy and research alerts, updates, copies of expanded and reports and studies, and regular telephone con­ strengthened ference calls with over 400 participants. grassroots lead­ developed an e-mail outreach network which ership, focusing has almost 5,000 members and is growing daily, the June 1, allowing CDF to expand its leadership base and 1998 Stand For to provide important information to a much Children Day, broader network of child care advocates at coordinated by A Fallon McElligot child care ad. minimal cost.

8 Children's Defense Fund worked with the Head Start community to gather information for a publication on how Head Start helps families move off welfare. Head Start was authorized without the many crippling amendments proposed, and its budget was increased by $313 million. provided information, technical support, and training on child care, after-school care, and early education for CDFs Black Community Crusade for Children networks, including a fact sheet on child care issues facing Black families.

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American child care and early education lead­ By the end of 1998, nearly one million uninsured ers, including the development of initiatives to children had been signed up for health insurance under strengthen their leadership on behalf of Native the new Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). American children. continued to reach out to Latino child five years. Unfortunately, the tobacco bill was care/early education leaders. We provided day­ pulled from the Senate floor shortly thereafter. long intensive leadership and policy training sessions at each of the three regional EI Child Health Comienzo Leadership Institutes for Latino Another major focus in 1998 was the child care leaders. implementation of the bipartisan state Children's produced a number of reports and fact sheets, Health Insurance Program (CHIP). CDF co-con­ including Locked Doors: States Struggling to vened a national coalition and mobilized public Meet the Child Care Needs of Low-Income support for CHIP's enactment working with its Working Families, 50 individual state Child principal co-sponsors Senators Orrin Hatch and Care Challenges, and The Facts About Child Edward Kennedy. President Clinton signed CHIP Care: Ending the ''Mommy Wars." into law on August 5, 1997. CHIP is the most sig­ helped to ensure the reauthorization of the nificant increased investment in children's health Child Nutrition Program, which led to major coverage since Medicaid's enactment in 1965, and nutritional improvements for children and will provide $48 billion over 10 years to cover youth in after-school programs; and the reau­ about 5 million uninsured children. One of CDFs thorization of Head Start, which includes a significant accomplishments has been the design renewed focus on quality. We also helped to and leadership of the campaign to educate the win a $160 million increase in 21st Century public about the 11.6 million uninsured children, Learning Centers for after-school programs mostly in working families, in America. This and to double approximately the funds set year, we worked with state policy makers and aside for quality child care in the Child Care advocates to provide the information and technical and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) assistance they need to ensure that families can Program. CDF led the successful coalition take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity. effort to pass a bipartisan amendment (by a In addition, CDF: vote of 66-33), sponsored by Senators John established a National Child Health Kerry and Kit Bond, to the McCain tobacco bill. Implementation Clearinghouse to track state The amendment would have increased funding activity, maintained a comprehensive national to the CCDBG Program by nearly $6 billion over database on child health implementation in

Annual Report 1998 9 each state, and published an annual report on a one-day session and several mini-workshops in national trends, status of state activities, and California. These trainings provide the skills best practices, highlighting model state pro­ needed to implement and manage an effective grams. Through the Clearinghouse, CDF has community monitoring project, including coali­ disseminated model best practices, public tion building skills, interviewing techniques, awareness and outreach materials, op-eds, and and media strategies. More than 600 individuals letters to the editor in all fifty states. have attended such trainings since the pro­ provided frequent, short, and factual updates gram's inception. to 2,500 key child health contacts. sponsored regional meetings to recruit and published "An Advocate's Tool Kit for the State train additional monitors in Georgia, Children's Health Insurance Program," which Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, includes fact sheets and state charts suitable for Alabama, Mississippi, Illinois, Pennsylvania, adaptation and dissemination to community and Washington, DC. groups and leaders as well as state policy makers. compiled and distributed the first community published "CHIP Check-Up: A Healthy Start monitoring report, Welfare to What?, which for Children, a Mid-term Report on the State describes findings from monitoring projects Children's Health Insurance Program," the around the country. first detailed, comprehensive analysis of the began publishing a quarterly newsletter to high­ implementation of CHIP. The report was dis­ light community monitoring efforts to provide tributed to over 2,000 child health policy lead­ advocates with focused monitoring techniques ers and organizations throughout the country. and to keep local communities informed of held briefIngs and conference sessions on CHIP, opportunities for successful advocacy. including state-wide meetings in three states, presentations by CDF staff at five national con­ Public Education ferences, and training sessions at CDF's annual Continuing our 25-year tradition of compre­ national conference in Los Angeles in March. hensive, quality research and public education, co-convened a national meeting of state health CDF: advocates in Washington, DC with Families published our annual State ofAmerica's USA and the National Association of Child Children Yearbook, 1998. Advocates. Hyperion published Stand For Children, an illustrated children's book on the 1996 Stand Community Monitoring of Welfare Reform for Children event at the Lincoln Memorial in When welfare policies change, when employers which over 250,000 citizens participated. drop health coverage for families, or when parents maintained our three-year-old award- cannot afford quality child care, what happens to winning home page on the Internet, www. children? These are questions CDF's Community childrensdefense.org, which provides quick Monitoring Project seeks to answer by working with access to CDF information, alerts, opportunities service providers, child advocates, and policy makers to join a variety of helpfullistservs, and at the state and local levels to help collect informa­ resource information for Internet users world­ tion about the well-being of children and families. wide. CDF's home page has been recognized by To assist the efforts of local groups and Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine as one of the top increase their capacity to monitor the impact of the three child advocacy Web sites in the country. welfare law changes and other federal and state Microsoft cited CDF for setting a good example laws affecting poor families, CDF: of how nonprofIts can use their Web pages to held state trainings in Ohio, Michigan, reach out to potential supporters, create aware­ Florida, Texas, and North Carolina, as well as ness of an issue, and form active coalitions.

10 Chi 1 d r en's D e fen s e Fun d CDF has always recognized that we can best succeed in our mission by building networks and coalitions. We continue to do that through Children's Sabbaths, our national conference, and the Child Watch Visitation Program.

Children's Sabbaths During the third week of October each year, the National Observance of Children's Sabbaths is celebrated by tens ofthousands of religious congre­ Authors Ishmael Reed. Nina Revoyr. and Susan Straight gations of many faiths who focus their worship joined in a lively discussion about the influence of race. poverty, and culture on childhood. services, education programs, and service and advocacy activities on responding to children's needs. the country for children, as well as intensive, The Children's Sabbaths also serve as a catalyst for day-long pre-conference training sessions. new, long-term congregational action for children. an author's forum in which five prominent Over 30,000 Children's Sabbath Resource writers discussed their experiences as children Manuals, Gifted and Called to Raise Up Our and how race, poverty, and culture shaped Children were distributed to religious leaders, their work. congregations, and organizations to advocate for a specialized youth leadership training session quality child care for working parents. that attracted more than 300 members of the BCCC's Student Leadership Network for National Conference Children. CDF's 1998 conference, "Celebrating 25 Years a community-building plenary chaired by of Standing for America's Children," was held Angela Glover Blackwell highlighting successful March 25-28 at the Convention models that have worked and strategies for Center in Los Angeles, California. bringing them to scale. It offered skills training, inspira­ tion' and networking and Child Watch Visitation Program coalition-building opportunities The Child Watch Visitation Program enables to 2,800 advocates from around community leaders to see firsthand what is hap­ the country. They came to receive pening to our children by adding the faces and hands-on training in media rela­ stories of real children to the tions, community organizing, statistics and reports. It is coalition building, fund raising, one of our most effective the use of technology, and com­ tools to bolster public educa­ munity monitoring, and to tion and advocacy on child participate in many sessions on health, child care, poverty, models that work. They learned violence, and other critical about important changes in issues facing families in national, state, and local policies states and localities. Child and processes, celebrated high Watch has: One ofthe business leaders who participated in a Child Watch visit to school youths who are Beating the Odds and hon­ active coalitions in 40 a child care center in Norfolk. Virginia. ored those who have made a profound difference in states which hosted 65 the lives of our children. Highlights of the confer­ programs in 1998 with approximately 2,200 ence included: community leaders participating. over 120 workshops covering a broad range of ten Child Watch regional trainers and one topics of importance to those working around state organizer in California.

Annual Report 1998 11 conducted ten training sessions for local of ideas, emotions, and concerns, documented volunteers in Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Texas, in Rekindling the Spirit - A Vision for the New Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Millennial Movement to Leave No Child California, South Carolina, North Carolina, Behind, published in the spring of 1998. Michigan, and Rhode Island in 1998. a California forum in which 45 high school-age youths of different races and faiths shared Black Community Crusade for Children their views, with moderator Anna Deavere (BCCC) Smith, Dr. John Hope Franklin, and several Beginning in December 1997, throughout 1998, other members of the President's Initiative on and ending in 1999, the Black Community Crusade Race, during CDF's annual national conference for Children convened a series of six action forums in Los Angeles in March attended by 2,800 on Children, Race and Poverty. To mark the 30th children's advocates. anniversary of Dr. King's death and the founding a southern regional convocation at the Civil of CDF's parent organization, the Washington Rights Museum in Memphis examining the Research Project, CDF and BCCC brought together historic effects of racism and poverty on leaders from the Civil Rights Movement and cur­ children and rent youth leaders to assess progress and explore considering the relationship of poverty and race, their impact the needs on children, and their implications for needed new and future action. The series included: of children a meeting at the former Alex Haley Farm, in the South CDF's center for spiritual renewal, leadership as they A leader ofthe Civil "Can a democracy protect development, and interracial, intergenera­ continue to Rights Movement people who don't have the tional, and interdisciplinary communication, shoulder the Andrew Young spoke power ofthe vote? That is a during which Ambassador Andrew Young, burdens of about lessons leamed great test, and we are here race and from the past in a 30­ to try to say that it can."' poverty. year retrospective on Taylor Branch Speakers at race and poverty. the Memphis forum included former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Parting ofthe Waters and Pillars ofFire, followed by panel discussions on child and family poverty in the South and a report on Southern states' experiences on welfare and Leaders from the Civil Rights Movement ofthe '60s and new child health implementation. Two reports ­ leaders ofthe children's movement discussed differences The High Price ofPoverty for Children in the between the '60's and the '90's at the former Alex Haley Farm, South and Race to the Bottom: Plummeting President Emeritus John Maguire of Claremont Welfare Caseloads in the South and the Nation­ Graduate University, historians Howard Zinn grew out of the Memphis forum. and John Egerton, and religious leaders a December 1998 action forum in Detroit, including Dr. Charles Adams, Dr. Prathia Michigan at which about 200 judges, child Hall, Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., and Dr. William advocates, and concerned community members Howard examined the '60s and the '90s and gathered at Hartford Memorial Baptist key lessons and strategies for building the next Church to discuss how minority youths are movement for children. This gathering turned disproportionately criminalized and how into an extraordinary and inspiring exchange communities can address these trends.

12 Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools expanding the availability of quality after-school Freedom Schools provided educational, cultural, programs by applying the Freedom School pro­ and spiritual enrichment to over 2,000 children and gram model to an after-school enrichment pro· their parents in 1998. They continue to grow in qual­ gram. Four sites-two in Washington, D.C., one ity and quantity. Some 1998 achievements include: in St. Paul, and one in Dallas - began after­ school pilot models in January that were con­ tinued in the fall of 1998.

Black Church Initiative: "Grace To Lead Our Children Home" The Black Church Initiative was designed to increase the number of Black congregations work­ ing to prevent the adverse outcomes predicted for many Black youths by the year 2010. Its aims are to convince a critical mass of Black churches to take up this challenge and begin, through informa­ Over 300 college-age students participated in a two-week training at Haley Farm in preparation for teaching at one of tion sharing and leadership development, to equip the 33 Freedom School sites in 1998. churches with the strategies and skills they will need to prevent incorporating new components into the potential tragedy. curriculum and publishing it for widespread As a database of use by non-Freedom School communities participating interested in providing high-quality supple­ churches grows, the mentary education programs. BCCC has begun to developing and testing an after-school educate these faith· curriculum as well as Rites of Passage and based communities spiritual development components. Three about the problems Dr. Prathia Hall and the Dr. Otis Moss, Jr. are the curriculum guides have been written, including facing minority youth co-chairs for the Black Church Initiative. a Latino supplement and book lists. and the role the convening a meeting in January, 1998 (chaired church can play. The annual five-day Samuel DeWitt by Donald Stewart, President of the College Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry, held Board) for select members of the BCCC's at the former Alex Haley Farm for religious leaders, Education Task Force, exemplary program grew to 325, quintupling its first year attendance. sponsors, college-age servant leaders, national BCCC's working committee met with leading evaluation consultants, and national Freedom school superintendents to discuss education reform School staff, to discuss next steps for Freedom priorities and how Freedom Schools' vision and Schools, including launching an evaluation public school reform could be mutually enhancing process, strengthening training for advanced for children preceding the institute. program sponsors, and instituting a train­ the-trainer program model. Southern Regional Office completing a successful program during the In March and October, 1998, 50 key southern summer of 1998, beginning with two weeks of regional leaders met at the former Alex Haley intensive training at the former Alex Haley Farm to review the progress made in their states Farm for over 300 young servant-leaders and in the last year. CDF's Southern Regional adult sponsors who taught in Freedom Schools Office has been working to mobilize community across the nation serving over 2,200 children leaders, clergy, and advocates to address the at 33 sites. impact ofthe new welfare laws on hundreds of

Annual Report 1998 13 thousands of families and children in their A Nationwide Day in Court brought local, state, states. Strategy sessions and action plans were and national policy makers into juvenile and developed to minimize harm to families and family courtrooms to see the faces and hear the children; campaigns were developed to increase stories of real children behind the statistics investments in jobs, job training, child care, and reports. and health care; and opportunities were pro­ Pilot programs for One Church...Ten Families, vided for advocate skills training and sharing a holistic approach to restoring at-risk youth to what other states were doing. productive membership in their communities The Southern Regional Office served as the through the active engagement offaith com­ catalyst and co-convenor with local organiza­ munities, was planned for launching in five tions for state-wide meetings of child health cities in early 1999 (Washington, DC.; Houston, advocates in Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Baltimore, Maryland; and Tennessee. Because the federal law gives and Manassas, Virginia). states great leeway in designing child health The JLC is playing a major coordinating role insurance plans, state groups met to agree on to prevent the dismantling of programs that a basic set of principles they would all support keep children out of adult jails, and prevent in state plans. Regional and national staff the criminalization of juvenile offenders continue to work with these groups as these through after-school, mentoring, and other proposals move forward. prevention programs.

Juvenile and Family Court Judges' Student Leadership Network for Children Leadership Council (SLNC) BCCC's Juvenile and Family Court Judges' To achieve the CDFIBCCC goal of recruiting Leadership Council (JLC) is a national network of and training 2,000 new minority servant-leaders African-American juvenile and family court judges under 30 by the end of _..,...--.., whose mission is to formulate community-based 2000 to be the next prevention programs designed to reduce the num­ generation pf chil­ ber of children referred for court intervention, and dren's advocates, the to encourage a wide range of positive juvenile jus­ Student Leadership tice practices. To accomplish its mission, the JLC Network for Children has developed four signature projects: a Nationwide (SLNC) had recruited Day in Court, One Church...Ten Families, over 1,700 young Juvenile Justice Town Hall Meetings, and the adults from 210

Institute for Cultural Competency. college campuses Youth leaders from around the country came Broadening the base of the JLC was a pivotal and child-serving together for training and leadership development goal in 1998, and was accomplished through a organizations by the activities at the former Alex Haley Farm. variety of means: end of 1998. The SLNC: A newsletter focusing on the projects of the is the only national network that works to JLC and highlighting juvenile justice issues involve young adults in advocacy and service was begun in March, 1998. specifically on behalfof children. The Steering Committee held their annual organized Days of Action to educate and issue forum during the Congressional Black organize local communities on issues that Caucus Foundation Annual Weekend in affect children. Washington, D.C. has immediate access to information about A JLC Juvenile and Family Court Judges' issues and opportunities for community service Directory was prepared for publication and via "SLNCalerts," a free listserv service main­ distribution in 1999. tained by SLNC staff.

14 Children's Defense Fund is creating a leadership development curriculum the state, and to simplify the application process to provide the skills and knowledge necessary for children registering for Medicaid and CHIP. to serve and advocate on behalf of children. To continue successful implementation of the Particular attention is paid to the spiritual new Child Health Insurance Plan in New York needs of young leaders in order to strengthen state, CDF-NY recently opened a satellite the inner anchors college-age youth leaders office in Albany. need to renew and sustain themselves in their Beginning in the fall of 1998 and continuing work as change agents. into 1999, the New York office is planning and has provided training to experienced SLNC coordinating a major public education and out­ members and to those who hold positions as reach campaign for the state Children's Health professional organizers or program officers in Insurance Program designed to reach every child-serving organizations. potentially eligible child in the state. It will be conducted quarterly Advanced Service and patterned after our highly successful immu­ Advocacy Workshops, three-day intensive work­ nization campaign, which increased the shops in which academicians, practitioners, and immunization rate for New York City's children advocates engage small groups of students in a under two years of age from 52 percent to 81 wide range of subjects with particular focus on percent. A special child health student outreach coalition building and grassroots organizing. approach model- SHOUT - developed in conjunction with Columbia University and its One of the strongest recommendations adopted students will be piloted in 1999. A coordinated by CDFs Board of Directors from a 1997 strategic Stand for Children Day was attended by nearly planning process was to strengthen CDFs presence 30,000 in Central Park. at the state and local levels. We will be drawing on years of successful state-level advocacy on a variety CDF-Ohio of children's issues in our current state, regional, CDF-Ohio's 17-year-old office has been instru­ and local offices in Ohio (a state-wide office with a mental in Ohio's bipartisan commitment to enroll local office in Cincinnati), New York, Minnesota, and every eligible child in the Head Start program. Mississippi (addressing children's needs in a five­ Ohio serves more than 75 percent of eligible chil­ state southern region). A new state office opened in dren compared to less than 40 percent nationally. October 1998 in Oakland, California to work with CDF-Ohio compiled and published Child Care: other state- and local-based advocacy organizations A County-by-County Fact Book, a 200-page and citizens to implement the "100% Campaign" to report documenting the status of child care in extend health insurance to all California children. each of Ohio's 88 counties. The report was A Texas office focused on child health was launched released to the governor and legislature at a to increase effective CHIP implementation. reception at the State Capitol attended by more than 300 community and political leaders of both CDF in the States parties. Its release generated widespread media CDF-New York coverage and led to changes in state policy Building upon a deep reservoir of research and allowing thousands more working families to experience working on children's Medicaid, become eligible for child care aid. immunization, and other child health issues, CDF-Ohio also expanded public understanding CDF-NY worked over many months with of positions taken by state candidates for gov­ Governor George Pataki and bipartisan leaders ernor and state legislature, identifying children's of the Assembly and Senate on a pace-setting issues to be addressed by candidates in a non­ and far-reaching plan to provide near universal, partisan forum attended by both gubernatorial affordable health insurance coverage for the candidates and other candidates for major children of New York at no additional cost to state office.

Annual Report 1998 15 CDF-Ohio continued its work on implementa­ 25th Anniversary Celebrations tion of the new state Children's Health The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) celebrated Insurance Program and welfare-to-work oppor­ a milestone event in 1998: our 25th anniversary. tunities to make them available to thousands Not content to simply look back and celebrate the of Ohio children and families. About 42,000 significant gains for children, the Board of Direc­ additional children were enrolled in CHIP in tors and staff also looked forward into the 21st Ohio during 1998.

CDF-Minnesota Minnesota KIDS COUNT is part ofa nationwide, multi-year project to document trends in the well-being of children in the United States and is a collaborative project of CDF-Minnesota, the Joint Religious Coalition, and the University of Minnesota Extension Service. This project has led to publications that include a comprehensive report on eleven indicators of child well-being and presentations to groups across the state. CDF Board member Maureen Cogan hosted an all-star 25th One of the Minnesota office's most effective Anniversary celebration at the Lincoln Center in New York City. strategies is their annual publication of an Rosie O'Donnell, supermodellman, and First Lady Hillary Clinton Alternative State Budget that addresses the were among the many participants ways in which the budget surplus might be used more effectively for children. In its first century and laid the foundation to ensure that the year, the alternative budget led to significant Children's Defense Fund will continue to playa increases for the state's child care programs, creative, cutting-edge leadership role in building working family tax credits, and other family the children's advocacy movement. and child programs. Celebratory 25th anniversary events were held In 1998, CDF-Minnesota produced a family tax from New York to Los Angeles including: publication that showed how the federal and kickoff events on October 19 and 20, 1997, in state tax systems have shortchanged families New York City with a service at the Cathedral with children over the past fifty years, and a of St. John the Divine attended by over 4,000 Minnesota Low Cost Health Care Directory. people. It was followed by a Lincoln Center A Freedom School served 100 children from the gala hosted by child advocate and talk show St. Paul area with leadership from college-age host Rosie O'Donnell. First Lady Hillary teacher-mentors. Clinton, former CDF staff attorney and Board chair, was the honorary co-chair and joined us as a guest speaker. The gala, coordinated by CDF Board vice-chair Maureen Cogan and her husband, Marshall Cogan, raised $1.4 million for the Children's Defense Fund's national and New York initiatives. during CDF's National Conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center in March, we

Mrs. Deloris Jordan, second from left, hosted a Chicago benefrt honored Quincy Jones and youths who have with Chicago First Lady Maggie Daley and Marilyn Miglin. First Beat the Odds'. Maya Angelou hosted the Lady Hillary Clinton, actress Glenn Close, and General Colin evening. Powell participated.

16 Children's Defense Fund an April gala, dinner, and auction in Chicago was co-chaired by Mrs. Deloris Jordan, Chicago's First Lady Maggie Daley, and Marilyn Miglin, and attended by First Lady Hillary Clinton and hosted by actress Glenn Close. a May 29-31 playground-build by current and former CDF staff and hundreds of community Actresses Phylicia Rashad, Elisabeth Shue, and Sydney Tamiia Poitier, volunteers. Five new play­ actor Sidney Poitier, British Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer and grounds were completed Lady Catherine Meyer at the final Kennedy Center 25th Anniversary and clean-ups took place benefrt sponsored by the Sara Lee Corporation. at four playgrounds at child care centers and performers, as well as a new generation of schools in the District of young people in the arts. British Ambassador Columbia's neediest areas Sir Christopher Meyer and Lady Catherine as part of the third Stand Meyer hosted a pre-benefit reception at the First Lady Hillary Clinton joined the for Children Day focused British Embassy. Distinguished national and playground-build at Stand For Children on quality child care and international leaders, including Czech Day in Washington, DC. after-school activities. President Vaclav Havel, Jordan's Queen Noor, First Lady Hillary Clinton joined the play­ and six Nobel Laureates responded to CDF's ground-build. invitation to serve as honorary committee a formal gala at Washington's John F. members during our anniversary year. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on November 17, hosted by Sidney Poitier and his Conclusion daughter, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, and featured Twenty-five years ago, the Children's Defense Elisabeth Shue, Phylicia Rashad, Graham Fund began with a vision inspired by the civil Nash, The Duke Ellington School of the Arts rights struggles of the 1960s. That vision was built Choir, Patti Davidson-Gorbea, Pedro Porro, on the conviction that protecting the well-being of N'kenge Simpson, Susan Kidd, Baakari the nation's children would most effectively over­ Wilder, Louis Johnson's Children's Dance come the economic and social barriers imposed by Theatre Workshop of the Henry Street race and poverty, and provide the unity of purpose Settlement, and Denyce Graves. The Sara Lee necessary to strengthen our families and communi­ Corporation underwrote the evening. The ties. It is a vision that has withstood the test of theme, ''Passing The Torch," showcased the time. With your continued support, we will build talents of well·known contemporary an America where no child is left behind.

1998 Publications

State ofAmerica's Children Yearbook, 1998 Child Care Needs ofLow·Income Working • Children in the States Families Rekindling the Spirit: A Vision for the Child Care Challenges New Millennial Movement to Leave No The Facts About Child Care: Ending the Child Behind. "Mommy Wars" Gifted and Called to Raise Up Our Children An Advocate's Tool Kit for the State Children's (Children's Sabbath Manual) Health Insurance Program Healing the Whole Family: A Look at Family Welfare to What? Care Programs The High Price ofPoverty for Children in the South Helping Families Move from Welfare to Work Monthly CDF Reports newsletter and a variety Locked Doors: States Struggling to Meet the of brochures, posters, and products

Annual Report 1998 17 1998 FINANCIAL REPORT

his fmancial report covers the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and two separately incorpo­ rated affiliate organizations, the CDF Action Council and Stand For Children. T Besides being an enormously successful program year, our 25" anniversary year was also one of skillful financial stewardship. For example, we were able to complete two endowment challenge grants, one from The Ford Foundation (Ford) and the other from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Mott), which resulted in the recognition of $3.3 million in grant revenue, released $8.8 million from donor-imposed restrictions, and added significantly to CDF's net assets. As a result, revenues from all sources increased 44.2 percent from 1997 to $29.8 million. Expenses decreased 1.1 percent to just under $18 million and, although program spending increased, support­ ing service expenses decreased by 5.2 percent from 1997.

SUMMARY REVENUES EXPENSES (in millions of dollars) CDF $27.8 $16.2 Stand For Children 1.3 0.9 CDF Action Council 1.3 1.5 Less: Inter-affiliate transactions (0.6) <0.6) Total $29.8 $18.0

Revenues reflected a 241.2 percent increase in investment income due in part to the completion of the Ford and Mott endowment challenge grants and enhanced earnings in the endowment portfolio; a 16.6 percent increase in income from special events because of the year-long celebration of our 25" anniversary; and several large multi-year grant receipts and pledges from foundations and corporations. The chart on the left provides an analysis of sources of revenue for the Children's Defense Fund, excluding affiliates, for the year ending December 31, 1998. CDF does not accept government funds. The chart on the right provides the percentage breakdown of CDF expenses, excluding affiliates, for the year ending December 31, 1998.

REVENUES - CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND EXPENSES - CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND $27.8 MILLION (excluding affiliates) $16.2 MILLION (excluding affiliates)

National By activity Conference Special events 2% 6% Fundraislng 6%

Policy and pro Haley Farm development a leadership programs implementatio,.% ,%

Publications ,%

18 Children's Defense Fund CDF program services and 1998 accomplish­ BCCC and the Student Leadership Network for ments described previously are assembled under Children's Advanced Service and Advocacy several program categories in the fmancial state­ Workshops ments and in the chart on the previous page. Many of the programs are integrated across categories Black Community Crusade for Children and are captured here for presentation purposes (BCCC) under one program category. Examples of this program category include: The Freedom Schools, including model Leadership Development and Community development, training for more than 300 Capacity Building college-age servant-leaders from the 33 Examples of this program category include: national sites which served more than 2,000 CDF's 18Ella Baker Child Policy Training by CDF in 1994. It is our center for spiritual Institute; renewal, character and leadership development, The Children, Race and Poverty Forums intergenerational, interracial, and interdisci­ held in Los Angeles, Memphis, Detroit, and plinary communication. Haley is a place to at the former Haley Farm. rekindle the spirit, to learn new skills, to meet people who share a common mission, to debate Public Education and Publications and discuss, and to build a sense of community. Examples of this program category include In 1998, more than 2,000 came to Haley to sing, CDF publications like: pray, learn, write, share, laugh, tell stories, State ofAmerica's Children Yearbook, 1998; listen to great preachers, and catch the spirit of Locked Doors: States Struggling to Meet the burgeoning movement for children. the Child Care Needs ofLow-Income Examples of this program category include: Working Families; Leadership development meetings such as An Advocate's Tool Kit for the State those documented in the CDF publication, Children's Health Insurance Program; Rekindling the Spirit; Welfare to What?; The Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor CDF Reports published montWy; Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry; Children's Sabbath Manual; Freedom Schools National Training The High Price ofPoverty for Children Programs; in the South; The Annual Women's Spiritual Retreat; all other CDF publications in 1998; BCCC Working Committee and Task maintenance of CDF's award-winning Force Meetings on School Reform; Web site, www.childrensdefense.org .

Annual Report 1998 19 Stand For Children $16 million as of December 31, 1997. Both the com· This includes CDF's support for the annu­ pletion of the Ford and Mott Challenge Grants and al Stand For Children events that lift up the strong earnings on investments aided this growth. needs of all children. In 1998, there were over 1,200 local Stand For Children Day events The Ford Foundation Challenge held in all 50 states, as well as the annual In December 1986, a $3.5 million challenge grant Cyber-Stand For Children. The grassroots was received from Ford for CDF's self-sufficiency organizing work for these events was accom­ fund established to ensure CDFs long-term viability plished by Stand For Children, a separate and to provide a core of general operating support. incorporated affiliate. Under the terms of the grant, CDF was to match the grant proceeds on a three-to-one basis. By Policy and Program Development December 31, 1998, we raised all the funds required and Implementation under this challenge grant releasing restrictions Examples of this program category include: on the use of the grant principal and earnings. As All development of policy papers, training, a result, during the year ending December 31, and technical assistance in CDF program 1998, $8.8 million was released from temporarily and policy areas: Child Care and School restricted to unrestricted net assets. Readiness, Education, Child Health, the Children's Health Insurance Program Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Challenge Implementation Clearinghouse, Family On October 1,1994, CDF was awarded a five­ Income, Community Monitoring of Welfare year, $3 million challenge grant from Mott. Mott Reform and Child Poverty, and Child Welfare; provided a dollar for every dollar CDF raised from All the research work that supports the the Black community for the BCCC and programs policy analyses; at the former Alex Haley Farm. Under the terms The work accomplished at our state offices of the grant, Mott's grant and one-halfofthe in California and Texas. matching funds, or $4.5 million, must be held in perpetuity with the interest earned to be used to CDF ENDOWMENT support BCCC programs and Haley Farm. On As of December 31, 1998, the market value of the September 30, 1998, we completed the match­ CDF investment portfolio was $24.7 million, up from one year ahead of time.

1998 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS 1998 1997 %Change (in millions of dollars and percentage changes) Increase in net assets $ 11.8 $ 2.5 +375.0% Children's Defense Fund 11.6 2.3 CDF Action Council (0.2) 0.2 Stand For Children ~4 0.0 Revenues $ 29.8 $ 20.7 + 44.2% Children's Defense Fund Operating Fund 17.2 17.5 Endowment Fund 10.6 1.0 CDF Action Council 1.3 1.7 Stand For Children 1.3 1.1 Inter-affiliate transactions (0.6) 0.6) Assets $ 48.3 $ 38.8 + 24.6% Endowment Market Value $ 24.7 $ 16.0 Investment return 22.7% 13.2% Fixed-assets additions 0.8 0.2 Long-term debt $ 8.8 $ 9.0 -2.2%

20 Chi 1 d r en's D e fen s e Fun d 1998 COMBINED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION (including affiliates) For the year ending December 31, 1998 1998 1997 % Change Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,167,510 $ 3,018,989 ·28.2% Grants receivable 5,760,421 4,430,803 + 30.0% Other assets 1,102,866 1,034,074 +6.7% Fixed assets, net 14,500,776 14,271,400 + 1.6% Investments 24745492 16,003,455 + 54.6% Total assets $ 48,277,065 $ 38,758,721 + 24.6% Liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 2,069,209 $ 1,681,566 +23.0% Unearned challenge grant 2,520,100 Bonds payable 8.820000 9000000 ·2.0% Total liabilities $ 10,889,209 $ 13,201,666 -17.5% Net assets Unrestricted $ 18,657,729 $ 7,761,698 +140,4% Temporarily restricted 11,623,527 12,623,505 ·7.9% Permanently restricted 7106600 5171852 + 37,4% Total net assets $ 37,387,856 $ 25,557,055 + 46.3% Total liabilities and net assets $ 48,277,065 $ 38,758,721 + 24.6%

1998 COMBINED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS (including affiliates) For the year ending December 31, 1998 1998 1997 % Change Revenues Contributions and donations Foundations and corporations $ 12,790,070 $ 9,998,236 +27.9% Individuals 3,840,555 4,021,247 ·4.5% Organizations and groups 902,709 674,050 + 33.9% Sale of publications 849,550 813,966 +4,4% National conference 415,799 309,542 + 34.3% Special events 2,509,933 2,153,270 + 16.6% Training fees 195,572 121,730 + 60.7% Investment income 4,927,103 1,444,113 +241.1% Earned challenge grant 3,347,136 977,612 +242.4% Miscellaneous 23,530 150,497 ·84,4% Total revenues, gains and support $ 29,801,957 $ 20,664,263 + 44.2% Expenses Program Services Leadership development and community capacity building $ 5,016,085 $ 4,666,670 + 7.5% Haley Farm leadership programs 550,835 561,062 -1.8% Black Community Crusade for Children 1,881,783 2,110,469 - 10.8% Public education and publications 2,272,152 2,619,455 - 13.3% Stand For Children 789,560 1,111,775 - 29.0% Policy and program development and implementation 3 083 526 2490.330 + 23.8% Total program services $ 13,593,941 $ 13,559,761 + 0.25% Supporting Services General and administrative 1,741,943 1,886,563 ·7.7% Fundraising 2635,272 2,728.783 - 3.4% Total supporting services $ 4,377,215 $ 4,615,346 - 5.2% Total expenses $ 17,971,156 $ 18,175,107 -1.1% Change in net assets $ 11,830,801 $ 2,489,156 +375.0%

Annual Report 1998 21 1998 DONORS

Individual Donors Gordon Ambach James L. Forman John P. Andelin and Virginia Geoffrey Kent Fortin and Mary Ann Kelly $50,000 and Above David and Lynn Angell Steve Friedman Dr. Susan H. Shane Joseph Angier Alice and Harvey Galper Leslie Cornfeld-Urfuer and Michael Jacoba Atlas Linda G. Gochfeld J. Urfuer The Honorable Elizabeth Frawley Susan Goldstein Les and Abigail Wexner Bagley and Mr. Smith Bagley Louis and Kelly Gonda Bridget B. Baird Joan E. Goody $25,000-$49,999 Mary Adams Barrie Lynn K. Greenberg and Michael Donald Pels Lavonne Batalden Rothschild Mr. and Mrs. Sol Price Marjorie E. Battersby Stephen and Myrna Greenberg Agnes Williams Gail Bederman Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Grossman Howard and Deborah Belford M. Guiliano $10,000-$24,999 Jules Bernstein and Linda Lipsett Henry Hampton Susan Adelman Leslie Squires Bernstein Nedena H. Hartley Joseph Barberia Norman Bernstein Julie Hauer John and Wendy Cozzi Sally and Tersh Boasberg Goldie Hawn Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman Michael F. Brewer and Janet Brown Lisa J. Haynes Michael Douglas George Brockway Donald Hilliard Jane Gray Dustan Kevin and Catharine O'Neill Broderick Carol Hogan E. Marianne Gabel and Donald Cynthia G. Brown Herb Horvitz Lateiner Vivian and Michael Brown Jan and Robert Hubbell David and Becky Hornbeck Gale Anne Hurd Natalie Merchant Mort Browne Linda Stafford Burrows Vivian F. Hurwith Marilyn Miglin Carter Cafritz Robert Imershein John Rallis Virginia Insley Stewart and Lynda Resnick Conrad Cafritz Lisle C_ Carter and Jane Livingston James and Vicki Iovine Martin Shafer Elizabeth Weiser Caswell Judy Jablon $5,000-$9,999 William and Kristina Catto Samuel L. and LaTanya Richardson Matthew Atkins Omega Chavis Jackson Dr. Kathleen Berger Sylvia Civin Kate Edelman Johnson Maureen and Marshall Cogan Nancy Jo Coburn M.D. Anna Faith Jones Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman Henry Alfred Coleman Michael Kang John D. Deardourff William R. and Marjorie Coleman Ruth and Ken Kennedy Marian Wright Edelman Diane and John F. Cooke Adolph Koeppel Nancy M. Folger William Cox Alfie Kohn Barbara C. Freedman Dr. and Mrs. Alvin H. Crawford Alan and Pamela Kosansky Jay M. Furman Gordon Crawford Nick and Mary Lynn Kotz Richard L. Gelb Harry L. Cross Erwin and Philine Lachman Edmund W. Gordon and Susan N.K. Crutchfield Andrew Lack G. Gordon M.D. Caroline Darst Charles and Sara Lannin Michael Jordan Robert C. Davidson Jr. Marta Jo Lawrence Michael Lambert Robert A. Day Carolyn Leach M.D. Cynthia Lavin Dr. and Mrs. Haile T. Debas Margaret T. Lee M.D. David and Joan Maxwell Victor Denenberg Tom Lehrer Alberto and Ivanna Omeechevarria Gayle Donsky and Morton Stein Beth and Ira Leventhal Abe and Irene Pollin Robert Lee Douglas Jr. and Elizabeth Arthur E. Levine and Lauren B. Richard L. Posen A. Strode Leichtman Else Sackler Betsy Drake Ed and Evelyn Lieberman Adrienne Tobin Zell Draz Mary E. Liebman Barbara Trueman Susan Edelman Randy and Ann Lipton Susan and Donald Wilson Gene Eherenfeldt J. Bruce Llewellyn John Eisberg and Susan Kline Ruth Lord $1,000-$4,999 John M. and D.D_ Eisenberg Ruth A. Lucas Henry J. and Ruth Kotell Aaron Diana and Rick England Adelle Lutz Jane E. Aaron Todd Evans Carla Lynton Henry L. Abrons and Li-Hsia Wang Karin Falencki Augusta Wallace Lyons Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel Marshall Field Dr. Stephen A. Maas The Honorable Madeleine Albright Virginia Fleming Anne-Marie Mackay Alan and Arlene AIda Alice D. Ford Hilda and Charles Mason

22 Children's Defense Fund Linda A. May Charlotte Selver Penny Block Mr. and Mrs. Brian McGrath FredM. Senn Rabbi Barry H. Block Cynthia and David K. McGrath Carla and Michael Shamberg David and Robbie Borglum Timothy J. McGuire NinaL. Shaw Thomas L. Bowen Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. 'Mack' Clyde and Joan Shorey Jeanne and Robert Boynton McLarty ill Laurie Siegal Jane Buel Bradley Robert Gregory Meidel Dr. Earle Silber and Judith Silber Ann E. Brashares Katharine E. Merck Herb and Diane Meyer Simon Nancy J. Bregstein John and Caroline Ramsay Merriam Senta K. Simon Anne Brener Charles E. Merrill Jr. Sinbad Patricia Brissenden Mary Micucci Dr. Robi F. Siayman Edith Brown Duke Miglin Bella Spewack Mollie W. Brown Herbert Miller Ellyn Stein Gay and Tony Browne Pauline P. Miller Scott and Nancy Langen Steketee Elizabeth Buchanek Virginia H. Monchak Beryl Stiles Jo Anne Burger and Michael Caplan Jane Moses Lucy Stroock Willie Campbell Billye J. Moutra Ellen Sudow V. Todd Campbell and Tiye Hayes John and Lucia Mudd Constance Swain Sarah C. Carey Brian Mulligan Susan and Ronald Swanson Gregory A. Carlson Evelyn S. Nef Evelyn Swenson Elizabeth Case Martha Newell Katharine Thompson Stephen and Elaine Castles Katherine A. Niessen Alexander and Ellie Trowbridge Patience M. Chamberlin Seth Novatt and Priscilla Natkins Marianne S. Udow and Richard Noble Aldie and Dolly Langdon Chapin Ellen Nusblatt Richard and Gail Ullman Colburn and Dionette Cherney Aglaia N. O'Quinn M.D. and Doyle G. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Vierkant Robert and Marilyn Clements Graham M.D. Clara Wainwright Angeline M. Clinton Betty Ann Ottinger Helen E. Warmer Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. and Sylvia Patricia A. Owens Donald and Christine Washburn Dale Cochran Sandra Payson Peggy Weil and Richard Hollander Violet B. Coffin Anne and Martin Peretz Mr. and Mrs. George Wein Mr. and Mrs. George Cohen Bob J. Perry Judith and Douglas Weinstock Betty S. Cohen and Jonathan M. Liff Richard M. Peters M.D. Billy and Jody Weisman Stacy Cohn Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood C. Pidcock Ruth Whitney Robert Cory Beatrice Pine Robin and Marsha Williams Richard T. Cousins William M. PoWad Elayne and Marvin Wolfenson FredM. Cox William Poole and Janet L. Levinger Peter Martin Wortmann Jan Creedon-McVean Susan and Terry Porter Merrill Wright Helena Curtis Natalie Prager-Hertzmann Dr. Carolyn L. Yancey Corey Cutler Franklin Raines and Wendy Farrow Bud and Cynthia Yorkin Laurie and Larry David Harold and Erica Mann Ramis The Reverend Philip and The Linda Davidoff Karen Randall Reverend Betty Jean Young Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan E. Davis Betsy M. Randle Ruth H. Young Warren Davis Joyce and Mike Rappeport William K. Zinsser Anne De Lattre The Reverend George and Mary Regas John and Jaye Zola W.G. Demuth Anne S. Reich Dr. Barry Zuckerman Timothy J. Disney and Martha Jim and Susie Reichek Hackett Rob and Michelle Reiner $500-$999 Sarah Doering Dorothy J. Richardson William Z. Abrams Jill Anne Dru=ond Marie Ridder Suzanne Adams Alice Du Plessis David C. Robbins Marc and Sarah Anderson Laura F. Dukess and Roger Schwed The Honorable John D. and Mrs. Albert Arent John C. Eddison Rockefeller IV Jean M. and Ray B. Auel Daniel and Toby Edelman Frank Roosevelt Nicole Avant JoAnn Eder Ann Rosewater Jonathan and Barbara Avnet Thomas and Mary Ehrlichmann Donna "Sugar" Routbord Ben and Rebecca Baker Marilyn M. Einhorn Harriet W. Rylaarsdam Laura Baker Scott D. Eller Ginneta Sagan William D. Ball Betty Davis Emerson Jennifer Glimpse Saltzman and Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Barker David E. Engel Michael Saltzman Martha Baskin Mary and Win Engel Vicki and Roger Sant Mary F. Bauman The Reverend Dana English William Scheide Jim A. Bazelon Mary Lloyd Estrin David Scher Joan Benavi Welcome S. Fawcett -Daniel and Lisbeth Schorr lona Benson Thomas Fenton Arnold Schwarzenegger Mrs. Anne Blankenhorn Rose Mary Finnegan Timothy Seldes Herbert L. Block Burton R. Fisher

Ann u aIR e p 0 r t 1 9 9 8 23 Randall and Ellen Frank Eppie Lederer Ursula T. Rolfe and Monroe Valerie J. Freeman Terry and Margaret Lenzner Strickberger Morris F. Friedell Paul and Carla Lerman Marla Romash and James O'Hara Beverly D. Galloway Paul and Kim Lesser Frederick and Evelyn Rooney Paul and Anna Mary Gamble Renee D. Lewis Mitchell A. Rose Denise Gardner Michael Libow Alexander Ross Dara Garner-Edwards Deborah De Berry Long Audrey M. Roth Laurie Garrett Allison Lyon-Segan and Lloyd Segan William M. Roth Vilma H. Garrett Betty S. MacColl Kennon and Nina Rothchild Elisa Gerarden and J. Gregory Halp Amy Madigan Sandra and Paul Rudnick Jim Gilchrist and Lynn Nichols John and Lillian Maguire Susan Russell Laurie G1imcher Dr. Ann C. Maney Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ruttenberg Elisabeth Pepper Gobin Robert and Theresa Manning Rosemary G. Ryan Mary L. Goodman Dr. Hermine Marshall Anne Rydlewicz Ethel M. Gordon Floyd and Ethel Massey Michael D. Scandrett Eugene and Jolinda Grace James L. McClelland and Heidi Stanley F. and Kay L. F. ScWozman Herbert G. Graetz Feldman Leonard Schneider Jude and Leonard Green Patricia McCorkle Robert Scholten Constance H. Greenfield Nancy Jean McCullough and Roger Selfe Marjorie Grinnell Thomas Hicks Edmund and Dorothy Seyfried Dr. and Mrs. Michael Gross Kim McLane and William M. Wardlaw Tom and Jennifer Shadyac Charles and Marion S. Guggenheim Charlotte McLure Shelby Shapiro Jacques Guicharnaud Kenneth Meardon Lewis B. Sheiner Najeeb E. Halaby Janice A. Meister Elizabeth J. Sherer Susan and Edward Harbert Horace and Gertrude Michelson RG.S. Silten Paul Hardy Patrice Miller Elizabeth Silverman Neison Harris Steven and Dolly Minter Marilyn M. Smith Rebecca Hatch and C. Kenneth David D. Mitchell RG. Solbert Purnell Ross Mongiardo Victor and Bonnie Sonder Roger D. Hatch and Joyce A. Baugh Richard and Maggie Moose Natalie Soref Barbara Hauck-Mah Alyce and Roy Mullen Jud Staller Anne Heck Barbara D. Murphy Jane B. Stavoe Edward D. Hess and Katherine L. James W. Murphy Brian and Lisa Steel Acuff Miriam T. Murtha David Stern Dr. and Mrs. Howard Hiatt Earl and Nancy Needhammer Donald M. and Isabel Stewart Elizabeth B. Hirsch Henry and Donna Neilley Erwin Stoff Joseph Hofheimer Maureen Nelson Sharon Stone Marian C. Hohenstein James and Virginia Newmyer Sophia H. Stone Anna Maria Horsford David Norr Jerome Storm Nataline Horwitz Mr. and Mrs. Gary Orfield Jean Taylor-Lescoe Sheila Hulseman Sandra K. Oriel Bruce Tobey and Rae Sanchini Allison Leigh Hunt Joan Palevsky Marcia Trainer Michelle Jackson Sharol Parish Laura D'Andrea Tyson Polly F. Jackson Lori Paulus Stephen and Yvonne Vance Delores Jenkins Daniela Pestova Elizabeth Wachs Carolyn L. Jensen Carolyn M. Peter Jessica Wagner Susan Joseph Martha Peterson IIseD. WaWe Peter and Kris Judd Susan J. Peterson Robert J. Waldinger Kenneth and Robin Kahrs Nancy Posel Suzanne Walker Colleen Kapklein J ames Potter Marcy Wilkov Waterman Carol and Peter E. Kaplan General and Mrs. Colin L. Powell Dawn Webster Anne B. Keiser Hugh B. Price Irving Weiser Kenny G Lilly Randolph Miles J. Weiss Lois Kimbol Susan Rappaport Martin J. Whitman Miriam B. Knox Mary Ratcliff T. Franklin and Catherine C. Williams Paul and Edith Kolton Lillian Redlich April Williamson James Koppel Diane L. Renfroe Dr. Dorothy Windhorst William J. Krause Paul Rheingold Kenneth 1. Winston and Mary Jo Bane Laura Parish Kuelthau Elizabeth Fleming Rhodes Judy Wise Todd M. and Dara Dannenberg Patricia Richardson Barbara Wiston La Porte Wendy Rockefeller Aileen R. Woodson John Landgraf and Ally Walker Martin W. Rodgers Rebecca Wright Kathryn Langston Johnathan A. Rodgers and Royal Pine Zachary and Rachel Trachten Maree Larson Kennedy Rodgers E. Goldsmith Zallian Patricia D. LeBlanc Dwight L. Rogers

24 Chi 1 d r en's D e fen s e Fun d Foundation Donors Columbus Medical Association The Cheeryhle Foundation Foundation Cinergy Foundation, Inc. $500,000 and Above The Diehold Foundation, Inc. The Community Foundation for the The Ford Foundation Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation National Capitol Region W.K Kellogg Foundation Fetzer Institute The Copen Family Fund Charles Stewart Mott Foundation For A Better Life Foundation Elizaheth and Thomas Cuthbertson The Rockefeller Foundation Gerlach Foundation, Inc. Fund J.R. Hyde Foundation Ethel and Irvin Edelman Foundation $100,000-$499,999 Ingram-White Castle Foundation Dorothy Epstein Charitable Booth Ferris Foundation The Andrew Jergens Foundation Lead Trust The California Endowment Marjorie Kovler Fund of the Blum- The Ettinger Foundation, Inc. Carnegie Corporation of New York Kovler Foundation Franklin M. & Ellen P. Fisher Fund The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Inc. Lear Family Foundation The Joseph C. and Esther Foster The Edna McConnell Clark AL. Mailman Family Foundation Foundation, Inc. Foundation MCA Foundation, LTD. Friedman Billings Ramsey Cleveland Foundation The Minneapolis Foundation Foundation, Inc. The Gerber Foundation The Northern Trust Company Gilbert B. Friesen Foundation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The Riordan Foundation G.T.R. & B. Charitable Foundation The Joyce Foundation James A and Kathleen C. Rutherford Lawrence and Jane Gelb Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. Foundation The Givens Foundation for Mrican MacArthur Foundation The Mike Sarfaty Charitable Trust American Literature The McKnight Foundation Samuel M. and Helene K. Soref Paul Goldstein Family and Children's The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Foundation Foundation The Streisand Foundation Audrey and Arthur Greenberg The William Penn Foundation The James Thorpe Foundation Philanthropic Fund Public Welfare Foundation Wasserman Foundation Robert and Shirley Harris Family The Riggio Foundation Foundation $5,000-$9,999 The Robin Hood Foundation Hartington Trust Sara Lee Foundation The Ahmanson Foundation Haworth Foundation, Inc. The Surdna Foundation, Inc. Edward Bazinet Foundation Teresa and H. John Heinz III Fund of The Bench Trail Fund the Heinz Family Foundation $50,000-$99,999 The Comer Family Foundation Irwin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation Altman Foundation Charles Dana Foundation, Inc. JKW Foundation The Columbus Foundation Willametta K Day Foundation The Joelson Foundation The George Gund Foundation Phoebe W. Haas Charitable Trust Katten, Muchin & Zavis J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust Adele and Mortimer Lebowitz Fund Foundation, Inc. The New York Community Trust Chas and Ruth Levy Foundation Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund Trace International Holdings, Inc. MCJ Foundation The Ruth M. Knight Foundation, Inc. Foundation Milken Family Foundation Eugene M. Lang Foundation The Tudor Foundation, Inc. The Daniel M. Neidich and Brooke Lion and Hare Fund The Norman and Rosita Winston Garher Neidich Foundation Leland T. Lynch and Terry Foundation, Inc. The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Saario Fund Foundation $25,000-$49,999 New Horizon Foundation The Raiser Foundation P.R.E. Foundation The Cameron Baird Foundation Richard Robinson and Helen Benham The Cissy Patterson Trust The Bush Foundation Charitable Trust Piersol Foundation, Inc. The Louis Calder Foundation The Shifting Foundation The Susan and Donald Rappaport Laura R. Chasin Fund Stefani's Children's Foundation Foundation Nancy Daly Foundation The Summit Foundation Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Educational Foundation of America The Walton Family Foundation Charitable Foundation Foundation for Child Development Charlotte and Arthur Zitrin Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. The Horace Goldsmith Foundation Foundation Lee and Nathan Rosenmutter Family Charles M. and Mary D. Grant Foundation Foundation $1,000-$4,999 Benjamin Rosenthal Foundation Greater Cincinnati Foundation Adams/Cowan Foundation John W. and Eva A Schulz Fund van Ameringen Foundation, Inc. The Adelson Foundation Segal Family Foundation The Edna Wardlaw Charitahle Trust The Arnold Baggins Foundation Silver Mountain Foundation Peleg S. Barber Fund $10,000-$24,999 for the Arts Barr Charitable Trust The Susan and Donald Babson The Stonebridge Foundation Gay Block and Malka Drucker TRW Foundation Charitable Foundation Philanthropic Fund Vanguard Public Foundation The Clayton Baker Trust Foundation Blue Heron Foundation William and Francoise Barstow Wertheimer Foundation The Braeside Foundation Susan Willens Family Fund Foundation California Community Foundation Otto Bremer Foundation The Marjorie Wyman Charitable Morton M. Celler/Jane Celler Fund Annuity Trust The California Wellness Foundation The Chazen Foundation

Ann u a IRe p 0 r t 1 9 9 8 25 $500-$999 Rhino Entertainment Company Glendale Federal Bank Edna Marie Allen Foundation Sony Music Entertainment Ha-Lo Creative Concepts in Marketing American Express Foundation Gift The Stride Rite Charitable Host Marriott Corporation Matching Program Foundation, Inc. IBM The Arent Charitable Foundation Teleglobe Imagine Entertainment The Jean Axelrod Memorial Universal Studios, Inc. Johnson Publishing Lazarus Dermatologic Product Foundation $10,000-$24,999 Claire Phillips Barnet Foundation, Inc. Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc. Applied Information Resources The Brener Family Foundation Metropolitan Life Foundation Air, Inc. James W. Brown/Gerald and NBC 4 The Chase Manhattan Foundation Catherine Brown Foundation Northern States Power Company • Children's Health Care Minneapolis The Clements Foundation OPTIONS Health Care, Inc. CITIBANK The David Family Foundation, Inc. Paramount Pictures Cummins Engine Foundation Margaret Dulany Fund The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund The Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Memorial Solomon Smith Barney Dayton Hudson Foundation Charitable Trust Scholastic, Inc. Discovery Communications, Inc. Louis J. and Ruth G. Herr Foundation Shell Oil Company The Walt Disney Company The Johnson Family Living Trust Star Tribune A. Finkl & Sons Co. John S. and James L. Knight Starbucks Foundation General Mills Foundation Foundation Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. Household International, Inc. Michael and Ronnie Levine The Tribune J asculcaJTerman and Associates, Inc. Philanthropic Fund United Parcel Service S.C. Johnson Wax Elaine & Donald Levinson Foundation Weisman Enterprises, Inc. Marquette National Bank The Philip J. and Carol J. Lyons WRC-TV Mattei Foundation Foundation MTV Networks $1,000-$4,999 Magowan Family Foundation, Inc. Northrop Grumman Corporation A&M Records, Inc. Phoebe Snow Foundation Norwest Bank Minnesota, N.A. America's Food Depository Barbara and Robert Preiskel Fund Pepsi-Cola ofWashington DC LP Ameritech The Seattle Foundation PolyGram Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. St. Louis Community Foundation The Quaker Oats Company Archwood, Inc. Thomas and Sally Troyer Fund Ronald McDonald House Charities Arista Records Hedy and Tom Whitney Family Fund Sears-Roebuck Foundation Bank of America Wolfensohn Family Foundation Sony Pictures Entertainment Bloom, Hergott, Cook, Diemer & Klein Corporate Donors Soras Fund Management LLC Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Southern California Edison BMGDirect $100,000 and Above Star Bank, N.A., Foundation Boeing Employees Good Neighbor The Citigroup Foundation Starbucks Coffee Company Fund of Seattle The Gerber Companies Foundation Texaco Foundation Broadcast Music, Inc. The Prudential Foundation United Hospital Fund of New York The Bubble Factory, Inc. The UPS Foundation, Inc. Burston-Marsteller $50,000-$99,999 Warner Brothers CBS AT&T Foundation Xerox Corporation Central City Productions, Inc. Levi Strauss Foundation Chancellor Media Corporation $5,000-$9,999 The Limited, Inc. Chubb & Sons, Inc. The Procter & Gamble Company Advocate Health & Hospital Citigroup, Inc. UCare Minnesota Corporation Clear Solutions, Inc. United Airlines American Airlines DDB Needham Entertainment Universal Pictures American Broadcasting East West Connection, Inc. Companies, Inc. Eastman Kodak Company $25,000-$49,999 Atlantic Richfield Company Employees Community Fund of Boeing Amblin Entertainment William Blair & Company Puget Sound American Express Foundation Booz-Allen & Hamilton Essence Communications, Inc. The Burton G. Bettingen Corporation Boston Bank of Commerce Fallon McElligott Castle Rock Entertainment Charitabulls Farmers Insurance Group The Coca-Cola Company Chas. Levy Company First National Bank of MD Fannie Mae Foundation Chicago Mercantile Exchange Forum Personnel, Inc. Fox Kids Worldwide, Inc. Creative Artists Agency, Inc. GE Capital Management Corporation KCMC Child Development Crestar Foundation General Electric Company Corporation Farmers and Mechanics Grant Thornton LLP Major League Baseball Properties National Bank Health Partners McDonald's Corporation First Union National Bank Hecht's NationsBank Corporation Freddie Mac Foundation KPMG Nordstrom Gerber Products Company KTTV/Fox 11

26 Chi 1 d r en's D e fen s e Fun d Mackay Envelope Corporation Organizational Donors Kinder Transport Association Mattei, Inc. Local 1199 Solidarity Fund Maverick Recording Company $100,000-$499,999 Mount Sinai Medical Center McGladrey & Pullen LLP Children's Charities of America National Grand Chapter O.E.S. McKinsey & Company, Inc. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits National Sorority ofPhi Delta Kappa, Inc. MENTOR New Prospect Foundation $25,000-$49,999 Morris & McVeigh LLP New York City Transit Authority MSNBC AARP Employee Charity Drive National Broadcasting Company $10,000-$24,999 The Northwest Ohio Association of the Nationwide Insurance Enterprise United Church of Christ Cincinnati Youth Collaborative Foundation Peninsula Community Foundation Halleland Lewis Nilan Spinkins & NBC Rider, Bennett, Egan & Arundel LLP Johnson P.A The Novick Group, Inc. Ryan Community Health Center National Smart Set Pacific Bell The Saint Paul Area Council of Churches People Magazine $5,000-$9,999 St. Adalbert Church PR21 American Federation of State, County United Way ofMinneapolis Area PWD, Inc. & Municipal Employees Women's Christian Alliance Rancho LaPuerta American Federation of Teachers Wright, Robinson, Osthimer & Tatum Dain Rauscher Investment Services Apostolic Church of God $500-$999 Shawmut Associates Trust ASCAP A Whole Lotta Singin', Inc. Silver Wave Records, Inc. CHUMS, Inc. Apostolic Faith Church SR Management Co. Hartford Memorial Baptist Church Arapaho United Methodist Church of SunAmerica Holy Family Institute Tenneco Richardson, TX International Union, UAW Benedictine Convent of Perpetual The Leitner Thomas Group Jewish Federation of Cincinnati Adoration of St. Louis, MO Time Warner, Inc. Maryland Charity Campaign Tol·O·Matic Best & Flanagan National Education Association California Family Health Council, Inc. Warner Music Group Services Navy Pier Cathedral Church of St. John Whatever Publishing, Inc. Service Employees International John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The Divine Union, AFL·CIO, CLC Community Christian Alternative Woodstock Corporation United Federation of Teachers Local 2, Academy $500-$999 AFL·CIO Ethical Culture Fieldston Schools The University of Chicago Hospitals ABJ Community Service, Inc. Family Focus, Inc. Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Becton Dickinson and Company Gay Street United Methodist Women N.S. Bienstock, Inc. $1,000-$4,999 ofMt. Vernon, OH Bingham Dana LLP African American AIDS Network Hennepin Faculty Associates Broadway Federal Bank Allina Health System International Association of Ernst & Young LLP America Sings!, Inc. Machinists Flowers Communications Group Antioch University Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc. Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Inc. Bearrington School, Inc. Jack & Jill ofAmerica, Inc. Grant Associates Behr and Abramson The Joint Religious Education and The Ann Hand Collection Board of Global Ministries of Research Fund Harza Engineering Company The United Methodist Church Law Offices of Gary, Williams, Health and Hospitals Corporation CDF Foundation Parenti, Finney, Lewis and LaCreche Early Childhood Chicago Dwellings Association McManus Centers, Inc. Church Related Early Childhood March of Dimes Les Trois Petits Cochons, Inc. Education Fellowship North Memorial Health Care LMLM,Inc. Communication Workers of America Second Baptist Church of Los Angeles LucasfIlm Ltd. Community Chest & Council, Inc. SEIU Local 660, AFL·CIO The McArdle Printing Company, Inc. Dispute Resolution Services Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Microhorizons Dorsey & Whitney LLP St. Michael Catholic Community Microsoft Matching Gifts Program The Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota United Auto Workers Region 2 Monsanto Company FHC Health Systems, Inc. United Way of King County AF. Notaris & Associates PC Flaherty & Koebele, P.A. West Central Minnesota Communities Pacific Enterprises Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc. Action, Inc. Pacific Western Productions, Inc. Greater Dallas Community of Churches Westminster Presbyterian Church of Robert A Perkins & Associates Greenberg Traurig Charlottesville, VA Pfizer, Inc. The H.E.L.P. Group Al Roker Productions Healthy Start Bequests Schering Sales Corporation Alitash Kebede Contemporary Art The Estate of Leon Fisher SSACC, Inc. Keller Graduate School of The Estate of Peggie Dwight Margaret Weber Consulting Management The Estates of George and Mary Women of Color, Inc. Sullivan Weaver

Ann u aIR e p 0 r t 1 9 9 8 27 Memorial Contributions Frank Giacumbo Odie Lee Neal Archie Goldman Christine Niednagel Sylvan Abbott Susan Goldman Edmond Notebaer David Astor Joseph Graltow Tatlin Parker Sue Ellen Baird Mrs. Gurwin Betty Jane Powell Herman Berger Marian Hairabedian Harold Rabinowitz Margaret Bourg Mark Harrington Ellen Raphael Barbara Mildren Breen Ruth Harris Samuel Rice Sylvia Breitborde Klaus Heberle Norma Miller Ringler Naomi Brodley Mother ofJanice Hicks-Slaughter Marie Rizzo Vera Bromley A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Judy Rocks Claire Brooks Eric Holder, Sr. Edith Ross William Edward Bryson Kevin Holland Alexandra Russell Michael Bullock, Sr. R. Gold Hor Ellen Schenker AI Caplan Gloria Kasten Richard Schmidt Pamela Chauvet Elsie Katz Harriet Shaffer Lydia Rose Cocher Christopher Jacob Klein Margaret Mary Seeley Ben Cohen Eli Kraft Marilyn Cohen Sobelman Verna Coffae Rosely Landers Hollis Stern Michael Connelly Mortimer Lebowitz Essie Sweevey Yvonne Cunningham Pearl Lerner Mr. Sadighi Walter Dawson Murray Lieberman Ralph Severino Franklin Wald Dembo Albert Little Ruth Silverberg Joan FitzGerald DuBois Mary Lowenthal Ruth Smith Harry Dworkin Hannah Luden Dorothy Sparrow Dorothy Fibush Ernest Lynton Rena Taub Myrtle M. Fisher Florence Mann E. Jean Wedge Arlene Flad Frances Marcus Adrienne L. Weinstein Ruth Seaman Fox Helen Elaine Marino Eve Lily Willman Jeanne Forde Jewell Maxie Louise Wimbush Mary and Kenneth Fowler Minnie Elizabeth McAlpine Jason Winley Jack Friedman Wayne McGowan Shannon Wright Ron Garner Naomi Miller Elliott Garr

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