CDF Events
Upcoming CDF Events
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03/12/10 - 03/12/10
CDF-Minnesota Beat the Odds® Awards Dinner 2010
On Friday, March 12, 2010 CDF Minnesota will host its eighteenth annual Beat the Odds awards dinner and celebration by honoring four more deserving high school seniors with a $4,000 college scholarship. -
04/14/10 - 04/14/10
Dallas Beat the Odds® Celebration 2010
CDF-TX will host its first ever Beat the Odds scholarship awards in Dallas at the Tower Club to honor extraordinary youth in the Dallas area. -
04/15/10 - 04/15/10
Houston Beat the Odds® Awards Dinner 2010
CDF-TX will celebrate our eleventh annual Beat the Odds scholarship awards in Houston at the Westin Oaks Hotel. The dinner will honor Philamena and Arthur Baird and award college scholarships to six extraordinary Houston area youth. -
07/19/10 - 07/23/10
16th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry
The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry provides five days of spiritual renewal, continuing education, inter-generational movement-building workshops, and networking as Christians from across the denominational spectrum explore how their Christian faith calls them into ministries of child advocacy and guides, shapes, and sustains them in their work with and for children. -
10/15/10 - 10/17/10
National Observance of Children's Sabbaths® Weekend
The National Observance of Children's Sabbaths weekend unites thousands of religious communities across the nation in celebrating our children. This annual, multi-faith holiday provides the opportunity for communities of faith to strengthen existing efforts for children, discover new opportunities, and respond to the Divine mandate to nurture, protect, and advocate for all children.
Past CDF Events
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12/03/09 - 12/03/09
Los Angeles Beat the Odds® Awards 2009
This heartfelt event at the Beverly Hills Hotel will introduce you to five incredible Los Angeles area high school students who are being honored for their personal hard work, academic excellence and perseverance despite the tremendous obstacles they face in their daily lives. -
11/17/09 - 11/17/09
CDF-New York 2009 Beat the Odds® Awards Breakfast
The New York Beat the Odds event will honor four New York City high school seniors who are succeeding and moving on to college despite overwhelming obstacles such as poverty, violence, family breakup, or substance abuse. -
11/10/09 - 11/10/09
Washington, D.C. Beat the Odds® Awards Dinner 2009
The Beat the Odds award dinner publicly honors young people in the DC-area who are overcoming tremendous obstacles in their lives while working hard, demonstrating academic excellence, and giving back to their communities. -
11/06/09 - 11/08/09
Champions for Children's Health Stroller Brigade - Nationwide
Join the Children’s Defense Fund and child advocates across the country for Champions for Children’s Health Stroller Brigades where we will “stroll” and make our voices heard for all of America’s children. -
11/04/09 - 11/04/09
Champions for Children's Health Stroller Brigade - Washington, DC
Join the Children’s Defense Fund and child advocates across the country for Champions for Children’s Health Stroller Brigades where we will “stroll” and make our voices heard for all of America’s children. -
10/27/09 - 10/27/09
Women’s Advocacy Action Network Third Annual Advocacy Day
The Women’s Advocacy Action Network will host the Third Annual Advocacy Day at the Ohio Statehouse Atrium. This event will bring together more than 150 child advocates to learn new advocacy skills and meet with legislators to discuss the importance of services such as the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act and comprehensive health coverage for children throughout Ohio. -
10/20/09 - 10/20/09
Bridge to Benefits Conference
This conference is a chance for Bridge to Benefits partners from Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota to learn about recent updates to the B2B project, promising B2B screening practices, and B2B work support programs. The conference will also share recent data from CDF Minnesota’s 2009 KIDS COUNT report and make the case for using B2B to make policy changes. -
10/14/09 - 10/15/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Louisiana Summit
CDF–Louisiana is sponsoring the second annual Cradle to Prison Pipeline Summit for Louisiana. The Summit’s goal is to develop powerful strategies to dismantle the Pipeline by examining potential solutions and creating a strategic plan for Louisiana. -
10/09/09 - 10/09/09
Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit: South Carolina
Sponsored by: South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs
The Columbia Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit will address the nationwide crisis, its devastating impact on children, youth and their families, particularly within Columbia communities and identify effective strategies to dismantle the pipeline. -
10/02/09 - 10/04/09
Young Advocate Leadership Training (YALT®) Program
The YALT program is a three-day, intensive organizing training that will connect young adults with CDF’s legislative campaigns and priorities, specifically around education reform and health coverage for all children and pregnant women. Participants will be taught new tactics and strategies that can be implemented in their communities and on their college campuses. -
09/30/09 - 09/30/09
Pine Belt Area Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit
This Summit will focus on the pipeline to prison’s devastating impact on children, youth and their families, particularly within the Pine Belt community and identify effective strategies to dismantle the pipeline. -
09/24/09 - 09/24/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Dayton Regional Meeting
The Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Dayton regional meeting is being held as a follow up to the CDF-Ohio Statewide Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit in September 2008. This meeting will bring members of the Dayton area community together to identify and prioritize circumstances that contribute to youths’ entrance into the pipeline; examine potential solutions and develop a strategic plan to address one or two of these circumstances. -
09/22/09 - 09/22/09
2009 Minnesota KIDS COUNT Data Book Release
CDF-Minnesota will release the 2009 Minnesota KIDS COUNT Data Book on September 22, 2009. This annual publication provides state data as well as data from all 87 counties on a variety of indicators that show how well Minnesota's children and families are faring. This year's book will also highlight the steep rise in child poverty in the state since 2000. -
09/17/09 - 09/17/09
America’s Pipeline to Prison: “How to Change Its Course”
The panel will explore the systemic causes of the pipeline, the impact it has had on Black males and our communities, and explore ways to dismantle this pipeline. This intergenerational dialogue is open to the public. -
09/13/09 - 09/13/09
New York Liberty Benefit Game
Join the WNBA in supporting the work of the Children’s Defense Fund – New York while enjoying a New York Liberty game. -
09/10/09 - 09/10/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Columbus Regional Meeting
The Cradle to Prison Pipeline Columbus Regional Meeting will bring members of the Columbus area community together to identify and prioritize circumstances that contribute to youths’ entrance into the pipeline; examine potential solutions and develop a strategic plan to address one or two of these circumstances. -
09/09/09 - 09/11/09
2009 Family Preservation Institute Conference
Sponsored by: New Mexico State University
CDF-Texas will be presenting on Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline at the 2009 Family Preservation Institute Conference in Houston. -
07/15/09 - 07/15/09
Mississippi 2009 Lookin' to the Future Conference
Sponsored by: Mississippi Department of Human Services and Southern Christian Services
The 2009 Lookin' to the Future Conference will convene hundreds of social workers from across the state with an independent living component for the foster children. CDF-Southern Regional Office will lead a Cradle to Prison Pipeline® workshop for both the professional attendees as well as a youth tract component for the teens in foster care that will be in attendance. -
07/13/09 - 07/13/09
CDF Freedom Schools® National Day of Social Action 2009
On July 13, 2009, nearly 12,000 youths across the nation held rallies, marches, Congressional visits, and letter-writing campaigns urging Congress to support health reform for all children as part of the CDF Freedom Schools National Day of Social Action 2009. -
07/10/09 - 07/10/09
Delta Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit
CDF-SRO will host the Delta Cradle to Prison Pipeline Summit to address the nationwide crisis, its devastating impact on children, youth and their families, particularly within Delta communities and identify effective strategies to dismantle the pipeline. -
06/25/09 - 06/25/09
Health Care '09
Sponsored by: Health Care for America Now
On June 25th, 2009, thousands of grassroots people will join Health Care for American Now in Washington, DC to lobby every Member of Congress in support of quality, affordable health care for all. -
06/19/09 - 06/19/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Presentation
Sponsored by: State Bar of Texas
CDF-Texas will deliver a Cradle to Prison Pipeline presentation at the Texas State Bar conference in Austin, TX. The focus of conference is juvenile justice and education. -
06/13/09 - 06/13/09
Meridian Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit
CDF-Southern Regional Office will host a summit addressing the nationwide Cradle to Prison Pipeline crisis, its devastating impact on children, youth and their families, particularly within Meridian communities and identify effective strategies to dismantle the pipeline. -
05/28/09 - 05/28/09
CDF-Louisiana Beat the Odds® Awards Event 2009
CDF-LA will honor outstanding young people who have overcome tremendous obstacles in their lives while working hard, demonstrating academic excellence, and giving back to their communities at the 2009 CDF-LA Beat the Odds Awards Event. -
05/07/09 - 05/07/09
May 2009 Mother's Day Children's Health Reform Child Watch Day
As our nation prepared to celebrate Mother’s Day, a group of prominent Hollywood women—including Jessica Alba, Regina King, Keri Russell, Jurnee Smollett, Ali Wentworth and others—joined Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman and Michelle Fenty, attorney and Washington, DC, First Lady, on a children’s health reform Child Watch day in Washington, DC. -
04/22/09 -
CDF-Texas 10th Annual Beat the Odds® Awards Dinner 2009
CDF-Texas will host its tenth anniversary Beat the Odds celebration in Houston to award college scholarships to six extraordinary high school seniors, and honor Marilyn and George DeMontrond as Champions of Children. Raye White will serve as Honorary Chair of the 2009 awards dinner to be held at the River Oaks Country Club. -
04/21/09 - 04/21/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Oklahoma Summit
Sponsored by: City of Tulsa, Oklahoma
CDF’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign is a national call to action to stop the funneling of tens of thousands of youth, predominantly minorities, down life paths that often lead to arrest, conviction, incarceration and, in some cases, death. This Summit will address the nationwide crisis, its devastating impact on children, youth and their families, particularly within Oklahoma communities and identify effective strategies to dismantle the pipeline. -
04/18/09 -
2009 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
CDF's Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, has been chosen as the site of the 2009 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture, delivered by Walter Dean Myers. -
04/17/09 - 04/17/09
National Civil Rights Briefing on Strengthen the Health of the Nation's Children
A Capitol Hill briefing at which national civil rights groups joined forces in a call for action to strengthen the health of the nation’s children. On the occasion of Minority Health Month, AAJC, CDF, NAACP, NCAI, and NCLR urge Congress to cover remaining millions of uninsured children. -
04/06/09 - 04/17/09
Health Coverage for All Children Campaign Events
Across the country, CDF is working with the Health Care for America Now coalition to organize events during this Congressional recess with Members of Congress to make sure they know beyond a shadow of a doubt we need real health care reform and we need it now. -
03/20/09 - 03/22/09
Young Advocate Leadership Training (YALT®) Program
YALT is a three-day intensive training that will connect young leaders with each other, community organizers, child advocates and activists from around the country to learn new advocacy skills, models, and strategies that can be implemented in your communities back home and on your college campuses to help children and strengthen families. -
03/12/09 - 03/12/09
CDF-Minnesota Beat the Odds® Awards Dinner 2009
CDF-Minnesota will host its 17th Annual Beat the Odds Awards Dinner to honor four exceptional Twin Cities high school seniors who have overcome tremendous adversity to succeed in both school and life. This year's event will be emceed by Minnesota Public Radio personality Kerri Miller. -
02/26/09 - 02/27/09
National/California Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit
This two-day summit in Sacramento, California on February 26-27, 2009 convened more than 500 attendees who shared promising approaches and developed community action plans to stop the funneling of thousands of children down a pipeline to prison. -
02/11/09 - 02/11/09
CDF-NY's Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit, "Connecting the Neighborhood-based Dots"
On February 11, 2009, more than 400 people attended CDF-NY's summit, "Connecting the Neighborhood-based Dots: Promoting Solutions to Dismantle the Pipeline to Prison." The summit focused on public awareness regarding the urgent need to address the systemic issues which are driving children from New York's poorest communities into New York's juvenile detention centers, the need to invest in successful community based alternatives to detention and promising solutions and neighborhood based approaches to dismantling the pipeline.
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