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Help Provide After-School Enrichment to Young Minds

With your support, CDF can continue to provide vital summer and after-school enrichment that boosts student motivation to read and generates more positive attitudes towards learning through the CDF Freedom Schools^® program.

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Cradle to Prison Pipeline^® Campaign

The Cradle to Prison Pipeline campaign is a national and community crusade to engage families, youth, community leaders and institutions and those in power in every sector in the development of healthy, educated children. The Campaign advances policies that put children on track to productive adulthood and opposes those that criminalize children at younger and younger ages.

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Marian Wright Edleman

Interview with Marian Wright Edelman on the Cradle to Prison Pipeline^® Campaign

Cradle to Prison Pipeline^® Presentation

June 19, 2009 - June 19, 2009

Austin, TX

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. For more information, please contact CDF-Texas at (713) 664-4080.

The Children's Defense Fund Leave No Child Behind^® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. CDF provides a strong, effective and independent voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby or speak for themselves. We pay particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF educates the nation about the needs of children and encourages preventive investments before they get sick, drop out of school, get into trouble or suffer family breakdown. Read more...

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