Action Alert
Secure the Future - Invest in Every Child
In the richest nation on earth, 9 million children are without health coverage and more than 13 million live in poverty. We must demand that our leaders commit to helping children as a condition of our vote.
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Randa
Randa, was 18 when she arrived in the U.S. alone from Yemen. Despite several hurdles, she took classes at night and on weekends to graduate from Lee high school in 3 years. Read more
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Feefelobari
Feefelobari is a Nigerian civil war refugee. With perseverance and determination she is thriving, graduating in the top 5% of her class and contributing extensive community service. Read more
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Rudy
Rudy was born in the U.S. but grew up in Mexico where he attended a very poor school that provided next to no education. Rudy compensated by reading huge amounts of information independently to teach himself years' worth of material in less than one month. Read more
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Yahir
Yahir has overcome the trauma and personal insecurity of coping with a physical handicap. Read more
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Paul
Paul lives with a significant learning disability that he has struggled to overcome through hard work and sheer determination. Read more
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Rebecca Parish
Most children grow up being taken care of by their parents, but for Rebecca, it’s been the other way around. Read more
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Nathan Cabrera
Nathan Cabrera has never really had a childhood—he’s had to be mature and responsible almost his entire life. Read more
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Michael Roberts
When Michael left school each afternoon, he often didn’t know where he was going to sleep that night. Despite the difficult home environment, Michael has excelled both in the classroom and as a top athlete. Read more
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Nakea Paige
Nakea Paige went from being an angry, insecure child to a self determined, well-educated, beautiful young woman. Read more
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Kapria Lee
Kapria Lee says that her life has taught her that nothing is impossible. Read more
Youth Development & Leadership Training
Policy in action is a distinguishing CDF characteristic. Through nationwide initiatives and community-based programs, we plant the seeds to develop the next generation of servant-leaders who will continue to reweave the fabric of community for children and youth. Our vision is to create a successor generation of servant-leaders who will drive community and national transformations and inspire and make long-term improvements for children.
Are You Looking for an Exciting and Meaningful Internship this Fall?
CDF offers internships in its national and state offices in a variety of areas including policy, communications outreach, and CDF's Freedom Schools® program. Interns are essential to CDF's operations and previous CDF interns have gone on to lead national and international organizations, be elected to federal and municipal government, found and run nonprofits and change the lives of children in amazing ways.
Learn more about CDF's internship programs and apply today!
CDF Trains Young Adults in Community Organizing
In March 2009, young adults from across the country attended the 2009 Young Advocate Leadership Training (YALT®) program at CDF Haley Farm. The training focused on organizing communities and campuses around health care reform in 2009, especially health care reform for children. Participants developed their own customized action plans to organize a variety of activities to support health reform such as meeting with elected officials, letter writing campaigns, petition drives, rallies and collecting personal stories to deliver to elected officials. Learn more about the YALT program.
Join Other New Leaders at This Year's Proctor Institute
CDF's Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry invites the next generation of religious leaders to step forward for children as the New Leaders of the Joshua and Deborah Generation and continue the mission of building the blessed community through the vocations of ministry and child advocacy. Learn more about the Joshua and Deborah Generation track at the Proctor Institute and how you can apply.
CDF Celebrates Four Minnesotans Who "Beat the Odds"
CDF-Minnesota celebrated four deserving Twin Cities young people as the 2009 recipients of CDF's Beat the Odds® scholarships. Each one told their inspiring stories at CDF-Minnesota's 17th annual Beat the Odds Awards Dinner on March 12. The CDF Beat the Odds program honors outstanding high schools students who have overcome tremendous adversity, demonstrated academic excellence and given back to their communities. Learn more about the event and their moving stories.
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