Creating Change

• Support Extraordinary Students—Attend a Beat the Odds^® Awards Event!
  You can help support outstanding high school students by attending one of three Beat the Odds events this Fall. Not only do these awards events celebrate the scholarship recipients and their accomplishments, but publicly honoring these young people who have persevered through tremendous adversity provides positive role models for youths in similar situations. Learn more about events in Washington, DC, New York City and Los Angeles.
• CDF President Marian Wright Edelman's "What Are America's Real Values?"
  What is a child's life worth? What is a child's health worth? What is a child's spirit, battered by preventable suffering and chronic disease, worth? What are a child's hope and ability to learn worth? What are the true values of the world's richest nation that is so spiritually poor that it even debates whether it can afford to give all its children the basic right to health care? Read more...