I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Join us for a very special afternoon as Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, discusses CDF’s mission to ensure that every child has a healthy start, a head start, a safe start, and a moral start in life.

For half a century, Edelman and the Children’s Defense Fund have been the driving forces behind most of the laws and programs that have improved education and health care for children in the United States. Drawing on her own experience, Edelman insists that nurturing children is not the responsibility solely of either families or of government agencies but of everyone. This notion, summed up in the African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child”—which was popularized by early CDF staffer Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was First Lady—reminds us how important it is to protect the integrity and security of all communities. In a moving lecture profoundly…