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	Awards : All About ACM : Association of Children's Museums
		Although the Great Friend to Kids Award is traditionally given to individuals, the not-for-profit company, Children's Television Workshop (CTW), was selected for the 1999 award for its significant contribution to the life-long learning of children and families through an incredibly successful array of media products.
		She was the driving force behind the 1990 Children's Television Act, a law passed by Congress to set limits on advertising geared toward children and to require that educational programming be aired for children.
		Boyer authored landmark books including: High School: A Report on Secondary Education; College: The Undergraduate Experience; Campus Life; Scholarship Reconsidered; Ready to Learn, and The Basic School--all of which have left an indelible stamp on American education.
	www.childrensmuseums.org /GFTK.htm

	Children's Defense Fund
		The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind and 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.
		If funding for the program is cut, more children will be left behind due to the effects of lead poisoning, which diminishes the ability to think, concentrate and make progress in school."
		As the report discusses, lead, while poisonous to all living things, is particularly dangerous to unborn babies and children under age six because it disrupts development of the brain and other organs, including the nervous system.
	www.childrensdefense.org /pressreleases/040405.aspx

	THE BATTLE OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE / Gay marriage ill-suited for kids, group argues
		The judge cautioned them that he was not inclined to consider evidence on the social impact of same-sex marriage, but Thursday's filing by the Alliance Defense Fund cited research purporting to show that children in such marriages were worse off than children in conventional marriages.
		In papers filed in San Francisco Superior Court, the Alliance Defense Fund also contended that if gay and lesbian couples could legally marry, the same rationale could be used to justify incestuous marriages and polygamy.
		The Arizona-based organization represents the Proposition 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund, named for the 2000 ballot measure that reaffirmed the definition of marriage approved by the California Legislature in 1977.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/11/05/BAG2L9M6DL1.DTL

	Alliance Defense Fund: Destroying Families
		In the first tragic example, the ADF awarded funds to "Karen"* to help pay for an expert witness to testify against her husband, "Susan" in a child custody dispute.
		Fortunately the efforts of the ADF failed and "Susan" is allowed unsupervised, face-to-face visits with her children.
		Whether splitting apart a family by denying a father the right to see his children is less harmful than children seeing their father sexually reassigned is debatable.
	www.postfun.com /pfp/adf.html

	Freedom Alliance
		The Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund honors the bravery and dedication of Americans who have sacrificed life or limb in the defense of our country by providing scholarships to their children.
		Dulles, VA– "Today the House of Representatives stood on the side of the American public when it voted to cut funding for the United Nations unless the organization makes real progress toward reform.
		Freedom Alliance Scholarship recipient Natasha Colbert is the daughter of Marlon and Tonya Colbert, both who served dutifully in the United States Air Force.
	www.freedomalliance.org

	TavisTalks.com Press Releases
		In 1950, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund led African-American parents in five state cases (Topeka, KS, Clarendon, S.C., Wilmington, DE, Prince Edward Co., VA, and Washington, D.C.) to the U.S. Supreme Court, demanding the right of black children to attend white neighborhood schools.
		The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) was founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall.
		LOS ANGELES (March 29, 2004) &; Television and radio host Tavis Smiley and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund will convene a diverse panel of legal, academic and social justice experts to ruminate on the “unfinished agenda” of the landmark Brown v.
	www.tavistalks.com /TTcom/press_rel_042104.html

	Environmental Defense Fund and children's environmental health
		Please note: the information presented above was provided and reviewed for accuracy by Environmental Defense Fund and was not verified independently by the Children's Environmental Health Network.
		The mission of the Environmental Defense Fund is to prevent environmentally induced harm to human populations.
		Below is a list of Environmental Defense Fund's priority issues, activities, and target audiences.
	www.cehn.org /cehn/resourceguide/edf.html (107 words)

	Remarks of Rep. Scott on the Commemoration of Brown Vs. Board of Education
		The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund was there with the filing of Brown, and it remains vigilant, and on the case today, with this commemoration of the spirit of Brown to once again fight to have all children properly educated.
		So, I am delighted that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is instituting this initiative to remind people that the fight for equal opportunity did not end with Brown.
		A philosopher once noted that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." So, I am delighted that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is instituting this initiative to remind people of what Brown was all about and that the fight for equal educational opportunity did not end with Brown.
	www.house.gov /scott/press/remarks_Brown_vs_Board_of_Education.htm (107 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Save the Children Fund
		Shalala also chaired the Children's Defense Fund, and in 1993 she was selected by President Bill Clinton (1993-2001) to be secretary of health and...
		United Nations Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) organization founded by the United Nations in 1946 to provide food, clothing, and rehabilitative programs to...
		Map of United Nations Children’s Fund (map of member countries)
	encarta.msn.com /Save%2bthe%2bChildren%2bFund.html (107 words)

	Project: A-Kon - Sunday - Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
		Project: A-Kon - Sunday - Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
		At Project: A-Kon, Adam Richards of the fund said there was better news on that front: the harassment had stopped after a fund attorney had informed police that their action was essentially a form of illegal search and seizure.
		"Even though the comic was marketed to children, all it takes is someone to say it's obscene," he noted.
	www.fansview.com /2000d/060400e.htm (290 words)

	Katsucon Saturday - Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
		However, Chris Oarr, executive director of the defense fund, had a warning at Katsucon: the uninhibited nature of some anime and manga is drawing attention from those who want to shut it down, especially those who still hold the belief that all comics and cartoons should be for children only.
		Katsucon Saturday - Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
		The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund makes infrequent appearances at anime conventions.
	www.fansview.com /2000a/021200c.htm (339 words)

	Joy's Japanimation: Why You Should Join the COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
		At his trial, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund brought in expert witnesses for the defense to testify how there are some comic books that are not for children, how manga is an artform, and how it was protected by the First Amendment.
		The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is dedicated to protecting both the creators, so their original artistic visions can be left intact, and the retailers who bring them to you.
		The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has already spent $40,000 in legal fees trying to defend Jesus Castillo and your right as an adult to buy any manga you might be interested in.
	www.joysjapanimation.com /storeinfo/cbldf.shtml (678 words)

	NEWSARAMA - STEVE GEPPI JOINS CBLDF BOARD
		It's good to see the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund being proactive.
		Standing before the audience at the beginning of the evening banquet, CBLDF President Chris Staros said, “As Top Shelf and as a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, I've witnessed first hand what we can accomplish as a community and what we can do when we rally around a cause.
		Comics were blamed for impairing the development of our children and contributing to juvenile delinquency.
	www.newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18004 (1289 words)

	The SF Site: An Interview With Neil Gaiman
		Without the Legal Defense Fund, things would be so much worse.
		THE LAST ANGEL TOUR is projected to raise over $50,000 to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
		Gaiman has also expended a considerable amount of time and energy raising money for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), a non-profit organization which defends the First Amendment rights of artists, retailers, and other comic-book professionals.
	www.sfsite.com /10a/ng90.htm (3984 words)

	Comics2Film - CBLDF Chairman Speaks Out
		For those of you not familiar with the Comic Book Legal Defense fund (CBLDf), it's a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the First Amendment rights of members of the comics community.
		Comic books are often perceived as a form of media directed solely at children, instead of being given recognition as an and literature form.
		Milton Griepp has been in and around the comic book industry for over thirty years; his successful ventures include building Capital City Distribution from the ground up into a multi-million dollar corporation, and his current project, the website ICv2.com.
	www.comics2film.com /StoryFrame.php?f_id=1830&f_sec=16 (630 words)

	Africana Lesson Plan: Civil Rights Movement #1: Brown v. Board of Education: The Making of a Supreme Court Decision
		Painter." (The teacher may also want to have each student read the articles "NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund" and "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" as background.) Each student should read one of the articles and choose the main points to share with his or her group.
		Board of Education decision and depicts black mothers and children walking through picket lines of white parents protesting the integration of the schools in Baltimore, Maryland.
		Board of Education marked the end of legal segregation in the United States, but what we do not often see are the years of planning, preparation, and coordination that went into making this monumental decision a reality.
	www.africana.com /blackboard/bb_his_000140.htm (630 words)

	4 No. 75: Amber Paynter &c., et al. v. State of New York, et al.
		The educational outcomes plaintiffs describe lead us to conclude by joining in the sentiment, expressed by the Appellate Division, of sympathy "to the efforts of the parents of these students to secure the best education possible for their children" (290 2 at 96).
		In Judge Simons' view, it was up to the State to determine the meaning of a sound basic education, and this Court should not review an action under the Education Article unless a “'gross and glaring inadequacy in State funding'” was alleged (86 2 at 340).
		Education, as the means of improving the moral and intellectual faculties, is, under all circumstances, a subject of the most imposing considerations.
	www.law.cornell.edu /ny/ctap/I03_0085.htm (630 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND
		The fund has also conducted research and published documents on the legal rights of Mexican Americans and disseminated a newsletter, MALDEF.
		The court held that the children were protected under the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and were entitled to a public education.
		San Antonio Independent School District was tried before the United States Supreme Court, civil-rights proponents suffered a major defeat when the court ruled against equal financing of education.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/MM/jom1.html (630 words)

	2005 shows - WikiSCUM
		August 12 - Uzi Suicide, 7 Generations, Acts of Sedition, The Answer Lies, Rosenbombs and Assailing Traitor Skies at the 418 Project a/a $6 7:30pm (benefit for Peter Young Legal Defense Fund)
		June 4 - Outraged, I Object (N.Y.), Uzi Suicide, Chuck Norris (Canada), Proton Cannon, Childrens Crusade, Send Em To The Cemetary at the 418 Project.
		August 15 - Drag The River, Bright Black Sky, Steven N. Griswold and Static Revolution at Moe's Alley, 21+ $7 8:30pm (Benefit Homeless Garden Project and the West Memphis Three's Defense)
	scum.wikicities.com /wiki/2005 (3740 words)

	The Home School Foundation
		Home School Legal Defense Association was founded in 1983 to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms.
		We are currently seeking to help families through seven funds: the Widows Fund, the Special Needs Children’s Fund, the Friends of Home Schooling Fund, the Generation Joshua Fund, the Compassion Fund, the PHC Scholarship Fund, and the Members Helping Members Fund.
		The HSF was founded by the Home School Legal Defense Association and is a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation initially established in 1992 to promote home schooling and bless the home school movement.
	www.homeschoolfoundation.org /about.asp (255 words)

	unicef.html
		From a tiny operation supplying children with dried milk in the aftermath of World War II, the United Nations Childrens' Fund (UNICEF) has become the leading international advocate for the survival, protection and development of children, providing some US$800 million in assistance to projects and relief efforts around the world.
		The defense of children against cruelty, injustice and exploitation - an international campaign championed by UNICEF - continues to break new ground in human rights.
		In a climate marked by escalating East-West tensions, the ex-Allies had initially resisted funding a UN effort that provided relief to citizens of Eastern as well as Western Europe.
	www.unpi.com /unicef.html (193 words)

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		The Global Fund for Women is a grantmaking foundation supporting women's human rights organizations around the world working to address critical issues such as gaining economic independence, increasing girls access to education and stopping violence against women.
		In addition to programs for classrooms and parent groups, LVEP offers special materials for street children, children affected by war, and children affected by earthquakes.
		Malidoma Somé is a fully initiated Shaman of the Dagara Tribe of West Central Africa, and the holder of two PhD's from the Sorbonne in Paris and Brandies University in Boston.
	www.global-leadership.com /resources (13928 words)

	The Body: AIDS Law Updates
		Catherine Hanssens is the AIDS Project Director at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a national organization committed to achieving the full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, and people with HIV/AIDS through impact litigation, education, and public policy work.
		The Rutherford Institute, a conservative, anti-gay legal organization based in Virginia, supported the litigation on behalf of the plaintiff parents and children and vowed to seek review of the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
		The First Circuit Court of Appeals (covering ME, MA, NH, RI and Puerto Rico) rejected arguments that the program violated parents' constitutional rights to the free exercise of religion and to control their children's exposure to sexually-explicit material, or that it constituted sexual harassment.
	www.thebody.com /hanssens/updates.html (13928 words)

	Ten Commandments Defense Fund - Help Save America
		I get nothing from this except the hope that the Ten Commandments will win and America's freedom will be preserved for my children, my grandchildren, and your children and your grandchildren and all our posterity and our freedoms which have made America great.
		As would be expected by a legal group who seem to have functioned for some fifty years as an enemy of God and our beloved country the ACLU (functioning as some call them the Anti-Christian Ligitation Uglies) has filed a lawsuit to have this beautiful monument removed and declared unconstitutional.
		The Chief Justice who knows the law, is in charge of the entire state, who is charged to interrupt the law made a perfectly legal decision to display the Ten Commandments among other historical documents on this one monument.
	www.helpsaveamerica.com /ten-comm-defense.htm (2207 words)

	JWA - Justine Wise - Children's Defense Fund
		Both black and white children had been raped, burned with cigarettes and tortured by adult inmates." And as Polier reminded people across the nation, this situation was by no means atypical.
		In one Southern state Polier found that "black children were thrown into jails with black adults charged with crimes and white children were thrown into jails with white adults charged with crimes rather than place black and white children together.
		Then there was this request...to try to get the problems of children before the public.
	www.jwa.org /exhibits/wov/wise/jp12.html (254 words)

	Children's Defense Fund
		The Children's Defense Fund's logo is an illustration by 7-year-old Maria Coté.
		In Maria's drawing, a bright sun shines on a tiny, solitary boat adrift on a wide sea.
	www.childrensdefense.org (391 words)

	Environmental Defense Fund and children's environmental health
		Please note: the information presented above was provided and reviewed for accuracy by Environmental Defense Fund and was not verified independently by the Children's Environmental Health Network.
		The mission of the Environmental Defense Fund is to prevent environmentally induced harm to human populations.
		Below is a list of Environmental Defense Fund's priority issues, activities, and target audiences.
	www.cehn.org /cehn/resourceguide/edf.html (107 words)

	Iraq Oil Money Invested, returning an annual equal Dividend to all children and adults in Iraq by 2006.
		Hammond made the remark after delivering a history and defense of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend to the annual conference of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network.
		The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend indirectly comes from the 1862 Morrill Land Grant School Funding Endowment, passed during the United States Civil War, to fund schools forever and therefore, end ignorance and war!
		Alaska Fund for Dividends not for gov't spending jay_hammond_ak_dividend.rm
	www.iraqdividend.com (1134 words)

	Children's Defense Fund
		Mon, Nov 15: Children's Defense Fund and 72 Organizations Petition Congress To Restore $1.1 Billion in Insurance Funds for Children
		Moments in the lives of children struggling to make it to adulthood.
		Fri, Nov 5: “Beat the Odds®” Alumni Meet in Washington to Discuss How America Can Help Children Overcome Poverty and Family Setbacks
	www.childrensdefense.org (1134 words)

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