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Every day 15,000 children die of preventable causes, and many of the 16 million U.S. children living in poverty enter school not prepared to succeed.

Will you help us change this?

Iconography_Spring2016_RGB_Advocacy_WhiteYour voice matters. In 2017, our supporters generated nearly 900,000 messages to lawmakers.

Those messages had a big impact. Together, we were able to protect funding for Head Start and child care programs in the 2017 budget and prevented millions of dollars in cuts to the 2017 budget to global health and nutrition programs for kids overseas. 

But there’s much more to be done. Learn about our campaigns.

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Urge your Members of Congress to raise the budget limit to let kids have a shot at the future they deserve

Urge Your Members of Congress to Cosponsor the Reach Act

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