Focus Area: Advocacy in Early Childhood
Grant Amount: $5,000
Based in St. Paul, serves statewide. Children’s Defense Fund of Minnesota is the Minnesota branch of the national organization founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman. CDF-MN is dedicated to equity and is home to the Voices and Choices Coalition for Children, which focuses on young BIPOC children and their families. It publishes the Minnesota edition of Kids Count, an annual collection of data about Minnesota children
Grant supports raising the presence and power of voices of Black, Indigenous, and families of color in early childhood care and education advocacy. CDF-MN will build on its engagement work with families from low-income households and BIPOC communities across the state to ensure community voices actively inform coalitions that impact early childhood policy.