It is time for another Eco Child’s Play donation on behalf of our readers and writers.  This month, I have selected the Children’s Defense Fund for a small contribution.

The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind^® mission is 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.

The Children’s Defense Fund is currently working on the following policy initiatives:

• End Child Poverty
• Ensure Every Child and Pregnant Woman Access to Affordable, Seamless, Comprehensive Health and Mental Health Coverage and Services
• Provide High Quality Early Childhood Development Programs for All
• Ensure Every Child Can Read at Grade Level by Fourth Grade and Guarantee Quality Education through High School Graduation
• Protect Children from Abuse and Neglect and Connect Them to Caring Permanent Families
• Stop the Criminalization of Children at Increasingly Younger Ages and Invest in Prevention and Early Intervention

If you would like to suggest a charitable organization that works for children and/or the environment for our next donation, please leave a comment to this post.