Children Can’t Lobby Congress.
That’s Why We Fight for Them.
First Focus Campaign for Children mobilizes advocates, families, experts, and supporters to fight for policies that protect children’s health care, nutrition, education, safety, and economic security nationwide.
Your support helps power:
- Rapid-response advocacy when children’s health care, nutrition, and education are threatened
- Campaigns that hold lawmakers accountable for decisions impacting children and families
- Grassroots organizing and mobilization across states and communities
- Child-focused advocacy during federal budget and tax negotiations
- Public awareness campaigns elevating the real-life impact of policy decisions on children
- Strategic communications ensuring children remain visible in national debates
- Coalition-building with advocates, parents, researchers, and community leaders nationwide
$25
Helps amplify urgent child advocacy campaigns and rapid-response communications
$50
Supports grassroots organizing and digital mobilization protecting children and families
$100
Helps power federal advocacy campaigns focused on children’s health care, nutrition, and economic security
$250
Supports national coalition efforts holding leaders accountable for decisions affecting children
$500
Helps sustain year-round advocacy infrastructure fighting for children nationwide
WHAT’S AT STAKE
Every day, federal decisions shape whether children:
 | have health care |
 | have enough food to eat |
 | can access quality education |
 | live in stable housing |
 | grow up in safe and healthy communities |
But children do not have lobbyists. They do not have PACs. They do not have political power.
Too often, children become an afterthought in Washington.
First Focus Campaign for Children exists to change that.
We work to ensure children’s needs are visible, urgent, and impossible to ignore.
Real-world impact
- Elevated national awareness around child poverty and family economic security
- Advocated for stronger Child Tax Credit policies benefiting millions of families
- Mobilized advocates around protecting children’s health care and nutrition programs
- Helped keep children’s issues visible during major federal budget and tax negotiations
- Built bipartisan coalitions focused on children’s well-being
| Millions of children impacted by the policies we fight to protect and strengthen |
| National advocacy infrastructure focused exclusively on children |
| Year-round federal engagement protecting children’s well-being |
Become a Children’s Action Network Member
Monthly supporters help sustain rapid-response advocacy and year-round action protecting children when critical federal decisions are being made.