Foundation for Child Development

The Foundation for Child Development is a United States-based non-profit organization which promotes good child development.

Foundation for Child Development
Motto"Promotes good child development"
Formation1899
TypeNon-profit
HeadquartersNew York, NY, United States
Chairman
H. Melvin Ming
Key people
  • Vivian L. Gadsden
  • Marilou Hyson
  • Jill Baker,
Revenue (2015)
$4,065,317[1]
Expenses (2015)$6,714,759[1]
Websitewww.fcd-us.org

History and name

The organization began as a volunteer community project in 1899, then in 1908 was established as the Association for the Aid of Crippled Children.[2] The goal of the organization then was to support disabled children.[3] In 1972 the organization changed its name to the Foundation for Child Development.[2]

Research
gollark: ML uses floating points.
gollark: As far as I know nobody has even managed to accurately simulate a nematode (300 or so neurons).
gollark: There *are* multimodal image/language models which work.
gollark: I have not.
gollark: And it clearly isn't what we might stereotypically think of an AI as, since it isn't agenty and doesn't even have writable memory.

References
  1. "Foundation for Child Development" (PDF). Foundation Center. 10 November 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  2. "History - Foundation for Child Development". fcd-us.org. 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  3. McMurtrie, Douglas C (1911). The permanent betterment of the crippled child : an essay on the operation of the nonresidential system of education and care; the social principles involved, and the restoration of crippled children to places as useful members of the community. An account of the work of the Association for the Aid of Crippled Children. New York.
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