model for similar programs, runs operations in over thirty communities from Florida to California, and serves over 50,000 students. Demise During its final years fundraising failed to produce the income it needed, and it finally ran out of money. The social ill it had been funded to combat, had ended. The NCLC is a rare example of an organization which succeeded in its mission and was no longer needed. After more than a century of fighting child labor—in fields, in sweatshops, and in well-known corporations—it shut down in 2017. There was no announcement of its end. Jeffrey Newman, the last president of the New York-based committee, said the NCLC board decided to "declare victory and just move out." See also Seebert Lane Colored School Timeline of children's rights in the United States Owen Reed Lovejoy (general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee) References External links Kids and the Power of Work (KAPOW) Library of Congress NCLC Prints & Photographs Child Labor Public Education Project KAPOW in South Florida Guide to the National Child Labor Committee Publications, 1907-1967. 5242. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library. Finding aid to National Child Labor Committee records at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Child labor in the United States Organizations based in New York City Children's rights organizations in the United States Political advocacy groups in the United States Progressive Era in the United States