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OrganizationsRESOURCES
FOR RAISING COMMERCIAL FREE CHILDREN
Campaign for a Commercial-Childhood
Judge Baker Children’s Center
CCFC is a national coalition
of health care professionals, educators, businesses, advocacy groups,
parents, and concerned citizens working together to counter the
commercial exploitation of children through action, advocacy,
research, education and collaboration.
The
Action Coalition for Media Education
(ACME)
An independently-funded international strategic network/membership
coalition linking media educators, students, health advocates,
researchers, media reformers, independent media makers, community
organizers and others working together to achieve three interrelated
goals: critical media literacy education for classrooms and
communities; independent media production, and media-related political
reform.
American Academy of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry:
The Television and Media Committee
AACAP
is a professional organization of specialized physicians dedicated to
promoting the mental health of children through education and
advocacy.
American
Academy of Pediatrics
Alliance
for Childhood
The
Alliance for Childhood is a partnership of individuals and
organizations committed to fostering and respecting each child's
inherent right to a healthy, developmentally
appropriate childhood.
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is fighting to free America's
youth from tobacco and to create a healthier environment. The Campaign
is one of the nation's largest non-governmental initiatives ever
launched to protect children from tobacco addiction and exposure to
secondhand smoke.
Canadians Concerned About Violence In
Entertainment (C-CAVE)
C-CAVE provides public education on what
the research on
Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)
CDD is committed to preserving the
openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to
realizing the full potential of digital communications through the
development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest
programming
Center
for the New American Dream
The Center for the New American Dream
helps Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment,
enhance quality of life and promote economic justice.
Working
with individuals, institutions, communities and businesses to
conserve natural resources, counter the commercialization of our
culture and promote positive changes in the way goods are produced and
consumed.
The
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
CSPI
is a consumer advocacy organization whose twin missions are to conduct
innovative research and advocacy programs in health and nutrition, and
to provide consumers with current, useful information about their
health and well-being.
Children Now: Children and the Media Program
The
Children and the Media Program at Children Now works to Citizens'
Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools
CCCS opposes advertising and corporate
marketing in Washington public schools. It is an all-volunteer,
non-profit organization focusing onresearch, education, lobbying, and
direct action.
Commercial Alert
Commercial
Alert’s mission is to keep the commercial
culture within its
(CERU)
CERU conducts research, disseminates information, and helps facilitate dialogue
between the education community, policy makers, and the public at
large about commercial activities in schools.
Mixing commercial activities with public education raises
fundamental issues of public policy, curriculum content, the proper
relationship of educators to the students entrusted to them, and the
values that the schools embody
Concerned Educators Acting for a Safe
Environment (CEASE)
CEASE is a network of parents, teachers
and other concerned individuals who are dedicated to creating a safe
world for our children. Working
to end the violence that permeates our society, to remove the root
causes of this violence by advocating for peace, justice and economic
opportunity and to redirect national priorities and funding from the
military and corporate interests to human services and environmental
opportunity
Dads and Daughters
Dads and Daughters is the national advocacy nonprofit for fathers
and daughters. DADs
inspires fathers to actively and deeply engage in the lives of their
daughters and galvanizes fathers and others to transform the pervasive
cultural messages that devalue girls and women. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR)
FTCR
combines legislative advocacy, litigation and grassroots organizing to
protect the rights and pocketbooks of consumers and taxpayers.
FTCR's issue areas include health care reform, corporate
accountability, insurance reform, energy, privacy, and holding
politicians accountable to the public.
Free Press
Free
Press is a national organization working to
increase informed Infact
Since 1977, Infact has been exposing life-threatening abuses by
transational corporations and organizaing successful grassroots
campaigns to hold corporations accountable to consumers and society at
large. Kids
Can Make A Difference
Kids can Make a
Difference is an innovative educational program for middle
Media
Education Foundation
The Media Education Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization devoted to
media research and production of resources to aid educators and others
in fostering analytical media literacy.
Media
Center/ Judge Baker Children’s Center
A
non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children
whose emotional and behavioral problems threaten to limit their
potential. The Center strives to provide services of the highest
standard, to search for new knowledge, to teach, and to apply and
disseminate knowledge to promote healthy development. The
Motherhood Project The
mission of the Motherhood Project is to put the importance of The
National Institute for Media and the Family
The National Institute on Media and the Family is a national
resource for research, education and information about the impact of
media on children and families.
New
Mexico Media Literacy Project
The New Mexico Media Literacy Project, an
outreach project of Albuquerque Academy, has brought the media
literacy message to hundreds of thousands of children and adults
across New Mexico and the nation. New
Moon Publishing
New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and
Their Dreams is the imaginative, intelligent, and girl-created
publication that brings girls' voices into the public arena. New Moon
is for every girl who wants her voice heard and her dreams taken
seriously. The Girls Editorial Board, comprised of 15 girls ages
8-14, makes all of the major decisions from content to layout for the
magazine.
The Praxis Project
The Praxis Project provides technical assistance, training,
strategic consultation and other kinds of support to advance community
media and policy advocacy on health issues.
The organization works with communities to identify solutions
that shift from individual blame to institutional and systemic
approaches.
Stay Free!
Stay Free! is a nonprofit print magazine focused on American media
Slow
Food USA
Slow
Food USA focuses on the food culture in schools. Works in support of
school gardens and farm- to- cafeteria programs
that bring to schools fresh, good tasting organic foods
produced with sustainable agriculture practices.
TRUCE
(Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children’s Entertainment)
TRUCE
produces and provides an annual guide for teachers and parents to help
them in selecting toys that are educationally and developmentally
appropriate for young children
TV-Turnoff
Network
TV
Turnoff Network is a national nonprofit group which encourages
children and adults to watch much less television in order to promote
healthier lives and communities.
With an array of programs capped off by the annual national
celebration of TV-Turnoff Week,
TV-Turnoff Network has helped millions to turn off TV and turn on
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