- Alliance for Childhood www.allianceforchildhood.org
Prepares materials and advocates for regaining childhood, including play.
- American Academy of Pediatrics www.aap.org
Position statements and handouts on a variety of key media issues.
- Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood www.commercialfreechildhood.org
Coalition working to promote policy and grassroots efforts to stop marketing practices that harm children.
- Center for Media Literacy www.medialit.org
Selects, evaluates, recommends, and sells quality media literacy teaching resources.
- Coalition for Quality Children’s Media (CQCM) www.kidsfirst.org
Publishes Kids First, a newsletter which reviews and rates children movies and videos.
- Commercial Alert www.commercialalert.org
Advocates for policies to limit harmful marketing directed at children
- Common Sense Media www.commonsensemedia.org
Reviews children’s media (films, TV and videogames) in terms of age appropriateness.
- International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media www.nordicom.gu.se/unesco
Global clearinghouse on media practices, resources and research
- Kaiser Family Foundation www.kff.org
Prepares the most comprehensive reports on status of media in the lives of children and families
- National Institute on Media and the Family www.mediaandthefamily.org
Produces newsletter rating media products’ impact on children, media literacy materials, and more.
- Playing for Keeps www.playingforkeeps.org
Educates and advocates about the value of play