Groups Doing Good Work
A number of organizations around the country work to fight against advertising aimed
at children and commercialism in schools. These groups provide valuable information and resources for caregivers. Find out more by checking out some of these groups:
- Alliance for Childhood - promotes policies and practices that support children’s healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living.
- Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood - a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action, advocacy, education, research, and collaboration.
- Commercial Alert - working to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.
- I Buy Different campaign - helps young people learn how they can make a difference by buying differently.
- The Motherhood Project - forum to lead mothers in an exploration of the social, creative, moral, and spiritual qualities necessary to raise children in a culture increasingly shaped by the values of commerce and technology.
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