Resources and Information: Advocacy
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Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) is a nationwide initiative dedicated to improving the health and educational performance of children through better nutrition and physical activity in schools. This...
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Features basic media relations techniques, providing the fundamental knowledge to assist you in building or enhancing your media activities.
National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity... -
The Afterschool Alliance is the only organization dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of afterschool programs and advocating for more afterschool investments. The Afterschool Alliance...
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Children Now’s mission is to find common ground among influential opinion leaders, interest groups and policymakers, who together can develop and drive socially innovative, “win-win” approaches to...
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The Children’s Leadership Council (CLC) is a coalition of child advocates representing over 50 leading national policy and advocacy organizations who are working everyday...The mission of the Coalition for a Healthy and Active America (CHAA) is to educate parents, children, schools, and communities about the vital roles physical fitness and nutrition education play in...The Coalition Organized for Health Education in Schools (COHES) is the oldest statewide voluntary organization initially dedicated solely to establishing and promoting comprehensive health education...Nonprofits engaged in advocacy must compete not only for the time and attention of elected officials, but also for time from their own members. Often the most successful campaigns involve actions...The mission of the Health Education Advocate is to provide a central, timely source of advocacy information related to the field of health education and health promotion.
Advocacy is a...Healthy People 2010 is a set of health objectives for the Nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century. It can be used by many different people, States, communities, professional...Developed and recently updated by the Afterschool Alliance, The Campaign Toolkit contains step-by-step instructions on rules of engagement for nonprofits, how to make the case to candidates that...NCPPA is a coalition of made up of major non-profit health, fitness and recreation associations as well as for profit entities working to advance policies and programs which promote physical activity...The National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity (NCPPA) provides central direction for the implementation of The Plan in the U.S. Implementation components include: convening national...
The National Council of Youth Sports (NCYS) is a nonprofit organization representing the youth sports industry to advance the values of participation; and educate and develop leaders. VISION:...Making sure that the playing field is level for female athletes is a priority for the National Women's Law Center. Active since the 1972 enactment of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex...NCPPA publishes two newsletters. The NCPPA E-Newsletter is published twice each month and contains information on NCPPA activities, new research and reports, funding opportunities, news...Search for state-level bills related to nutrition and physical activity topics.The Physical Activity for Youth Policy Initiative seeks to provide a means for advocates and policymakers to address the issue of physical inactivity.The Policy Initiative...
Title IX is a law passed in 1972 that requires gender equity for boys and girls in every educational program that receives federal funding.The website explains the regulations in easy-to-...
NCPPA has created and collected a number of different tools to promote physical activity. Their latest publication is the State Coalition Handbook: Strategies and Techniques. The Handbook...
