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Non-Commercial Advertising Organizations
The Advertising Council ( http://www.adcouncil.org )
Since 1942, the Ad Council has used the power of advertising to stimulate action against the problems confronting Americans. We are joined in this mission by the media, the advertising industry, the business world and the non-profit community. The Ad Council has created the timely and compelling public service messages. The Ad Council has given our culture some of its most enduring slogans and characters, Smokey Bear to name but one. But the slogans and characters are more than memorable – they raise awareness, inspire action, and save lives. Every year Ad Council produces more than 35 campaigns on issues like education, preventive health, community well-being, environmental preservation and strengthening families. For a campaign to be selected it must be non-commercial, non-denominational, non-political and significant to all Americans.

Partnership for a Drug-Free America ( http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/)

 
The Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a private, non-profit, non-partisan coalition of professionals from the communications industry. Our work focuses on "unselling" drugs to children through media communication, and that’s what the Partnership is all about – preventing drug use among kids. Best known for our national, anti-drug advertising campaign, our mission is to reduce demand for illicit drugs in America through media communication. To date, more than $2.8 billion in media exposure and some 500 ads have been donated to the Partnership's national campaign, making our effort the single, largest, public service ad campaign in history.
 
 Public Health Organizations or Schools of Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health ( http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/)
The overarching mission of the Harvard School of Public Health is to advance the public's health through learning, discovery, and communication. Our objectives are to educate leaders, scientists, and professionals in public health; to create new discoveries and new ideas; and to develop new technologies for improving the health of individuals and populations. We hope to inform and influence debate on key public health issues and to strengthen capacities and services in our institutions to meet the health needs of our communities. We are engaged in an enterprise of vital importance to every individual and to society. We welcome those who join us in meeting these challenges and sharing in that sense of wonder and excitement that results from efforts to change the world of health and improve the health of the world.
 
  World Health Organization (WHO)   ( http://www.who.org/ )
  The objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health, as defined in the WHO Constitution, is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. In support of its main objective, the Organization has a wide range of functions, including the following:
  To act as the directing and co-ordinating authority on international health work;
To promote technical co-operation;
To assist Governments, upon request, in strengthening health services;
To furnish appropriate technical assistance and, in emergencies, necessary aid, upon the request or acceptance of Governments;
To stimulate and advance work on the prevention and control of epidemic, endemic and other diseases;
To promote, in co-operation with other specialized agencies where nessary, the improvement of nutrition, housing, sanitation, recreation, economic or working conditions and other aspects of environmental hygiene;
To promote and co-ordinate biomedical and health services research;
To promote improved standards of teaching and training in the health, medical and related professions;
To establish and stimulate the establishment of international standards for biological, pharmaceutical and similar products, and to standardize diagnostic procedures;
To foster activities in the field of mental health, especially those activities affecting the harmony of human relations.
 
  Environmental Organizations
Environmental Defense – formerly Environmental Defense Fund ( http://www.edf.org/ )
Environmental Defense (ED) was founded in 1967 by volunteer conservationists on Long Island to ban the use of the pesticide DDT (In 1972, DDT was banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). ED is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean water, healthy, nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem.

Environmental Defense will be guided by scientific evaluation of environmental problems, and the solutions we advocate will be based on science, even when it leads in unfamiliar directions. Environmental Defense will work to create solutions that win lasting political, economic, and social support because they are bipartisan, efficient, and fair.

Environmental Defense believes that a sustainable environment will require economic and social systems that are equitable and just. We affirm our commitment to the environmental rights of the poor and people of color.
 

NRDC  ( http://www.nrdc.org/ )
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) is an internationally respected environmental organization known for its ability to design innovative, pragmatic and  lasting solutions to the most critical environmental and public health issues. Founded in 1970, NRDC is dedicated to protecting the world's natural resources and ensuring a safe and healthy environment for all.
 
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)  ( http://www.unep.org/ )
To provide leadership and encourage partnerships in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and people to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
 
Environmental Research Organizations

Worldwatch Institute ( http://www.worldwatch.org/ )

The Worldwatch Institute is dedicated to fostering the evolution of an environmentally sustainable society--one in which human needs are met in ways that do not threaten the health of the natural environment or the prospects of future generations. The Institute seeks to achieve this goal through the conduct of inter-disciplinary non-partisan research on emerging global environmental issues, the results of which are widely disseminated throughout the world.

The Institute believes that information is a powerful tool of social change. Human behavior shifts either in response to new information or new experiences. The Institute seeks to provide the information to bring about the changes needed to build an environmentally sustainable economy. In a sentence, the Institute's mission is to raise public awareness of global environmental threats to the point where it will support effective policy responses.

The Institute's outlook is global because the most pressing environmental issues are global. Given the earth's unified ecosystem and an increasingly integrated global economy, only a global approach to issues such as climate change, depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer, the loss of biological diversity, degradation of oceans, and population growth can be effective.

 
World Resources Institute ( http://www.wri.org/ )
World Resources Institute (WRI) provides information, ideas, and solutions to global problems.  Our mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment for current and future generations. Our program meets global challenges by using knowledge to catalyze public and private action.  Our goals are to:
Reverse the rapid degradation of ecosystems, assuring their capacity to provide the ecosystem good and services on which human well being depends.

Halt the changes to the Earth's climate caused by human activity.

Catalyze the adoption of policies and practices that expand prosperity while reducing the use of materials and generation of wastes.

Guarantee people's access to information and decisions regarding natural resources and environment.

National Research Council ( http://www.nas.edu/nrc/ )

The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the National Research Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The National Research Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Bruce M. Alberts is the chairman of the National Research Council.

Population Organizations

United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA)  ( http://www.unfpa.org )
UNFPA extends assistance to developing countries, countries with economies in transition and other countries at their request to help them address reproductive health and population issues, and raises   awareness of these issues in all countries, as it has since its inception.

UNFPA's three main areas of work are: to help ensure universal access to reproductive health, including family planning and sexual health, to all couples and individuals on or before the year 2015; to support population and development strategies that enable capacity-building in population programming; to promote awareness of population and development issues and to advocate for the mobilization of the resources and political will necessary to accomplish its areas of work.
 

Zero Population Growth ( http://www.zpg.org )
Zero Population Growth (ZPG) is a national nonprofit organization working to slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance between the Earth's people and its resources. We seek to protect the environment and ensure a high quality of life for present and future generations. ZPG's education and advocacy programs aim to influence public policies, attitudes, and behavior on national and global population issues and related concerns.
 
 
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