Organization

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity
is a national organization dedicated to reversing the childhood obesity
epidemic by changing public policies and creating healthier
environments in schools and communities. The center helps to shape and
coordinate the efforts of policy-makers, advocates and community
organizations by identifying and promoting the most promising
obesity-prevention strategies and supporting the nationwide movement to
improve food and physical activity environments.

The Safe Routes to School National Partnership is a network of more than 350 nonprofit organizations, government agencies, schools, and professionals working together to advance the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) movement in the United States.

The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children is a national network of researchers, community leaders, policymakers, and other stakeholders who are working together to increase the number of Latino scientists seeking environmental and policy solutions to address Latino childhood obesity.

Healthy Eating Research supports research on environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among the low-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity.

Leadership for Healthy Communities supports local and state government leaders nationwide in their efforts to reduce childhood obesity through public policies that promote active living, healthy eating and access to healthy foods.

The National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN) provides leaders in the childhood obesity prevention field with focused legal research, model policies, fact sheets, toolkits, training and technical assistance to explain legal issues related to public health.

The Praxis Project is a national, nonprofit organization that builds partnerships with local groups to influence policymaking to address the underlying, systemic causes of community problems.

Prevention Institute was founded in 1997 to address complex health and social issues. They move beyond approaches that target individuals, one person at a time, to create systematic, comprehensive strategies that change the conditions that impact community health.

Planning for Healthy Places at Public Health Law & Policy works to engage public health advocates in the land-use decision-making process throughout California.

The Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity is a non-profit research and public policy organization devoted to improving the world's diet, preventing obesity, and reducing weight stigma.