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Alliance For Childhood
Promotes policies and practices that support children’s healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living. -
Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health
Educates professionals and the public about the life changing discoveries made in the area of prenatal and perinatal psychology and health. -
Atkinson Charitable Foundation
Promotes social and economic justice in Ontario, through projects that focus on Early Childhood Education and Development and/or Economic Justice. -
Canadian Index of Wellbeing
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Attachment Parenting
Promoting parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents. -
Campaign For A Commercial Free Childhood
Supports the rights of children to grow up – and the rights of parents to raise them – without being undermined by rampant consumerism. -
Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs
FRP Canada promotes the well-being of families by providing national leadership and resources, including the book Positive Discipline by Joan E. Durrant, Ph. D. -
Canadian Association for Young Children (CAYC)
CAYC exists to provide a Canadian voice on critical issues related to the quality of life of all young children and their families. -
Canadian Society for Ecological Economics
Works to facilitate understanding between economists and ecologists in pursuit of a vision of a sustainable future. -
Center for Ecoliteracy
Founded by Fritjof Capra, the Center is dedicated to education for sustainable living. -
Center for Partnership Studies
Partnership is a commitment to a way of living based on harmony with nature, nonviolence, and gender, racial, and economic equity. Co-founded by Riane Eisler and David Loye.
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Charter for Compassion
Promotes the effort to restore not only compassionate thinking but compassionate action to the center of our lives. A call to bring the world together.
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Children's Rights Centre
Promotes children's rights education in Canada. -
Climate Counts
Educates industry, consumers and policy makers about the challenges and solutions to global climate change -
Commercial Alert
Works to prevent commercial culture from exploiting children. -
Council On Early Child Development (CECD)
CECD envisions a national system of early child development that reflects the critical importance of life-long health, learning and behaviour for every Canadian and that provides every child with equity from the start and equitable outcomes later in life. -
David Suzuki Foundation
Working to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us.
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Environmental Working Group
A research organization based in Washington, D.C. that uses the power of information to protect human, and in particular, children's health and the environment. -
Evergreen
Natural play spaces for children.
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First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition
A non-partisan, cross-sectoral coalition of 90 partner groups from across BC who are committed to promoting children's rights and improving their health and well-being.
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Free the Children
Children helping children through education. -
GreenHeart Education
Greening our schools - transformative education for sustainability. -
GPI Atlantic
An independent, non-profit research and education organization committed to the development of the Genuine Progress Index (GPI) — a new measure of sustainability, well being and quality of life. -
Hazel Henderson: Ethical Markets
The world renowned evolutionary economist and sustainable development expert. -
Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)
HELP makes a unique international research contribution to understanding the biological, psychological and societal factors influencing children's health and development. -
Initiative on Children's Environmental Health
Working for a healthy, just and sustainable future for all children. -
International Step By Step Association
ISSA helps ensure a healthy start for chidren in many countries. -
Joint Statement on Physical Punishment of Children and Youth
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Report on Physical Punishment in the United States
These research reviews conclude that the physical (corporal) punishment of children and youth plays no useful role in their upbringing and poses only risks to their development. -
Kid-Safe Chemicals
The human race is now contaminated with hundreds of industrial chemicals, with babies being born pre-polluted carrying as many as 300 toxins in their bodies when they enter the world. -
Landon Pearson Resource Centre
Fosters discussion and research on issues related to children's rights. -
La Leche League (in Canada)
Help and information about mothering through breastfeeding. -
The Learning Partnership
Developing partnerships that strengthen public education in Canada. -
Montessori Schools
Both a philosophy of child development and and a rationale for guiding such growth. -
Mothers Acting Up
Dedicated to mobilizing the gigantic political strength of mothers (and others) to ensure the health, education and safety of every child, not just a privileged few. -
National Alliance for Children and Youth (NACY)
Brings diverse not-for-profit organizations together in a collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the well-being of children and youth in Canada. NACY provides leadership and knowledge dedicated to mobilizing and linking practice and research to policy development. -
NAEYC
National Association for Education for Young Children. -
Navigating The Great Turning
The term The Great Turning has come into widespread use to describe the awakening of a higher level of human consciousness and a human turn from an era of violence against people and nature to a new era of peace, justice and environmental restoration. -
One Earth Initiative
The One Earth Initiative is a non-profit research and advocacy group that seeks to transform unsustainable consumption and production patterns locally, nationally and internationally.
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The Parent Coaching Institute
Founded in 2000 by Gloria DeGaetano, the PCI uses its innovative coaching model to co-create with parents solutions to parenting challenges, leading to new levels of family fulfillment. -
Peaceful Schools International
A Canadian initiative established by a teacher whose son died as a result of a bullying incident. -
Quantum Parenting
The science and spirit of nurturing healthiest human development from pre-conception / pre-adoption, and our inner development as parents, teachers and caregivers.
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Raising the Village
Working to create villages that develop their communities by developing their children. -
Roots & Shoots
Founded by Jane Goodall – a youth driven global network of tens of thousands of young people in almost 100 countries, showing care and
concern for people, animals, and the environment.
Raffi’s song “Roots & Shoots Everywhere” was written for this organization. -
Roots of Empathy
An evidence-based classroom program that has shown dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression and violence among school children while raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy. -
Ryan's Well Foundation
Helps deliver clean water in developing countries. -
Sierra Club Canada
Committed to developing a diverse, well-trained grassroots network to protect the integrity of our global ecosystems.
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Smart Learning
Offers educators and parents opportunities to learn research-proven ways to motivate learning. -
Success By 6
Builds the capacity of parents and communities throughout British Columbia so that children 0-6 can be: healthy, safe and secure, socially engaged and responsible, and successful learners. -
Tibetan Children’s Villages
Caring for Tibetan children living in India. -
Toronto First Duty
A universal early learning and care program model. -
Toxic Free Canada
Working with the principles of sustainability and social justice, Toxic Free Canada promotes healthy workplaces, homes and communities. -
UNICEF
Helping children around the world. -
UNICEF Canada
Supports Unicef's work for children in more than 150 countries and territories and builds awareness among Canadians about the issues facing the world's children.
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Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Waldorf Education
Education of the Whole Child. -
What Babies Want
A documentary that explores the consciousness of infants,
and a community that supports infant parenting. -
Whistle Marsh
Promotes helping very young children learn peaceful ways to resolve conflict, supports meaningful, tv-free day care programming, and encourages home caregivers to see themselves as educators. -
Zero to Three
Supports the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families.






