AARP![]() AARP’s mission is to enhance the quality of life for all as we age, leading positive social change and delivering value to members through information, advocacy and service. They believe strongly in the principles of collective purpose, collective voice, and collective purchasing power, and these principles guide all organization efforts. AARP’s vision is a society in which everyone ages with dignity and purpose, and in which AARP helps people fulfill their goals and dreams. |
Actors' Equity AssociationActors' Equity Association ("AEA" or "Equity"), founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 49,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans, for its members. Actors' Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. |
Adrian Dominican Sisters![]() The Adrian Dominican Sisters are an international Congregation of 841 vowed women religious whose roots go back to St. Dominic in the 13th century. |
AFL-CIO![]() The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families – bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to the nation. To accomplish this mission, their goal is to build and change the American labor movement. |
American Academy of Family Physicians![]() The mission of the AAFP is to improve the health of patients, families, and communities by serving the needs of members with professionalism and creativity. |
American Academy of Pediatrics![]() The mission of the AAP is to attain optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. To accomplish this mission, the AAP supports the professional needs of its members. |
American Association of Birth CentersThe American Association of Birth Centers is a non-profit membership organization founded by Childbirth Connection (formerly the Maternity Center Association) under a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York. For close to 30 years, the American Association of Birth Centers has been the nation's most comprehensive resource on birth centers. AABC has built a solid foundation for growth in birth centers by promoting state regulations; advocating for insurance reimbursement; developing a quality improvement program; establishing national standards; establishing recognized accreditation through the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers; providing an annual forum for discussion of issues, educating parents, professionals, and policy-makers to the birth center concept; conducting major research; and developing industry indicators. Membership is available to birth centers, professionals, students, consumers, associations, or corporations who agree to the basic principles of the Association regarding AABC Standards of care and safety; non-intervention in the process of natural childbirth; a personalized approach to the care of families; elimination of unnecessary cost; participation of qualified midwives and physicians. |
American Cancer Society![]() The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service. |
American College of Cardiology![]() The mission of the American College of Cardiology is to advocate for quality cardiovascular care – through education, research promotion, development and application of standards and guidelines – and to influence health care policy. |
American College of Emergency Physicians![]() The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is the oldest and largest national medical specialty organization representing physicians who practice emergency medicine. With nearly 27,000 members, ACEP is the leading continuing education source for emergency physicians and the primary information resource on developments in the specialty. Founded in 1968, ACEP achieved a major milestone in 1979 when emergency medicine was recognized as the nation's 23rd medical specialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). The independent certifying body for the specialty, the American Board of Emergency Medicine was installed at that time as a member of the ABMS. |
American College of Nurse-Midwives![]() With roots dating to 1929, the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) is the oldest women's health care organization in the U.S. ACNM is the professional association that represents Certified Nurse-Midwives and Certified Midwives in the United States. ACNM provides research, administers and promotes continuing education programs, establishes clinical practice standards, creates liaisons with state and federal agencies and members of Congress. |
American College of Surgeons![]() The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational association of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice. ACS represents over 70,000 members, including more than 4,000 Fellows in other countries, making it the largest organization of surgeons in the world. |
American Dental Education Association![]() The mission of ADEA is to lead individuals and institutions of the dental education community to address contemporary issues influencing education, research, and the delivery of oral health care for the health of the public. ADEA’s activities encompass a wide range of research, advocacy, faculty development, meetings, and communications like the Journal of Dental Education, as well as the dental school admissions services. |
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)![]() The mission of the union includes: |
American Federation of Teachers![]() The mission of the American Federation of Teachers is to improve the lives of their members and their families, to give voice to their legitimate professional, economic and social aspirations, to strengthen the institutions in which they work, to improve the quality of the services they provide, to bring together all members to assist and support one another and to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in the union, in the nation and throughout the world. |
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists![]() The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, is a national labor union of over 70,000 actors, singers and recording artists, dancers, announcers and other broadcast talent performers, journalists, and other artists working in the entertainment and news media. With more than 30 local chapters across the country, AFTRA promotes the success and welfare of members in a variety of ways, including contract negotiation and enforcement, advocating on legislative and public policy issues, supporting equal employment opportunities, and sponsoring or supporting health and retirement benefits and programs. |
American Heart AssociationThe association's impact goal is to reduce coronary heart disease, stroke and risk by 25 percent by 2010. Progress toward the impact goal will be measured based on these indicators: • Reduce the death rate from coronary heart disease and stroke by 25 percent, • Reduce the prevalence of smoking, high blood cholesterol and physical inactivity by 25 percent, • Reduce the rate of uncontrolled high blood pressure by 25 percent, and • Eliminate the growth of obesity and diabetes. |
American Legacy Foundation![]() The national, independent public health Foundation was created in 1999 out of the landmark Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between the tobacco industry, 46 state governments and five U.S. territories. It is located in Washington, D.C. and is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Foundation develops programs that address the health effects of tobacco use. The focus is on vulnerable populations – youth, low-income Americans, the less educated, and racial, ethnic and cultural minorities. The Foundation also works through grants, technical assistance and training, partnerships, youth activism, and counter-marketing and grassroots marketing campaigns. |
American Lung Association![]() Now in its second century, the American Lung Association is the leading organization working to save lives, improve lung health and prevent lung disease. With your generous support, the American Lung Association is “Fighting for Air” through research, education and advocacy. The American Lung Association has many programs and strategies for fighting lung disease, such as tobacco control programs. |
Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum![]() The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) is a national health policy organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPI). Its mission is to advocate for greater recognition, inclusion and engagement of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders on policies and programs that are critical to the health and well-being of these diverse and vibrant communities. |
Best Doctors, Inc.![]() Founded in 1989 by Harvard Medical School professors, Best Doctors, Inc. is transforming and improving health care. The global company, headquartered in Boston, serves more than 30 million members in every major region of the world. Best Doctors works with the best five percent of doctors to find the right diagnoses and right treatments, and seamlessly integrates its trusted services with employers’ other health-related benefits. In addition to its clinical advocacy in the US, Best Doctors designs and implements international insurance programs that help people be sure they get the best care, and the right care. For further information, visit Best Doctors at www.bestdoctors.com.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield AssociationFor 83 years, Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies have been leaders in healthcare coverage. Developed from a grassroots approach to financing hospital and physician services, Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies continue to provide local leadership and solutions to promote safe, high quality and affordable care.
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C-ChangeThe mission of C-Change is to eliminate cancer as a public health problem, at the earliest possible time, by leveraging the expertise and resources of their members. |
California Public Employees' Retirement Systems (CalPERS)![]() CalPERS mission is to advance the financial and health security for all who participate in the system. They fulfill this mission by creating and maintaining an environment that produces responsiveness to all those they serve. CalPERS serves more than 1.4 million members and retirees. |
California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS)![]() CalSTRS’ mission is to secure the financial future and sustain the trust of California's educators. |
Childbirth ConnectionChildbirth Connection is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1918 as Maternity Center Association. Our mission is to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy. Childbirth Connection promotes safe, effective and satisfying evidence-based maternity care and is a voice for the needs and interests of childbearing families. |
Children's Defense Fund![]() CDF is the foremost national proponent of policies and programs that provide children with the resources they need to succeed. We champion policies that will lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care, quality education, and a moral and spiritual foundation. From our inception, the Children's Defense Fund has challenged the United States to raise its standards by improving policies and programs for children. Over the years, we have become known for careful research on children’s survival, protection and development in all racial and income groups and for independent analyses of how federal and state policies affect children, their families and their communities. We let the public know how effectively their elected officials stand up for children. Through this work, we have influenced the child policy agenda and helped define the results for which we, as a nation, should strive. |
CodeBlueNow!![]() The mission of CodeBlueNow is to create strong public will for change by engaging the public in designing, shaping and promoting a template for a new health care system. |
Colorado Public Employee Retirement Association![]() PERA provides retirement and other benefits to the employees of more than 400 government agencies and public entities in the state of Colorado. PERA is the 23rd largest public pension plan in the United States. Established by State law in 1931, PERA operates by authority of the Colorado General Assembly and is administered under Title 24, Article 51 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. In accordance with its duty to administer PERA, the Board of Trustees has the authority to adopt and revise Rules in accordance with state statutes. Its membership includes employees of the Colorado state government, most teachers in the state, many university and college employees, judges, many employees of cities and towns, state troopers, and the employees of a number of other public entities. |
Common Cause![]() Common Cause is a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1970 by John Gardner as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest.
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Communication Workers of America![]() CWA, America's largest communications and media union, represents over 700,000 men and women in both private and public sectors, including over half a million workers who are building the Information Highway. CWA members are employed in telecommunications, broadcasting, cable TV, journalism, publishing, electronics and general manufacturing, as well as airline customer service, government service, health care, education and other fields. The union includes some 1,200 chartered local unions across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Members live in approximately 10,000 communities, making CWA one of the most geographically diverse unions. |
Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities![]() The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities is a Coalition of national consumer, advocacy, provider and professional organizations headquartered in Washington, D.C. Since 1973, the CCD has advocated on behalf of people of all ages with physical and mental disabilities and their families. CCD has worked to achieve federal legislation and regulations that assure that the 54 million children and adults with disabilities are fully integrated into the mainstream of society. The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) envisions an American society in which all individuals, aided by an enabling government, have the freedom and opportunity to exercise individual decisions concerning their own lives, welfare and personal dignity. CCD envisions a society in which communities are fully accessible to all individuals with disabilities and their families, where they are included and fully participate in all aspects of community life. |
Duke Energy![]() Duke’s mission is to make people’s lives better by providing gas and electric services in a sustainable way. This mission requires Duke to constantly look for ways to improve, to grow and to reduce their impact on the environment. |
Easter Seals![]() Easter Seals has been helping individuals with disabilities and special needs, and their families, live better lives for nearly 90 years. From child development centers to physical rehabilitation and job training for people with disabilities, Easter Seals offers a variety of services to help people with disabilities address life's challenges and achieve personal goals. |
Giant Food, Inc.![]() Giant-Landover is one of the leading supermarket brands in the Washington D.C. area and a committed partner to the communities it serves. The company operates more than 180 supermarkets in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, and employs over 22,000 people. |
Gross Electric, Inc.![]() Since 1910 Gross Electric has been one of Northwest Ohio & Southeast Michigan’s leading independent electrical and lighting distributors. Our lighting showrooms and electrical counters service a wide range of contractor, commercial, institutional and retail customers. Our product depth, breadth and the knowledge of our sales staff can provide you with the solutions for all your electrical needs. Gross Electric’s electrical supply division stocks over 35,000 products from 150 manufacturers. |
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)![]() The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) represents approximately 750,000 members who work in a wide variety of fields, including utilities, construction, telecommunications, broadcasting, manufacturing, railroads and government. |
International Brotherhood of Teamsters![]() The Teamsters Union is made up of 1.4 million workers who are employed in a variety of public and private industries. There are approximately 500,000 retired members of the Teamsters throughout the United States and Canada who maintain their affiliation with the Union and support important issues for working people. |
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE)![]() The IFPTE’s mission is to allow tens of thousands of men and women working in professional and technical occupations a collective voice on the job. They give members an effective voice in the legislative process. All of their members are affected by our international, national, state and provincial legislatures in one manner or another. They advance issues that affect working families and assist candidates for government who advance those concerns unique to their membership. They raise the standards by which all professional and technical workers are employed. |
International Foundation for Employee Benefit PlansThe International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to being a leading objective and independent global source of employee benefits, compensation, and financial literacy education and information. |
Japanese American Citizens League![]() Founded in 1929, the JACL is the oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organization in the United States. The JACL monitors and responds to issues that enhance or threaten the civil and human rights of all Americans and implements strategies to effect positive social change, particularly to the Asian Pacific American community. Looking to our future, the JACL constantly assesses the effectiveness of its role in Japanese American, Asian Pacific American and civil rights communities, and what infrastructure is necessary to effectively support our mission and efficiently achieve our goals. Today, with inter-racial and multi-ethnic marriages changing the face of the Japanese American community, the JACL faces additional challenges in looking to its future and to the future of the Japanese American community. |
League of Women Voters![]() The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy. Since 1920, the League of Women Voters has operated as a grassroots organization, working at the national, state and local levels. There are Leagues in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Hong Kong, in addition to the hundreds of local Leagues nationwide. The League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters Education Fund operate at the national level with grassroots support from state and local Leagues. The League of Women Voters is strictly nonpartisan; it neither supports nor opposes candidates for office at any level of government. At the same time, the League is wholeheartedly political and works to influence policy through advocacy. It is the original grassroots citizen network, directed by the consensus of its members nationwide. The 900 state and local Leagues – comprising a vast grassroots lobby corps that can be mobilized when necessary. |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)![]() Founded Feb. 12, 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots–based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, conducting voter mobilization and monitoring equal opportunity in the public and private sectors. The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. |
National Association of Community Health Centers![]() Health centers depend in large part on public financial help and need a unified voice and common source for research, information, training and advocacy. |
National Community Action Foundation![]() The National Community Action Foundation (NCAF) is a private, non-profit organization which serves as an advocate and lobbyist for low-income programs. Founded in 1981, NCAF members are Community Action Agencies (CAAs) and State and regional associations of CAAs. NCAF is governed by an elected, volunteer board of Directors. NCAF works closely with Members of Congress, Federal and State agencies, and a variety of public interest groups to maintain adequate funding for CAA programs and to shape future policy directions. NCAF works on a broad range of issues, including: the Community Services Block Grant, welfare reform, Head Start, child care, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, workforce development, housing and shelter for the homeless, health, nutrition, tax and income policy, and energy conservation programs. |
National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems![]() The conference’s core missions are federal advocacy, conducting research vital to the public pension community, and education of pension trustees and officials. |
National Consumers League![]() The National Consumers League is a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues. We are the nation's oldest consumer organization. NCL provides government, businesses, and other organizations with the consumer's perspective on concerns including child labor, privacy, food safety, and medication information. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. |
National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans![]() The NCCMP's mission is to assure an environment in which multiemployer plans can continue in their vital role in providing benefits to working Americans with a minimum of regulatory or other interference. |
National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA![]() Since its founding in 1950, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA has been the leading force for ecumenical cooperation among Christians in the United States. The NCC's member faith groups — from a wide spectrum of Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, Evangelical, historic African American and Living Peace churches — include 45 million persons in more than 100,000 local congregations in communities across the nation. |
National Council of La Raza![]() The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) – the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States – works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans. Through its network of nearly 300 affiliated community-based organizations (CBOs), NCLR reaches millions of Hispanics each year in 41 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. To achieve its mission, NCLR conducts applied research, policy analysis, and advocacy, providing a Latino perspective in five key areas – assets/investments, civil rights/immigration, education, employment and economic status, and health. In addition, it provides capacity-building assistance to its Affiliates who work at the state and local level to advance opportunities for individuals and families.
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National Council on Teacher RetirementThe purposes of the Council are to: provide guidance in the development and management of financially sound and equitable retirement plans for qualified career public employees, and to promote benefit levels for members and beneficiaries that will assure economic security; and encourage plan directors, administrators, and trustees to: (a) provide progressive leadership and sound management to assure that plan objectives are attained; (b) identify problems that impact plan administration and devise solutions in those problems; (c) act as a catalyst in dealing with federal legislative and regulatory issues that impact plan administration. |
National Multiple Sclerosis Society![]() The National MS Society is dedicated to helping individuals suffering from multiple sclerosis. The Society helps individuals address the challenges of living with MS through their 50-state network of chapters. In addition, the Society funds cutting-edge research, drives change through advocacy, facilitates professional education, and provides programs and services that help people with MS and their families move their lives forward. |
National Rural Health Association![]() The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is a national nonprofit membership organization with more than 20,000 members. The association’s mission is to provide leadership on rural health issues. NRHA membership consists of a diverse collection of individuals and organizations, all of whom share the common bond of an interest in rural health. |
New York State Teachers' Retirement Systems![]() NYSTRS is the second-largest public retirement system in the state and one of the 10-largest systems in the nation. We serve nearly 275,000 active members and 137,000 retirees and beneficiaries. Eligible retirees are guaranteed a monthly benefit payment for life. The Retirement System was established in 1921 by the New York State Legislature, and our benefits are paid in accordance with the laws enacted by the Legislature. NYSTRS administers a defined benefit plan that provides retirement, disability and death benefits to eligible New York State public school teachers and administrators. Eligibility for these benefits depends on factors such as a member's tier of membership, age, earnings and service credit. |
Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.![]() The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), with denominational offices in Louisville, Kentucky, has approximately 2.3 million members, more than 10,000 congregations and 14,000 ordained and active ministers. |
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism![]() The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism is the Washington office of the Union for Reform Judaism, whose more than 900 congregations across North America encompass 1.5 million Reform Jews, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, whose membership includes more than 1,800 Reform rabbis. |
Sheet Metal Workers' International Association![]() The Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association (SMWIA) serves to protect and raise the living standards of over 150,000 skilled men and women employed throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. We work in the construction, manufacturing, service, railroad and shipyard industries. The SMWIA strives to establish and maintain desirable working conditions for its members through their employers. Doing so provides them that measure of comfort, happiness, and security to which every member is entitled to in return for his or her highly trained and skilled labor. |
Small Business Majority![]() Small Business Majority is a national nonprofit advocacy organization focused on solving the skyrocketing cost of providing healthcare to employees. Small Business Majority is run by small business owners. The organization uses nonpartisan scientific research to understand and represent the interests of all small businesses, from sole proprietors to 100-person companies. |
Stop and Shop, Inc.![]() Stop & Shop is one of the leading food retailers in the northeast United States and the pioneer of the superstore concept in New England. Today the company operates over 380 stores employing approximately 60,000 employees throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, New York and New Jersey. Today the company operates superstores – some of which include gas stations, full-service pharmacies and conventional supermarkets Stop & Shop is a multibillion-dollar corporation and the largest food retailer in New England. |
Teva Pharmaceuticals, Ltd![]() Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. is a global pharmaceutical company specializing in the development, production and marketing of generic and proprietary branded pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Teva is among the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and among the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world. With more than a century of experience in the healthcare industry, the Company enjoys a firmly established international presence, operating through a carefully tailored network of worldwide subsidiaries. Headquartered in Israel, above 80% of Teva's sales, which totaled US$ 11.1 billion in 2008, are in North America and Europe. Teva has over 38,000 employees worldwide and production facilities in Israel, North America, Europe and Latin America. |
The Episcopal Church![]() The Episcopal Church strives to live by the message of Christ, in which there are no outcasts and all are welcome. Walking a middle way between Roman Catholicism and Protestant traditions, we are a sacramental and worship-oriented church that promotes thoughtful debate about what God is calling us to do and be, as followers of Christ. |
The Salvation Army![]() The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination. |
U.S. PIRG![]() U.S. PIRG is an advocate for the public interest. U.S. PIRG's mission is to deliver persistent, result-oriented public interest activism that protects our health, encourages a fair, sustainable economy, and fosters responsive, democratic government. The organization tackles pressing issues, such as product safety, political corruption, prescription drugs and voting rights. U.S. PIRG has a strong network of researchers, advocates, organizers and students in state capitols across the country. |
United Food & Commercial Workers![]() The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is a labor union representing approximately 1.4 million workers in the United States and Canada in many industries, including agriculture, health care, meatpacking, poultry and food processing, manufacturing, textile, G4S Security, and chemical trades, and retail food. |
United Methodist Church![]() The General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) is one of four international general program boards of The United Methodist Church. The board shall develop, promote, and distribute resources and conduct programs to inform, motivate, train, organize, and build networks for action toward social justice throughout society, particularly on the specific issues prioritized by the board. Special attention shall be given to the nurture of the active constituency of the board. The board will encourage an exchange of ideas on strategy and methodology for social change. Through conferences, districts, coalitions, and networks, it will assist Church members as they identify and respond to critical social issues at community, regional, national, and international levels. |
VerizonSince 2000, the Verizon Foundation has dedicated technical, financial and human resources to help people in communities across the country live healthy, productive lives. The Verizon Foundation focuses our efforts on two primary areas – education and literacy, and safety and health. The foundation participates in innovative programs to improve literacy and strengthen education achievement for children and adults. The foundation also supports initiatives that help prevent domestic violence and improve access to healthcare information and services. |