The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.

The Children's Defense Fund is a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked relentlessly since 1973 to ensure a level playing field for all children. We champion policies and programs that 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. Supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations, CDF advocates nationwide on behalf of children to ensure children are always a priority.

The Children's Health Fund is a national organization, founded in 1987 by singer/songwriter Paul Simon, and pediatrician /advocate Dr. Irwin Redlener, to bring urgently needed health care to children in New York City's homeless shelters via mobile medical clinics.

Today it serves a broad network of 24 programs and affiliates in 15 states. Children's Health Fund partners with many of the nation's leading universities and community health centers to deliver comprehensive, continuous and accessible care to at-risk children via 38 mobile medical clinics, fixed-site clinics and school based sites.

In addition to delivering medical, mental and dental health care to poor and homeless children, the Fund responds to public health crises, and advocates nationally on behalf of all children Children's Health Fund never turns any child away for lack of ability to pay-- and through its programs, has treated more than 1.8 million children.

First Focus is a bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy and budget decisions. First Focus takes a unique approach to advocacy, engaging both traditional and non-traditional partners in a broad range of efforts to increase federal investments in programs that address the needs of our nation's children.

The March of Dimes is a national voluntary health agency working to improve the health of infants and children by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality and by promoting healthy pregnancies. Founded in 1938 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, March of Dimes Chapters fund programs of research, community services, education, and advocacy.