National Institute on Media and the Family has emerged as a leading resource for information about the impact of media on children and youth. The Institute's research has been published in leading academic journals and the Institute's founder, David Walsh, Ph.D. has testified before Congressional committees, consulted with the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the ministry of education in Japan, and the governments of Portugal and Spain. MediaWise, the Institute's education and training services and materials are used in communities throughout North America. Print, television and radio journalists seek out Institute spokespeople on a daily basis for commentary and insight. The MediaWise monthly column is carried in newspapers throughout the country. KidScore is the trademarked rating system developed by the National Institute on Media and the Family. It was designed by and for parents. KidScore ratings for video games, movies, videos and television programs are used by millions of parents who access the ratings at www.MediaFamily.org

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Coalition for Quality Children's Media / KIDS FIRST! (CQCM) is a national, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 whose mission is to: 1) Teach children critical viewing skills which enable them to make their own good media choices; and, 2) To increase the visibility and availability of quality children's programs. KIDS FIRST!®, a project of the CQCM evaluates, rates, and endorses children's feature films, videotapes, DVDs, software, audio recordings and television using a volunteer, community-based jury comprising child development professionals, teachers and parents as well as children from diverse geographic, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. www.KidsFirst.org

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Parent Previews began in 1993 as a newspaper column to provide parents with the information needed to make informed decisions about what movies would be appropriate for their children. Since then, Grading the Movies has been read in over 60 newspapers in the United States and Canada. Aside from the newspaper column, founder Rod Gustafson, along with two other reviewers, provides reviews for radio stations and a major Canadian television station. An Internet version, www.ParentPreviews.com, went live in 2000, Known for reviews that provide information about a movies theme and content, along with ideas for family discussion, Grading the Movies has been recognized by media outlets like Yahoo!, The Boston Globe, and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer as a primary source for movie and media information from a parent's perspective

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Critics, Inc./Kids-in-mind.com is the first company to create an independent movie rating system and started publishing parent's reviews on the America Online and Delphi networks in 1992, and since 1998 on the Internet at www.Kids-in-Mind.com. Currently it maintains the largest public database of content-specific movie reviews, providing parents with objective and complete information so that they can decide, based on their own value system, whether they consider a movie appropriate for their children to watch. Each movie is assigned three distinct ratings (Sex&Nudity, Violence&Gore and Profanity) on a scale of 0 to 10, and all potentially objectionable content is listed in comprehensive, clinical detail under each category. Not affiliated with any political party, cultural movement or religious group, the only thing Critics Inc. advocates is responsible and engaged parenting.

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Children's Software Revue is a quarterly print periodical, with an associated web site www.ChildrensSoftware.com. CSR is a primary review source of all interactive children's media, including educational and entertainment CD-ROMs, children's videogames, children's Internet sites and smart toys (toys with interactive electronic capabilities). As educational psychologists, our expertise is in evaluating the quality of the interaction between the child and the electronic experience. The editors attempt to help parents, children's librarians and teachers leverage the power of technology to support the development of children ages birth to 16. The first issue of CSR was printed in October of1993. The review database contains over 7,500 reviews.

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FamilyStyle Film Guide is a collection of content reviews generated by volunteer parents concerned about the entertainment being marketed to our families. The FamilyStyle Film Guide web site has been in operation since 1996 and contains content reviews for almost 6,000 movies. Easy-to-read charts provide information about the profanity, sex, nudity, violence, drug and alcohol use in movies and videos. These reviews supplement the MPAA rating system by providing additional details about potentially offensive content in movies without judging their artistic merits. www.FamilyStyle.com