The Impact We Are Bringing

Every child deserves digital experiences designed to support their development, not exploit their attention. Every family deserves tools grounded in science, not assumptions. Every community deserves access, regardless of income or geography. That is the future we are funding.

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What Is at Stake

Children spend more time with screens than with almost any other influence outside their families. Most of what they encounter was designed to capture attention, not to support how they learn, sleep, regulate emotions, or connect with the people who love them.

  • Pediatricians are seeing rising rates of anxiety, sleep disruption, and attention challenges in children under 10.

  • Parents feel powerless.

  • Educators are managing classrooms shaped by content their students consumed the night before.

  • The families with the fewest resources are absorbing the greatest harm because they have the least access to alternatives.

AI is accelerating this. Children are interacting with AI-generated content, AI companions, and algorithmic systems that no researcher has studied and no framework governs. What is being deployed is outpacing what has been evaluated.

This is a children's health problem, and it requires an impact centered response.

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The Outcomes We Are Working Toward

When the Foundation's research, creative development, ethical AI frameworks, and community programs succeed, this is what changes for children, families, and the systems that serve them.

  • Research with the world’s leading pediatric sleep experts produces peer-reviewed evidence on how media affects rest and what interventions work, giving families and clinicians answers grounded in science.

  • Creative pilots funded by the Foundation prove that media designed around developmental science can be built, giving parents content that strengthens bonds rather than replaces them.

  • Research on media-based preventative interventions gives clinicians evidence-based resources to recommend across 90 to 100 million well-child visits every year.

  • Evidence-based ethical frameworks shape how AI-generated content, AI companions, and adaptive tools are designed and deployed in children's environments, with developmental safety at the center.

  • Programs in Head Start centers, under-resourced school districts, and community health settings ensure evidence-based media and technology reach the families who need them most, not just the families who can afford them.

  • The Foundation's research contributes to frameworks, including the Whole-Child Standard, that help institutions, clinicians, and families evaluate children's digital products based on evidence rather than marketing claims.

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What Your Support Makes Possible

Your support funds research that tells us how screens affect children's sleep, development, and emotional health. It funds ethical frameworks that should govern how AI reaches children. It funds creative pilots that prove media designed around science can be built. And it funds community programs that ensure the families with the fewest resources are not the last to benefit.

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