Coalition.
Four tiers, sharply distinguished. Aligned (steward-tier) lists organizations and individuals with named public positions on substrate questions and a five-plus-year track record. Aligned-on-this-campaign lists organizations with explicit agreement on K-12 phase 1 work; they may diverge on adjacent questions. From the communities names organizations led by and rooted in affected communities — entries marked "Sought; not yet confirmed" are aspirational targets, not confirmed signatories. Watchlist lists organizations engaged cautiously — capture risk, unclear position, or both.
Phase 1 partner list is intentionally narrow. Each named partner has confirmed public position; assumed alignment is excluded. Additions follow the contribution route at /advocacy/contribute.
Named position on substrate questions, 5+ year track record.
Adolescent mental-health crisis is substrate-driven; smartphone-saturated childhood is the proximate cause; bell-to-bell phone-free schools are the structural intervention.
Haidt has been writing on adolescent moral psychology since 2003; The Anxious Generation (2024) consolidates 15+ years of empirical work.
www.anxiousgenerational.com ↗Parents pledge to delay smartphone use until 8th grade if peer parents pledge alongside; a structural solution to the parent-collective-action problem.
Founded 2017; substrate-level focus on parent collective action since inception.
www.waituntil8th.org ↗Childhood without smartphones is not nostalgia; it is substrate restoration. UK-anchored, rapidly expanding internationally.
Founded 2024; rapid scale through 2025-2026 demonstrates substrate readiness in the parent population.
smartphonefreechildhood.co.uk ↗Empirical research on screen time and adolescent development; named position aligning with phone-free school policy.
Founded 2003; 20+ years of substrate research on children and media.
www.commonsensemedia.org ↗30-year track record opposing commercial extraction of childhood attention; aligned on the substrate-as-luxury-good frame.
Founded 2000 (originally Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood); 25+ years on substrate-protection.
fairplayforkids.org ↗Explicit agreement on K-12 phase 1 work; may diverge on adjacent questions.
Named policy positions on screen time and adolescent mental health; aligned on phone-free school environment as a developmental-health measure.
Children and Adolescents and Digital Media policy statement (2016, 2024 update pending).
www.aap.org ↗Adolescent mental-health concerns; aligned on substrate-level intervention in schools.
www.aacap.org ↗Organizations led by and rooted in affected communities — low-income families, immigrant communities, communities of color, disability advocates, rural schools.
Entries marked "Sought; not yet confirmed" are aspirational targets, not confirmed signatories. This tier names the community voices this coalition needs — it is an honest accounting of gaps, not a claim of endorsement.
Advocates for rural schools — the most under-resourced Phase 1 implementations. Sought; not yet confirmed.
www.ruraledu.org ↗Critical voice on phone-free zone exception processes for medical/assistive technology needs. Sought; not yet confirmed.
www.ndrn.org ↗Represents Latino families in substrate-provisioning and measurement-reform conversations. Sought; not yet confirmed.
www.unidosus.org ↗Community-rooted anchor for equity preconditions (Interventions D and E). Sought; not yet confirmed.
nul.org ↗Engage cautiously. Listed for transparency; not endorsement.
Strong on civic-substrate framing in elections context. Position on K-12 substrate not yet public.
Capture risk is low; engagement risk is unclear position on K-12. Engage cautiously to clarify alignment before public coalition listing.
issueone.org ↗Strong on attention-economy critique; some funding overlap with tech-industry-adjacent sources warrants caution on capture vector.
Watchlist orgs may become Aligned after closer engagement and funding-transparency review.
www.humanetech.com ↗Final report (March 2021) calls for mandatory AI literacy in education, sustained federal AI investment, and governance frameworks that protect democratic values — structurally convergent with measurement reform and substrate-provisioning interventions. Eric Schmidt (Chair) has named mandatory university-level AI education as an explicit recommendation.
Bipartisan commission established by Congress in 2018; final report delivered March 2021 with 756 pages of recommendations spanning education, talent, governance, and security.
Commission completed its mandate; some recommendations remain contested. Defense-contractor and tech-industry representation warrants capture-risk awareness. Engage recommendations rather than institutional affiliation.
www.nscai.gov ↗Produces AI governance and education recommendations at national-security scale. Schmidt (co-founder) named mandatory freshman AI courses at every US university as a structural intervention — external validation of education substrate framing.
Defense-adjacent positioning and funding warrants caution. Engage specific substrate-convergent recommendations (education, measurement, governance) rather than security-competition framing.
www.scsp.ai ↗Tiering is sharp; assumed alignment is excluded. Watchlist organizations may become Aligned after closer engagement and funding-transparency review. Coalition discipline is the binding constraint on intervention durability — partners listed without confirmation produce campaigns that collapse on first contact with implementation. Phase 1 partner list is intentionally narrow. Each named partner has confirmed public position; assumed alignment is excluded.