The ReThink Citizens Youth Coalition empowers young people to turn their ideas for a healthier, safer internet into action. At the Fall 2026 Showcase, cohort members will present projects tackling today’s digital challenges and share their vision for a better digital future. RSVP link forthcoming.
No Social Media November kicks off November 1st. Step away from social media for the month to make more time for your well-being, your hobbies, and your life offline.
The Social Reset is a tool for people inspired to push back against the harmful effects of technology in their lives and across society. Through the Action Hub, you can connect with organizations and coalitions that are creating meaningful change. Each organization has different ways you can help to advance a culture that prioritizes people over tech profits and celebrates more authentic, in-person relationships.
The Social Reset is not an organization or coalition. It is a website meant to serve as a resource and tool for education and advocacy.
Your Attention Please filmmakers Sara Robin and Jack LeMay, together with Kristin Bride—the parent survivor advocate featured in the film—recognized their documentary’s power to inspire people to act. After screenings, one question came up again and again: “What can I do?”
The Social Reset was created to answer that question. It connects viewers with organizations leading the work and offers meaningful ways to get involved—from participating in a Congressional letter campaign to hold Big Tech accountable to joining a local advocacy group working to create phone-free schools.
The Social Reset features nonprofits, public charities, or coalitions with missions that advance policies and practices prioritizing human connection, safety, and well-being in the design of and use of technology.
Entities listed on this website have given their consent to be featured. Inclusion on The Social Reset does not imply endorsement of, affiliation with, or agreement with the statements, positions, or activities of any other organization.
Some organizations featured on The Social Reset also appear in, or contributed information to, Your Attention Please. Look for the star above their logo to identify them.
Unless otherwise indicated, organizations listed are based in the United States.
Yes! There are many more organizations and coalitions doing important work in this space. However, The Social Reset specifically focuses on organizations that offer ways for anyone to get involved. Some organizations doing meaningful work are not external-facing to the public.
We encourage you to recommend additional groups we should add or reach out if you’re looking for a specific way to get involved that you don’t already see represented in the Action Hub.
That’s exactly what the Action Hub is for. Explore the issues that matter most to you, connect with organizations doing the work, and discover ways to get involved. Many organizations offer a simple action you can take today.
Not sure what’s right for you? Reach out and we’d be happy to help you find a way to get involved.
The Social Reset is managed by The Institute for Families and Technology, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit education and advocacy organization dedicated to supporting the movement to prioritize children's safety, health, development, and overall wellbeing in the design and use of digital technology.
Supporting parents to make informed choices about when and how to give their child their first phone . Connecting communities to delay smartphones for children as we know social pressure can be the number one reason parents give children smartphones.
DopaMind is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization helping kids and their caregivers understand, navigate, and take charge of modern technology. In a world of endlessly persuasive devices and rapidly evolving AI, we believe young people should be in control of their technology — not the other way around. Our turnkey programs, teaching materials, and events spanning digital wellness, media literacy, and AI literacy are rooted in easy-to-understand brain science and social-emotional learning to promote healthy, intentional technology use and mental well-being. DopaMind also creates original online content for kids through award-winning children’s book illustration, and for adults through expert interviews, current research, and parenting tips.
From cyber predators to sextortion, Enough Is Enough has been standing on the frontlines, creating a safer digital world since 1994. Through advocacy, education, and bold action, we're committed to safeguarding the innocence of every child.
The Human Change Foundation is raising awareness about the impact of digitalised childhood on children’s development and societal cohesion. Launched by Margarita Louis-Dreyfus in 2024, the Foundation advocates for a culture change towards a human-centred childhood in the age of AI. Through a cross-disciplinary coalition of experts and the power of knowledge exchange, the Foundation contributes to a systems change to safeguard future societies from the harms of unchecked technological deployment. "We are not anti-tech. We are pro-children!"
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Let Grow is a national nonprofit dedicated to helping kids grow up confident, capable, and resilient through real-world independence. We work with parents, schools, and communities to remove unnecessary barriers that limit childhood freedom and opportunity. Through research-backed programs, practical tools, and community-driven initiatives, Let Grow helps create environments where kids can explore, problem-solve, and develop the skills they need to thrive.
ParentsTogether was built by parents who know the fear that comes with handing a child a phone and hoping for the best. It's grown into one of the largest parent-powered movements in the country, standing with families who've lived through the worst outcomes of social media — and fighting to make sure other families never have to. Through its Parents' Network, grieving and struggling families find community instead of isolation; through its advocacy work, that shared pain becomes pressure on tech companies and lawmakers to actually protect kids. ParentsTogether believes no parent should have to navigate these dangers alone, and no child's safety should depend on a platform's goodwill.
RAADD (Raising Awareness About Digital Dangers) is a youth digital safety and wellness organization that brings together social emotional learning, mental health, and digital literacy education, all rooted in one belief: that we can prevent harm before it happens, rather than react to it after. We help families, schools, and communities build healthier relationships with technology. Through resources like The Family Smartphone Guide and The Whole Me curriculum, we give young people, families, and educators practical tools to help kids thrive both online and off.
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Scrolling 2 Death began as a podcast for parents who are worried about social media; a safe space to elevate the human experiences of children online. The brand has evolved into a movement of parents who are holding Big Tech accountable for intentionally harming children for profit.
Screen Sanity is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to helping parents and families navigate the challenges of raising children in a digital world, promoting healthy screen habits and digital well-being.
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At ScreenSense, we help parents and caregivers implement and manage the guardrails and guidance needed to keep digital tech in check. By introducing tech slowly, in age-appropriate and intentional ways, we can develop a more sustainable relationship with tech so it doesn’t crowd out essential childhood activities.
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ScreenStrong empowers families to prevent screen addiction and reclaim their kids from problematic screen use (social media, video games, and pornography). Our solutions are not screen-free; rather, they replace toxic screen use with healthy activities, life skill development, and family connections. The result? Strong kids. Strong families.
Smartphone Free Childhood is a grassroots movement of families that kicked off in Feb 2024, after one WhatsApp group went viral. We're now an active organisation of 450,000 families – with 46 global spinoffs – standing together to delay smartphones and social media. Together we’re giving children back what truly matters: time to play, space to grow, freedom to be.
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Smartphone Free Childhood US (SFCxUS) was founded to change the norm around childhood technology use by giving parents the connections, resources, and confidence to push back against a system engineered by Big Tech to profit from kids' attention. We are the nationwide connecting point for thousands of parents, parent-leaders and experts. Our work is organized around a few core areas: helping families use tech more intentionally at home, supporting parent advocacy to reduce tech use at school and influence better tech policies, reclaiming space for real life through low-tech and intentional-tech living, and confronting AI's impact on childhood.
The Anxious Generation movement (TAG) is a fiscally sponsored 501(c)3 organization sparked by Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book. Through coordinated action across policy, behavior, and culture, TAG brings together parents, educators, young people, and decision-makers to dismantle the phone-based childhood and restore healthy development rooted in play, independence, and real-world connection.
The Transparency Coalition's mission is to champion policies that ensure AI technologies are developed and used in ways which prioritize safety, transparency, and the public good. We are particularly focused on ensuring these technologies do not harm children. We believe artificial intelligence has the potential to be a powerful tool for human progress if properly trained and deployed within guardrails that protect Americans and our democracy. While we all fight to make those guardrails a reality, TCAI is here to provide education to families and legislators, so they make the best decisions during this time of rapid technological change.
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Unplugged Canada is a grassroots, parent-led movement dedicated to raising awareness about the risks of early smartphone use among children. Through advocacy, resources, and our online pledge, we empower parents and caregivers to delay smartphones until at least age 14, while building a supportive community of like-minded families who value in-person friendships and experiences. Our advocacy efforts also call for a minimum age of 16 for social media. We envision a future where childhood remains a time for curiosity, creativity, and authentic human connection — free from the distractions of smartphones.
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Alliance for a Better Future (ABF) is a center-right, pro-innovation, pro-family advocacy organization building American AI that protects children, families, workers, and the country. We stand for American AI that defends human dignity, supports working families, strengthens national security, and remains accountable to the American people. ABF works on a broad range of policy advocacy: building a serious conservative vision for AI, advancing legislation on the state and federal level, working with the administration to implement a vision on AI, and working on elections to build political support for these priorities.
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Encode is an advocacy organization steering the future of history’s most important technology. Artificial intelligence can make everyday people’s lives better — or it can hurt children, erode individual liberty, and even escape human control. That’s exactly why we pass laws, build coalitions, and influence leaders to make sure the potential of AI is realised. We believe an extraordinary future is within reach — if humanity chooses and creates that future today.
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Fairplay works to enhance children’s well-being by eliminating the exploitative and harmful business practices of marketers and Big Tech. We advocate for policies to make the internet safer and less addictive for children and hold companies accountable for their unsafe and addictive product designs. In addition to our work for social media reform, Fairplay is the only national organization working to reduce screen use in early childhood. We are also home to the Screen Time Action Network, a coalition of practitioners, educators, advocates, and parents working to reduce excessive and harmful screen use in childhood and keep kids safe online.
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The Kids Code Coalition brings together a wide cross-section of organizations from across the U.S. to secure passage of legislation to protect kids online. Our coalition supports policies that hold tech companies responsible for prioritizing the safety and well-being of young people through every stage of product design.
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MAMA is a grassroots movement of parents and allies fighting back against media addiction and creating a world where real-life experiences and interactions remain at the heart of a healthy childhood. MAMA has a three-part mission: educating parents; getting smartphones out of schools; and ensuring technology products have basic safeguards like other consumer products. We do this by forming local chapters of parents and allies, empowering them to make change in their communities, and coordinating advocacy at the state and national levels.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) works to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse at mass-scale. Through bipartisan public policy advocacy, corporate accountability campaigns, and strategic civil litigation, NCOSE confronts the forces that put people at risk, including online exploitation, sex trafficking, and the harms of pornography, and more. NCOSE's goal is to build a world where human dignity is protected, and institutions facilitating or profiting from harm are held accountable.
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Parents RISE is a national, survivor parent-led movement turning grief into power and loss into action. We are uniting families, training advocates, and demanding systemic reform to hold Big Tech accountable. Together, we’re building a digital world where children’s lives come before corporate profit.
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We expose dangerous, addictive, and predatory social media designs and push for stronger legislative standards and accountability measures to protect children in the digital age.
The Tech Oversight Project is a nonprofit organization and the only tech watchdog dedicated solely to research, rapid response, and aggressive media tactics that shape the debate around tech policy in Washington, D.C., and statehouses across the country. Our mission is simple: Hold Big Tech giants accountable to make the internet a better, more competitive place.
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YPA is a bipartisan movement of young people who are passing laws to solve the most pressing challenges facing our generation, like securing entry-level jobs, making housing affordable, and protecting our communities from being taken over by Big Tech. YPA has 4,000 members across 90 campuses, has helped pass laws in a dozen states, and is scaling to become the AARP for young people.
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The Distraction-Free Schools Policy Project is a growing coalition of parents, educators, and school administrators united in calling for legislative action and policy changes to address the overuse of smartphones, social media, and School-Tech in our nation's schools. We are mobilizing and training state-based coalitions across the country to advocate for distraction-free schools.
Everyschool.org is a nonprofit organization that helps schools, educators, and families foster healthy, intentional technology use. Through evidence-based resources, research, and practical tools, the organization promotes digital wellness and supports school communities in creating healthier learning environments.
The Organization for Social Media Safety is a national consumer protection organization (501c3) exclusively focused on protecting the public from the harms of social media. Through education, advocacy, research, and technology, we work to make social media safer for everyone.
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The Phone-Free Schools Movement is a national nonprofit dedicated to creating healthier, safer, and more supportive learning environments by encouraging and assisting schools to adopt all-day phone-free policies. We provide research-backed resources, practical toolkits, and advocacy support to educators, administrators, and families working to reduce the academic, social, and mental-health harms associated with phones and social media in schools. Through collaboration, education, and community engagement, we help schools reclaim instructional time and strengthen student well-being. Our mission is to empower every school to make the classroom a place where students can focus, connect, and thrive.
Phone-Free Schools Movement Canada (PFSM Canada) is a national network of educators, parents, health professionals, researchers, and community leaders committed to creating healthier learning environments for children and youth. We believe phone-free schools are one of the fastest, most practical ways to protect students' attention, reduce exposure to online harms during the school day, and create more time for learning and face-to-face connection. We support schools and school boards in implementing bell-to-bell phone-free policies through practical resources, implementation guidance, and a national community of practice. We also work with policymakers and partner organizations to advance age-appropriate technology use and help create the conditions children need to learn, connect, and thrive.
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Schools Beyond Screens is a national coalition of parents and educators united in advocating for evidence-based guidelines on technology use in the classroom. We push for school policies grounded in independent research, public accountability, and developmentally appropriate practice. With chapters in communities across the country, we connect local advocates with research, support and practical resources, helping them navigate advocacy within school districts with confidence.
The Tech-Safe Learning Coalition (TLC) is a resource for parents who are worried about school-issued technology. TLC brings together the greatest minds in the education space to offer resources to parents who are ready to advocate for safer tech use in their schools.
We collaborate with K-12 students to deliver live talks, provide engaging digital leadership curriculum in the classroom, and identify better uses of their tech. We challenge tech companies to design technologies that don’t exploit human vulnerabilities. And we collaborate with state and federal legislators to create policies that mitigate child harm.
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At Wired Human, we focus on media literacy for children. We believe that by teaching young people to critically analyze online content, make informed decisions, and understand the consequences of their digital actions, we can help create a generation of responsible digital citizens. Our mission is personal. We’re not just talking about abstract concepts, we’re talking about our kids, your kids, and the future of our society. That’s why we’ve dedicated ourselves to empowering youth with the tools they need to thrive in the digital age.
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At the Alexander Neville Foundation, our mission is to educate youth and communities about teen mental health, the dangers of substance misuse, and the impact of social media. We are dedicated to raising awareness, offering support, and fostering resilience among young people. Through education, advocacy, and community engagement, we aim to empower youth to make informed decisions, navigate the digital world responsibly, and prioritize their mental well-being- all while holding tech companies accountable and pushing for safety-by-design standards that protect young users before harm occurs. All of our efforts are youth-informed, evidence-based, and rooted in real-life experiences.
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All Tech Is Human brings together people, organizations, and ideas to strengthen the Responsible Tech ecosystem. We unite key stakeholders to address complex challenges by leveraging collective intelligence and expanding the pipeline to shape more responsible technology development.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a nonprofit working to make the internet safer by holding social media and AI companies accountable for the harms their products cause. Through rigorous research, public campaigns, communications, and policy advocacy, CCDH exposes how platforms amplify abusive and harmful content, particularly harms affecting children, marginalized communities, and democracy. We turn evidence into action by educating the public, supporting policymakers, and collaborating with civil society partners to advance safer, more transparent, and accountable technology.
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Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that today's most consequential technologies, such as AI and social media, actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.
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Design It For Us is a youth-led coalition leveraging grassroots power to disrupt Big Tech’s harmful business models. The coalition is led by a team of people between the ages of 18 and 26 and supported by an array of youth-led organizations, staff, and advisors fighting for a better online world for everyone.
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Heat Initiative exists because Big Tech has failed kids. For years, child safety online has been treated as optional, sacrificed whenever it conflicts with profit. We’re done with polite advocacy. Heat applies strategic pressure through impact litigation, direct action, and sharp communications to force the most powerful companies on earth to do what they’ve long been capable of: protect children. This isn’t just a campaign, it’s a movement to build an accountability ecosystem, and we won’t stop until child safety online is the baseline, not the battle.
LookUp (est'd. 2019) is the first organization to FUND youth leaders (18-25) through our annual LookUp Innovation Challenge. Accepted innovators get access to our programming, funding, our community, and receive a one-on-one mentorship with an impressive adult ally in this space. Applications for our 2027 Cohort will open in September 2026!
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NoSo is a collective of thousands of youth who are reclaiming their time and attention from addictively-designed technology platforms. We believe that through advocating for safer social media and AI, deepening our awareness of the misaligned incentives of Big Tech companies, and claiming agency over our on- and offline habits, we can drive collective action and improve our overall wellbeing and mental health. With our unique by-youth-for-youth model, we promote digital wellness through our No Social Media November detox movement, school program, and mindfulness events. Led by Gen-Z changemakers, we offer innovative programming and community building initiatives to foster balanced, fulfilling lives for the next generation.
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Join the movement to empower young people to ReThink our digital status quo--subscribe to ReThink Citizens' Substack to stay up-to-date on our efforts and learn about how you can get involved!
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Unplug Collaborative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes digital wellness by organizing the annual Global Day of Unplugging and helping communities create tech-free spaces and activities through programs like "Unplugged Village" and "Unplug for a Cause". They provide resources for parents, educators, and leaders to foster human connection over digital engagement, offering ideas for tech-free fun and supporting local leaders in designing their own unplugged events.
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LOG OFF is a youth-led organization focused on supporting healthier, more intentional use of social media, AI, and other online platforms. Through our campaigns, Substack "The Feed", and community we create a space where teens can talk with each other about their experiences on social media as digital natives and brainstorm ways to regain digital balance in an increasingly technological age.
The Balance Project is a 501c-3 nonprofit that is empowering and mobilizing over 300 communities to bring modern childhood into balance: championing real-life experiences, the freedom for kids to be kids, and technology used mindfully and with intention. TBP focuses on tangible solutions: equipping communities with actionable programs and tools, and delivering these through a behavior-changing, stakeholder-aligning community activation approach for kids, parents, policymakers, and schools alike. Parents volunteer to lead local TBP communities, and TBP equips them with training, resources, an online activation hub, ongoing support, and access to national webinars and research. Parent leads tailor their efforts to each community's unique needs. Across the network, TBP runs 15 signature programs supporting kids ages 0-18, adults, educators, and communities as a whole, giving the next generation the skills needed to live their lives to the fullest.
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The Offline Club is a global movement that brings people together, offline. The Club creates offline experience and digital detox retreats that help people reconnect with themselves, others, and the world around them. By presenting a fun and community-driven alternative to our always-on society, the Club helps battle loneliness, improve tech habits, create a culture in which phone-free spaces and are the norm.
The Law Center uses the law to shift social norms to respect human dignity, punish sexual exploiters, and give justice to survivors.
