Changelab Solutions

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

Jan 28, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$5,264,968

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Active Living:American children are less active with each year and with each succeeding generation. By age 11, children are one-third less active than they were at age 9. Meanwhile, the number of teenagers who are overweight has tripled since 1980. The result? They are destined to live a shorter lifespan than previous generations - a devastating precedent never before even imagined. Solutions include quality physical education in schools, parks, and other safe places to play near where people live, "eyes of the street" keeping watch on the kids when they are playing in the neighborhood, and schoolyards that are open after hours with safe ways for children to get to and from them. But it's not just children that need their communities to support active lifestyles. Adults from all communities also need safe places to walk, bike, and be physically active, and opportunities to take transit, bike, or walk to work. With these in place, children will want to get outside to be active, and parents will more likely let them. ChangeLab Solutions' work helps create more opportunities for everyone to be active by developing practical tools to bring together key stakeholders to streamline processes, creating long-term planning documents to guide land use development, and incentivizing private businesses to judge their bottom line by the quality of opportunities for safe physical activity in the workplace and neighborhoods where their employees live.

Activity 3

Tobacco-Free Living:ChangeLab Solutions' tobacco control attorneys provide advocates, health professionals, government attorneys, and elected officials with high-quality products and services on tobacco control policies. Our staff offers tailored support throughout the process of law and policy development, including providing research on specific legal issues and analyzing draft ordinances and policies. Thanks to ongoing funding from the California Department of Public Health, many of those services are provided at no cost to California communities. ChangeLab Solutions has worked on tobacco control policy for more than 15 years. In fact, our model tobacco control policies and laws helped change the public acceptance of smoking in California. Our largest program, formerly known as the Technical Assistance Legal Center (TALC), funded by the California Department of Public Health, provides California communities with free technical assistance on tobacco control policy issues.

Filer

EIN

26-3710746