American Council on Science and Health
American Council on Science and Health
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About this organization
Mission
Founded in 1978, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) is a national, non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) consumer health education and advocacy organization based in New York City. ACSH's mission is to ensure that peer-reviewed, evidence-based science reaches the public, the media, and the decision-makers who determine public policy. Our objective is to restore science and common sense to personal and public health decisions, in order to foster a scientifically sound and sensible public health policy for the American people. ACSH is committed to improving communication and dialogue between the scientific/medical community and the public and the media, in an effort to ensure that the coverage of health issues is based on scientific facts - not hyperbole, emotion and ideology.
About
ACSH achieves its mission through ongoing general educational programs and activities that include: producing peer-reviewed publications; producing and distributing a daily e-news brief and feed that presents ACSH's scientific perspective on current and/or emerging health-related news stories, events and/or medical breakthroughs; producing informative video commentaries; writing op-eds, commentaries and letters-to-the editor that are published in leading national and local newspapers, popular magazines and/or journals; hosting an educational website at ACSH.org that provides scientific assessments of current trends and studies in health and medicine, and free download of ACSH scientific publications; appearing on radio and TV to dispel myths and confront controversies head on; cultivating partnership opportunities with like-minded institutions and organizations; providing oral and written testimony at regulatory and legislative hearings and forums; hosting social media portals and channels on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Highlights of the 2019 fiscal period: 1) Published more than 1,000 articles on our www.acsh.org website. In FY 2019, our website had more than 5 million visitors and more than 7 million page- views. Published more than 250 issues of our Dispatch daily e-newsletter that is read by more than 14,000.2) Promoted its scientific conclusions on current public health topics related to food and nutrition, chemicals and the environment, biology and biotech, health and medicine, harm reduction, disease, neuroscience and social sciences, parents and kids.3) Partnered with organizations to reach broader audiences, such as: Atlantic Legal Foundation, Brainbar, Cato Institute, Center for Consumer Freedom, Center for Excellence in Education, Commonwealth Foundation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Consumers' Research Council of American, Council on National Policy, Independent Women's Forum, Kaiser Family Foundation, Susan G. Komen Foundation, Milken Institute Future of Health Summit, Miss America's Outstanding Teen Competition, National Beer Wholesalers Association, The Wine Institute, Wistar Institute, and the Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation. 4) Published numerous health and science editorials and commentaries in major, popular newspapers and online journals read by millions, such as Forbes.com, Bloomberg Business Week, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Times, Boston Globe, and others. 5) Appeared on radio and TV media to publicize ACSH's scientific positions on program such as the 'Michael Medved Show', 'The Big Picture Science Show ', Fox Business Channel, National Public Radio, 'Smith and Sabatino Show', British Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., and others.6) Our experts met with policymakers in the executive and legislative branches of the federal government including: Department of Health and Human Services, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, President's Council on Sport Fitness and Nutrition, the administration's senior health policy advisor, and others. In addition, we testified before agency panels and congressional committees including: Committee on Small Business, Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and others.7) Promoted ACSH's conclusion via social media and internet outreach activities that reach millions of online users via ACSH.org website; our daily Dispatch news briefs; the distribution of informative video commentaries; an ACSH YouTube channel 'Matter of Facts;' Facebook pages (the general ACSHorg page and others related to vaccine and immunizations, fracking, eating without fear, women's health, and helping addicted smokers.) with 1.5 million reach; and Twitter - where we address a broad range of issues related to food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, lifestyle, science, technology and the environment as they relate to human health with more than 700,000 impressions. The three largest programs used to promote ACSH's scientific and educational programs, and scientific research to the public include: 1) ACSH's educational website and social media outreach programs. ACSH.org logged more than 5 million visitors, nearly doubling the number of visitors for last year. Other social media platforms have continue to grow exponentially such as Facebook (we've increased our likes), Twitter (our ACSH account followers are up slightly), and YouTube (30 to 40 percent of our videos get between 3,000-8,000 views, placing them in the top 20 percent of videos worldwide), Dispatch, ACSH's daily electronic news bulletin that provides scientific perspective on the most current, urgent, breaking health news, events, studies and/or technologies slightly increased its subscriptions.2) The publication and distribution of informative brochures, reports and peer-reviewed books. All ACSH publications, brochures, articles, activities, positions statements and content are also made available for free download via the ACSH website and social media portals, which are updated daily. 3) Maintaining an aggressive direct to consumer outreach program by mail that promotes ACSH research (through list sharing and exchanges with like-minded institutions) to individuals and foundations not previously familiar with our work, and thereby building a larger audience.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The non-profit's mission is outlined in the filing as being “Acsh's mission is to ensure that peer-reviewed, evidence-based science reaches the public, the media, and the decision-makers who determine public policy. our objective is to restore science and common sense to personal and public health decisions, in order to foster a scientifically sound and sensible public health policy for the american people. acsh is committed to improving communication and dialogue between the scientific/medical community and the public, and the media, in an effort to ensure that the coverage of health issues is based on scientific facts - not hyperbole, emotion and ideology.”.
When outlining its responsibilities, they were referred to as: “Founded in 1978 the american council on science and health (acsh) is a national, non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) consumer health education and advocacy organization based in new york city.”.
- The state in which the non-profit operates has been officially reported as NY.
- The filing reveals the non-profit's address in 2020 to be 135 MADISON AVENUE 5TH FL NO 06-114, NEW YORK, NY, 10017.
- As per the non-profit's form for 2020, they have 13 employees on their payroll.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is between $500,000 and $1,000,000+.
- Revenue less expenses is -$730,683.
- The organization has 9 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1978.
- The organization pays $878,445 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $275,387 in fundraising expenses.
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