We work with many wonderful companies that are investing significantly in changing the breastfeeding culture and breaking down the barriers to breastfeeding. These companies commit to a long-term alliance with Best for Babes and collaborate with us in many ways to fund critical initiatives–like our ground-breaking ad campaign, celebrity interviews, and unique website content and tools that help moms and babies. They also help spread the word about the work so more mothers and babies can reap the lifetime benefits of breastfeeding or donor milk. All of our sponsors are WHO CODE compliant, have signed our corporate partnership pledge and share our vision (see below).

	Earth Mama Angel Baby,® has created a line of 100% natural, organic, toxin-free herbal skin and body care products, gifts and teas to support the entire birth process: pregnancy, labor, postpartum and c-section recovery, breastfeeding, baby care and even the loss of a baby. For every aspect of motherhood, Earth Mama Angel Baby has a solution! Earth Mama Angel Baby is a major sponsor funding a key initiative (tba) and donates a percentage of proceeds from their Breastfeeding Support Kit every month to benefit Best for Babes.
	Frank About Women is the country’s leading marketing-to-women communications group. We are extremely grateful that they have donated a six-figure ad campaign to Best for Babes. They have worked with us to ensure that our positive, educational messages resonate with moms, and makes them feel empowered to succeed at breastfeeding. The stunning visual is arresting and provocative—in line with our mission of giving breastfeeding a makeover—so it helps to create a culture that values and celebrates breastfeeding. The ads don’t pressure moms or make them feel guilty, instead they urge moms to prepare for breastfeeding and demand proper support from peers, physicians, hospitals, employers and insurers, thereby raising awareness of the “booby traps”. Thank you Frank About Women for your pro-bono support! The ads have appeared in Fit Pregnancy, Mom&Baby, USA Today and online.
	A variation of time-tested European baby carriers, the Moby Wrap is the result of extensive research and relentless testing. It distributes weight evenly and is made of only the softest cotton for the comfort of mom and baby, and is recognized as an extremely safe wrap-style infant carrier. Moby Wrap is donating a portion of the proceeds produced a custom wrap with the Best for Babes logo on it to the Best for Babes Foundation to help mothers and babies achieve their personal breastfeeding goals!
	Motherlove has created a line of products specifically designed for pregnant and breastfeeding women, using only the finest, purest products, and using certified organic ingredients designed to nurture, soothe and heal women on their all-important journey of nurturing life. Each of our formulas are time proven and backed with integrity, wisdom and an intimate knowledge of herbal remedies. Motherlove will be funding specific initiatives and in 2011 is donating 10% of sales of all More Milk Plus products
	My Brest Friend is an outstanding breastfeeding pillow, the #1 choice of lactation counselors, designed by a very inventive guy, breastfeeding experts and moms to make breastfeeding more comfortable and more successful. Sold in 20 countries, My Brest Friend has helped over 1,000,000 moms breastfeed their babies. My Brest Friend also makes a convenient travel pillow, a pillow for twins, and stylish slipcovers to freshen or change the look of your favorite nursing companion.
	Snugabell™ Mom & Baby Gear designs and manufactures fun & functional breastfeeding and pumping products. Their premiere product, PumpEase™, is a textile product, with a unique fashion element, that enables nursing moms to pump hands-free! We also offer complimentary products such as Breastmilk Storage Guidelines fridge magnets – a must-have for sleep-deprived, bleary-eyed pumping moms – and Do Not Disturb door hangers – speaking volumes on your behalf in a fun and sassy way!
	Melinda G™ manufactures terrific nursing bras – sleek, stylish, supportive, and always comfortable – to support the bond between nursing moms and their beautiful babies. A portion of the proceeds from the Melinda G™ for Best for Babes Cami Sutra™ Nursing Cami – featuring the Best for Babes logo on the front and “beating the breastfeeding boobytraps™” on the back – supports the Best for Babes Foundation’s breastfeeding advocacy outreach. This incredibly comfy cami features a full hidden nursing bra with hooks and eyes for easier dressing and lots of support!
	Annee Matthew creates unique clothing designs for moms and moms-to-be in styles that are innovative, fashionable and suitable for all phases of a mother’s life! Their clothing celebrates motherhood and womanhood–every mother is a woman first– and are beautiful and functional. All styles have discreet nursing access and most are designed to be worn while pregnant, while breastfeeding and beyond!
	Simple Wishes Bustier allows multi-tasking moms the chance to be more productive while they pump, or simply to take a breath and recapture a moment for themselves. Stylish and functional, and grounded in innovative, thoughtful design, the Bustier is an affordable and quality alternative to the fussy and unflattering hands free alternatives on the market.

Our Corporate Giving Opportunities

The Best for Babes Foundation welcomes inquiries from potential corporate sponsors. Receive a return on your investment! We offer opportunities for everyone to be a champion for moms, with a variety of levels to match your company’s marketing goals and budget. By partnering with us you will be building employee morale and demonstrate company commitment to helping mothers and babies, while increasing the value of your brand. Specifically, the Best for Babes Foundation seeks to engage corporations that share our vision:

1. Breastfeeding needs a makeover to become culturally accepted, embraced, and celebrated. This includes supporting all moms to succeed regardless of their feeding decision, changing the way breastfeeding is perceived, and revealing and removing the “booby traps”–cultural and institutional barriers to success–so that more moms can make an informed feeding decision, and those who want to breastfeed can achieve their personal breastfeeding goals. We are shifting the focus off moms and on to the real issues that are preventing them from succeeding.
2. Parents and caretakers deserve the best information to make decisions on how to feed and nurture their children, and that information should be free from conflicting agendas or undermining influences. As such we ask partners to familiarize themselves with and adhere to the World Health Organization’s International Code on the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. Moms who choose not to or can not breastfeed deserve evidence-based information and resources to help them safely and effectively feed their babies, including information on donated, screened, pasteurized human milk and on the safe preparation of artificial baby milk. Moms who choose to breastfeed deserve evidence-based information and resources to help them succeed at breastfeeding without being undermined by the “booby traps”–cultural, social and institutional barriers.
3. No parent or caretaker should be judged, pressured or made to feel guilty for their decisions; parenting is hard enough! We believe that all parents want what is best for their children and should be respected for their decisions. All parents deserve to be cheered on, coached and celebrated without pressure, judgement or guilt!
4. All breastfeeding information should be positive, encouraging, accurate and evidence-based. By evidence-based we mean that breastfeeding information or advice should not be based on hearsay, myths or misinformation, and should be reviewed by professionals who are trained in the highly specialized field of lactation management. By positive and encouraging we mean that it should empower parents and build confidence so that parents can be the best that they can be in raising children.

If you are interested in learning more about our strategy to bring about a breastfeeding culture change, and how we are elevating breastfeeding to be a cause on par with the diseases that it helps to protect, please contact:

Bettina Forbes, 917-612-8182, bettina@bestforbabes.org