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The Entertainment Consumers Association has been around for a little while now with their mission to serve as an "advocacy organization for interactive entertainment consumers." Today the non-profit group has launched a separate charity called the ECA Institute which will focus its efforts on scholarships as well as "public policy research and analysis" for all levels of government.

So why create a new non-profit group? In their press release ECA president Hal Halprin states, "The Institute enables us to work with existing and new supporters in different ways than the Entertainment Consumers Association can and, as a result, will make advancing the wants and needs of gamers more effective." Specific issues that the ECA Institute will deal with will include things like conducting polls on issues like net neturality, universal broadband and First Amendment rights. They will also develop scholarship programes for students to attend game-related education efforts.