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''Kraft is was on the corporate ("[[ALEC Boards and Task Forces#"Private Enterprise" Board of Directors|Private Enterprise]]") board of the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] (ALEC)until it announced it would not renew its ALEC membership on April 5, 2012.''<ref>Barbara Liston and Martinne Geller, [http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/05/usa-coke-alec-idUKL2E8F54P120120405 UPDATE 4-Coke withdraws from group that backs Stand Your Ground law (Adds Kraft Statement)], ''Reuters'', April 6, 2012</ref> In an email from Kraft Corporate Affairs Director Susan Davison, Kraft Foods announced it wouldn't renew its membership in ALEC upon its expiry in spring 2012. This announcement followed on the news that [[Coca-Cola]] and [[PepsiCo|Pepsi]] had also left ALEC. The [[Center for Media and Democracy]]'s executive director, [[Lisa Graves]], and leaders from other public interest groups including [[Color of Change]] (CoC), [[Common Cause]] and the [[NAACP]] had attempted to deliver a letter asking the ALEC chairmen of its legislative and corporate boards to "fully disclose ALEC's financial relationship with all NRA entities, including any contributions, sponsorships, in-kind support or other support ALEC has received" the week before Kraft's announcement. CoC announced a public boycott of [[Coca-Cola]] and other ALEC corporate board members earlier the week of the announcement, joined by other public interest groups. <ref>Rebekah Wilce, [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/11416/breaking-intuit-out-alec-coke-kraft-pepsi-too-while-koch-stands-ground BREAKING: Intuit Out of ALEC; Coke, Kraft, Pepsi, too, while Koch Stands Ground], ''PRWatch.org'', April 6, 2012</ref> [[Derek Crawford]], District Director for State & Local Government Affairs of Kraft Foods Global, Inc., is had been Kraft's representative on ALEC's corporate board as of 2011.<ref>American Legislative Exchange Council, [http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Private_Enterprise_Board&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=15992 Private Enterprise Board], organizational website, accessed July 8, 2011.</ref> Crawford has had also represented Kraft on ALEC's [[Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force]] and [[Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force]].<ref>American Legislative Exchange Council, [http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Private_Sector_Chair_Bio Derek Crawford], organizational biography, accessed July 9, 2011.</ref> Furthermore, Kraft was a "Trustee" level sponsor of 2011 [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] Annual Conference, which in 2010, equated to $5,000.<ref>[American Legislative Exchange Council, 2011 Conference Sponsors, conference brochure on file with CMD, August 11, 2011]</ref> Kraft was also a sponsor of the ALEC Kids Congress for the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.<ref>[American Legislative Exchange Council, 2011 Kids Congress, conference brochure on file with CMD, August 11, 2011]</ref>