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Non-profit
Appalachian Voices is a left-leaning environmental advocacy organization based in North Carolina.
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Labor Union
The Progressive Workers Union (PWU) is a far-left labor union that represents employees at left-wing nonprofits. As of 2020, the PWU claimed over 500 members at 350.org, Greenpeace, Appalachian Voices, and the Union of Concerned Scientists, though up to 400 of its members are at the
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Other Group
The Erol Foundation is a Switzerland-based private foundation that provides funding to left-leaning climate change and “social justice” organizations. The organization also provides grants for environmental agricultural projects that incorporate a focus on climate change mitigation.
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Other Group
The Advancing Equity and Opportunity Collaborative is a coalition of left-of-center organizations based in the southeastern United States. The focus of the coalition is the promotion of “environmental justice” and opposition to the extraction and use of reliable sources of energy such as fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and
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Other Group
Rural Democracy Initiative is a left-of-center coalition of rural organizations and aligned funders that build left-of-center civic and political infrastructure in small towns to influence public opinion, elections, and redistricting. 1
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Non-profit
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition is a left-of-center organization advocating for environmentalist policy in West Virginia. The organization sponsored the Green New Deal, a package of environmentalist policies characterized by critics as a “radical top-down socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy.”
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Non-profit
The Oak Hill Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia. 1 The Oak Hill Fund was established in 2001 as a 501(c)(3) organization from the division
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Person
Fred Stanback, Jr., is a North Carolina billionaire and a major donor to organizations that promote abortion access (such as Planned Parenthood South Atlantic), left-leaning environmental policies (such as Sierra Club Foundation), population control (such as Population Connection, formerly known as Zero Population Growth), immigration restrictionism (such as
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Non-profit
Training Resources for the Environmental Community (TREC) is a left-of-center nonprofit which provides leadership and activism training for professional environmentalists. The organization credits the Wilburforce Foundation as its major financial supporter,1 though it has also received major support
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Person
Tom Perriello is a former Democratic Congressman from Virginia who ran unsuccessfully for the party’s 2017 gubernatorial nomination. From 2018 to July 2023, Perriello served as executive director for U.S. programs at the Open Society Foundations, the private philanthropic network of George Soros.
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Person
Lee Halprin is a writer and the husband of Abby Rockefeller, a member of the prominent and wealthy Rockefeller family. Like his wife, Halprin has used his wealth to back socialist causes1 and support
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Non-profit
The Foundation for the Carolinas (FFTC) is a donor-advised fund provider established in 1958 that manages funds for 2,700 separate charitable individuals, families and organizations. 1
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Non-profit
The Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund is a private foundation making grants to left-of-center organizations associated with health, education, and Jewish philanthropy. 1 Alan Davis, the fund’s president, is
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Non-profit
The Virginia League of Conservation Voters (Virginia LCV or VA LCV) is a left-of-center environmental advocacy organization headquartered in Richmond that promotes left-of-center environmental policies and supports Democratic candidates for public office throughout Virginia. The organization is one of many state-level affiliates of the League of Conservation Voters, a
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Non-profit
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network, is the Capital Area chapter of U.S. Climate Action Network and Climate Action Network-International (CAN-I). It was founded in July 2002 with a seed grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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Person
MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Formerly known as MacKenzie Bezos, she is recognized as the third-wealthiest woman in the world after a divorce settlement left her with an estimated $37 billion.
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Non-profit
Mary Reynolds Babcock founded the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation (MRBF) as a grantmaking organization in 1953. Like the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, also co-founded by Babcock, MRBF supports left-of-center advocacy organizations in 11 states in the southeastern United States through various means, primarily through grantmaking.
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Non-profit
The Windward Fund is an environmentalist fiscal sponsor organization in the network of “dark money” organizations controlled by philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Fund was created in February 2015 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with startup funding of $5.25 million provided by an unknown source. According to its bylaws, Windward
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Non-profit
The Mangrove Foundation is a subsidiary of the Atlantic Philanthropies, a private foundation created in 1982 by Irish-American businessman Chuck Feeney. The Atlantic Philanthropies focuses its giving on health, social, and politically left-of-center public policy causes in Australia, Bermuda, Ireland, South Africa, the United States, and Vietnam. A philanthropic
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Non-profit
The New Venture Fund (NVF) is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that makes grants to left-of-center advocacy and organizing projects and provides incubation serves for other left-of-center organizations. The fund focuses primarily on social and environmental change, issuing grants for a variety of projects that include conservation, global
