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Non-profit
Donors of Color Network (DOCN) is a left-of-center nonprofit co-founded by Hali Lee, Ashindi Maxton, and Urvashi Vaid in 2016. The group promotes left-of-center social equity initiatives and climate action policies. DOCN is related and works with Donors of Color Action (DOCA).
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Non-profit
For the 501(c)(4), see Color of Change (Nonprofit) The ColorOfChange.org Education Fund (CoCEF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Oakland, California. The CoCEF is a partner organization of ColorOfChange.org (Color of Change), a prominent, left-wing lobbying group for African-American interests. Since the Anthony “Van” Jones and James
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Non-profit
For the 501(c)(3), see Color of Change Education Fund (Nonprofit) Color of Change is an online organizing organization created by the Obama administration’s former “green jobs czar” Van Jones and the former director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org, James Rucker, in 2005.
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Person
Norman L. Eisen is a lawyer and former diplomat with an extensive track record of left-of-center institution-building and policy advocacy. Eisen held several positions in the transition team and administration of President Barack Obama, who later appointed him U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic. He later waged an aggressive
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Non-profit
Until We Are All Free (UWAAF) is a Minnesota-based organization that promotes left-of-center criminal justice policies. The organization is led by individuals who were formerly incarcerated and supports current inmates and those who have been recently released by providing a stipend for materials in prison, connecting former inmates to jobs
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Non-profit
The Evelyn Sharp Foundation is a New York City-based private grantmaking foundation with a focus on the arts. The foundation has funded politically left-of-center arts organizations, including the Dorrance Dance company, which performed at the White House during the 2023 Christmas season and has far-left views such as prison
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Non-profit
Black for Palestine (B4P, also known as Black 4 Palestine) is an anti-Israel network comprised of black activists across the United States. The organization was co-founded in 2015 by now-U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Kristian Davis Bailey. Black for Palestine has “posted online more than 100 times in support of
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Non-profit
Climate Cabinet Action (CCA), sometimes known as the Climate Cabinet Action Fund, is a social welfare group that seeks to “solve climate change” by building left-of-center climate policy-supporting legislative majorities at the state and local levels. The organization’s stated goal is to attain legislative majorities in 30 states, 300 counties,
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For-profit
Third Plateau (sometimes called Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies) is a consulting firm that assists left-of-center nonprofits. Its clients have included the Democracy Funders Network, the Pritzker Innovation Fund, and the NDN Collective. According to co-founder Jonathan Kaufman, Third Plateau both consults on specific projects for large
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Movement
There are more than 700 nonprofits and other advocacy groups in the United States that oppose the use of carbon free nuclear energy.
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Other Group
Culture Surge is a coalition of 900 artists, organizers, and organizations that seek to change politics through artistic production. Though the organization is formally non-partisan, its ideological output tends to be left-of-center. Culture Surge’s website states that its artists are “working together in this vital moment for the survival of our
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Other Group
Pueblo Action Alliance is a far-left Native American environmental activist group. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of the SouthWest Organizing Project.1 Pueblo Action Alliance sees itself as descended from Native American resistance to European colonial
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Other Group
The Association of Raza Educators (ARE) is a far-left collective of Hispanic educators based in California. While the organization has little statewide or national structure or activity, ARE chapters operate in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and Santa Barbara. The organization does not appear to be a registered nonprofit with
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Person
Kelisa Wing is the chief of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for the U.S. Department of Defense’s school district, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA).
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Non-profit
Change the Ref (CTR) is an activist group that promotes gun control. Founders Manuel and Patricia Oliver combine art, disruption, and activism to encourage people to vote against politicians who support the Second Amendment right to bear arms and to engage in advocacy for gun control. Founder Manuel Oliver has
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Non-profit
Workers Circle (formerly known as the Workmen’s Circle) is a Jewish cultural organization that supports left-of-center social justice politics. Originating in 1900 as a mutual-aid society, the Workers Circle rose to 84,000 national members with a strong base in socialist, communist, and labor-union politics. Throughout the 20th century, the organization’s
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Other Group
Reclaim Our Democracy is a social action group at First Parish, a Unitarian Universalist church in Concord, Massachusetts. It is part of the Unitarian Universalist Association which supports left-of-center social action.
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Other Group
John Brown Gun Club is an anti-capitalist, revolutionary-activist organization that advocates for gun rights from a left-wing perspective and seeks to radicalize the rural working class. It provides armed security to left-wing protestors and trains other leftist groups in the use of firearms. In 2019, an anarchist whom police claimed
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Non-profit
Call To Action (CTA) is a radical-left institution associated with dissenters from certain Catholic Church practices that has independent affiliate chapters throughout the United States. In 1990, CTA issued a “Call for Reform of the Catholic Church” urging the religion to reevaluate its positions on priestly celibacy, birth control, homosexuality,
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Other Group
The Zinn Education Project is a joint project of Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change, two left-of-center organizations that seek to promote far-left and anti-American interpretations of history in the K-12 educational system through education modules informed by the writings of radical-left historian Howard Zinn.
