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Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies (MACP) is a grantmaking organization based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. It includes two subordinate entities: the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation and the Anne Ray Foundation. The MACP endowment primarily comes from the fortune of agricultural business heiress Margaret Anne Cargill, who engaged in extensive philanthropic
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Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, one of the three private foundations making up Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, is a major grantmaking organization. Its grantmaking includes substantial support for environmentalist organizations.
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Fair World Project is an advocacy and litigation organization that promotes left-wing legal and regulatory models for international trade, such as “fair trade” requirements that American corporations be held responsible for the livelihood of all workers throughout their international supply chains.
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Biodiversity Funders Group (BFG) is a professional association of philanthropic trustees and private foundation leaders who fund environmentalist causes related to climate change and conservationism. It serves as a donor network for more than 70 formal member organizations. BFG was founded as Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD) in 1987
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The Jacobs Foundation is an international grantmaking foundation that focuses on providing grants to educational institutions and left-of-center organizations that prioritize education. 1 The foundation has provided grants to institutions such as the Queen Mary
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The Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) is engaged in the creation of finance institutions in the United States and internationally to accelerate investment in weather-dependent energy to reduce carbon emissions. 1 As of
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Mission Investors Exchange is an “impact investing” network for foundations that try to use their investment dollars to push corporations to make social and environmental change. 1 The organization has more than 200
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Intrahealth International is a nonprofit based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that focuses on providing support to the global health care workforce, particularly in developing countries. The group was founded in 1970 as an international training program at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine. The group
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Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) is an organization for girls that has traditionally emphasized service, interaction with the outdoors, and self-reliance. 1 Since
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First Nations Development Institute is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that engages in environmentalist activism and provides Native American communities with funding to develop businesses. 1 Finances In 2018, First Nations Development Institute received $7,307,859 in contributions, and $7,743,839
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Pathfinder International is a major left-of-center birth control and population control funding and advocacy nonprofit. Pathfinder was founded in 1957 as “The Pathfinder Fund” by Charles James “C.J.” Gamble, a close friend of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and major advocate for population control and birth control policies. Pathfinder
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The D.N. Batten Foundation contributes millions to a broad array of organizations including left-of-center environmentalist groups focusing on climate change, and other environmentalist priorities. 1 The foundation is founded by, named after and led by Dorothy Batten, the daughter and
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Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship is a Minneapolis-based left-of-center organization that offers workshops, public dialogue sessions, and one-on-one meetings for community organizing. 1 The Sabo Center also
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Council on Foundations is a membership association of more than 850 global grantmaking foundations and corporations. The council provides policy insights, legal assistance, networking, and development opportunities for members at its annual conference.
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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF, also known abroad as World Wide Fund for Nature) is an international non-governmental organization that focuses on conservation and environmentalism efforts. The majority of the WWF’s revenue comes in the form of grants and contributions from foundations, government grants, corporations, and individuals including the
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The World Resources Institute (WRI) is a non-profit organization that focuses on providing research and policy approaches on environmentalist issues around the world. WRI has been opposed to the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
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The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is the world’s largest nongovernmental conservation organization and ranked 20th on the 2018 Forbes list of the 100 largest U.S.-based charities. 1
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Conservation International is a left-of-center environmentalist organization headquartered in Virginia. Founded in 1987, Conservation International lobbies political authorities to implement environmentalist policies while also promoting private investment in conservationist projects. 1 Background Conservation International is an environmentalist
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The ClimateWorks Foundation is a left-of-center “pass-through” funding entity that distributes funds from donors to environmentalist advocacy groups around the world. Many of these nonprofits lobby for emissions taxes, restricting coal use, international climate treaties with strict enforcement mechanisms, and diminishing the use of cars.
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The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is the nation’s largest LGBT-interest activist organization and a prominent force in left-of-center politics. Together with the affiliated Human Rights Campaign Foundation charitable arm and super PAC, HRC has built relationships with powerful mostly Democratic Party politicians and major corporations, and has taken a