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Non-profit
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is a research institution funded, chaired, and promoted by labor unions and labor union supporters. The Institute distributes research studies supporting the labor union agenda by promoting international trade restrictions,
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Government Agency
Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy is a left-of-center economic policy advocacy center housed at Florida International University‘s Center for Labor Research and Studies.
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Non-profit
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) is a tax and budget policy advocacy group that focuses on state and federal tax policy issues. It holds 501(c)(3) status and is ostensibly non-partisan for tax reasons,
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Non-profit
The Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP) is a left-of-center advocacy organization and think tank founded in 2019 by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams that is centered around promoting racial equity and “economic power” among minority populations in the American South. SEAP focuses its efforts on 12 southern states and
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Other Group
The Observatory of Political and Economic Networks (OPEN) is a research group staffed by “Syrian and Arab youth.” 1 Background The group offers private-sector, government, and nonprofit clients academic, media, civic, legal,
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Other Group
Climate Policy Radar is a left-of-center private company organized as a Community Interest Company and based in London, England. The organization uses artificial intelligence and data science to track treaties, law, and other environmental policies across the globe.
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Non-profit
California-China Climate Institute (CCCI) is a University of California-wide initiative housed at University of California, Berkeley that aims to advance cooperation between California and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on climate-related issues. CCCI operates in partnership with the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at China’s Tsinghua
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Non-profit
The Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future is an Ellsworth, Wisconsin-based environmentalist nonprofit that studies energy policy. The group claims that modern economic growth is propped up by a combination of the use of fossil fuels, debt, and repeated fiscal stimulus by governments that results in environmental
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Non-profit
Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) is a left-of-center research, analysis, advisory, and advocacy organization and think tank headquartered in San Fransico, California. The organization focuses on influencing finance, policy, and land use, particularly in areas of climate change and environmentalist practices.
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Non-profit
The California Institute for Rural Studies (CIRS) is a left-of-center agricultural policy research and advocacy organization that criticizes Californian agricultural systems as racist and colonialist “systems of oppression and extraction.” 1 CIRS was widely
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Non-profit
Independent Media Institute is an advocacy organization that uses journalism and related media disciplines to promote left-of-center messaging and policies. 1 It is best known for its creation and management of the AlterNet journalism
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Non-profit
Public Interest Institute (PII) was an independent nonprofit organization that supported Iowa Wesleyan University and the Tax Education Foundation. PII provided instructors and library publications to Iowa Wesleyan University and provided research and publications on government spending and taxation to the Tax Education Foundation to promote free enterprise.
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Non-profit
The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), legally known as Caidp, is a think tank and advocacy group dedicated to regulating the development of artificial intelligence (AI). CAIDP supports slowing AI development with an emphasis on legal guidelines to encourage AI alignment with democratic principles. The organization’s policy goals
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Non-profit
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) is a Massachusetts-based legal advocacy group that provides legal advocacy for the poor. MLRI supports new taxes on home sales, rent control regulations, increased welfare assistance, and in-state tuition and financial aid to immigrants; opposes increased welfare work requirements; and approaches much of its work
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Other Group
New Economics Foundation (NEF) is a socialist and environmentalist think tank and advocacy organization based in London, England. The Foundation promotes left-of-center climate change and economic policies, including universal basic income, taxpayer-funded and government-guaranteed transportation and housing, and the Green New Deal. One of NEF’s missions is to create
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Non-profit
The Advocacy Institute (AI) is a left-of-center organization that provides training courses and consulting programs for movements seeking legislative change within the state of New York. Initially created in 2013, Advocacy Institute’s website claims that the organization works to “level the playing field for Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC)
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Non-profit
The Clean Energy Buyers Institute (CEBI) is a national group that advocates for left-leaning environmentalist policies. The group claims that it is pursuing total decarbonization of the energy grid and has produced policy recommendations to assist in decarbonization.
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Other Group
The Just Economy Institute (JEI) is an advocacy group which pushes for wealth and resource redistribution towards left-of-center political, social, and environmental causes through both government policies and private-sector initiatives. The JEI describes itself as a collective of “financial activists” working to change to “purpose of wealth” in American society,
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Non-profit
The Friends of the Austrian Economics Center (FAEC) is a free-market advocacy organization that supports the work of its partner organization, the Austrian Economics Center (AEC), and aims to further the economic ideas of the free-market Austrian School of economics in society worldwide.
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Non-profit
The Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute (TEPRI) is an advocacy group funded by energy and solar companies in Texas that promotes the expansion of weather-dependent solar and wind energy within the state. The organization was founded in 2015 and claims to promote energy efficiency policies in order to save energy
