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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
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Non-profit
The NewSchools Venture Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization which funds projects intended to support the American public school system. While the fund claims that it is committed to “every young person,” it devotes particular attention to initiatives involving minority groups, and two of its four investment areas are explicitly
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Other Group
Powering a New Economy Fund is a coalition organizer that advocates for policies at the state and local levels to advance left-of-center economic policies. 1 It is a fiscally sponsored project of
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Non-profit
ProgressNow New Mexico is a left-0f-center communications hub advocating for left-leaning policy in New Mexico. It is the advocacy arm of the policy education group ProgressNow New Mexico Education Fund, a charitable organization.
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Non-profit
The ProgressNow New Mexico Education Fund is a left-0f-center communications hub advocating left-of-center policy in New Mexico. 1 It is the charitable arm of
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Non-profit
New Energy Nexus (NEX) is an organization focused on accelerating environmentalism with energy development through investments in weather-dependent energy startups and entrepreneurs. It provides funds, accelerators, networking opportunities, and training. In 2023, NEX was selected to be the Climate Tech Startup Program partner for COP28, the annual United Nations
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Non-profit
Global Impact Social Welfare Fund (GISWF) is a left-of-center advocacy organization that is a project of Global Impact Ventures. 1 In 2022, GISWF gave substantial contributions to left-of-center activist groups, including $2,000,000 to Western Futures Fund, $700,000 to
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The Peter E. Haas, Jr. Family Fund is a left-of-center family foundation founded by Peter E. Haas, the former chairman and CEO of Levi Strauss and Co. and a descendant of the company’s founder, Levi Strauss. The fund is operated by the Marin Community Foundation but incorporated as a
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Non-profit
The Alaska Venture Fund is a left-of-center funding collaborative that provides funding to organizations and initiatives promoting left-of-center policies and programs on environmental and economic issues. The group funds programs and projects in coordination with Indigenous groups in Alaska and has received funding from large left-of-center groups including the
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Non-profit
The Far Star Action Fund, also known as Far Star, was founded in 2018 by David and Linda Cornfield, a husband-and-wife team of former Microsoft executives who retired early to pursue film, photography, and travel projects. In 2012, they founded ArcherCornfield Films, which has produced films on issues such
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Non-profit
Islamic Scholarship Fund (ISF) is a group that provides scholarships to Muslim students to increase the representation of Muslims in the American media and government. ISF supports the careers of American and non-American Muslims working in left-of-center political advocacy.
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Non-profit
The Telescope Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking fund that is associated with the New Venture Fund (NVF), which is managed by Arabella Advisors. 1 Telescope Fund was
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Non-profit
GreenLight Fund, Inc. is a left-of-center nonprofit that makes small grants to targeted local and regional charities in 13 cities in the United States. The group was founded in 2004 by Margaret Hall, a long-time nonprofit executive in Georgia and was originally funded by John Simon, a venture capitalist who
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Non-profit
Protect Our Winters Action Fund (POW AF) is an environmental advocacy group and the 501 (c)(4) sister organization of private foundation Protect Our Winters (POW). 1 Protect
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Non-profit
The Raising Child Care Fund is a grant making organization within the Early Childhood Funder’s Collaborative, which is fiscally sponsored by Third Sector New England. The fund raises grants from donor organizations and then regrants that money to left-of-center local activist groups focused on women and children’s issues.
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For-profit
The Los Angeles Media Fund is an entertainment company founded by Jeffrey Soros, nephew of billionaire George Soros. 1 The Los Angeles Media Fund develops,
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Other Group
Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund is a coalition of 14 organizations that make grants to left-of-center groups that campaign in support of content moderation on technology platforms ostensibly on behalf of young people.
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Non-profit
FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund (FRIDA) is a left-of-center feminist funding organization based out of Canada. FRIDA focuses on various projects through a feminist lens that include art activism, global warming, LGBT interests, and other ventures. FRIDA has funded pro-anarchy groups, queer art, groups fighting development, educational groups for
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Other Group
Women’s Fund Asia is a feminist funder operating in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. It supports groups that advocate for women, girls, transgender, and intersex people. Since 2004, the group supported over 200 initiatives.
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Non-profit
Fund for New Leadership (FNL) is a left-of-center private grantmaking organization that provides three-year grant and mentorship support to individuals pinpointed as possible left-of-center social-policy change agents. Issue areas include tenants’ representation and low-income housing, contraception access, gender and racial issues, and higher education initiatives for prison inmates.
