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For-profit
Participant (formerly known as Participant Media) was a film production company founded by Jeffrey Skoll, a left-leaning billionaire who was formerly the president of eBay.
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Other Group
The San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, also known as IndyBay, is a left-of-center informal media collective closely tied to the Media Alliance, a left-of-center journalism activist group. The group is an all-volunteer organization that describes itself as encompassing a “variety of different local revolutionary, left-wing, anarchist, communist and
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Non-profit
Out of Hand Theater is a production company based in Atlanta, Georgia. The company puts on monthly “Equitable Dinners,” as well as short plays and group discussions to push advocacy and discussions on left-of-center policy issues.
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Non-profit
Centro Hispano Comunitario de Nebraska, also known as Centro Hispano, is a left-of-center advocacy organization based in Columbus, Nebraska, offering educational and business programs to immigrants in Nebraska. 1 Centro Hispano receives support from left-of-center organizations
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Other Group
The Fair Election Funds (not to be confused with the right-of-center voter security group, the Fair Election Fund) are government-run and financed funds for political candidates in local elections. Local governments establish these funds to encourage small-dollar donors to become involved in local elections. Fair Election Funds are operated in
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Other Group
Minnesota Peace Action Coalition (MPAC) is an anti-war activist group operating in the “Twin Cities” area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. 1 In 2023, MPAC members participated in a Minneapolis-based rally calling for an end
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Other Group
Shut it Down NYU is a group of students, faculty, and staff at New York University that was formed in April 2023 as an anti-Israel activist group with a special emphasis on forcing the school to close its satellite campus in Tel Aviv and to divest from all investments connected
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Political Party/527
The Service Employees International Union Committee on Political Education (SEIU COPE) is the political election campaign arm of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of America’s largest, most controversial, and most politically involved labor unions, which as of its 2023 annual report represented just under 2 million members.
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Other Group
Pan-African Community Action (PACA) is an activist organization that advocates for left-of-center political ideology that align with “African/Black people organizing for community-based power.” 1 PACA holds that “fascism is ascendant in the imperial core” of the
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Non-profit
All Square is a nonprofit criminal justice advocacy group that provides reentry services and encourages ex-convicts to enter the legal profession. The group operates a “craft grilled cheese” restaurant in Minneapolis that employs recently released convicts as “fellows” giving them jobs as cooks or servers in the restaurant while providing
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Non-profit
Hmong American Women’s Association (HAWA) is a support organization for Hmong women, girls, queer, and trans people that seeks “to champion gender justice and collective liberation.” 1 It provides domestic violence and sexual assault
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Non-profit
Dreams in Action NM is a left-0f-center lobbying and advocacy group focused on increasing voter participation LQBT individuals, women, immigrants, and young people in New Mexico’s state and local elections. Established in 2020, the group runs get-out-the-vote campaigns and endorses left-of-center candidates in local New Mexico primaries.
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For-profit
Berkshire Hathaway Energy is a holding company 1 whose subsidiaries include energy, utility, and pipeline operations and a real estate brokerage.
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Non-profit
Ayada Leads is a nonprofit organization that provides resources and training to assist African American women in the Minneapolis area to run for elected positions at all levels of government, with a particular focus on local races.
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Other Group
The AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge, or simply The Grand Challenge, is a project of the Bezos Earth Fund launched in April 2024 to promote the use of artificial intelligence to address climate change and loss of natural lands.
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Non-profit
The Alianza Center is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that engages in voter registration drives for, and provides social services to, Puerto Ricans and the Hispanic community in Orlando, Florida. It is the sister organization of Alianza for Progress, an advocacy group that funds campaigns in support of
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Other Group
Makerspaces is a term for physical workspaces where like-minded people gather to make, design, collaborate, explore, and share thoughts on different projects. 1 Makerspaces may or
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Non-profit
LookUp (formally known as Lookup Incubator) is a youth-centered organization to improve mental and physical health of kids by limiting screen time and advocating for more in-person interactions. 1 LookUp is a supporter of diversity, equity,
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Other Group
The League of Young Communists USA is a radical-left political activist group that recruits young people to support Marxism-Leninism. It is the youth wing of the Party of Communists USA (not to be confused with the Communist Party USA).
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Other Group
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration was written in 2007 at a meeting organized by left-of-center activist organizations, most notably the Open Society Foundations. The declaration aimed to produce a framework for global cooperation to advance open-access education. There was a follow-up meeting in 2017 to build upon the
