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The Accountability Board (TAB) is an investment and advocacy organization that seeks to pressure major publicly traded companies to embrace left-of-center environmental, social and governance principles (ESG). TAB invests in over 100 large publicly traded companies and seeks to influence the governance of those companies through portfolio advocacy, compliance
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The George W. Bush Foundation, which operates as the George W. Bush Presidential Center (shortened as the Bush Center), is a nonpartisan organization that houses the George W. Bush Presidential Museum and the George W. Bush Institute at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) campus in Dallas. The Bush Center’s mission
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The Partnership for Global LGBTIQ+ Equality (PGLE), an initiative of Business for Social Responsibility, the World Economic Forum, and United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, is a left-of-center membership organization focused on sexuality and gender issues. Background The Partnership for Global LGBTIQ+ Equality
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Equity Agenda was a consultancy that worked with local governments and nonprofits to assess gender equity in their communities and to develop policies to address any perceived inequities.
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National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA) is a project of the left-of-center Tides Center and is a coalition of activist organizations that advocate for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and other Americans of Pacific Islander descent.
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Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR, generally pronounced as “hacer,” the Spanish word for “to do”) works to increase of Latino representation in positions of corporate leadership and utilization of Hispanic-owned businesses. It is a member of the Alliance for Board Diversity.
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The Civic Responsibility Project (CRP) is a project of the New Venture Fund, one of the funds managed by Arabella Advisors, a left-of-center consultancy that is considered one of the largest “dark money” networks in the United States. Its status as a project ensures that no separate public
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The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) is a left-of-center Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) advocacy fund and grantmaking organization that conducts outreach campaigns to generate support for left-leaning causes among AAPI communities. 1
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Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism (CIC) is a left-of-center advocacy group which promotes “inclusive capitalism,” a business and political policy movement based on aligning capitalism with left-progressive priorities. CIC was founded by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild financial dynasty and personal friend of the Clinton family.
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NorthStar Asset Management is a Boston-based, left-leaning investment organization which uses its shareholder status in large corporations to influence companies on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues and policies. Wealth manager and social activist Julie Goodridge founded NorthStar in 1990.
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City Year is an education organization that places young adult volunteers in public schools and grants its staff student loans. It operates as an AmeriCorps program and receives most of its funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and AmeriCorps in the form of federal grants.
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The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is a left-leaning environmentalist organization that advocates against businesses which produce conventional energy sources (such as oil and natural gas), paper products, and consumer goods. Founded in 1985, RAN frequently ties its mission to the identity politics common on the American Left.
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Equity Forward (sometimes spelled “Equity Fwd”) is a left-of-center abortion advocacy organization and a project of the Hopewell Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. Because it is sponsored as a project of Hopewell, the funders for Equity Forward are
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The Climate Leadership Council (CLC) is an organization of former government officials, intellectuals, and businessmen who advocate for a carbon tax. The organization was founded in 2017 by the late Ted Halstead, an environmentalist activist and founder of the center-left think tank New America Foundation.
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Person
For more please see Ford Foundation. Since 2013 Darren Walker has been President of the Ford Foundation, one of the largest left-leaning granting foundations in the United States.
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Boston Trust Walden, formerly known as Walden Asset Management, is a $3.6 billion left-of-center activist investment fund, operated by the larger Boston Trust and Investment Management Company.1 The fund was founded in
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Non-profit
The Creative Alliance is a coalition of private advertising and marketing companies which provide volunteer creative marketing services to the left-of-center viral marketing producer Civic Nation. The coalition partnered with the Obama administration to produce celebrity-backed advertisements promoting the Obama administration’s policies to combat perceived widespread campus sexual assault.
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Bully Pulpit Interactive is a communications consultancy that has served a number of left-of-center nonprofits and political candidates. Based in Washington, the company has offices in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. It was founded by Andrew Bleeker, a former Obama campaign staffer. The company led the digital strategy
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UltraViolet (formally UltraViolet Education Fund) is a social-progressive nonprofit that advocates for LGBT and expanded abortion access, usually using social media campaigns, petitions, and small protests, oftentimes alongside or in conjunction with other left-of-center groups. UltraViolet Action is the organization’s lobbying arm. High-profile figures against whom the organization has
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The Synergos Institute is an “important hub for the global philanthropy of wealthy families” 1 founded in 1986 by Peggy Dulany, the daughter of David Rockefeller.
