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Other Group
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 policy goals that were adopted by all United Nations (UN) member states in 2015 as a part of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Non-profit
The Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD) is a Washington D.C.-based left-of-center environmentalist organization. It works to strengthen environmental law and expand environmental governance institutions. IGSD supports the Green New Deal and other radical environmentalist programs that would eliminate the use of conventional fuels. The organization also works
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Non-profit
The Small-Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund (S3IDF) is a non-profit organization which seeks to produce more equitable economic conditions throughout the world.
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Other Group
The Sustainable Energy & Economic Development Coalition (SEED) is a progressive organization which advocates for policies which reduce pollution.
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Other Group
Sustainable Pennsylvania (Sustainable PA) is a municipal certification project jointly administered by the Pennsylvania Municipal League (PML) and Sustainable Pittsburgh (Sustainable PGH). The project has provided guidelines for local governments to help them promote and implement left-of-center environmental policies and practices regarding land use, transportation, energy, water, operations, waste, and
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Non-profit
The Tenants and Owners Development Corporation (TODCO) is a low-income housing development and advocacy nonprofit in San Francisco. TODCO was founded in 1971 to oppose the development of a convention center in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco; if that effort failed, it would support requiring the construction
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Non-profit
The Institute for Sustainable Communities is a grantmaking organization that advocates left-of-center environmental, economic, and social policies. 71 In February 2025, the Institute for Sustainable Communities lost $12.4 million in grant money previously promised
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Non-profit
Colorado Nonprofit Development Center (CNDC) is an advocacy group that provides funding to nonprofit organizations in Colorado. 80
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Non-profit
Development Initiatives Poverty Research (DI) is an advocacy organization claiming to research and report on policies meant to reduce rates of poverty around the world. 105 It also acts as a grantmaking organization to
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Other Group
The Coalition for Human Rights in Development is a coalition of over 100 organizations that support activists and protesters opposing public development projects that they claim negatively impact marginalized communities and the environment. It is financed by large left-of-center philanthropies, including the Ford Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott
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Non-profit
ACTS Community Development Corporation (operating as “Acts Housing”) is a nonprofit organization that encourages and facilitates the home buying process in an effort create diverse neighborhoods and homeownership. Acts Housing focuses on rehabilitating foreclosed properties and supports families in Milwaukee and Beloit, Wisconsin.
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Non-profit
The Council of State Community Development Agencies (COSCDA) is a nonprofit association comprised of community development agencies from U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia.
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Non-profit
The American Sustainable Business Network is a partnership for businesses and investors that support what it calls “justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion” (JEDI). 178 In 2021, the American Sustainable Business Council merged
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Other Group
The Ethnic Community Development Forum is an international grassroots organization advocating for increased sustainable development within the country of Burma. 188
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Government Agency
Sustainable Communities Initiative was an Obama administration policy that provided urban development and housing grants using federal tax dollars to subsidize the production of residential housing and increased investment in public transportation within communities of color. Background Sustainable Communities Initiative was a joint initiative of the Obama administration’s
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Non-profit
The Arab NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) Network for Development (ANND) is a collective of some two dozen member advocacy organizations and several hundred affiliate groups across the Middle East. The network was founded in 1997 and has maintained a headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon since 2000. The ANND aims to promote globalization,
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Non-profit
Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) is a nonprofit investment fund that provides “debt and equity financing” to media companies in war-torn regions and countries with authoritarian governments. 205 MDIF aligns itself with the
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Non-profit
American Sustainable Business Institute (ASBI) is a policy advocacy organization that promotes left-of-center environmentalist and diversity, equity, and inclusion agendas in business. Founded in 2009, it is a distinct legal entity from its sister organization American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC).
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Non-profit
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development (Insight Center) is a left-progressive research center based in Oakland, California that promotes left-of-center racial and economic policies. The Insight Center has advocated for policies including a universal basic income, an increased minimum wage, and heavy regulation of private enterprise, especially in real
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Non-profit
Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy (CASE) advocates for deregulating immigration law and voting policies in Maricopa County and Arizona at large.
