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The Media Democracy Fund is a left-of-center activist organization that works on media and internet related issues. It is a project of the New Venture Fund (itself managed as part of a network of “dark money” organizations under the ambit of for-profit philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors
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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. 1 MDIF aligns itself with the
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Media Island International is a far-left fiscal sponsorship, resource, and networking center based in Olympia, Washington. The organization serves as a fiscal sponsor for Rising Tide North America, a radical environmentalist organization that participated in a radical environmentalist set of demonstrations in Washington, D.C. on September 23, 2019, that
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Media Legal Defence Initiative (Media Defence) is a media and digital rights legal advocacy group that provides resources and legal aid to journalists and lawyers internationally. Located in London, this group was founded in 2008 with a grant from the MacArthur Foundation. It is also the recipient of funds
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The Media Matters Action Network (MMAN) is a research organization which targets right-of-center publications, institutions, and public figures to discredit them. The organization also provides resources to left-wing activists for them to conduct their own targeting campaigns. MMAN is a partner project of Media Matters for America (MMFA), a
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Media Matters for America (MMfA) was established in 2004 by conservative-turned-liberal activist David Brock. MMfA was created as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. MMfA positions itself as a fact-checker, focusing on conservative media bias and inaccuracies. In practice, the organization frequently criticizes opinions of conservative commentators. In November 2023, MMfA was
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The Media Research Center (MRC) is a right-of-center media watchdog. MRC provides commentary on news reports published by mainstream media outlets and illustrates what it characterizes as implicit and explicit left-of-center bias in the metropolitan print media, cable news, and over-the-air television news. MRC was founded by L. Brent Bozell
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Media Trust is a charity organization that advocates for media outlets to support and assist, “under-represented communities and young people.” 1
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MediaJustice (formerly Center for Media Justice) is a left-of-center activist group that opposes corporate media mergers and advocates for control of the media by minority racial, gender, and socioeconomic groups. The organization was formally founded in 2009 by Malkia Devich-Cyril, Amy Sonnie, and Jen Soriano.
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Established in 1993, Medical Students for Choice is a social-liberal advocacy nonprofit that supports and provides training in performing abortions to medical students and residents around the world. In the United States, the organization also advocates for making abortion training a mandatory part of medical school.
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Medicare for All Now (sometimes stylized Medicare for all NOW) is a left-wing organization which supports the implementation of government-controlled, single-payer healthcare in the United States. Founded in 2019 by far-left health care activist Wendell Potter, the organization was active in opposing pro-market health care policy during the 2020 election
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Meditate Your Action is a Philadelphia-based project of the 501(c)(3) organization Charter For Compassion. It facilitates meditation sessions.1
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Meedan, Inc. is a San Francisco, California-based technology nonprofit with a focus on combating alleged misinformation online and in the media. The group created the online tool Check which allows journalists and others to fact check information submitted to Meedan.
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The Mellen Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation based in Connecticut. The foundation rewards grants to organizations that advocate for abortion access, 1 increased funding for public
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The Melville Charitable Trust is a private grantmaking foundation. It was created by the Melville family, whose wealth came from the Melville Corporation, a national retailer that evolved into the CVS drugstore chain. The trust is dedicated to fighting homelessness, and funds local and national public policy programs on housing
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The Melvin and Bren Simon Foundation is a private grantmaking organization founded by American billionaire real estate developer Melvin Simon, cofounder of Simon Property Group, and his second wife Bren Simon. The foundation supports a variety of left-of-center organizations severally associated with the Democratic Party, Clinton family, environmentalist advocacy, and
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Men of Color in Educational Leadership (MCEL) is an organization focused on increasing student success by increasing the number of ethnic-minority men in educational leadership roles. MCEL provides professional development and networking opportunities while working with other partner organizations to hire an additional 1 million teachers of color. History Men
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The Mennonite Central Committee is a network of anabaptist churches and organizations from around the world. 1
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Mental Insight Foundation was established by hotel founder Bill Klimpton to fund research projects into mental illness and into using therapy as an alternative to prescription drugs. The organization has expanded to fund left-of-center environmentalist causes and art programs. The Mental Insight Foundation was previously guided by two consultant groups
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The Mercatus Center is an independent free-market research institution housed at George Mason University in Northern Virginia. It is led by George Mason University professor Tyler Cowen.
