Non-profits (Page 240)


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    Outlier Media

    Outlier Media operates a nonprofit online news site focused on the City of Detroit that uses surveys of residents and public data analysis to identify topics for its reporters to cover. Its target audience is lower-income residents who receive its coverage through text messages and social media. History and Leadership
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    Outrider Foundation

    The Outrider Foundation is an environmentalist advocacy organization based in Madison, Wisconsin, that promotes climate change advocacy and criticizes nuclear weapons, mainly through financial support for reporting in mainstream journalistic outlets. Background In 1999, Frank Burgess, the chairman of Madison Investment Holding, Inc, a financial firm based in Madison, Wisconsin,
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    OutRight Action International

    OutRight Action International, formerly known as the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, is a left-of-center LGBT advocacy organization that receives substantial funding from left-leaning private grantmaking foundations including the Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, and Horizons Foundation.
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    Over Zero

    Over Zero is a left-of-center advocacy organization against supposed “dangerous speech.” It is a project of the Hopewell Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. Activities The organization states that when societies become divided along religious, ethnic and political lines
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    Overbrook Foundation

    The Overbrook Foundation is a New York City-based grantmaking foundation founded in 1948 by investor Frank Altschul and his wife Helen. Today, the Overbrook Foundation’s grants are focused on funding for left-of-center groups supporting social liberalism and environmentalism. Overbrook has an endowment of $150 million and has donated more than
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    Overdeck Family Foundation

    The Overdeck Family Foundation was created by John A. Overdeck, co-founder and co-chair of the hedge fund Two Sigma Investments, and Laura Overdeck, an educator and creator of the Bedside Math Foundation. The Overdeck Family Foundation supports programs in education, with an emphasis on science and math education. John A.
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    Oweesta Corporation

    The Oweesta Corporation is a Colorado-based intermediary for Native American community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Oweesta is the only Native American CDFI intermediary. The Oweesta Corporation is one of the many organizations that received a portion of $1.7 billion from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott in the summer of 2020. Scott
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    Ownership Works

    Ownership Works is a nonprofit group advocating for broad employee ownership of business equity. It has received support from left-of-center organizations including the Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, and Rockefeller Foundation.1
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    Oxfam America

    Also see Oxfam America Advocacy Fund (Non-profit) Oxfam America is the American nonprofit arm of the worldwide group Oxfam International, which advocates for expanded international aid programs worldwide. 1 Oxfam America’s programs focus
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    Oxfam America Advocacy Fund

    Also see Oxfam America (Non-profit) Oxfam America Action Fund (Oxfam Action) is the lobbying and political advocacy arm of Oxfam America, which pushes for more stringent environmental regulations, increased foreign aid and higher taxes, among other issues.
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    PA Progress

    PA Progress is a center-left election reform advocacy organization. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) funding and fiscal sponsorship organization managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors.1
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    PACENation

    PACENation is a private networking and membership organization that offers long-term representation for lenders financing environmentalist energy projects known as “Property Assessed Clean Energy,” or PACE. From 2016 to 2019 PACENation was a project of the New Venture Fund, a left-of-center funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit administered by the
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    Pachamama Alliance

    Pachamama Alliance is a progressive non-profit group that promotes the protection of the environment through environmental courses and trainings. Pachamama Alliance uses the teachings of the Achuar people from the Amazon rainforest to inspire their activism issues.
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    Pacific Academy for Advanced Studies

    The Pacific Academy for Advanced Studies is an organization that promotes educational and humanitarian issues. 1 The Pacific Academy has been an organizer of the Alamos Alliance conferences,
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    Pacific Education Institute

    The Pacific Education Institute is a Washington State-based left-of-center environmental education advocacy organization notable for developing a critical race theory and Common Core-aligned educational framework for use in K-12 schooling known as FieldSTEM. Background The Pacific Education Institute was founded as a charitable organization in May 2003 in Olympia, Washington.
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    Pacific Environment and Resources Center

    Pacific Environment and Resources Center is a left-of-center environmentalist nonprofit. Pacific Environment has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
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    Pacific Forest Trust

    Pacific Forest Trust is a non-profit think tank that conserves forests and protects wildlife.1
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    Pacific Justice Institute

    Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is a Christian-aligned public interest law firm that specializes in cases involving religious freedom, parental rights, and freedom of speech. PJI coordinates a network of affiliated attorneys nationwide to oversee court actions relating to its interest areas.
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    Pacific Legal Foundation

    Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is a libertarian public interest law firm founded in 1973 that represents clients at no charge. 1 PLF’s founders believed public interest law had drifted into supporting, rather than challenging, government
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    Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy

    Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy is a California-based right-of-center policy organization.