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PennEnvironment is a left-of-center environmentalist organization that advocates for the use of environmentalist energy sources, conservationist policy, and government regulation to combat climate change. The organization has also advocated against natural gas exploration using hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania. PennEnvironment is the Pennsylvania state affiliate of Environment America, a network
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The PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center is the research arm of PennEnvironment, a left-of-center environmentalist organization. PennEnvironment is the Pennsylvania state affiliate of the Environment America Research and Policy Center, an environmentalist network that is also a part of the left-of-center Public Interest Network.
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The Penner Family Foundation is a grantmaking foundation with a focus on higher education and the environment. It was founded in 2015 by Carrie Walton Penner, an heir to the Walton family fortune, and her husband Gregory Penner, who was the chair of Walmart as of 2025.
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The Penney Family Fund is a grantmaking foundation that supports left-wing and progressive causes.
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PennFuture (formerly Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future) is a center-left state environmental advocacy group created in 1998 and headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The group is closely related to another environmental group, Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania, and the two groups share staffers.
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Pennsylvania Alliance Action (PA Alliance Action) is a left-of-center activist organization that supports Democratic-aligned political campaigns and campaign committees. The right-leaning Americans for Fair Treatment has characterized PA Alliance Action as a political action committee (PAC) that donates to “progressive Democratic campaign” super PACs.
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star is a left-leaning opinion and news website focused on government and political news coverage in Pennsylvania. It is part of the left-of-center media organization States Newsroom (formerly the Newsroom Network), which was until 2019 a fiscal project of the Hopewell Fund, a nonprofit managed by the
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The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) is a left-of-center environmental advocacy group. Funding Financial Overview In 2019, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council reported total revenues of $4.1 million, total expenditures of $3.8 million (including grants paid totaling $176,464), and net assets of $3.34 million.
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The Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation is a left-of-center special-interest law firm. The Foundation files lawsuits against companies who produce pollutants and the state of Pennsylvania in order to demand more environmental regulations and restrictions. The Foundation’s biggest victory was a lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania that sought to ban
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Pennsylvania Policy Center, also known as Penn Policy, is a research and policy advocacy organization that was a former project of labor-union-aligned left-of-center policy group Keystone Research Center. 82 Several members of Penn
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The Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group (PennPIRG) is the advocacy arm of the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group Education Fund and the Pennsylvania state-level affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG). It is a multi-issue left-of-center advocacy organization. Background Established in 1986, PennPIRG is a state
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Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group (PennPIRG) Education Fund is the policy research arm of the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group (PennPIRG) left-of-center lobbying organization. It is the Pennsylvania state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG). PennPIRG Education Fund is one of 23 state affiliates of the
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Pennsylvania Spotlight is a pro-labor union organization in Pennsylvania. The organization focuses on opposing center-right organizations working in the state, accusing them of being funded by out-of-state billionaires. It also supports left-wing causes, primarily labor unions.
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Pennsylvania Stands Up is a lobbying and advocacy group that is the at-large parent of several Pennsylvania chapters that advocate for left-of-center criminal justice, environmental, and housing policies. Chapters such as Reclaim Philadelphia advocate for a society with “no need” for police and prisons.
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Pennsylvania United is a left-of-center advocacy organization that promotes Democratic candidates and left-of-center policies at the state, local, and national levels in western Pennsylvania. The group’s explicitly stated goal is to elect Democratic candidates throughout the state, noting that it led a canvassing program to “unelect Trump” in 2020
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Pennsylvania Voice is a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit and the Pennsylvania state affiliate of State Voices, a network of left-of-center groups that has created a voter mobilization infrastructure for liberal candidates running for public office in key battleground states.
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Pennsylvanians Against Fracking is a left-of-center environmentalist coalition based in Pennsylvania. The coalition includes a number of left-of-center environmentalist organizations, including Food and Water Watch (FWW), the Pennsylvania chapter of Clean Water Action, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Earthworks, and Greenpeace.
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Pennsylvanians Against Gerrymandering (PAG) is a legislative advocacy group which supports modifying the Pennsylvania state approach to legislative redistricting, ostensibly to reduce gerrymandering. The organization was formed in August 2019 by Karen Blackistone Oaks, a partner of the Gober Group, a law firm based in Virginia.
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The Pension Rights Center, chaired by Nancy J. Altman, a supporter of Bernie Sanders’ health care policy and author of Social Security Works! Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All, advocates for policies that use government power to guarantee that pensioners and
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Penumbra Theatre is a nonprofit production group based in St. Paul, Minnesota. After death of George Floyd in 2020, the group received contributions from MacKenzie Scott and the Ford Foundation in 2021. The theater claims to be a “center for racial healing” while offering advocacy for left-of-center policies.
