Non-profits (Page 304)


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    The Adolph Coors Foundation

    The Adolph Coors Foundation is a family foundation overseen by members of the Coors brewing family. It supports charities in Colorado and center-right advocacy organizations. Background and Donor Intent The Adolph Coors Foundation was founded in 1975 by brothers Joseph and William Coors from the estate of their father, Adolph
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    The Advocacy Institute (AI)

    The Advocacy Institute (AI) is a left-of-center organization that provides training courses and consulting programs for movements seeking legislative change within the state of New York. Initially created in 2013, Advocacy Institute’s website claims that the organization works to “level the playing field for Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC)
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    The Advocates for Human Rights

    The Advocates for Human Rights is an international organization that promotes the protection of human rights and solving issues impacting those rights. 1
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    The Agua Fund

    The Agua Fund is an environmentalist grantmaking organization that aims to address issues of water, land, and food. It is a member of the Chesapeake Bay Funders Network and mainly provides grants for social services.
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    The AMAAD (Arming Minorities Against Addiction and Disease) Institute

    The AMAAD Institute (Arming Minorities Against Addiction and Disease Institute) is a nonprofit organization that provides support services primarily to gay Black men in the greater Los Angeles area. The AMAAD Institute receives most of its funding from federal, state, and local government agencies. While the AMAAD Institute’s programs are
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    The American Commitment Foundation

    The American Commitment Foundation is a right-leaning advocacy group that educates the public on issues related to economic freedom and limited government. 1  It is the charitable sister organization of
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    The American Independent Foundation

    The American Independent Foundation (AIF) supports liberal investigative journalism that creates “increased public awareness of progressive issues.” 1 AIF is part of a network of left-of-center media outlets that frequently attack Republicans and conservatives
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    The American Institute for Economic Research

    The American Institute for Economic Research is a Massachusetts-based free-market think tank established in 1933 by Edward C. Harwood, an economist who was the vice president at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He launched it as a research organization to evaluate ways to avoid another Great Depression.
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    The American Leader

    The American Leader is a media organization that advocates for left-of-center policy positions on the U.S. national debt and climate issues, 1
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    The Appeal

    The Appeal is a left-of-center criminal law activism group created and by Tides Advocacy, formerly the “Tsunami Fund”, an organization that incubates and financially supports left-of-center organizations. The Appeal has supported the Black Lives Matter movement, advocated for lowering the budget of police departments, and argued for shifting
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    The Arena

    The Arena is a left-progressive 501(c)(4) organization which supports Democratic candidates and activists. The organization primarily focuses on state legislative races.1
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    The Asian American Foundation

    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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    The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

    The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is a left-leaning membership organization that provides professional development resources to educators. Background The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development was created from the merger during March 1943 of the Society for Curriculum Study and the National Education Association (NEA)’s Department
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    The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE)

    The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) is a Texas-based association of teachers and scholars from colleges and universities, public policy institutes, and industry that promotes business and free enterprise. The organization has advocated conservative and libertarian-leaning ideas on economics and questions government bureaucracies.
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    The Atlas Society

    The Atlas Society (also called The Objectivist Center, formerly the Institute for Objectivist Studies) is a nonprofit educational organization that supports and aims to further develop the principles, ideas, and philosophy of author Ayn Rand.
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    The Ayers Foundation

    Jim Ayers, whose wealth comes from FirstBank, the third largest bank in Tennessee, created the Ayers Foundation to fund college scholarships for four counties in Tennessee.  The foundation’s methods include paying the salary of guidance counselors, who closely track seniors to make sure they are accepted by schools and succeed
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    The Banyan Tree Global Foundation (The Banyan Tree Group)

    The Banyan Tree Global Foundation is a philanthropic group that offers grants to help countries with sustainable development projects.1 They sponsored an “Earth Day Getaway” in April 2021 that was hosted in over 39 properties around
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    The Black Collective, Inc

    The Black Collective is a left-of-center activist organization based in southern Florida that is connected to the larger Black Lives Matter movement. It has staunchly opposed several policies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), particularly his support of a state law passed in 2021 designed to prevent public
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    The Black Institute (TBI)

    The Black Institute (TBI) is a left-of-center think tank based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 2010 by Bertha Lewis, former CEO of the defunct low-income advocacy and voter outreach group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the Black Institute focuses on issues related to African Americans,
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    The Black United Fund of Illinois (BUFI)

    The Black United Fund of Illinois (BUFI) is a Chicago-based philanthropic organization for African American nonprofits and businesses. Though its name might indicate that it supports statewide efforts, it is almost entirely focused on aiding Chicago’s South Side, particularly in its South Shore neighborhood. BUFI is an independent affiliate of