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Western Resource Advocates is an environmental advocacy organization that has a focus in the American Rocky Mountain states. A major initiative of the organization is bringing legal cases to restrict industrial activity to stop climate change. The organization is an advocate of the government mandating steep cuts in carbon dioxide
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Western States Center is a left-of-center community organizing group based in Portland, Oregon. The organization promotes far-left social policies in the Pacific Northwest and intermountain states. The organization is best known for its work on racial policy which it defines as combatting groups that it claims support white nationalism and
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Western States Legal Foundation was formed in 1982 to provide legal assistance to projects focused environmental and civil rights activism. 1 Western States Legal Foundation has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
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Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) is the oldest conventional-energy advocacy group in the United States. WSPA advocates for the use of fuels in five western states. Western States Petroleum Association seeks what it perceives to be more sound environmental policies, more access to domestic oil drilling, and increasing resources. WSPA
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Western Values Project is a left-of-center advocacy project involved in public lands and environmentalist advocacy. It is a project of the New Venture Fund, a charitable arm of Arabella Advisors’ left-of-center advocacy network.
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Western Values Project Action (WVPA) is a project associated with the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center funding and fiscal sponsorship organization managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. 1 It is the lobbying and electoral advocacy
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Western Watersheds Project is a nonprofit environmental organization focused on environmental issues through social media, research and education. It is a supporter of the Green New Deal.
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WestWind Foundation is a Virginia-based private foundation that gives grants to domestic and international environmentalist and pro-abortion-rights organizations. WestWind reports to give grants to more than 50 non-governmental organizations that promote pro-abortion activities. 1 The organization
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Wetlands International is an environmental organization with a focus on fresh water supplies, shoreline protection, and fishing activities. Founded in 1937 and originally known as the International Wildfowl Inquiry, the organization changed its name in 1954 to the International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau (IWRB). Wetlands International was formed from
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The Wexner Foundation is a private foundation founded in 1983 by Leslie Wexner, the creator of Limited Brands, the parent company of Victoria Secret, PINK, and Bath and Body Works which attempts to support Jewish leaders in religion and government in the United States and Israel. The group advocates for
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What’s Next Washington (WNW) is an organization of formerly incarcerated people and activists who work to help rehabilitate people with conviction histories when their incarceration ends. WNW advocates for and works with employers to change their rules and policies to remove barriers they have in place against hiring and supporting
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When We All Vote is a self-described non-partisan voter outreach and registration organization and was started as an initiative of Civic Nation, an advocacy-based nonprofit group, in 2018. 1 The organization was
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Whistleblower Aid (officially a doing-business-as name of Values United) is a left-aligned support organization for government and private sector whistleblowers that rose to prominence for representing an anonymous whistleblower who reported the controversial phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the Intelligence Community Inspector General;
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The White Coat Waste Project is an animal rights group and taxpayer watchdog that investigates and reports on government-funded animal-based experiments. The organization was the first to point out that U.S. tax dollars were being used to fund research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.
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The White Earth Land Recovery Project works to protect indigenous cultural practices and to protest against the global industrial food system and genetic engineering. 1
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The White House Transition Project is a resource for new White House administrations to aid them in the process of transition.
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The Whitman Institute is a left-of-center grant making institution that supports left-progressive social policy initiatives and organizations that lobby for increased welfare spending. 1 The Whitman Institute was created in 1985 by Fred Whitman to promote research and resources to
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The Whole Systems Foundation is an environmentalist advocacy group focused on plastic pollution reduction, population reduction, and economic de-growth advocacy. The foundation’s Project Plastic Planet involves studying the use and disposal of plastics that enter the ocean. To accomplish this, Norton Smith travels by sailboat to various Caribbean islands and
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The WHWG Initiative for Studying Public Affairs (WISPA) is a nonprofit organization that sponsors events intended to foster nonpartisan discussions of current issues. WISPA’s events are typically salon-style lunches and dinners that include an expert speaker, with the intention of educating, informing, and providing a space for debate among guests
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Wide Angle Youth Media is an arts education organization that reaches out to youth within the city of Baltimore to collaborate on media projects and community outreach. 1
