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The UPS Foundation is the corporate foundation of United Parcel Service. The foundation supports the United Way, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, charities in the Atlanta area and, increasingly, organizations that support minorities, women, and the environment. In addition, the foundation provides in-kind donations of shipping and logistical
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Upstate Forever is a left-of-center environmental activist group and land trust that holds tens of thousands of acres in perpetuity for the purpose of limiting development. In addition to expanding its trust portfolios, the organization campaigns to reform zoning regulations to limit development, prevent the construction of infrastructure, and stop
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Upstream USA is a left-of-center group that promotes contraception in health clinics in order to reduce the national population, which it argues is the key to ending poverty. It was a project of the New Venture Fund, a center-left “dark money” nonprofit managed by the for-profit consulting firm Arabella
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Urban Alchemy (UA), a left-of center nonprofit, was founded in 2018 as a workforce development agency that hires former convicts while also trying to address the effects of homelessness in urban areas and unkept public spaces. The organization takes part in a variety of city or state-led programs by providing
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Urban Green Council is an organization that seeks to make the construction and energy usage of buildings in New York City more efficient. The organization is funded through a network of foundations and corporate sponsors. 1
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The Urban Institute is a non-profit that was originally founded by President Lyndon Johnson and group of his handpicked cohorts to provide research supporting his administration’s liberal entitlement programs.
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The Urban Justice Center is a left-leaning legal foundation and advocacy organization located in New York City. Urban Justice Center runs legal assistance clinics in concert with the offices of New York City politicians,1
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The Urban Land Institute, or ULI, is a nonprofit research and education organization with offices in Washington, D.C., Hong Kong, London, and Frankfurt.
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The Urban Leadership Institute is an education advocacy organization based in Baltimore, Maryland. 1
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The Urban League of Greater Madison is an organization that seeks to support African American communities through programs designed to increase their access to education and employment opportunities. 1
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Urban Neighborhood Initiatives (UNI) is a nonprofit organization based in southwest Detroit, Michigan. It uses its funding to sponsor development, including park development, of vacant lots, and has several youth programs. 1 Background Urban
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Urban Tilth is a left-of-center environmentalist organization based in Richmond, California. Urban Tilth positions itself as an urban agricultural organization, thought it has ties to far-left environmentalist organizations and has frequently engaged in political activism. Founded in 2005, Urban Tilth manages seven community gardens throughout San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley.
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Urban Triage is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that advocates for critical race theory-inspired “racial equity” approaches and various forms of racial reparations. It advocates for abolishing capitalism, which it asserts is white supremacy.
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URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity is a left-of-center pro-abortion and gender-activist organization. It has chapters at colleges and universities in Alabama, California, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, and Texas. 1
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Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism (formerly Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights) is an advocacy organization based in California that claims to be a support group for “women, trans and nonbinary” left-of-center activists. In 2024, it claimed to have provided funds for left-of-center groups and individuals on policy
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The Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights is an organization based in California that partners with global women’s movements to support women and transgender people’s rights. 1
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The US Human Rights Network is a national network composed of over 200 self-identified grassroots human rights organizations and over 700 individuals working to strengthen what they regard as the protection of human rights in the United States.
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The US Labor Against the War (USLAW) is a network of labor unions founded to oppose the war in Iraq in 2003, and currently works to oppose the demilitarization of U.S foreign policy. 1
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The US-China Strong Foundation is an organization based in Washington D.C. that seeks to improve US-China relations. 1
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Note: USAction is no longer in operation and merged to form People’s Action in 2016 USAction was a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. The group was created by activist Heather Booth in 1999 as a successor to the scandal-ridden consumer advocacy group Citizen Action, which
