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The U.S. Human Rights Fund is a center-left “social justice” advocacy group and a project of the fiscal sponsorship group NEO Philanthropy. 1 The group manages the campaign We Shall Overcome.
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The United States Impact Investing Alliance is a left-of-center coalition that advocates for environmental, social, governance activism (ESG) with funding from major left-leaning foundations. The alliance is a project of the New Venture Fund (NVF), a major pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor in the multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network
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The U.S. Palestinian Community Network is a network of American Palestinians who work to promote Palestinian independence and consider Israel to be an occupying force in the Arab world. Created in 2006, it hosted the 2008 Palestinian Popular Conference. It has chapters in eight states and Washington, D.C.
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Founded by left-wing activist and former Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group is a 501(c)(4) organization that oversees a federation of state progressive advocacy groups also known as “PIRGs.” As the national organization for these independent state-based PIRGs, U.S. PIRG coordinates resources among its 47
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The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG) Education Fund is the 501(c)(3) policy research affiliate of U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG), a left-wing 501(c)(4) advocacy organization founded by former presidential candidate Ralph Nader.
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U.S. Vote Foundation (“USVF”) is a voter education and outreach group that continuously builds a database of information on state voter registration rules. In 2020, more than three million Americans “were served” by U.S. Vote. 59
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The UC Berkley Labor Center was formed in 1964 to support research and educational programs on issues relating to employment and labor. The center is a program of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and works with unions, government and employers. 66“Who We
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The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Ujamaa Place is a nonprofit organization dedicated to alleviating poverty within the African American community in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota with a specific focus on transforming the lives of young African American men. It is inspired by the left-of-center concept of “equity” as it relates to race.
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UltraViolet (formally UltraViolet Education Fund) is a social-progressive nonprofit that advocates for LGBT and expanded abortion access, usually using social media campaigns, petitions, and small protests, oftentimes alongside or in conjunction with other left-of-center groups. UltraViolet Action is the organization’s lobbying arm. High-profile figures against whom the organization has
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UltraViolet Action is the lobbying arm of UltraViolet, a left-progressive advocacy organization, which generates campaigns on LGBT-interest and social-liberal women’s issues, typically involving petitions, social media engagement, and small protests. Background UltraViolet, UltraViolet Action’s parent organization, was founded in February 2012 with funding from the Citizen Engagement
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The Ulu Foundation is an organization that supports programs that focus on conservation work in oceans, forests and other land. 108
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Ulysses S. Grant Foundation is an educational summer program for qualifying middle school students in New Haven, Connecticut that is held on Yale University’s Old Campus in Dwight Hall. It was founded in 1953 by Eugene Van Voorhis, a Yale alumnus. Ulysses S. Grant Foundation has received funding from
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UNANIMA International is an organization that was formed in 2000 and is based in New York. The organization supports programs that seek to advocate for women, children, migrants, refugees and homeless communities. 118
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Unbound Philanthropy is a New York City-based left-wing donor affinity group that primarily funds groups that support left-of-center liberal expansionist immigration policies. Unbound has close ties to George Soros’s Open Society Foundations through the group’s executive director, Taryn Higashi. Higashi sits on an advisory board of Open Society
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Unbroken Promise Initiative is an organization affiliated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement that was formed by Jordan Clemons, 128 one of the leaders of the 2020 BLM protests in Ithaca, New York.
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UndocuBlack Network is a left-wing advocacy group for illegal immigrants, primarily those who are black. UndocuBlack lobbies for repealing border security and immigration regulation policies, while also calling for more lenient criminal justice policies. These include ending life sentences without parole, ending mandatory minimum sentences, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, and
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The Unexpected Wildlife Refuge is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that operates a protected nature reserve for plants and animals that are indigenous to southern New Jersey. The Refuge provides guided tours of the habitat
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Unheard Voices Outreach (UVO) is a left-of-center criminal justice advocacy organization founded by former prisoner Rahim Buford focused on support for the previously incarcerated and decreasing incarceration rates. UVO claims that the root problem of mass incarceration is racism and “felonism,” defined as discrimination against felons.
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Unicorn Riot is a left-wing to radical-left media outlet founded by a group of journalists who left traditional media outlets to provide a more radical editorial perspective on left-wing protests and riots primarily in the United States. The organization has a handful of members and no hierarchical structure, but has
