Non-profits (Page 359)


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    United Way of the Plains

    United Way of the Plains is a local chapter of United Way Worldwide operating in south-central Kansas. It raises funds, provides direct services, advocates for public policies, and awards grants to organizations and programs associated with health, education, and financial stability. Background The United Way movement began in 1887
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    United Way Worldwide

    United Way Worldwide (UWW) is a philanthropic nonprofit that oversees over 1,800 local United Way groups. UWW and its affiliates are primarily devoted to providing education, healthcare, and income support for low-income individuals. Until 2016, UWW and its affiliates combined took in $5 billion, the most of any charitable federation
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    United We Dream

    The United We Dream Network (UWD) is a left-of-center immigration advocacy organization that opposes the deportation of illegal immigrants, advocates for the full reinstatement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) partial amnesty program, supports defunding the police and ending all enforcement actions by U.S. immigration authorities, and promotes
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    United We Dream Action (UWDA)

    United We Dream Action (UWDA) is the lobbying affiliate of the United We Dream Network, an advocacy group for liberal expansionist immigration policies. It attempts to change legislation and public opinion through rallies, protests, and political endorsements. UWDA aligns with other left-of-center groups and has called for Democrats to
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    United Women of Color (UWOC)

    United Women of Color (UWOC) is a left-of-center get-out-the-vote and organizing organization that seeks to mobilize ethnic-minority women and increase their influence in the government decision-making process. 93
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    United Workers Association

    The United Workers Association (UWA) is a labor-union-aligned  worker center and environmentalist pressure group based in Baltimore, Maryland that promotes left-of-center labor and environmental policy. 121 In 2002, a group of homeless men
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    United Working Families

    United Working Families is a labor union-funded political advocacy organization in Chicago that supports left-wing candidates for Illinois state and Chicago local office. The SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana and the Chicago Teachers Union are both prominent supporters of United Working Families. Though United Working Families stylizes itself
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    UniteWomen.org

    The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism is an organization based in New York that seeks to support a network of affiliated synagogues in North America and Israel. 147
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    Unity Community Center

    The Unity Community Center of South Jersey, known as the Unity Community Center (UCC), is a nonprofit organization founded in Camden, New Jersey, in 1983 by Robert Dickerson and his wife Wanda that serves southern New Jersey and the Philadelphia area. The organization provides arts and music programs to at-risk
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    Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut

    Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut is an independent, nonprofit organization with offices in Meriden, Connecticut. The foundation supports the mission of its parent organization, CHART. The foundation has assets of approximately $30 million.
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    University For Peace

    The University for Peace is an intergovernmental organization with university status, established by treaty in 1980 and having its main campus in Costa Rica.
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    University of Arizona

    The University of Arizona (UA) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona. It has a student body of 44,831 as of 2017152 and conducts approximately $600 million in research activity per
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    University of California, Berkeley

    The University of California, Berkeley, is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868, Berkeley is the oldest of the ten research universities affiliated with the University of California system, and is often cited as one of the world’s leading research universities and the top public university
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    University of Chicago

    The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois established in 1890. It holds top-ten positions in numerous national and international rankings.
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    University of Maryland

    The University of Maryland (UMD) is the flagship public state university for the state of Maryland. Its flagship campus, often referred to simply as the University of Maryland, is the University of Maryland, College Park.
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    University of Massachusetts

    The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, and the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system.
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    University of New Mexico Foundation

    The University of New Mexico Foundation is the private foundation associated with the University of New Mexico, a public university in the United States. The foundation describes the “collective mission” of the school as becoming a “global beacon” for human potential and “exemplifying the strength found in inclusive diversity.”
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    University of Orange

    University of Orange is a far-left nonprofit organization based in Orange, New Jersey, that advocates for the restoration of cities. It classifies its political views as “restoration urbanism” and states that it aims to “cultivate a just and equitable city.”
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    University of Washington Foundation

    The University of Washington Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that facilitates contributions and/or donations to members of staff, students, and programs with the University of Washington based in Seattle, Washington. 214
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    Unlock Michigan

    Unlock Michigan was a right-of-center ballot initiative coalition opposed to the COVID-19 lockdown and mandate policies of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D). In 2020, the group collected more than 539,000 signatures in support of an initiated law to repeal the 1945 Emergency Powers of Governor Act (EPGA), the legal