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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. 26 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. 70
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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. 71 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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Whole Woman’s Health Alliance (WWHA) is a group of abortion clinics that perform abortions and related women’s services, provide abortion education, and perform abortion advocacy and litigation to support access to abortions. It is a nonprofit organization associated with Whole Woman’s Health abortion clinics.
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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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WhyHunger is a left-of-center organization that seeks to address poverty and hunger in the United States and abroad. 129 The organization aims to achieve its objective by providing research and financial support to community-focused organizations that provide food to
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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. 142
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit umbrella organization overseeing Wikipedia, MediaWiki, Wikisource, and other projects. Its stated mission is to gather and disseminate knowledge around the world at no cost to recipients. 143 Founding
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The Wilburforce Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation founded and funded by Rose Letwin, the ex-wife of early Microsoft employee Gordon Letwin.
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The Wild Center is a natural history center in Tupper Lake, New York, near the center of New York state’s Adirondack Park.
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The Wildlife Nature Institute is a conservation group conducting scientific research to protect wildlife and the environment. 175 It signed a petition supporting the Green New Deal.
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Wild Rivers Project, also known as Wild Rivers Coast Alliance (WRCA), is a grantmaking group that spends money to improve coastlines and river ecosystems. Founded in 2010, it is a project of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit controlled by the for-profit consulting firm Arabella Advisors.
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WildAid is a wildlife conservation group that works with government and private organizations to support conservation efforts and reduce the consumption of wildlife products. 198
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WildEarth Guardians is a New Mexico-based environmentalist advocacy group. The group lobbies and litigates for environmental policies across several western states. Wild Earth has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
