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Summit Community Institute is a left-of-center conservation, education, and arts-focused organization. It is a project of the New Venture Fund (NVF), a Washington, D.C.-based left-of-center pass-through funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit. NVF is managed by Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm that controls a multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network in support of
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SumOfUs is an environmentalist organization which pressures businesses to adopt left-of-center policies on the environment and animal liberation. It is also involved in other left-leaning issues such as pro-abortion advocacy, support for gun control, and pro-Palestinian activism. Funding In 2017, SumOfUs reported receiving $5.4 million in grants and contributions.
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The Sundance Institute is a grantmaking and coordinating foundation that aims to support independent filmmakers and expose wider audiences to their work. Known for its annual Sundance Film Festival, the organization has grown to become a staple curator of the filmmaking world. While Sundance ostensibly focuses on elevating “independent” filmmakers,
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Sunflower Community Action is a left-of-center grassroots advocacy group based in Wichita, Kansas. The organization conducts community organizing, hosts protests, and engages in policy advocacy on racial and economic issues, immigration, worker justice, and environmentalism. The group generated controversy in 2013 for hosting immigration-related protests outside the home of then-Kansas
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The Sunlight Foundation was a government transparency advocacy group pushing for largely center-left government transparency measures.77 While the Sunlight Foundation claimed to be nonpartisan, its original national director, Zephyr Teachout, became a left-wing
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Sunlight Giving is a nonprofit organization that aims to support the basic needs of low-income families with children age five and below in the San Francisco Bay area. 114The group is part of
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The Sunrise Movement, often referred to as “Sunrise,” is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) environmental advocacy organization founded in 2017. The group endorses liberal and far-left Democratic Party candidates for public office and organizes alongside other activist organizations to support expansive and radical environmentalist legislation it terms a “Green New Deal.”
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The Sunrise Movement Education Fund (legal name U.S. Climate Plan Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and the fundraising arm of the 501(c)(4) environmentalist advocacy organization Sunrise Movement. Both groups are associated with the “Green New Deal” legislative campaign. Background In 2014, Evan Weber and fellow Wesleyan University classmate
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Sunrise Project is the U.S.-based affiliate of the international Sunrise Project network of left-of-center environmental activist groups that seek to end the use of traditional energy and promote weather-dependent energy. The project serves as an activist hub, receiving tens of millions of dollars in grants, that it then disburses in
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Sunset Heights Association of Responsible People (SHARP) is a left-of-center neighborhood association that advocates primarily for local issues in the Inner Sunset and Sunset Heights neighborhoods in San Francisco, California. 214 The organization supports various left-of-center issues
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Supermajority is a lobbying and electoral advocacy group that promotes left-of-center positions on women’s rights, abortion access, working conditions, LGBT issues, gender ideology, and race. Its mission is to mobilize women to vote for left-wing political candidates.
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Support Pride Learning and Social Happenings (SPLASH) Youth of Northern Colorado is a Fort Collins, Colorado-based LGBT activist organization.
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The Surdna Foundation is an advocacy and endowment management foundation280 funded by a contribution from capitalist businessman turned U.S. Representative John Andrus (R-N.Y.) in 1917. The Foundation has moved away from its
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The Surfrider Foundation is a 501(c)(3) environmentalist group headquartered in San Clemente, California.The Foundation was founded in 1984 in Malibu, California and has since grown to be the largest activist network focused on oceans and beaches with 90 chapters and 50,000 members nationwide.
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The Surge Institute is a Chicago, Illinois-based nonprofit founded in 2014 devoted to developing racial-minority leaders primarily in the educational sector, but also the nonprofit and entrepreneurial sectors. The organization runs numerous fellowship programs and networking events that provide aspiring racial minority leaders with training and mentorship.
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The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) is a left-of-center privacy-focused activist and legal organization dedicated to technological privacy issues in New York state. It is especially concerned with facial recognition and biometric data technology use by both governments and corporations. It has a legal arm that is engaged in several
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The Survey America Project is a left-of-center project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization managed by the for-profit Arabella Advisors. Survey America Project is ostensibly designed to conduct polls and surveys within the United States, but as of September 2020, the project has not conducted
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SurvJustice Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that provides legal assistance to survivors of sexual violence. It focuses on enforcing victims’ rights and holding perpetrators and enablers accountable through campus, criminal, and civil systems. The organization also engages in policy advocacy and institutional trainings related to campus sexual violence.
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The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (STBF) is one of the charitable entities associated with billionaire Berkshire Hathaway investor Warren Buffett, who funds the Foundation. Founded in 1964 as the Buffett Foundation, STBF was later renamed for Warren’s late first wife Susan, whose estate granted the Foundation over $2 billion.
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The Susie Tompkins Buell Foundation is a left-leaning grantmaking foundation founded by Susie Tompkins Buell (nee Russell), a left-of-center mega-donor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist from San Francisco who is a close confidant of and major donor to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Susie Tompkins Buell and her husband
