Non-profits (Page 376)


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    The Appeal

    The Appeal is a left-of-center media outlet primarily reporting on criminal justice issues created by Tides Advocacy, an organization that incubates and financially supports left-of-center organizations. The group became independent in November 2021 after Tides and the group’s executive director shut down the group in June 2021 following a unionization
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    The Arc of the United States

    Not be confused with the left-of-center Jewish advocacy group Bend the Arc. The Arc of the United States, commonly referred to as “The Arc,” is a charitable organization that provides services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and advocates for public policies related to care for those disabilities.
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    The Arena

    The Arena is a left-progressive 501(c)(4) organization which supports Democratic candidates and activists. The organization primarily focuses on state legislative races.49
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    The Asian American Foundation

    The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) is a left-of-center Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) advocacy fund and grantmaking organization that conducts outreach campaigns to generate support for left-leaning causes among AAPI communities. 50
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    The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore

    The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore, formerly known as The Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, is a nonprofit organization that advocates for the support and protection of Jewish communities in Baltimore, Maryland and around the world, particularly in Israel. The organization is a part of the Jewish Federations of North
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    The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

    The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is a left-leaning membership organization that provides professional development resources to educators. Background The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development was created from the merger during March 1943 of the Society for Curriculum Study and the National Education Association (NEA)’s Department
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    The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE)

    The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) is a Texas-based association of teachers and scholars from colleges and universities, public policy institutes, and industry that promotes business and free enterprise. The organization has advocated conservative and libertarian-leaning ideas on economics and questions government bureaucracies.
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    The Atlas Society

    The Atlas Society (also called The Objectivist Center, formerly the Institute for Objectivist Studies) is a nonprofit educational organization that supports and aims to further develop the principles, ideas, and philosophy of author Ayn Rand.
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    The Ayers Foundation

    Jim Ayers, whose wealth comes from FirstBank, the third largest bank in Tennessee, created the Ayers Foundation to fund college scholarships for four counties in Tennessee.  The foundation’s methods include paying the salary of guidance counselors, who closely track seniors to make sure they are accepted by schools and succeed
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    The Banyan Tree Global Foundation (The Banyan Tree Group)

    The Banyan Tree Global Foundation is a philanthropic group that offers grants to help countries with sustainable development projects.127 They sponsored an “Earth Day Getaway” in April 2021 that was hosted in over 39 properties around
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    The Black Collective, Inc

    The Black Collective is a left-of-center activist organization based in southern Florida that is connected to the larger Black Lives Matter movement. It has staunchly opposed several policies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), particularly his support of a state law passed in 2021 designed to prevent public
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    The Black Institute (TBI)

    The Black Institute (TBI) is a left-of-center think tank based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 2010 by Bertha Lewis, former CEO of the defunct low-income advocacy and voter outreach group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the Black Institute focuses on issues related to African Americans,
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    The Black United Fund of Illinois (BUFI)

    The Black United Fund of Illinois (BUFI) is a Chicago-based philanthropic organization for African American nonprofits and businesses. Though its name might indicate that it supports statewide efforts, it is almost entirely focused on aiding Chicago’s South Side, particularly in its South Shore neighborhood. BUFI is an independent affiliate of
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    The Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI)

    The Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) was formed in 1984 to promote and protect health care for women and girls. BWHI’s founder, Byllye Avery, rose to prominence in the 1970s as a left-feminist scholar and founder of an abortion clinic.
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    The Blue Earth Alliance

    The Blue Earth Alliance is an environmentalist and left-of-center social-policy grantmaking nonprofit that fiscally sponsors projects by independent photographers and documentary producers. As of 2021, the Blue Earth Alliance claims to have supported over 130 multimedia projects, on topics ranging from the theory of manmade global warming and so-called “environmental
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    The Bridge Initiative

    The Bridge Initiative researches allegations of anti-Muslim sentiment in America and provides commentary, reports, and other materials related to its mission. 186 It is an initiative of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
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    The Bridgespan Group

    The Bridgespan Group is a charitable organization that provides consulting services to non-profits across the United States and around the globe. The Bridgespan Group was formed in 1998 by Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach, both of whom had experience in the management consulting firm, Bain and Company. Tierney and Bradach
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    The Bulwark

    The Bulwark is a right-leaning political commentary website hosted by Republic Affairs (formerly Defending Democracy Together Institute). The Bulwark was created from the remnants of the now-defunct magazine the Weekly Standard and primarily caters to liberal Republicans and NeverTrump conservatives. Leadership Charlie Sykes, a Republican political commentator, is
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    The Canary Coalition

    The Canary Coalition was a left-of-center environmentalist organization based in Sylva, North Carolina that was active from 1999 through 2020. 237 Background
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    The Capacity Shop

    The Capacity Shop is an organization that helps left-of-center activist groups improve their organizational systems, coordinate efforts across different legal entities, and conduct outreach activities. It is an affiliated charity of New Left Accelerator (NLA) and fiscally sponsored by Social Good Labs.