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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was originally chartered by United States Congress in 1980 under the Carter administration as a governmental institution to document, study, and interpret the Holocaust.
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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. 17 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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U.S. Labor Against Racism and War (USLAW) was a left-of-center labor activist organization originally formed in opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 as US Labor Against the War. The group organized anti-war, anti-capitalist, and international solidarity campaigns, often targeting U.S. military and foreign policy and promoting left-of-center
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The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) 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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The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) is a left-of-center organization, founded by former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, that oversees a network of state-level advocacy groups also known as “PIRGs.” As the national organization for these independent state-based PIRGs, U.S. PIRG coordinates resources among its 47 state affiliates
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For more information, see the US. Public Interest Research Group (U.S PIRG) The U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund is the research and educational arm of the left-of-center advocacy organization U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG). US-PIRG Education Fund conducts research and public education campaigns
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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. 108
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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.
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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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The UKG Workforce Institute is a research and education think tank that focuses on workplace issues facing organizations worldwide. 126 The institute, established in 2007, is part of UKG, a private for-profit technology company
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The ULI Foundation is a left-of-center organization that fundraises and supports the activities of its sister organization, the Urban Land Institute (ULI). 143 ULI is a membership-based nonprofit organization consisting of members
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UltraViolet (previously known as UltraViolet Education Fund) is a left-of-center nonprofit that advocates for LGBT rights, and expanded abortion access through social media campaigns, petitions, and protests with similar activist groups. UltraViolet Action is the organization’s lobbying arm.
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UltraViolet Action is the lobbying arm of UltraViolet, a left-wing advocacy organization that runs campaigns on LGBT feminist issues through petitions, social media engagement, and small protests. 186 Background UltraViolet, UltraViolet Action’s parent organization, was founded
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The Ulu Foundation is an organization that supports programs that focus on conservation work in oceans, forests and other land. 222
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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 a non-governmental organization (NGO) created as a coalition of 23 congregations of faith-based organizations, including several groups of Catholic nuns, that support programs which advocate for increased protections for women, children, migrants, refugees, and homeless communities. These congregations claim to represent roughly 25,000 people from over 100
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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, 246 one of the leaders of the 2020 BLM protests in Ithaca, New York.
