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The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) is a Palestinian-nationalist activist group that supports the formation of a Palestinian state. 1 Following the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack against the State of Israel, USPCN released a
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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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The U.S. Vote Foundation (“USVF”) is a voter education and outreach group that continuously builds a database of information on state voter registration rules. 67 USVF advocates for numerous changes to election law to expand voter access,
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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. 98 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). 115 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. 158 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. 194
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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, 218 one of the leaders of the 2020 BLM protests in Ithaca, New York.
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The UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is an academic college within the University of North Carolina-Charlotte that houses the university’s liberal arts and humanities programs including political science, public administration, mathematics, and English. The department was split into the College of Science and the College of Humanities
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UndocuBlack Network is an immigration advocacy group that provides services and advocacy on behalf of undocumented migrants within the United States. The Network lobbies against border security and immigration regulation policies as well as criminal justice reform such as ending life sentences without parole, ending mandatory minimum sentences, decriminalizing illegal border
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The Unexpected Wildlife Refuge is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that operates a protected nature reserve for plants and animals that are indigenous to southern New Jersey. The Refuge provides guided tours of the habitat
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Unheard Voices Outreach (UVO) is a left-of-center criminal justice advocacy organization founded by former prisoner Rahim Buford focused on support for the previously incarcerated and decreasing incarceration rates. UVO claims that the root problem of mass incarceration is racism and “felonism,” defined as discrimination against felons.