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For-profit
OpenAI is a for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) developer. It was originally founded as a nonprofit organization in 2015 by several technologists and entrepreneurs including Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and Elon Musk. Formerly a nonprofit organization, in 2019 it reorganized with its main business operating as a “profit
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Non-profit
Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) is a left-of-center organizing and advocacy organization based in Durham, North Carolina. It deploys college students and farmworkers as community organizers in North and South Carolina and disseminates information on farmworker issues nationwide. Its goal is to improve living and working conditions and a path
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Other Group
Opportunity Wisconsin is a group that claims to be made up of Wisconsin residents advocating for left-of-center economic policies. 1 According to a profile by The Atlantic in 2020, Opportunity Wisconsin was credited with
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Non-profit
The ICA Fund, formerly known as Inner City Advisors, is a community development fund based in Oakland, California. 1 Founded in 1996, ICA Fund offers
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Non-profit
Welcome.US was founded as a fiscally sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in 2021 to pool resources to facilitate the processing, assistance, and settlement of refugees in the United States after the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. The group has since broadened its scope beyond Afghanistan and has raised
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Labor Union
The Maine Education Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association, is a labor union for teachers in the state of Maine that has historically advocated in favor of tax increases to fund public education, stricter regulatory requirements concerning teachers’ qualifications, and tenure policies for public school teachers. Background
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Non-profit
The Raising Child Care Fund is a grant making organization within the Early Childhood Funder’s Collaborative, which is fiscally sponsored by Third Sector New England. The fund raises grants from donor organizations and then regrants that money to left-of-center local activist groups focused on women and children’s issues.
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Person
Barbara Dalio is an American philanthropist and the wife of Ray Dalio, the founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. Together they run Dalio Philanthropies, a grantmaking foundation that primarily funds universities and research projects. She is the founder and co-director of Dalio Education, which provides funding for public-school projects
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Non-profit
Housing Partnership Network (HPN) is a collaborative of over 100 housing and community-development groups focused on affordable housing. HPN organizes member networking, develops, and incubates supporting businesses, and advocates for left-of-center policy change at the federal level focused on low-income housing and Black, Indigenous, and other ethnic minority communities.
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Non-profit
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust is a right-leaning watchdog organization. 1 The organization launched in 2012 as the Free Market American Educational Foundation.
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Non-profit
California-China Climate Institute (CCCI) is a University of California-wide initiative housed at University of California, Berkeley that aims to advance cooperation between California and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on climate-related issues. CCCI operates in partnership with the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at China’s Tsinghua
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Non-profit
The United States Council of Muslim Organizations is an umbrella organization that was founded by prominent Muslim organizations in America, including the Muslim American Society, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Society of North America, American Muslims for Palestine, Islamic Circle of North America, Muslim Alliance in
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Non-profit
Results for America is a policy advocacy group that aims to influence government workers and politicians to adopt programs it asserts will lead to more equitable outcomes. It subscribes to the left-of-center doctrine of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory-influenced concepts, such as systemic racism.
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Non-profit
Ascendium Philanthropy is an educational grantmaking fund that prioritizes left-of-center initiatives informed by concepts derived from critical race theory. It is a subsidiary of Ascendium Education Solutions, which is itself a member company of Ascendium Education Group, a nonprofit group that helps students pay back college loans and provides financial
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Non-profit
The Institute of International Education oversees and manages international educational exchange initiatives for individuals in the United States and overseas. The nonprofit receives donations from left-leaning organizations, such as the Ford Foundation. Background The Institute of International Education (IIE) was established in 1919 by Nobel Peace Prize laureates Nicholas
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Person
Sean Spiller is the president of the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), a left-of-center labor union that claims to represent more than 200,000 educators in New Jersey. 1 He is also the elected mayor
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Other Group
Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) is a research laboratory located within Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center for the Study of Information Technology that is focused on the concepts of “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
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Labor Union
The Hawaii State Teachers Association is a left-of-center teachers union representing public school teachers in Hawaii. The union is the state affiliate of the National Education Association and represents around 14,000 teachers in Hawaii. The union collectively bargains on behalf of teachers in the state and lobbies for increased
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Non-profit
BuildUS is a philanthropic collaborative designed to implement and support major federal legislation enacted during the Biden administration. BuildUS is fiscally sponsored by the left-of-center labor-union-aligned Amalgamated Charitable Foundation,
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Non-profit
Dorrance Dance is a left-wing tap dance performance nonprofit located in New York City. The group attained notice among political watchers for having appeared in a December 2023 holiday-themed musical video filmed at the White House during the Biden administration.
