Search results for ‘Independent Institute’


  • Non-profit

    Carbon Mapper

    Carbon Mapper is a Pasadena, California-based nonprofit that measures greenhouse gas emissions and helps develop emission-reduction policies. The organization’s central program, also called Carbon Mapper, uses aircraft, satellites, and gas-sensing technology to track methane and carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. The project is being developed by a partnership between
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    Sonoma County Community Foundation

    Sonoma County Community Foundation (also known as Community Foundation Sonoma County) is a grantmaking foundation based in Sonoma County, California. Through its patrons’ contributions, it funds a wide array of community causes, such as the arts and humanitarian initiatives, but it is also a frequent supporter left-of-center environmental and election
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    Healing and Recovery After Trauma (HeaRT)

    Healing and Recovery After Trauma (HeaRT) is a nonprofit legal institute that focuses on providing legal representation to detainees at Guantanamo Bay and operates other projects concerning art and public awareness. HeaRT was founded in 2020 by Beth Jacob, an attorney who began representing Guantanamo Bay detainees in 2005 while
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    Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM)

    Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) is a cross-industry initiative established by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) to address the impacts of purportedly harmful content on digital media platforms and in digital advertising.
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    Bank Black USA

    Bank Black USA advocates for increasing the number and influence of Black-owned financial institutions. The group claims that Black Americans are disadvantaged in access to banking services and in bank ownership, and that these disparities are the result of discrimination on a structural level in both the industry and in
  • Person

    Susan McCaw

    Susan McCaw is an American businesswoman and philanthropist with a history of giving to education and environmentalist groups. 1 She has been a major political donor to the Republican Party,
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    ONE Archives Foundation

    The ONE Archives Foundation is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that supports the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries as an independent community partner. The USC ONE Archive is described as the “largest repository of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) materials in
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    E Pluribus Unum Films

    E Pluribus Unum Films is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 2000 to produce educational documentary and dramatic programming for television.
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    Chinook Fund

    Established in 1988, the Chinook Fund is a left-of-center pass-through funder based in Denver, Colorado. It awards general operating grants of $4,000 to $10,000 to Colorado nonprofits engaged in community organizing and led by people of color.
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    Center for Civic Policy (CCP)

    Center for Civic Policy (CCP) is a state-level left-of-center advocacy group in New Mexico. It mobilizes voters in New Mexico to support left-of-center policies. 1 Activities In 2021,
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    Bayes Impact

    Bayes Impact is a nonprofit tech firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm designs applications which it bills as utility-like “public services,” claiming they will improve quality of life and bring society closer to establishing equality of outcome. While Bayes Impact does not explicitly state its political affiliations, it
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    National Right to Life Committee (NRLC)

    National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is among the oldest and largest pro-life organizing groups in the United States, with affiliate organizations in 50 states and more than 3,000 local chapters. National Right to Life’s primary goal is to restore and guarantee legal protection to those who are defenseless against
  • Non-profit

    Freedom Virginia

    Freedom Virginia is an advocacy group that supports left-of-center policy goals in Virginia, particularly the establishment of a state Prescription Drug Affordability Board. In May 2023, Freedom Virginia, the SEIU Virginia Local 512 labor union, the Loudon Education Association teachers’ union, and left-of-center nonprofit New Virginia Majority organized
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    Al Jazeera

    Al Jazeera (sometimes written as “Aljazeera” or “Al-Jazeera”) is a Qatar-based international news outlet. The organization has been called “the emirate’s most visible export for more than two decades.
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    Jericho Movement

    The Jericho Movement, also called “the Jericho Movement to Free All Political Prisoners” or “the National Jericho Movement,” 1 is a radical activist organization focused on
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    Conservatives for National Popular Vote

    Conservatives for National Popular Vote is a right-leaning organization that favors states joining National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) that would supersede state-by-state elections for presidential electors, contending that the United States is a center-right country and that a Republican would win the popular vote.
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    American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)

    American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides relief to refugees and other disadvantaged populations in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, and Jordan. The group acts as a grantmaker to many Middle Eastern aid groups and construction companies, mainly in the Palestinian territories. Background American Near
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    Be Internet Citizens

    Be Internet Citizens is a program designed to shape online behavior that is designed for children aged 13 to 15 that was founded in partnership with the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and American technology company Google.
  • Other Group

    Anna Lindh Foundation

    The Anna Lindh Foundation is an activism and grantmaking organization which promotes left-of-center political and social causes in the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Europe, especially those within the Mediterranean region. Founded in 2003, the foundation claims that its mission is to prevent what it calls a “clash
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    National Council of YMCAs of the USA

    National Council of Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States (National Council of YMCAs of the USA, YMCA of the USA) is the national resource office for the more than 2600 local YMCAs in the U.S.