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ReThink Media, founded in 2008, is a combination public relations firm, advocacy organization, and pass-through funding entity for left-of-center organizations. It uses messaging techniques through all forms of media to promote the left-of-center framing of issues related to national security, ethnic and religious minority interests, and left-of-center electoral legislation. ReThink
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NOI is defunct. For its successor, see Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) New Organizing Institute (NOI) was a left-progressive group that trained digital organizers and campaigners for the Democratic Party and liberal political causes. The organization, described by a Washington Post reporter as “the Democratic Party’s Hogwarts
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The National Lawyers Guild is a radical-left association of attorneys, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers. Founded from late 1936 to early 1937, the Guild has consistently been identified with radical-left groups and political orientations throughout its history. In its early years the National Lawyers Guild was significantly influenced
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The Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund is a private foundation making grants to left-of-center organizations associated with health, education, and Jewish philanthropy. 1 Alan Davis, the fund’s president, is
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Lambda Legal Defense and Educational Fund, better known as Lambda Legal, is a left-leaning, social justice-oriented LGBT advocacy organization based in New York City. Lambda Legal advocates against gender and sexual orientation discrimination, HIV discrimination in the workplace, and immigration issues that concern LGBT or HIV-positive immigrants and refugees. The
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The JPB Foundation is a private foundation created by Barbara Picower in 2011. It is one of the largest grant-making foundations in the United States. 1 Focused on medical, environmental, and poverty issues, the
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The Institute for Southern Studies is a media and research center based in Durham, North Carolina, that advocates for liberal political and social causes in the Southern United States. The Institute conducts research, especially investigative journalism, with a left-of-center viewpoint on issues such as economics, labor unionism, environmentalism, racial identity,
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The Hopewell Fund is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm. The Hopewell Fund manages a number of left-of-center single-issue advocacy groups, including the Economic Security Project and pro-Obamacare Get America Covered. The Hopewell Fund often operates alongside its “sister” nonprofits, primarily
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The Campaign Legal Center is an advocacy group aligned with left-of-center interests that supports strict enforcement of campaign finance laws. Campaign Legal Center attorneys track and participate in a variety of cases around the country involving campaign finance law at the federal, state, and local levels. The Campaign Legal Center
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The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is an organization that works to advance the interests of Arab-Americans. The organization was co-founded by former U.S. Senator James Abourek (D-SD) and left-wing activist James Zogby, who currently heads the Sanders Institute, a think tank created in the wake of the presidential
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ActBlue Charities is a pass-through organization created to facilitate donations to left-of-center 501(c)(3) nonprofits. It is the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the 501(c)(4) nonprofit ActBlue Civics and 527 political action committee ActBlue. ActBlue is a fundraising platform composed of three separate entities that was created to service left-wing nonprofits
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The A.J. Fletcher Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports various colleges and educational charities in North Carolina. The organization also funds certain left-of-center advocacy organizations. While the A.J. Fletcher Foundation claims to mainly support The Fletcher Academy, a private school in North Carolina, and various charities, the organization gives
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The Organize Florida Education Fund (formerly F.I.R.E., Florida Institute for Reform and Empowerment) is a left-of-center advocacy group that trains activists working in the central Florida “I-4 corridor” between Tampa and Orlando. It has frequently worked with other Democratic-aligned and left-of-center organizations in Florida. Organize Florida Education Fund is a
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Grassroots Campaigns Inc. (GCI) is a for-profit grassroots campaign organization which works for left-of-center advocacy groups. GCI has been called the “for-profit clone” of the Public Interest Network (PIN), a controversial left-of-center advocacy network that oversees the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG) and a set of state-level
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The United We Dream Network (UWD) is a left-of-center immigration advocacy organization that opposes the deportation of illegal immigrants, advocates for the full reinstatement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) partial amnesty program, supports defunding the police and ending all enforcement actions by U.S. immigration authorities, and promotes
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The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), formerly known as the Lesbian Rights Project, is a left-of-center legal advocacy organization that provides pro bono legal services for LGBT causes and advocates for policy changes in related issue areas. Founded in 1977 by lawyer Donna Hitchens, NCLR frequently files amicus curiae
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The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) is a civil-rights-focused left-of-center organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as an umbrella organization for over 200 mostly left-wing organizations which lobby and advocate before Congress and other federal agencies on legislation and Presidential appointments to the executive departments and
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a large and prominent advocacy organization for Muslims in the United States.1 Throughout its history, CAIR has been suspected of supporting
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Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS) is a left-of-center nonprofit that advocates for the removal of religious influences from government policy. The group claims that it has always been led by and staffed by religious individuals.
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The Asian Americans Advancing Justice—Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that was founded in 19911 by the Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus, which was founded in
