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The Skadden Foundation (also known as the Skadden Fellowship Foundation) is a New York City-based left-of-center foundation that provides legal fellowships for law school graduates to work for legal advocacy organizations. Many of the organizations for which it supplies law school graduates are left-of-center and left-wing.
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The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc. (ACLU Foundation of Northern California) is the charitable affiliate organization of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU of Northern California), a left-leaning activist organization and state-level arm of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). ACLU
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho Foundation Inc. (ACLU of Idaho Foundation) is the charitable affiliate organization of the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho (ACLU of Idaho), a left-leaning activist organization and state-level arm of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). ACLU of Idaho Foundation mainly engages
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The American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan (ACLU Fund of Michigan) is the charitable affiliate organization of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU of Michigan), a left-leaning activist organization and state-level arm of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). ACLU Fund of Michigan mainly engages in
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The Accountable Justice Action Fund (AJAF) is a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit created in 2017 by the Open Philanthropy Project as a separate vehicle for funding left-of-center criminal justice reform projects. AJAF was designed to allow “external donors” to fund criminal justice reform projects hand-picked by the fund’s treasurer,
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The National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ) is a center-left legal advocacy organization that challenges restrictions on access to entitlement programs and trains local legal services advocates. The NCLEJ is best known for its work on the landmark 1970 Supreme Court case of Goldberg v. Kelly and has
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Justice Action Network (JAN) is a criminal justice advocacy group working at both the state and national levels. JAN provides research and polling information to assist other organizations across the political spectrum to create their own campaigns to advocate for liberalization of the criminal justice system. It also hosts events
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Krupp Family Foundation is a Boston, Massachusetts-based private foundation that supports various left-of-center causes, the arts, and organizations working on food insecurity. Founded in 1995 by real estate and finance mogul George Krupp and his wife Lizbet, the foundation also awards grants to a number of Jewish cultural organizations in
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Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is a libertarian public interest law firm founded in 1973 that represents clients at no charge. 1 PLF’s founders believed public interest law had drifted into supporting, rather than challenging, government
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We Testify is a left-of-center advocacy organization that supports taxpayer-funded abortions, compiles stories from women who have undergone abortions to normalize the practice, and provides women with resources to fund their abortions and find abortion clinics. The organization is a fiscally-sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, a clearinghouse that sponsors
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Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights (GRR, also known as Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights Education Fund) is a Maine-based nonprofit organization that advocates pro-abortion measures and other pieces of left-of-center reproductive health legislation. It also lobbies on behalf of government funding of contraception.
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The Lawyering Project (TLP) is a New York-based pro-abortion litigation and advocacy1 organization that is fiscally sponsored by the left-of-center Tides Center.
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Lois Stainman is a left-of-center philanthropist. She is the wife of Arthur Stainman, a managing director at the asset management firm First Manhattan Company. They have contributed large amounts of money to numerous left-of-center advocacy organizations as well as Democratic political candidates and committees. She is the vice president of
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The Federalist Society is an educational organization for more than 75,000 mostly conservative and libertarian lawyers and law students. It is active at more than 200 law schools and hosts more than 1000 events each year. Membership in the Society and attendance at its events is open to anyone (including
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Not to be confused with Natives Vote, a project of IllumiNative and Native Organizers Alliance. Native Vote is a Native American activism and grantmaking initiative run by the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI).
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The Charles Koch Foundation (CKF) is a libertarian-leaning private foundation located in Arlington, Virginia, that is funded and controlled by billionaire businessman and philanthropist Charles Koch. The organization was founded by Koch and has close ties to many right-leaning organizations that have received funding from Charles Koch and his
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The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) is an advocacy organization that supports left-of-center criminal justice policy. Originally founded as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition in 2002, the organization was intended to combat drug prohibition but has since expanded to pursuing left-of-center criminal justice policy more broadly.
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HJW Foundation, or Hansjoerg Wyss Foundation, was a left-of-center grantmaking foundation founded in 1999 by Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss. 1 In 2013, Wyss dissolved HJW Foundation and merged its
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The Bainum Family Foundation is a left-leaning private grantmaking foundation located in Bethesda, Maryland. The foundation was founded by the late Maryland businessman Stewart Bainum, Sr., who was the founder of Choice Hotels, which operates several hotel brands including Comfort Inn, Quality Inn, and MainStay Suites, and Manor Care, a
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The Justice Accelerator Fund (JAF) is a grantmaking organization affiliated with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the corporation which manages the philanthropic projects of billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. Launched in January 2021, the Fund will primarily sponsor groups which push
