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The Association for Community Empowerment Solutions (ACES) is a left-of-center education and human rights nonprofit working in Haiti, Colombia, and several African nations. In addition to its work in women’s literacy, much of its activity is focused on sexual- and gender-role education with an emphasis on opposing stigma surrounding menstrual
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Non-profit
The Brooklyn Arts Council is a New York City-based nonprofit that specializes in funding and supporting the arts in Brooklyn. While the group does mostly fund artists, it does occasionally fund activist groups that produce arts such as a 2021 mural painted by the left-of-center criminal justice policy group
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Other Group
With and For Girls Fund and Collective is a Freetown, Sierra Leone-based feminist funding group. The group is housed and run by fellow Sierra Leone-based feminist group Purposeful. The group focuses on funding feminist groups run by girls and has a database where girls can submit funding proposals.
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The Clean Air Council (the Council) is an environmental advocacy group founded in 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It campaigns for weather-dependent energy initiatives, stricter industrial pollution laws and regulations, and alternatives to gas-powered automobiles within Pennsylvania and surrounding states.
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Hopelab is a “social impact investment” private foundation that was founded by Pam Omidyar, the wife of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and is affiliated with the Omidyar nexus of left-of center nonprofits. The organization is focused on youth health and has left-of-center conceptions of intersectionality and equity ingrained
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Non-profit
Black Mamas Matter Alliance is an Atlanta, Georgia-based feminist group focused on Black women. The group focuses on maternal healthcare-related issues and promoting abortion. The group supports expanding Medicaid to include 12 months of postpartum care and implementing Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.
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The Coalition for Human Rights in Development is a coalition of over 100 organizations that support activists and protesters opposing public development projects that they claim negatively impact marginalized communities and the environment. It is financed by large left-of-center philanthropies, including the Ford Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott
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Person
Lauren Sanchez is an American media personality who has worked in television and film as a news anchor, journalist, reporter, and actress. In 2016, she founded Black Ops Aviation, the first female-owned and operated aerial film and production company.
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Shift is a consulting and advisory firm based in London that uses design principles to help clients and nonprofit organizations accomplish social goals, including tackling problems surrounding childhood, food security, financial wellbeing, mental health, and COVID-19.
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Non-profit
Our American Future Foundation (OAFF) is a left-of-center advocacy group that was incorporated in October 2022. 1 It acquired a fiscal sponsorship initiative administered by the
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Person
Susan Pritzker is a philanthropist, feminist, and political activist focused on left-of-center issues and redistribution of wealth. She married Nicholas Pritzker, a member of the family that started Hyatt Hotels Corporation and one of America’s richest families, and has spent over 45 years involved in philanthropy and activism. In
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Person
Jodi Dean is an American Marxist academic and professor at the Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She writes on communism, feminism, and the role of socialist political parties in bringing about revolutionary conditions. She has written about Marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek and contributed essays to books he has published.
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Non-profit
The Evelyn Sharp Foundation is a New York City-based private grantmaking foundation with a focus on the arts. The foundation has funded politically left-of-center arts organizations, including the Dorrance Dance company, which performed at the White House during the 2023 Christmas season and has far-left views such as prison
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Other Group
Urbamonde is a left-of-center international non-governmental organization headquartered in Switzerland that promotes housing and urban development around the world. It mainly provides support to local groups and actors that can exercise oversight and guidance toward development projects. Urbamonde also provides access to experts in relevant fields such as engineering and
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Labor Union
The Colorado Education Association (CEA) is a left-of-center teachers’ union representing approximately 40,000 teachers throughout Colorado. The union supports a variety of left-of-center pro-union policies at the state level in Colorado, particularly increased education spending in the state and opposing state laws that allow for budget cuts to balance the
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Non-profit
Inkstick Media is a left-of-center media outlet that provides reporting and commentary on international and military affairs as well as global security issues. The organization has been critical of Israel and has called for the recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state by the United States and has called for
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Non-profit
Eastern Environmental Law Center is a left-of-center organization that engages in litigation and notice-and-comment rulemaking that supports environmentalist positions and opposes non-weather-dependent energy production in the state of New Jersey. Background The Eastern Environmental Law Center was founded in 1998 by Edward Lloyd.
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Person
Michael P. Polsky is the CEO and founder of Invenergy, which claims it is the “largest privately held global developer, owner and operator of renewable energy.”
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The Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) was founded in 1987 with funds from Paul Hamlyn and his estate. It has become one of the United Kingdom’s largest independent foundations. It founded the Awards for Artists program designed to support and encourage artists to continue pursuit of their art regardless of financial
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Non-profit
The Sills Family Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking foundation. The group focuses much of its grantmaking on liberal criminal justice policies, more permissive immigration policies, environmentalist issues, and other left-of-center priorities. It has expanded its giving to incorporate more members of the Sills family and has created a rapid
