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The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation was created by Winthrop Rockefeller, the youngest son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who served two two-year terms as governor of Arkansas between 1967 and 1971. The foundation primarily funds social service programs in Arkansas. While Winthrop Rockefeller had served as a Republican, the Foundation vows
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The Alliance for Gun Responsibility is an umbrella term for three left-of-center, anti-gun organizations in the state of Washington. 1 The Alliance is comprised of the political advocacy organization
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Voces de la Frontera is a left-of-center immigration advocacy group based in Wisconsin. The organization is best known for organizing immigrant “general strikes” to protest against the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Voces de la Frontera has led opposition efforts to immigrant deportation, barring illegal immigrants from obtaining driver’s licenses,
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Labor Union
The Virginia AFL-CIO is the state-level body for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO) labor union federation in Virginia. The AFL-CIO is the largest federation of labor unions in the United States, and the Virginia AFL-CIO is the state’s largest federation of labor unions.
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Labor Union
The Utility Workers Union of America represents employees working in electrical, gas, water, and nuclear energy industries. The union was founded in the 1940s and is an affiliated member union of the large left-leaning AFL-CIO labor federation. The union claims to represent more than 50,000 individual members across dozens
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United Way Worldwide (UWW) is a philanthropic nonprofit that oversees over 1,800 local United Way groups. UWW and its affiliates are primarily devoted to providing education, healthcare, and income support for low-income individuals. Until 2016, UWW and its affiliates combined took in $5 billion, the most of any charitable federation
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Labor Union
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is a labor union that historically represented miners, though today it also counts health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers, and government employees among its members. UMWA is a member of the AFL-CIO labor federation. History Early Years United Mine Workers of America
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The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is a government worker union representing schoolteachers in New York City. It is an affiliate of the national American Federation of Teachers labor union as AFT Local 2 and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and is one of
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Labor Union
United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) is a teachers’ union that advocates for far-left policies in San Francisco’s public-school system and conducts collective bargaining with the school district. It supports left-of-center racial and identity narratives, making merit-based standardized testing optional, and promoting alternative “forms of student achievement data” that promote
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Other Group
Unite the Union is a left-of-center labor union, and the largest in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It is the largest individual donor to the Labour Party, the left-wing major party in the U.K.,
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Labor Union
The Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO is a coalition of 33 unions that advocate for unionized workers and labor unions’ institutional interests in the transportation industry. The TTD tends to support left-of-center economic goals, including increased labor regulations, increased infrastructure spending, opposition to privatization, and support for
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The American Prospect is a left-progressive publication that promotes left-of-center public policy through articles on its website and in print. Founded in 1989 by Robert Kuttner, Paul Starr, and former Clinton administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, the Prospect has received grants from a number of left-of-center
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Also see Tides Nexus Tides Advocacy (formerly The Tsunami Fund, The Advocacy Fund, and the Tides Advocacy Fund) is a left-of-center advocacy organization associated with the Tides Nexus, a collection of center-left pass-through funders and fiscal sponsorship nonprofits grouped around the Tides Foundation. While Tides Advocacy has
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Labor Union
Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) is an activist caucus within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), which represents transportation workers and is one of the largest private-sector unions in the United States. The caucus claims to represent the interests of rank-and-file union members and hold union officials
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Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) is a chapter-based drug-legalization advocacy organization with affiliates in over 30 countries. 1 The SSDP network advocates for drug decriminalization locally, nationally, and internationally while arguing for the de-stigmatization of
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Non-profit
Southern Partners Fund (SPF) is an Atlanta-based foundation and grantmaking organization that has given more than $20,000,000 to left-of-center activist organizations in the American South since its founding in 1998. 1 SPF runs the
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Non-profit
The Skoll Foundation was founded by billionaire philanthropist Jeffrey Skoll. 1 Mr. Skoll is also the founder of Participant, a firm that produces films such as An Inconvenient Truth, the 2006
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Labor Union
San Francisco Labor Council (SFLC) is a local union federation affiliated with the AFL-CIO. 1 SFLC promotes left-of-center labor policies, including requiring employers to negotiate with minority unions — made up of
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Non-profit
The Rosenthal Family Foundation is the private foundation of “Everybody Loves Raymond” creator Philip Rosenthal and his wife, actress Monica Horan Rosenthal. The Foundation supports left-of-center advocacy groups, arts and culture institutions, and food insecurity relief groups in the greater Los Angeles area and around the world. Both Rosenthal and
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Other Group
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) is a German government-funded think tank that is associated with the German socialist party Die Linke (The Left). 1 Founded in 1990, the foundation
