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Non-profit
Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) is a left-of-center community and interfaith organizing organization founded in 1940 by a group of business and faith leaders including far-left activist Saul Alinsky, who authored the book Rules for Radicals. The organization took on its current form in the early 1970s following Alinsky’s death
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Non-profit
HeadCount is an organization that works with musicians to promote democratic participation in the United States. The organization was founded in 2004 and has since registered over half a million voters through concerts and events. 1
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Labor Union
The Hawaii State AFL-CIO is the state-level affiliate of the left-leaning AFL-CIO national labor federation. The organization is comprised of more than 70 local labor unions in Hawaii and lobbies for left-leaning labor policies in at the state, local, and federal levels. The organization is led by Randy Perreira,
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Non-profit
The Groundswell Fund is a “pass through” grantmaking organization that funds advocacy and direct-services groups working on reproductive issues—especially those that advocate for increased access to abortion for minority groups—and transgender interests. History and Background The Groundswell Fund focuses on increasing access to low-cost or government-funded abortions, contraception, midwifery, and
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Political Party/527
The Greater Wisconsin Committee is a liberal and Democratic Party-aligned advocacy organization that focuses on supporting left-progressive candidates in Wisconsin elections, in which it is consistently one of the largest spenders. The group is funded by various left-leaning organizations, most prominently labor unions, and is best known for funding attack
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Non-profit
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a nonprofit think-tank founded in 1972 by Willy Brandt, at the time West German Chancellor and leader of the left-progressive Social Democratic Party (SDP).
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Non-profit
Free Speech For People is a left-of-center advocacy group that supports expanding campaign finance regulations, including constitutional amendments to limit campaign spending by private individuals and organizations. 1 Free Speech For People was founded
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Non-profit
Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a foreign policy institute based in Washington, D.C., that focuses its research and advocacy on national security and foreign policy issues. FDD supports an activist foreign policy for the United States and advocates on issues that it considers priorities for American foreign policy.
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Non-profit
Equality California (EQCA) is a left-of-center social-issues advocacy group. It claims to be the largest statewide “LGBTQ+ civil rights organization” in the United States and the only such organization working at the local, state, and national levels focused on California. Equality California is a 501(c)(4) advocacy group. Its charitable arm
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Non-profit
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) provides legal representation to death row prisoners in Alabama where no public funding existed for their defense. It was founded by Bryan Stevenson, author of the book and film Just Mercy.
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Non-profit
Environment California is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) nonprofit that lobbies for environmentalist legislation in California. 1 Its national counterpart is Environment America, and it is also affiliated with the Fund for the Public Interest, a
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Political Party/527
Emerge America (EA) is a left-of-center candidate training organization that vets and prepares female Democrats who aspire to run for local, state, and federal offices. The organization conducts training to prepare and assist female candidates who choose to run within two to three years of the training. The group was
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Non-profit
Corporate Ethics International, known as CorpEthics, is an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) advocate primarily focused on left-of-center environmentalist causes. CorpEthics is hired by other nonprofits to design social campaigns to pressure for-profit corporations into supporting left-progressive initiatives. CorpEthics is best known for the Tar Sands Campaign it launched
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Labor Union
The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) advocates for the interests of Black and other ethnic minority union members within the larger labor movement, and works to bring attention to national and international issues relating to labor and race.
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Non-profit
The Children’s Defense Fund is a left-of-center organization that works to increase the size of government and expand the welfare state. The organization focuses on increasing government spending on education, health care, and day care programs for American children.
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Non-profit
CASA de Maryland (also called CASA) is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) immigration advocacy organization that helps immigrants, most often of Central American extraction, find employment, regardless of their legal status in the United States. CASA’s executive director has told workers he will never turn their names over to federal immigration officials.
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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
California Calls is a left-of-center nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, California, which advocates for state-wide tax increases and runs voter outreach campaigns to that end. Notable pieces of legislation facilitated by the group include Proposition 25, a 2010 measure that overturned a supermajority requirement to pass a state
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Non-profit
The left-progressive Alliance for Youth Organizing (AFYO) is the successor of the Bus Foundation Civic Fund founded by Mathew Singer to activate youth voting for left-of-center candidates and issues. It is the sister organization of the left-of-center Alliance for Youth Action (AFYA). Backed with funding from left-of-center foundations and
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Movement
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a movement ostensibly seeking to reform police conduct especially as it involves use of force against African-American suspects and civilians. The movement has been criticized for appearing to tolerate violent demonstrations in its name,
