Search results for ‘Independent Institute’


  • Non-profit

    National Council of YMCAs of the USA

    National Council of Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States (National Council of YMCAs of the USA, YMCA of the USA) is the national resource office for the more than 2600 local YMCAs in the U.S.
  • Other Group

    ElectionIntegrityCaucus.us

    ElectionIntegrityCaucus.us is a left-of-center election activist group based in Petaluma, California. 1 It supports the proposed For the People Act, which would federalize U.S. election administration
  • Non-profit

    FJC: A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds

    FJC: A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds is a donor-advised fund (DAF) founded by the late philanthropist Marty Silverman. Since its founding it has disbursed nearly $700 million in grants through donor advised funds, has provided nearly $400 million in loans, and has served as the fiscal sponsor of over 400
  • Other Group

    Hamilton 68

    Hamilton 68 (now known as Hamilton 2.0) is an “online dashboard” that operates as a watchdog for Russian influence in the American media. It is a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
  • Non-profit

    DC Justice Lab

    DC Justice Lab is a left-wing criminal justice advocacy group focused on Washington, D.C. It supported the controversial Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, which made sentencing for many crimes in D.C. more lenient.
  • Other Group

    Scrutineers

    Scrutineers is a left-of-center election activist organization that plans strategies and works to implement the critical race theory-influenced concept of “election justice.” 1 Scrutineers is a member of the left-leaning Declaration for American Democracy (DFAD)
  • Person

    Jim Baker

    James “Jim” Baker is an attorney formerly employed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Twitter. He has also been a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Baker became the Twitter deputy general counsel in June 2020 and held
  • Movement

    The Twitter Files

    In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
  • Non-profit

    Leadership Fairfax

    Leadership Fairfax, originally a project of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, is a left-of-center professional development organization based in Fairfax, Virginia. Background Leadership Fairfax was founded in 1987 by the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce (now known as the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce) and was later registered as
  • Non-profit

    Equity in the Center (EiC)

     Equity in the Center (EiC) provides diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training for nonprofit and for-profit organizations. It is funded by left-of-center nonprofits and generates revenue through its seminars. EiC was originally a project of ProInspire, an ethnic-minority leadership development group, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. EiC was
  • Non-profit

    Coalition for Green Capital (CGC)

    The Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) is engaged in the creation of finance institutions in the United States and internationally to accelerate investment in weather-dependent energy to reduce carbon emissions. 1 As of
  • Non-profit

    Friends of the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress (Friends of ICSEP)

    Friends of the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress (Friends of ICSEP) is an American nonprofit organization that supports the work of the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress (ICSEP), an independent, nonpartisan pro-market think tank based in Israel.
  • Non-profit

    Dangerous Speech Project

    The Dangerous Speech Project is a project of the New Venture Fund to promote online censorship. The Dangerous Speech Project advocates for censoring speech that it argues can lead to violence. It defines speech as any form of human expression and argues that any speech that can inspire violence
  • Non-profit

    State Financial Officers Foundation

    State Financial Officers Foundation is an organization made up of state auditors, controllers, or treasurers that promotes free markets and fiscally responsible public policy while opposing the use of Environmental, Social, and Corporate governance (ESG) principles in investment decision for public pensions. As of late 2022, the organization has
  • Non-profit

    Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center (RCVRC)

    The Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center (RCVRC) is an advocacy organization that supports adoption of ranked-choice voting systems nationwide. It is a project of the Election Administration Resource Center (EARC), a North Carolina-based nonprofit.
  • Non-profit

    Certell Inc.

    Certell is a digital learning organization that focus on creating independent and lifelong learners through dynamic learning programs that provide digital content to home schoolers, traditional schools, workplaces, and prisons. 1 Certell’s primary initiatives are Poptential, SensibleSchool,
  • Non-profit

    Monitoring Influence

    Not to be confused with InfluenceWatch.org Monitoring Influence is a left-of-center website that curates profiles of conservative and right-leaning activists, organizations, and funders in imitation of InfluenceWatch.org. These profiles accuse mainstream conservative groups of trying to “stack the courts” with “like-minded ideologues” expressing “ultraconservative . . . legal theories”
  • Non-profit

    International Debate Education Association

    The International Debate Education Association is a left-of-center, pro-democracy international independent membership organization focused on debate education based in New York City. Background During the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, debate coaches based in the United States trained teachers in Eastern Europe to use debate methodologies in
  • Non-profit

    Action Now

    Action Now is a Chicago-based left-wing activist organization that promotes the interests of labor unions, particularly the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). It was created in 2007 when leaders, staff and supporters of ACORN Chicago left the scandal-plagued, left-wing activist national group, which would fold in 2010.
  • Other Group

    TRUST Network

    TRUST Network is a left-of-center organization focused on conflict resolution and mediation with the goal of reducing radicalization and domestic violence in the United States, particularly related to elections. The organization is a project of Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI), a left-leaning anti-war conflict resolution and mediation organization that seeks