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The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) is a nonprofit fund which awards grants to artistic and cultural endeavors in the Middle East. It promotes a more relaxed approach to traditionally strict Arab cultural norms which is exemplified through both the artistic nature of its projects, as well as
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The Association for Promoting Inclusion (API) is a Croatian-based non-governmental organization that advocates for more societal support for and the deinstitutionalization of intellectually disabled citizens in Croatia. 1 The organization is largely funded by the Foundation
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The 1956 Institute Foundation is a private organization in Hungary that was created to document the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the conditions Hungarians lived in under Soviet Communist domination during the Cold War. From 1995 to 2010, it was adopted as a publicly owned foundation in Hungary to educate
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The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is a non-governmental organization which opposes Israeli law, especially as it applies to treatment of Palestinians. PCHR’s stated mission is to establish Palestine as an independent nation with Jerusalem as its capital and to expel Israeli citizens from the territory.
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The United States Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) is a network of left-of-center activists and pressure groups which pushes to end the political and military influence of Israel over its neighboring territories, the status of which is disputed between the Jewish state and Palestinian Arab nationalists. The organization also demands
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Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) is a left-leaning advocacy group. While the name focuses on abortion, the group is active in issues ranging from immigration to LGBT causes. COLOR’s activism operates through lobbying and community organizing. COLOR’s executive director is a former Obama administration official
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Freedom to Marry Global is a pressure group which pushes for the normalization and legalization of homosexuality in foreign countries. The initiative is a successor to the Freedom to Marry (FTM) project in the United States and aims to build on the success of the same-sex marriage campaign, which
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Private Equity Stakeholder Project (also known as the Financial Services Stakeholder Project) is an activist group that is critical of the social impact of private equity firms. The group calls on private equity-owned companies to adopt left-of-center employment policies and political stances. It targets private funds’ investments including private equity,
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The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) is a left-of-center advocacy group critical of free-market economic systems and privatization. The group advocates for a larger government role in the economy to redistribute wealth.
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Democracy R&D (sometimes written as Democracy Research and Development) funds and organizes local conferences to discuss means of improving democracy and informing the public. Democracy R&D has 95 individual and organizational members throughout the world.
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The American Economic Liberties Project is an advocacy group that opposes what it considers to be an excess concentration of corporate power in various sectors of the American economy. The organization says it opposes monopolies and calls for more federal and state regulation of private businesses in hopes to “redistribute
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Pro Bono Net Inc. is a legal advocacy group that connects its users to legal assistance and resources through the internet and digital applications. Founded in 1999 through a grant from the Open Society Foundations, it also receives funding from Microsoft, left-of-center advocacy group Restaurant Worker’s Community Foundation,
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a nonprofit research center operating under Syracuse University’s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. TRAC uses the Freedom of Information Act to access information from the federal government to serve as a watchdog over federal law enforcement, immigration policy, and judicial affairs. TRAC
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Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF) funds the legal defense for law enforcement agents who are prosecuted or fired for actions taken while in the line of duty. The group also works to educate the public on the challenges faced by law enforcement officers and to improve public perception of
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Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice is a joint initiative of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College of New York and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.
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Nina Jankowicz is a left-leaning writer and commentator on international affairs, technology, and alleged disinformation who held a brief appointment as the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board, before stepping down amid controversy over her past partisan social media posts and the existence of
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Republicans for Voting Rights (RVR) advocates for loosened voting requirements and opposes election integrity legislation. While the organization is nominally right-of-center, claiming to represent Republican Party voters, it explicitly targets Republican lawmakers and policy advocates who support measures aimed at preventing voter fraud and election manipulation. RVR also calls on
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The Carter Center, founded by former U.S. President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, promotes democratic institutions, global development, and serves as an election observer around the world. It has worked as a watchdog for 113 elections in 39 countries through its “Democracy Program,” and announced in August 2020 that it
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Paul Smith is a left-of-center lawyer who has argued 21 cases before the Supreme Court. 1 He has advocated against traditional marriage, religious liberty, and voter ID laws.
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Measures for Justice (MFJ) is a Rochester, New York-based nonprofit that collects, organizes, and publicizes criminal justice data from around the United States. Founded in 2011 by attorney and journalist Amy Bach, MFJ received funding from the Bureau for Justice Assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice for its
