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Le Fonds de Solidarite FTQ (FONDS), known in English as Solidarity Fund FTQ, is a development capital fund based in Quebec, Canada. It manages net assets of $16.7 billion Canadian (approximately $12.6 billion USD) and is partnered with 3,126 companies as of November 30, 2019.
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Susan Desmond-Hellman is a medical researcher, academic, and left-leaning philanthropic executive best known as the former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the former chancellor of the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF). Before working on academia and for the Gates Foundation, she worked for various biotechnology
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The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is a left-of-center environmentalist advocacy group and research institute. Founded in Tanzania in 1977 by British primatologist and far-left environmental activist Jane Goodall, JGI has since expanded to include chapters in 24 countries.
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Jane Goodall is an English primatologist and far-left environmentalist. Though Goodall is best known for her chimpanzee research, she has spent much of her career as an environmentalist activist, supporting left-of-center environmental projects in both climate change and radical animal rights activism. To provide a platform for her environmentalism, Goodall
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Trillium Asset Management, LLC is a Boston-based investment management firm that directs investments to support a left-leaning environmental and social agenda. Trillium is an activist investor that regularly buys stakes in companies it disagrees with, such as energy companies, so that it can exert pressure to change their behavior. Founded
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Texas Humane Legislation Network (THLN) is an animal liberation advocacy group which focuses on legislation involving animal rights in the state of Texas. THLN lobbies and participate in partisan activities, allowing the group to influence legislation in support of its animal rights agenda.
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Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE) was established in 1969 to address a range of left-of-center environmental policy issues. Initially focused on policies like clean water and clean air, the group has broadened its scope to enforce laws that limit the use of fossil fuels, advocate for governmental policy change
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Christopher Reynolds Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that has focused for many years on supporting normalizing U.S. relations with Communist-ruled Vietnam and Cuba. According to its website, the Foundation is going through a “period of transition in its grantmaking profile” following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United
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Conservative Leaders for Education (also styled CL4E) is a right-of-center advocacy organization that advocates for education policies at the state level. It is a project of the left-of-center New Venture Fund, a funding group managed by Arabella Advisors, a left-progressive philanthropic consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. Background
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The Center for Labor Research and Education, also called the Labor Center, is a program of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), based at the University of California, Berkeley. It works with labor unions to push policy programs.
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The Overbrook Foundation is a New York City-based grantmaking foundation founded in 1948 by investor Frank Altschul and his wife Helen. Today, the Overbrook Foundation’s grants are focused on funding for left-of-center groups supporting social liberalism and environmentalism. Overbrook has an endowment of $150 million and has donated more than
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Chino Cienega Foundation (CCF) is a California-based private grantmaking foundation that funds environmentalist activism and advocacy related to the effects of the Vietnam War. Chino Cienega maintains no paid staff, but is completely run by its board of directors and advisory board.
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PennFuture (formerly Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future) is a center-left state environmental advocacy group created in 1998 and headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The group is closely related to another environmental group, Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania, and the two groups share staffers.
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Honor the Earth is an advocacy group that campaigns for Native American and environmental issues. It has supported environmentalist protests against oil pipelines and promoted divestment campaigns against conventional fuel interests. The group’s co-founder and executive director, Winona LaDuke, is a former Green Party candidate for Vice President of
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The Guerrilla Foundation is a German-based grantmaker that finances radical left-of-center activists throughout Europe. Antonis Schwarz, heir to a pharmaceutical fortune, started the foundation in 2016. Guerrilla Foundation reportedly supports the radical environmentalist pressure campaign Extinction Rebellion (XR).
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The Johnson Family Foundation is a New York City-based left-of-center private grantmaking organization. It is also known as the Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson foundation. Until 2000, the foundation’s giving was oriented more towards education and religious philanthropic causes. But since then, the foundation has become a major contributor
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Arjuna Capital LLC is a left-of-center investment firm based in Durham, North Carolina that specializes in activist investment strategies in environmentalist and social justice causes. The firm encourages shareholder activism and leads in the development of financial portfolios that promote left-of-center initiatives including gender pay equity, support for environmentalist energy
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Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition is a left-of-center organization advocating for environmentalist policy in West Virginia. The organization sponsored the Green New Deal, a package of environmentalist policies characterized by critics as a “radical top-down socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy.”
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Population Media Center (PMC) is a left-of-center media company that produces serialized dramas in developing countries to encourage population control through family-planning education. PMC has reached more than 13 million individuals in the last five years, with an average of 1.5 million viewers per show.
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Fair Fight Action (formerly Voter Access Institute) is an advocacy nonprofit established in 2014 by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams, who lost the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election and persisted in denying the fact of her electoral defeat.
