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Other Group
Not to be confused with Tides Network, a related nonprofit in the nexus The Tides Nexus is a collection of related left-of-center grantmaking, fiscal sponsorship, and advocacy nonprofits headquartered in San Francisco, California. The system originated in 1976 when liberal political activist Drummond Pike joined with Jane Lehman, heiress
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Non-profit
The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a Chicago, Illinois-based center-left election reform advocacy group formed in 2012. The organization pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration. It has a wide reach into local elections offices across the nation and is funded by many left-of-center funding organizations
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Non-profit
Bridge Alliance is a left-leaning coalition of over one hundred member organizations. These organizations are expected to adhere to Bridge Alliance’s membership principles,1 which focus on bridging the divide in partisan politics in order to
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Government Agency
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is a government agency in California that is the United States’ largest government worker pension fund. 1 It engages in shareholder activism by using proxy voting, advancing left-of-center corporate policies in
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Non-profit
With Honor Action is a left-leaning “social welfare” lobbying and advocacy group which seeks to increase veteran participation in political leadership and increase government benefits to veterans. 1 With Honor
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Non-profit
New Georgia Project is a left-of-center voting and redistricting oriented organization formerly headed by then-Georgia State House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams. The organization was previously a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, a non-profit grantmaking entity that supports a number of left-of-center and liberal causes. The organization advocates
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Non-profit
The United Workers Association (UWA) is a labor-union-aligned worker center and environmentalist pressure group based in Baltimore, Maryland that promotes left-of-center labor and environmental policy. 1 In 2002, a group of homeless men
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Non-profit
Trinity Health is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the nation. In collaboration with the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and Ceres, 1 Trinity Health’s Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)
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Other Group
Revolving Door Project is a project of the left-of-center Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) 1 that monitors political appointments to 39 different federal government agencies.
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For-profit
Harrington Investments, Inc. (HII) was founded by John Harrington as a socially responsible investment (SRI) firm. Today Harrington Investments holds $200 million in assets under management1 and operates with an established a list of criteria to
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Non-profit
The Sparkplug Foundation is a left-wing grant making organization that assists start-up and smaller left-of-center groups. 1 Sparkplug Foundation has provided support to anti-Israel groups that support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement
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Non-profit
The U.S. Climate Action Center is an environmentalist project encouraging American re-entry to the Paris Climate Accords in conjunction with “We Are Still In.” Created after the United States left the Paris Agreement, a U.S. Climate Action Center pavilion replaced what would have been the U.S. State Department presence
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Non-profit
The Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees is a nonprofit umbrella organization that financially supports a variety of controversial foreign policy advocacy groups, including many that promote anti-Israel views or support dictatorial Middle East regimes.
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Non-profit
The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) is a left-of-center nonprofit which provides educational materials and pro-bono legal services to climate scientists facing legal action. The CSLDF has defended left-of-center climate scientists in some of the most high-profile climate lawsuits in the past decade, including the “Climategate” suit against
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Non-profit
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical-left student organization often credited as the main force that created the New Left. It existed from 1960 until its demise in 1969, when it split apart after a Maoist SDS group affiliated with the Progressive Labor Party was expelled by a
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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
Pluribus Project, a project of the left-leaning Aspen Institute and New Venture Fund, was launched during the 2016 election cycle to use various technological advancements to reach voters. As of January 2020, the Pluribus Project site is no longer available.
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Non-profit
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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Person
Heather Podesta is a Democratic-aligned lobbyist and lawyer who runs Invariant Group, the largest female-owned lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. Podesta and her firm have worked for a range of organizations across the political spectrum. Though Podesta and her staff have worked in nearly every industry, her firm focuses primarily
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Non-profit
Conservative Energy Network is an advocacy organization that connects state-based ostensibly right-of-center environmentalist organizations. Founded and led by political strategist and consultant Mark Pischea,1 CEN promotes anti-pollution and clean energy policies from ideologically conservative premises, including an
