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The United Philanthropy Forum is a national association of grantmakers that grew out of the Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers, an initiative of the Council on Foundations. 1 UPF provides a
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The Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity, also known as CGRE, is a coalition of leftwing groups promoting abortion rights, organizing at the state and local level, and changes to the judiciary.
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The CO2 Coalition is a right-of-center advocacy organization that educates policy makers and the general public about the importance of carbon dioxide to our lives and the U.S. economy. The Coalition intends to be part of the current discussion about climate change, including the role that humans play, climate models’
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The African Population and Health Research Center is a Nairobi, Kenya-based think tank that advocates for increased use of birth control and legalized abortion in Africa. The organization began its life as an offshoot of the population control advocacy organization Population Council in Nairobi, Kenya. Among the organization’s central goals
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TED Foundation Inc. (commonly known as TED or TED Conferences) hosts speeches and discussions on a wide array of topics. It is best known for its “TED Talks,” speeches of no more than 18 minutes given by prominent scientists, businesspeople, artists, and others which have been viewed billions of times
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The Audacious Project is a project of the TED Foundation which funds organizations intended to catalyze positive large-scale social impacts. Many of the groups it funds have left-of-center policy goals, particularly related to environmentalism and social justice. From its founding in 2018 to 2020, the Audacious Project spent almost $2
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The Center for Cultural Power (previously Citizen Engagement Lab Education Fund) is a left-of-center organization led by women of color artists focused on activism and community organizing through art.
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The Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) was formed in 1984 to promote and protect health care for women and girls. BWHI’s founder, Byllye Avery, rose to prominence in the 1970s as a left-feminist scholar and founder of an abortion clinic.
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The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) is a now-defunct nonprofit organization that houses research regarding campaign finance and money in politics. The organization was founded in 1999 and merged with the National Institute on Money in State Politics (NIMSP) in 2018. In 2021, the NIMSP merged with the Center
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Peter O’Neill is a descendant of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., the founder of Standard Oil Company. O’Neill was born to Abby Milton O’Neill, the oldest grandchild of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who ran many of the family’s investments and much of philanthropic work for decades. O’Neill is active in the
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Person
Peggy Dulany is an heiress and philanthropist. She is the daughter of David Rockefeller and donor to Democratic Party politicians and left-of-center causes, particularly in her adopted state of Montana. 1 Dulany is the
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Jeffrey L. Bradach is a co-founder and managing partner of the Bridgespan Group, a charitable organization which provides consultation to nonprofit groups. 1 Before forming Bridgespan with Tom Tierney, both founders worked at managing consulting
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Rhodium Group is a think tank that focuses on environmentalism and the economy and politics of China. 1 It has received funding from multiple left-of-center private foundations including the Heising-Simons Foundation, William
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For more information on the 2020 election, see Center for Technology & Civic Life (Nonprofit) The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is a coalition of left-of-center election reform nonprofits created in 2022 as an initiative of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to bolster election security
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Person
Katherine Lorenz is the chair of the board of the left-of-center environmental activist Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation (CGMF). 1
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The National Center for Family Philanthropy is an organization that acts as a network for families engaged in left-of-center philanthropic giving guided by a shared goal to make the world more “resilient” and “equitable.” The Center works to provide its members with information on prospective organizations to support and to
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Engage Michigan (also known as Progress Michigan Education) is a left-of-center advocacy group that offers web development; spokesperson training; and media, public relations, and communications services for left-of center non-profits. 1 It is an arm of the
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Person
Pam Anderson is a Republican election official from Colorado who previously served as the elected city clerk in the City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and as the elected clerk for Jefferson County, Colorado. She is a board member of the left-leaning election administration advocacy group Center for Tech and
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Person
Sanjay Reddy is an associate professor of economics at the New York City-based New School, a notably left-progressive institution of higher education. 1 Reddy has also worked at Barnard College,
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Intentional Endowments Network (IEN) is a membership organization of over 200 endowments, foundations, investment consultants and managers, and nonprofits involved in environmentalist initiatives, as well as racial justice and economic equality. 1 IEN is
