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Panta Rhea Foundation is a grantmaking foundation located in La Jolla, California. It makes grants primarily to left-leaning organizations that focus on racial and economic issues, food systems, democracy, and climate change. It has aligned itself with left-of-center organizations to oppose conventional energy infrastructure.
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The Voter Registration Project, also knowns as Everybody Votes, is a voter mobilization group which targets African-American, Latino, Native American, low-income, and other voter groups likely to lean left-of-center. The organization claims to be non-partisan, but is run by individuals with long-standing connections to left-of-center non-profits, including the AFL-CIO
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The Liquid Assets Project is a left-leaning environmentalist grantmaking organization created in 2015 and a project of the Windward Fund, a charitable nonprofit managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. 1 Windward Fund is an environmentalist fiscal sponsor
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The Piton Foundation, part of Gary Community Investments, is a grantmaking organization which contributes to left-of-center organizations with a focus on Colorado, in addition to other projects. Piton Foundation’s work in recent years, has become increasingly focused on policy research and advocacy. The organization’s CEO is former Colorado State Senator
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Person
Adam Albright is a private investor that used his wealth to fund left-of-center environmentalist organizations. He founded and principally funds the environmentalist grantmaking ARIA Foundation and served on the board of directors of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Rocky Mountain Institute, and Rainforest Alliance. According to the
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The Fledgling Fund was founded in 2005 by former Harvard professor Dianna Barrett. Since its inception, the Fledgling Fund has given $14 million to over 400 different projects.1 The goal of the organization is
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The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) is a Washington D.C.-based center-left environmental organization. It grew out of the Environmental Study Conference, caucus of federal legislators founded by two liberal Democrats and two centrist Republicans.
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California Public Interest Research Group Education Fund (CALPIRG) is the policy research arm of the California Public Interest Research Group. It is the California state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG), a left-of-center organization which oversees a federation of state liberal advocacy groups also known
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The European Commission is the main executive arm of the European Union (EU). It conducts the majority of the management of the European Union’s budget,1 and it is the only institution within
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The 444S Foundation is an environmentalist grantmaking organization associated with the family of the late former Sierra Club president Edgar Wayburn.
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Oakland Rising (OR) is a left-of-center activist project of the Movement Strategy Center (MSC) that focuses on voter mobilization among of low-income people, immigrants, and people of color in Oakland, California. Operating under the Bay Rising umbrella with sister organizations San Francisco Rising and Silicon Valley Rising,
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The Amalgamated Charitable Foundation is a donor-advised fund that was spun off from the Service Employees International Union-owned Amalgamated Bank in 2017. 1 It funds a number of left-progressive advocacy organizations and sponsors a campaign targeting social-conservative and
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The Wyncote Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking foundation run by the heirs to the Otto Haas family estate. The foundation is primarily focused on supporting environmentalist advocacy groups and non-profits promoting public journalism and broadcasting, while also supporting the arts, conservationists, and health service organizations.
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The left-of-center Roddenberry Foundation was created by Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, to honor his father’s politically progressive world view.
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The Brico Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization founded in 1990 in Milwaukee by heiress Lynde B. Uihlein. The fund provides grants to a range of left-of-center causes, beginning with a focus on women’s issues and moving to providing funding for environmentalist projects in recent years. The organization’s 501(c)(3)
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Person
Stuart Appelbaum is president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). He is also an executive vice president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), the parent union of RWDSU. Appelbaum is a vice-president of the national AFL-CIO and serves on the
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The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice, education issues, public pensions, dietary policy, and scientific research reform. The foundation
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Conservation Colorado Education Fund is a charitable organization connected to Conservation Colorado, a left-of-center environmentalist organization. The organization engages in advocacy and education campaigns in favor of expanding environmental regulations.
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Conservation Colorado is a left-of-center organization that promotes environmentalist policies in Colorado. It also helps elect candidates that support more environmental regulations. The organization is a major critic of Colorado’s oil and gas industry and has supported stricter regulation of the industry, advocating for legislation in 2019 which stunted the
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The Park Foundation is a left-of-center funding group for several of America’s most prominent environmentalist organizations. Led by liberal megadonor and heiress of the Duncan Hines foods and Park Communications media fortunes Adelaide Park Gomer, the foundation leads the movement to prohibit exploration for America’s natural gas resources.
