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Non-profit
The New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (NYC AVP) is a left-of-center LGBT advocacy group. 1 NYC AVP provides health, financial, legal, and political resources to LGBT people in New York City.
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Non-profit
Independent Media Institute is an advocacy organization that uses journalism and related media disciplines to promote left-of-center messaging and policies. 1 It is best known for its creation and management of the AlterNet journalism
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Other Group
The Horizons Project is a networking initiative for left-of-center activists and advocacy groups. The project presents itself as a counter to perceived “times of increasing political violence” and growing opposition to establishment political institutions. Horizons claims that its goal is to protect democracy while also stating its intent to “reimagine”
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Non-profit
Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR Center) is an organization that is designed to promote and implement the BARR Model in schools. 1 The model is designed to eventually lead
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Non-profit
RAND Corporation is a think tank that aims to influence the policy and decision-making of the United States government, particularly its military. It is headquartered in Santa Monica, California but has locations throughout the U.S., Europe, and Australia and employs roughly 1,800 individuals.
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Other Group
The Democracy Funders Network (DFN) is a collaboration initiative for left-leaning grantmakers. Members of the network coordinate their philanthropic efforts and identify causes in which to invest their money. Causes that DFN and its members support include the perceived threat of right-leaning populist movements and the alleged need to restructure
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Non-profit
Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is an organization that advocates for the human rights of the Uyghurs, an ethnically and culturally Turkic Muslim group of people who live in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
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Non-profit
United for Democracy is a left-of-center activist campaign consisting of more than 100 Democratic Party-aligned organizations that criticizes the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Movement
There are more than 700 nonprofits and other advocacy groups in the United States that oppose the use of carbon free nuclear energy.
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Non-profit
Local Progress Policy Institute trains and encourages local elected officials to advance left-of-center policies in their official roles. It is funded by labor unions and major left-of-center foundations such as the Ford Foundation, Arnold Ventures, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and includes mayors, district attorneys, county
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Non-profit
The George W. Bush Foundation, which operates as the George W. Bush Presidential Center (shortened as the Bush Center), is a nonpartisan organization that houses the George W. Bush Presidential Museum and the George W. Bush Institute at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) campus in Dallas. The Bush Center’s mission
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Other Group
Pueblo Action Alliance is a far-left Native American environmental activist group. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of the SouthWest Organizing Project.1 Pueblo Action Alliance sees itself as descended from Native American resistance to European colonial
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Other Group
Witness Against Torture (WAT) is a grassroots volunteer activist organization that began in 2005 with the goal to close the U.S. detention center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba and to release the remaining detainees. Each January, WAT fasts, organizes protests, and conducts civil resistance before the White
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Non-profit
Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) is an activist group based in New York City which advocates for research and funding of acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevention and treatment. It also pushes for greater acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) lifestyles in addition to a variety of other left-of-center
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Non-profit
The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) is a New York-based left-of-center advocacy group focused on trans and non-binary persons’ interests. The TLDEF primarily assists individuals in court cases by connecting them with pro bono lawyers at established law firms. In January 2024, it was announced that the
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Non-profit
The National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) is an advocacy organization which works to increase the influence of LGBT individuals and activist initiatives in corporate America and American society. It also pushes for favorable treatment of businesses that cater to sexual and gender-identity minorities.
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Person
Bill Gallegos is an environmental consultant and activist organizer involved in organized labor, climate change activism, and various left-of-center social causes. Since 2014, Gallegos has been operating Gallegos and Associates, a private consulting firm offering strategic planning and leadership training to nonprofits and foundations in the climate and social justice
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Non-profit
The Pacific Education Institute is a Washington State-based left-of-center environmental education advocacy organization notable for developing a critical race theory and Common Core-aligned educational framework for use in K-12 schooling known as FieldSTEM. Background The Pacific Education Institute was founded as a charitable organization in May 2003 in Olympia, Washington.
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Other Group
Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC) is a left-of-center hub designed to respond to and oppose preemption laws, which allow higher levels of government to prevent lower levels of government from passing more restrictive legislation.
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Non-profit
Out for Justice (sometimes styled as Out 4 Justice) is a left-of-center organization based in Baltimore, Maryland, oriented around criminal justice issues, particularly those affecting the ability of individuals with criminal records to gain access to education, employment, and the electoral franchise. Background Out for Justice was founded as a
