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Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Over its 100+ year history The NAACP has grown exponentially to what is now a network of more than 2,200 affiliates covering all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Japan
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Leonardo DiCaprio is an Academy Award-winning actor and environmental activist. He achieved international celebrity for his role in the 1997 James Cameron epic, Titanic.1 He established the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998.
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Gara LaMarche is the former president of the Democracy Alliance, a network of left-of-center donors for coordinated giving founded in 2005.
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Everytown for Gun Safety (better known by its short name, Everytown) is a New York-based lobbying group that advocates for gun control measures while opposing laws expanding firearms carry privileges. Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and founder and owner of global financial services and media company
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Common Cause is a 501(c)(4) progressive advocacy group focusing on campaign finance law, so-called “fair redistricting,” and general liberal policy. Common Cause describes itself as “a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to restoring the core values of American democracy, reinventing an open, honest and accountable government capable of solving today’s challenges
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For the 501(c)(3), see Color of Change Education Fund (Nonprofit) Color of Change is an online organizing organization created by the Obama administration’s former “green jobs czar” Van Jones and the former director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org, James Rucker, in 2005.
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The Analyst Institute works with left-of-center organizations and campaigns across the U.S. to help them measure the impact of their programs and increase their reach. The Institute has run experimental tests for hundreds of such groups.
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350.org is a large environmentalist activist organization that has a presence in 188 countries. Focused on online campaigning, 350.org opposes new oil, gas, and coal exploration and development and calls for “[revoking] the “social license” of the fossil fuel industry and “[taking] money out of the companies that are heating
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Also see Working America Education Fund (nonprofit) Working America is the “community affiliate” of the AFL-CIO, focusing on advocacy for and community organizing of non-union members. The group, founded in 2003, claims more than 3 million members, though as few as 15 percent may pay the $5 annual
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Thomas Fahr “Tom” Steyer is an American hedge-fund billionaire turned climate-change activist, and major political donor to environmental causes and Democrats advocating an environmentalist agenda to fight global warming. Steyer made his fortune as the co-founder and senior managing partner of Farallon Capital Management, a hedge fund worth $30 billion.
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Media Matters for America (MMfA) was established in 2004 by conservative-turned-liberal activist David Brock. MMfA was created as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. MMfA positions itself as a fact-checker, focusing on conservative media bias and inaccuracies. In practice, the organization frequently criticizes opinions of conservative commentators. In November 2023, MMfA was
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Also see Committee on States (Other Group) and Democracy Alliance Conferences (Other Group) The Democracy Alliance is a collective of left-of-center donors that has been active in orchestrating “the activities of a permanent ‘left infrastructure’” since 2004.
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The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is a major national labor union which represents employees in the telecommunications, airline, journalism, and a handful of other industries. The union is a member of the AFL-CIO.1 Politically,
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The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) organization involved in voter mobilization and policy development. The center’s stated mission is “to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions.” CPD has opposed the use of zero carbon
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The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. Formed in 1955 in a merger between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the AFL-CIO boasts membership of over 9 million voting members and 3
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Chicago Public Media (CPM) is a left-of-center media nonprofit that operates the WBEZ FM radio station, a National Public Radio affiliate, in the Chicago area. In 2022 it acquired the Chicago Sun-Times and became the largest nonprofit news organization in the U.S.
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The Latino Community Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that funds organizations focused on the Latino community and its issues. Formerly an “affinity group” of United Way of the Bay Area and supporting organization of the San Francisco Foundation, the Latino Community Foundation became an independent, statewide organization
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UK Feminista is a feminist organization based in London, England. It was founded in 2010 by feminist activist and author Kat Banyard, who has written books titled The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Women and Men Today and Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality.
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Bank Black USA advocates for increasing the number and influence of Black-owned financial institutions. The group claims that Black Americans are disadvantaged in access to banking services and in bank ownership, and that these disparities are the result of discrimination on a structural level in both the industry and in
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United Democratic Headquarters (UDH) is a coalition of activists in clubs and organizations who support the Democratic Party, promote left-of-center political activism in issue areas such as health care and the environment, and promote Democratic candidates.
