Search results for ‘Independent Institute’


  • For-profit

    Devex

    Devex is a for-profit news outlet based in Washington, D.C., that is geared towards the international aid and development community. The outlet specializes in reporting news that is of interest to those who work in the fields of global development and foreign aid. The focus of Devex’s reporting is issues
  • Non-profit

    Jewish Communal Fund

    The Jewish Communal Fund is a community foundation and administrator of donor-advised funds that promotes and facilitates charitable giving within the Jewish community in the greater New York City area. The organization was founded in 1972 and since has grown to serve donor-advised fund holders across the United States and
  • Non-profit

    The American Leader

    The American Leader is a media organization that advocates for left-of-center policy positions on the U.S. national debt and climate issues, 1
  • Non-profit

    National Student Legal Defense Network

    National Student Legal Defense Network (NSLDN) is a left-of-center organization that seeks to limit private-sector options to finance higher education, to limit higher education choice, and to expand student loan forgiveness programs through litigation and lobbying. 1
  • Non-profit

    African Population and Health Research Center

    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
  • Political Party/527

    LGBTQ Victory Fund

    The LGBTQ Victory Fund is a political action committee that works to elect LGBT candidates to public office on the state, local, and national level. The vast majority of candidates it works to elect are Democrats. The fund is the sister organization of the LGBTQ Victory Institute. In 2019, the
  • Non-profit

    Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History

    The Jack Miller Center is a public charity founded by Jack Miller, the creator of Quill, an office-supply company since acquired by Staples. The Center supports high school and college teachers of civics and political science by creating curricula, sponsoring training workshops for students and teachers, and providing financial support
  • Non-profit

    Omidyar Network Fund

    The Omidyar Network Fund is a grantmaking nonprofit founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar. Its sister group, the Omidyar Network, is an LLC that makes philanthropic “impact investments.” Omidyar Network Fund and the Omidyar Network are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
  • Non-profit

    Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA)

    Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) is an organization for girls that has traditionally emphasized service, interaction with the outdoors, and self-reliance. 1 Since
  • Non-profit

    Opt Out Media Foundation

    The Opt Out Media foundation is a left-of-center news aggregation organization that operates the Opt Out News App, an app for iPhone and iPad launched in March 2022. The organization aggregates news, podcasts, video, and other media from left-of-center to far-left outlets including In These Times, Sludge, and
  • For-profit

    Rhodium Group

    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
  • Non-profit

    The Invest in Education Foundation

    The Invest in Education Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes education reform, especially as it relates to increasing educational choice, closing educational achievement gaps, and improving K-12 education. The foundation engages in policy research, holds educational events,
  • For-profit

    Buffalo Cloud Consulting, LLC

    Buffalo Cloud Consulting, LLC provides diversity, equity, and inclusion training, as well as marketing, management, and non-profit consulting and strategy, to private companies, nonprofits, and schools.
  • Non-profit

    Hillman Family Foundations

    Hillman Family Foundations is a collection of 18 left-of-center grantmaking organizations that fund other organizations and causes predominantly in Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania. 1 Some of the foundations also operate in California, New York, and
  • Non-profit

    The College Fix

    The College Fix is a right-of-center campus news website run by the Student Free Press Association (SFPA). The College Fix supports young conservative journalists on college campuses and publishes stories that support the principles of a free society.
  • Non-profit

    Speech First

    Speech First is an advocacy organization that supports free speech for students on college campuses to protect students’ First Amendment rights. Supported by a membership base of students, parents, alumni, and faculty, Speech First files court cases challenging issues on campus such as speech codes, bias response teams, and acceptable use
  • Person

    Sanjay Reddy

    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,
  • For-profit

    Our Transformation of Education

    Our Transformation of Education is a consulting firm based in California that provides critical race theory-aligned “antiracism” services founded by left-of-center activist and academic R. Tolteka Cuauhtin. Tolteka Cuauhtin is best known for her work as co-chair of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) advisory committee, an 18-person group charged
  • For-profit

    Teaching While White

    Teaching While White is an education consulting company that promotes critical race theory-aligned “anti-racism” in the classroom and defines “white” as a “set of assumptions that is the baseline from which everything is judged.”
  • Non-profit

    Better Elections

    Better Elections is a Missouri-based advocacy group formed in 2021 to place a Ranked Choice Voting ballot initiative on Missouri ballots in the 2022 elections. The organization is as of early 2022 gathering signatures on a petition to put a question on the 2022 ballot that, if approved, would