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Person
Michael Harrington (full name Edward Michael Harrington) was an influential left-wing activist. He founded the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), an organization which works to advance far-left politics, including within the Democratic Party, and claims to be the largest socialist group in the United States. He was also involved
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Non-profit
Plan International is a nonprofit organization that funds children’s programs internationally and provides additional services for girls. It also advocates for public policies and funding of social services that specifically serve women.
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Other Group
The Tikkun Olam Commission (TOC) is a left-of-center advocacy coordination organization aligned with the Reconstructionist Jewish movement. Founded in April 2018, the commission works to promote activism related to race, immigration, and environmentalism by its members and by sympathetic left-leaning congregations; since 2020, it has focused primarily on racial issues.
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Other Group
The Veterans Organizing Institute is a left-of-center training organization that provides community organizing and political advocacy training to veterans. The group is a training arm of Common Defense, a left-of-center organization that organizes veterans to support left-of-center political causes. Common Defense formed in 2016 by organizing “Vets Against Trump” protests.
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Other Group
The Public Interest Computer Association (PICA) was a technology-policy advocacy group founded in 1983 by Marc Rotenberg, who later became a leading left-of-center figure on technology privacy and policy issues. 1
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Non-profit
The Social Impact Fund (SIF) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization and activism incubator backed by film and television actors and other wealthy entertainment industry players. SIF identifies “removing the common administrative burdens” to philanthropy as one of its main objectives, and it promises “discretion” to its donors and supporters, touting
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Non-profit
Be the Change was a civic engagement and veterans’ advocacy organization. 1 The organization has sunset its operations and merged its civic engagement, education, and veteran support campaigns with various nonprofit organizations.
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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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For-profit
Fierberg National Law Group (TFNL Group) is a legal team that specializes in representing individuals who have been the victims of fraternity hazing, school violence, sexual assault, and Title IX violations in educational settings.
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Other Group
Saccage 2024 is a left-of-center anti-Olympic Games coalition based in Saint-Denis, Paris, France. The group specifically protests the 2024 Olympic Games which will be held in Paris, claiming that the event causes “ecological and social destruction.”
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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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Other Group
Courage for America is a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group created to oppose the Republican house majority elected in 2022.
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Non-profit
The F. B. Heron Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking foundation located in New Haven, Connecticut, that funds a variety of left-of-center organizations and ostensibly focuses on poverty-related causes. The organization operates over $400 million in assets. In addition to providing grants to dozens of organizations annually, the Heron Foundation
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Non-profit
The Building Decarbonization Coalition (BDC) is an advocacy group that uses policy research, market development, and public engagement to eliminate the use of natural gas appliances in buildings and homes and convert them to all-electric appliances to minimize the impacts of climate change and create pollution-free workplaces and communities. Founding
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Other Group
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a state-funded media organization formed in 1927 under a Royal Charter in the United Kingdom. The organization receives most of its money through television license fees, which every UK household must pay if that household watches or records live television, or if it uses the
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Other Group
Birdlife International is a left-of-center conservationist organization based in the United Kingdom. It had 122 partner organizations in 2017, including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, a conservation charity based in the United Kingdom, and the American Bird Conservancy.
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Non-profit
Braver Angels is a cross-partisan organization that hosts workshops, debates, and other events aimed at bringing people from diverse political perspectives together in discussion. Braver Angels seeks to move participants along a spectrum away from feelings of “hatred or disdain” for their opponents, and instead move them towards “respect and
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Non-profit
Climate Defiance is a climate activist group founded in March 2023 focused on young adults. The group engages in direct disruption such as strikes, blockades, and mass occupations to gain media and public attention. In the initial three months since its creation, Climate Defiance has organized several disruptive protests, all
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Other Group
World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) is a Brussels-based 1 federation that claims to represent client-side marketers 2
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For-profit
Reproductive Health Investors Alliance (RHIA), also known as Rhia Ventures, 1 is an investment firm that prioritizes left-leaning reproductive health initiatives, including maternal health, contraception availability, and abortion access, with a focus
