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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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World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) is a Brussels-based 1 federation that claims to represent client-side marketers 2
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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
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The World Nuclear Association (formerly the Uranium Institute) is a London-based non-governmental membership association that advocates for pro-nuclear-energy policies. Background The Uranium Institute was founded in London in 1975 as a trade association to represent the interests of the world’s uranium producers. Initially, the institute focused on advocacy campaigns that
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Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the second-largest public school system in the United States, consisting of more than 571,000 students and 74,000 staff. 1 It is governed by a board of elected officials, chosen
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TikTok is a social-media service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. 1
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National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) is a left-of-center association that focuses its efforts on the concept of “media literacy.” 1
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SNF Agora Institute is a left-of-center research institute at Johns Hopkins University that advocates for left-of-center public policy under the guise of improving democratic processes. Its research fellows claim that policy that restricts speech to prevent so-called “misinformation,” environmentalist policies, policies that increase funding health care programs for immigrants, and
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The Coalition for Public Safety (CPS) is a nonprofit organization working for increased leniency in criminal justice at the community, state, and federal levels through advocacy, policy research, and public education. Founding and History Coalition for Public Safety was formed in February of 2015 to promote a more lenient criminal
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The Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC), which became Defending Rights and Dissent in 2015, was a civil liberties activist organization focused on defending the right to protest and limiting the government’s right to monitor individuals or groups. It was originally formed to fight the Patriot Act, claiming that its
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For All is a protest group that employs civil disobedience in support of left-leaning causes. Its founder and president is involved with several Occupy movement-inspired groups and has been arrested at several of his organizations’ protests. Background For All was founded in Arizona by Noah Kai Newkirk, a left-wing
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SPARC (Sparking Political Action, Response, and Change) is a left-of-center political action and voter mobilization group. Located in Santa Barbara, California, SPARC was founded in 2016 by three Santa Barbara women, purportedly as a response to the 2016 election of President Donald Trump. This organization later went on to host
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Rank the Vote is a left-of-center advocacy group that recommends policies that would fundamentally transform the American electoral system at the national level, including the federalization of election administration and nationwide implementation of ranked choice voting (RCV). It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Massachusetts. It has partnerships with
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Climate Imperative Foundation is a San Francisco-based environmentalist advocacy group focused on climate change. It is a charitable organization that survives off donations. Its major donors include the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which gave it a $20,000,000 grant in 2021. As of 2023, the Foundation’s president was Hal
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National Voting Rights Task Force is a left-of-center group that describes itself as an “election security” organization that advocates for increased mail-in voting, legislation to federalize election administration, for hand-marked paper ballots, and for stronger vote auditing and chain of custody, among other issues. Background National Voting Rights Task Force
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The Black Collective is a left-of-center activist organization based in southern Florida that is connected to the larger Black Lives Matter movement. It has staunchly opposed several policies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), particularly his support of a state law passed in 2021 designed to prevent public
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The Tikkun Olam Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation founded by philanthropist Denise Sobel located in New York City registered in the care of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. The foundation disburses grants to organizations associated with left-of-center social causes, such as abortion, race, gender, sexuality, and immigration issues. Background Philanthropist
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF; formerly the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) is an agency of the United Nations (UN). Its stated mission is to support the health, education, rights, and overall welfare of children around the world. The agency was founded in the aftermath of the
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The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice (also known as Latina Institute) is an advocacy group that supports abortion and health care policies that make it easier for women to have abortions.
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The Liberty Initiative Fund is a libertarian-leaning organization that promotes ballot initiatives it characterizes as advancing economic liberty and government accountability. 1 Key issues for ballot measures include stronger voter ID laws, term limits
