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The Just Economy Institute (JEI) is an advocacy group which pushes for wealth and resource redistribution towards left-of-center political, social, and environmental causes through both government policies and private-sector initiatives. The JEI describes itself as a collective of “financial activists” working to change to “purpose of wealth” in American society,
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Non-profit
The Resolution Project is a left-of-center youth training program. The group promotes socially conscious entrepreneurship and trains young people with its Social Venture Challenge and fellowship program to launch their own projects. Notably, the group promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for itself, its fellows, and their ventures.
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Social Watch is an international network of activist groups which promotes left-wing wealth redistribution programs and cultural values. Founded in 1995, the network describes itself as holding national governments, non-government organizations (NGOs), and the United Nations (UN) accountable for making progress towards implementing its preferred economic and societal principles,
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Non-profit
The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) is a left-of-center California-based policy and research organization that advocates for policies it believes will reduce gun violence and increase leniency in the criminal justice system . Founded in 2017, NICJR is a member of the African American-led Coalition to Advance Public Safety,
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Non-profit
Clean Up the River Environment (CURE) is a left-of-center environmentalist advocacy group that works to influence energy policies and the political climate in rural Minnesota. CURE’s “Equity Statement” says that it works to alter systems that drive problems with both the environment and society, and that “CURE must practice equity,
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Third Act is a left-of-center advocacy group founded by environmentalist Bill McKibben in 2021 in order to organize elderly volunteers into protesting and campaigning for environmentalist and electoral policies. It advocates for a total transition towards weather-based energy sources and has organized campaigns that allege voter identification laws only
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Person
Hamid Khan is the founder of the left-of-center Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, the organization that publishes the Watch the Watchers database which provides Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers’ headshots, names, hire dates, ranks, and ethnicities to the public.
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Non-profit
University of Orange is a far-left nonprofit organization based in Orange, New Jersey, that advocates for the restoration of cities. It classifies its political views as “restoration urbanism” and states that it aims to “cultivate a just and equitable city.”
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Non-profit
National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) is a left-of-center association that focuses its efforts on the concept of “media literacy.” 105
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The Election Verification Network (EVN) is a network of election officials and experts who meet annually to discuss election policies and reforms. Although the EVN claims to be nonpartisan, many of its members work at left-of-center advocacy groups, and its funding comes from similar groups. Membership As of March 2023,
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Be Internet Citizens is a program designed to shape online behavior that is designed for children aged 13 to 15 that was founded in partnership with the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and American technology company Google.
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Online Civil Courage Initiative is a Facebook-founded European initiative challenging what the organizers call hate speech and extremism online. The OCCI was founded in Berlin, Germany, by social media company Facebook and is being led by the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
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Movement
Occupy Los Angeles was a protest movement that emerged as a local manifestation of Occupy Wall Street, a left-of-center anti-capitalist movement that began in 2011. It formed as a camp around Los Angeles City Hall on October 1, 2011 to advocate general left-wing and anti-capitalist sentiments. Police eventually dispersed
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Gender Justice L.A. (GJLA) is a transgender advocacy and community support group active in the greater Los Angeles area. In 2022, GJLA served 24,000 individuals with in-person and online sessions, and hosted over 60 events. That year, the organization had eight employees.
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Non-profit
Southern Gas Association (SGA) is a national trade association that represents companies within the natural gas industry with a focus on operations in the southern United States. The association describes itself as the only natural gas industry association that represents all segments of the industry.
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Non-profit
Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice (WFVJ) is a left-of-center interfaith policy advocacy organization with a focus on LGBT, “economic justice,” and immigration issues. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, this organization was founded in 2011 and is led by Bonnie Margulis, a rabbi who has ties to Planned Parenthood. She is
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Reclaim Our Democracy is a social action group at First Parish, a Unitarian Universalist church in Concord, Massachusetts. It is part of the Unitarian Universalist Association which supports left-of-center social action.
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Non-profit
The Holy Land Trust is a Palestinian non-profit organization that advocates peace and equal rights between Israelis and Palestinians. 214 Nonviolence International (NVI) is the fiscal sponsor of the trust which organizes nonviolent action
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For-profit
Change Research is a research firm which conducts polls and forms digital strategies for the benefit of organizations and political campaigns. It only works with entities that share its “vision for a more humane, scientific, and just world”; in practice, these include left-of-center institutions and Democratic political committees.
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ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) is an initiative of Civic Nation to encourage college and university students to participate in elections through a national voting competition. ALL IN provides resources and training on writing a get-out-the-vote plan and taking action to increase voting rates on campuses. ALL
