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The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is a left-of-center think tank and advocacy group that is active on a variety of public policy issues. It operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with 2020 revenues totaling approximately $6.9 million. Since 2021, its executive director has been Tope Folarin.
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Grassroots International (GI) is a left-of-center environmental advocacy and grantmaking nonprofit organization. Grassroots International provides grants to groups in developing counties and funds organizations that are anti-capitalist, groups that oppose the United States as an imperial power, groups that hold that there is a white supremacy problem in the world,
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Grandmothers Act to Save the Planet (GASP) (also known as Grand(m)others Act to Save the Planet) is a left-of-center environmentalist and group based out of Ontario, Canada. The group originated from a monthly meeting of elderly women to discuss left-of-center political issues, but evolved into a concerted activist organization which
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Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) is an environmentalist advocacy group that coordinates projects to retrofit houses with energy-saving equipment across the United States and advocates for the expansion of federal environmental programs.
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2050 Kids (sometimes styled 2050kids) is an environmentalist advocacy group aligned with various left-of-center organizations. It admits to demanding a “radical” shift in global environmental focus.1 Organizational Overview 2050 Kids focuses on the year 2050, making dire predictions
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Rachel’s Network is a network of female funders of environmentalist projects that works as a fundraiser to advance advocacy on left-of-center immigration, environmental, and biological issues. Winsome McIntosh, the president of the McIntosh Foundation, founded Rachel’s Network. The organization signed a petition supporting the Green New Deal.
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The Global Partnership for the Oceans (GPO) was a public-private partnership announced in 2012 that brought together a wide coalition of different organizations with the aim of addressing pollution, habitat loss and issues related to seafood harvesting.
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Arabella Advisors (commonly called “Arabella”) is a philanthropic consulting company that guides the strategy, advocacy, impact investing, and management for high-dollar left-leaning nonprofits and individuals. 1 Arabella provides these clients with a number of services that ease
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Amalgamated Bank of New York (known as Amalgamated Bank) is a prominent labor union-aligned and formerly labor union-owned bank. Created by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), until its initial public offering in 2018 the bank was owned by labor unions, most recently the Service Employees International Union’s
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The Conservation Fund is an environmentalist organization based in Arlington, Virgina that acquires, conserves, and supports the conservation of American forestlands and historic sites, mainly battlefields. Background The Conservation Fund was founded in 1985 as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization by activists Patrick Noonan and Richard Erdmann (who works as
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Avaaz is a left-of-center international campaigning organization and online pressure co-founded in 2007 by liberal online activist groups Res Publica and Moveon.org, along with several individuals, including former U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA), Eli Pariser, and Ricken Patel. Patel is the organization’s president and CEO.
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The North Carolina-based Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (ZSR)1 utilizes legacy monies from the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco fortune to fund North Carolina-based liberal agendas and organizations. It is one of numerous foundations created in
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The Wilderness Society is a left-of-center environmentalist group that primarily supports land conservation efforts, but also finances policy advocacy. Since its founding in 1935, the Society has helped protect nearly 112 million acres. 1 Since
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The Solidago Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that provides funding to activism and advocacy organizations that support the Foundation’s positions. The Solidago Foundation has provided grants to organizations that support environmentalist regulations, increased government spending, increased unionization, and left-of-center social policies on issues including race and immigration.
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The National Wildlife Federation is one of the nation’s largest and highest-profile environmentalist organizations. In recent years, along with its associated NWF Action Fund advocacy organization, it has transitioned from being a conservation organization representing the interests of hunters and outdoor recreation enthusiasts into a left-leaning pressure group focused on
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Conservation International is a left-of-center environmentalist organization headquartered in Virginia. Founded in 1987, Conservation International lobbies political authorities to implement environmentalist policies while also promoting private investment in conservationist projects. 1 Background Conservation International is an environmentalist
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The ClimateWorks Foundation is a left-of-center “pass-through” funding entity that distributes funds from donors to environmentalist advocacy groups around the world. Many of these nonprofits lobby for emissions taxes, restricting coal use, international climate treaties with strict enforcement mechanisms, and diminishing the use of cars.
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The Surdna Foundation is an advocacy and endowment management foundation1 funded by a contribution from capitalist businessman turned U.S. Representative John Andrus (R-N.Y.) in 1917. The Foundation has moved away from its
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The Schumann Media Center (formerly the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy and the Florence and John J. Schumann Jr. Foundation) is a private foundation that gives large grants to various left-of-center nonprofits, particularly those in media. The organizations that have received the most in grants from the Media Center
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The Proteus Fund is a center-left “pass-through” funder and donor-advised fund provider. Since the Fund’s creation in 1995, Proteus has routed hundreds of millions of dollars from major grantmaking foundations and anonymous donors on the Left to activist groups targeting issues including legalizing same-sex marriage, reducing religious freedom to dissent
