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Non-profit
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an Indigenous women-led organization focused on taking what it claims to be “stolen” Indigenous lands in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is working to obtain parcels of land in the Bay Area that can be used by the Ohlone tribes for communal use.
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Other Group
Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) is a left-of-center legal aid and activist group that provides immigration legal assistance to Palestinian and Arab immigrants and opposes the Israeli government. The group is sponsored by the Tides Center. It mobilized support for Gaza following the October 2023 attack against Israel
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Non-profit
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is a San Francisco-based global membership organization of left-of-center groups and activists involved in technology and communications. Founded in 1990 through the Tides Foundation, APC now has 62 member organizations and 41 associates from 74 countries
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Women’s Fund Asia is a feminist funder operating in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. It supports groups that advocate for women, girls, transgender, and intersex people. Since 2004, the group supported over 200 initiatives.
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Other Group
Also see Adalah-NY, a New York-based group promoting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel and fiscally sponsored by WESPAC Foundation Adalah Justice Project is a grassroots advocacy group that promotes itself as an anti-Israeli organization asking supporters to, “stand
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Samidoun, also known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, is an international advocacy group which opposes the detention and prosecution of pro-Palestine activists and militants by the state of Israel. The group also campaigns on behalf of Palestinian activists imprisoned in Western countries, including those arrested for their alleged involvement
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Hub
Middle East activism refers to individuals and organizations that seek to influence policy and opinion regarding issues related to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran’s nuclear program, the civil wars in Syria and Libya, human rights, and Islamist extremism. Below are some
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The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (stylized as PACBI) is an initiative which pushes for individuals and institutions involved in education, the arts, and the preservation of cultural heritage to disassociate from their Israeli and pro-Israel counterparts. Launched in 2004, the campaign is a founding
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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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The New Jersey Ida Just Recovery Fund is a donor-advised charitable fund operated by the left-of-center Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, a collection of donor-advised funds (DAFs) that was created as a spin-ff from the Service Employees International Union-controlled Amalgamated Bank in 2017. Amalgamated Charitable funds a number of left-of-center advocacy
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Non-profit
Transformative Justice Coalition is an advocacy organization founded in 2015 by Barbara R. Arnwine, a left-of-center racial justice activist. It touts its participation in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which among other things allowed employees to sue their employers based on identity discrimination.
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Non-profit
Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS) is a pro-LGBT activist group active in Washington, D.C. The group focuses on LGBT causes, but also promotes left-of-center positions on race, crime, and feminism. CASS receives funding from other left-of-center nonprofits, including Tides Foundation, MS Foundation for Women, and Greater
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Non-profit
The Georgia Muslim Voter Project (GAMVP) is a left-of-center voter registration organization that is focused on increasing voter turnout for Muslim communities. The organization has participated in multiple lawsuits against voting laws in Georgia, most recently against Senate Bill 202 which was enacted in 2021.
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Non-profit
Policy Impact is a left-of-center organization that serves as a fiscal sponsor for donations and disbursements of individuals and foundations to other entities. 148 Based in Berkeley, California, the organization also coordinates various education and policy
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Non-profit
Common Defense Civic Engagement (CDCE) is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that claims to be comprised of U.S. military veterans that works to train its members to become leaders in political campaigns related to climate change, anti-militarism, and voting rights. It is the lobbying and electoral advocacy arm of the
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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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Non-profit
The Werner-Kohnstamm Family Giving Fund (WKF) is a family philanthropy focused on left-of-center immigration policy. It is managed by trustees Edward Kissam and Jo Ann Intili. It is organized as a donor-advised charitable giving fund within Fidelity Charitable.
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Other Group
Synchronicity Earth is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that prioritizes funding organizations related to environmentalism and conservation. One of its main partners is International Rivers, a nonprofit environmentalist organization that supports the concept of “environmental personhood,” a legal concept that entails granting rivers, trees, and other natural entities the same
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Non-profit
Transgender Resource, Education and Enrichment Services (TREES Inc.) is a left-of-center transgender education and advocacy organization located in South Bend, Indiana. TREES Inc. primarily conducts pro-transgender education programming in Midwest rural communities with populations under 25,000 in to promote acceptance of transgender ideology and to connect gender-confused youth with pro-transgender
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Other Group
For the Many is a left-of-center advocacy group with offices throughout New York State that promotes left-of-center economic, racial, and environmental policies and organizes on behalf of such policies throughout New York. The organization promotes eviction moratoriums, rent control policies, short-term rental bans, and many other housing policies as well
