Search results for ‘fight for $15’


  • Non-profit

    New Organizing Institute Education Fund (NOI Education Fund)

    NOI is defunct. For its successor, see Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) New Organizing Institute Education Fund (NOIEF) was the charitable arm of New Organizing Institute (NOI), a progressive nonprofit that trained digital organizers and campaigners for the Democratic Party. The organization, described by a Washington
  • Person

    Hillary Clinton

    Also see Clinton 2016 Presidential Campaign Hillary Clinton is a former First Lady of the United States, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State. She is the wife of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and has run for President twice, losing in the Democratic primaries in 2008 and
  • Non-profit

    Progressive Maryland Education Fund

    Progressive Maryland Education Fund is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that lobbies in support of left-of-center legislation and engages in community organizing in Maryland. It is the educational sister organization of Progressive Maryland. The organization has supported the passage of left-progressive legislation in Maryland, including measures that raised the
  • Non-profit

    Working America Education Fund

    Also see Working America (labor union) The Working America Education Fund is the charitable arm of Working America, the left-of-center “community affiliate” of the AFL-CIO labor union federation. 143 Founded in
  • Labor Union

    Virginia AFL-CIO

    The Virginia AFL-CIO is the state-level body for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO) labor union federation in Virginia. The AFL-CIO is the largest federation of labor unions in the United States, and the Virginia AFL-CIO is the state’s largest federation of labor unions.
  • Labor Union

    United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC)

    The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBC; commonly known as the Carpenters Union) is a national construction labor union founded in 1881. While it was formerly a member of the Change to Win labor federation and the AFL-CIO at various periods, it is currently not affiliated with a national
  • Labor Union

    Unite Here

    Unite Here (sometimes styled UNITE HERE or Unite HERE) is a major labor union principally organizing employees in the hotel, restaurant, and gaming industries. Unite Here was formed in 2004 from a merger between the Hotel Employees-Restaurant Employees (HERE) union and Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) and
  • Non-profit

    Solutions Project

    Solutions Project is an environmentalist advocacy group co-founded by actor Mark Ruffalo, Stanford professor Mark Jacobson, banker Marco Krapels, and anti-natural-gas filmmaker Josh Fox. Established as a nonprofit in 2013 to promote a full transition away from conventional energy to environmentalist energy sources, Solutions Project recently repositioned its focus to
  • Non-profit

    Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR)

    The Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) is a legal organization founded in 1976 to oppose the death penalty and crimes it says are related to poverty and racial imbalances. 383
  • Labor Union

    Rhode Island AFL-CIO

    The Rhode Island AFL-CIO is a state chapter of the AFL-CIO, the largest association of labor unions in the United States. The chapter, which has approximately 80,000 members, represents labor unions in Rhode Island. 413 The
  • Labor Union

    United for Respect

    United for Respect (formerly known as the Organization United for Respect, as well as OUR Walmart) was a publicity campaign created by the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW). United for Respect was formed in 2010 to create pressure on retailer Walmart (which critics suggested was intended to
  • Non-profit

    Open Society Action Fund

    The Open Society Action Fund (OSAF), formerly the Open Society Policy Center, is a lobbying group associated with the Open Society Network and the Open Society Foundations, the principal advocacy philanthropic efforts of left-of-center financial billionaire George Soros.
  • Non-profit

    Open Society Foundations (Open Society Institute)

    Also see the similarly named Foundation to Promote Open Society (Nonprofit) The Open Society Foundations (OSF; formally Open Society Institute) is a private grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros. OSF was founded in 1993 as the Open Society Institute (OSI), which remains the foundation’s
  • Labor Union

    North Carolina State AFL-CIO

    The NC State AFL-CIO is the North Carolina affiliate of the AFL-CIO. 514 It represents the interests of North Carolina unions and promotes left-of-center policies on a variety of topics,
  • Non-profit

    New Organizing Institute (NOI)

    NOI is defunct. For its successor, see Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) New Organizing Institute (NOI) was a left-progressive group that trained digital organizers and campaigners for the Democratic Party and liberal political causes. The organization, described by a Washington Post reporter as “the Democratic Party’s Hogwarts
  • Non-profit

    Netroots Nation

    Netroots Nation is as an annual convention that aims to train and amplify the efforts of liberal bloggers and online activists.558 The convention has become a
  • Non-profit

    National Popular Vote (NPV)

    National Popular Vote (NPV) was founded in 2006 by lottery scratch-card inventor John Koza and election lawyer Barry Fadem to lobby for an “interstate compact” for states to deliver their electoral votes for President to the “winner” of the national popular vote. While Koza and Fadem are both Democratic donors,
  • Non-profit

    National Council of Negro Women

    The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is a left-of-center activist organization that advocates policies addressing racial issues specifically pertaining to Black women. It has been described as a feminist organization that seeks to advance the economic and political status of Black women.
  • Non-profit

    National Consumers League

    The National Consumers League (NCL) is one of the oldest consumer-focused advocacy groups in the United States. NCL supports left-of-center economic policies including enhanced business regulations, expanded government provisions of healthcare, and mandatory consumer education. NCL receives funding from nonprofits, unions, and major corporations. In 2021, representatives of three labor
  • Non-profit

    Miami Workers Center

    The Miami Workers Center (MWC) is a left-of-center labor advocacy organization funded by George Soros’s Open Society Network. 635 MWC was founded by Tony Romano and Gihan Perera, left-wing professional