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Person
Yvon Chouinard is the socialist billionaire founder and former owner of Patagonia, a sportswear apparel company known for its environmentalist activism, including donating 1 percent of annual revenue to philanthropic causes. In 2022, Chouinard and his family relinquished control of the company to a trust and a nonprofit that are
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Non-profit
The Capital Good Fund is a left-of-center nonprofit lending institution that, through funding from various banks, nonprofits and grantmakers, provides microloans, financing services, and financial planning to low-income individuals while also promoting environmentalist projects. The fund was founded by liberal activist Andy Posner while he was a graduate student at
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Person
Andrew “Andy” Posner is a left-of-center activist and nonprofit executive who is the founder and CEO of the Capital Good Fund, a left-of-center lending organization that provides microloans, banking services, and financial planning to low-income individuals while also promoting environmentalist projects. Posner launched Capital Good Fund while completing his master’s
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Other Group
The Equity Research Institute (ERI) is a think tank housed within the University of Southern California (USC). ERI focuses on issues related to race in social policy, supports increased welfare spending, endorses fundamental changes to United States immigration policy, and espouses environmentalist positions on climate. Background Equity Research Institute was
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Non-profit
Timap for Justice is a nonprofit organization based in Sierra Leone that employs paralegals to provide legal assistance to individuals dealing with disputes or awaiting trial.
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Other Group
Putnam Progressives is a left-of-center organization in Hudson County, New York that works to elect Democratic candidates and promote left-leaning policies. Putnam Progressives supports left-of-center positions on abortion, global warming, and gun control, and supported impeaching former President Donald Trump. Putnam Progressives is associated with pro-Democratic Party get-out-the-vote group
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Labor Union
Wisconsin Farmers Union (WFU) is a union representing 2,200 families and 28 local chapters. 1 WFU is a member of the National Farmers Union. WFU supports left-of-center political positions, including a variety of subsidies
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Non-profit
State Financial Officers Foundation is an organization made up of state auditors, controllers, or treasurers that promotes free markets and fiscally responsible public policy while opposing the use of Environmental, Social, and Corporate governance (ESG) principles in investment decision for public pensions. As of late 2022, the organization has
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Non-profit
International Disability Alliance (IDA) is a Geneva-based alliance of 14 global and regional organizations that represent persons with disabilities. 1 IDA stands “in solidarity” with the critical race theory-influenced “anti-racism” movement.
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Non-profit
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) is an internationally focused feminist advocacy organization. It has endorsed liberal expansionist immigration policies, legalizing prostitution and other sex work, legalizing abortion,
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Non-profit
The Arab NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) Network for Development (ANND) is a collective of some two dozen member advocacy organizations and several hundred affiliate groups across the Middle East. The network was founded in 1997 and has maintained a headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon since 2000. The ANND aims to promote globalization,
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Non-profit
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies (MACP) is a grantmaking organization based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. It includes two subordinate entities: the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation and the Anne Ray Foundation. The MACP endowment primarily comes from the fortune of agricultural business heiress Margaret Anne Cargill, who engaged in extensive philanthropic
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Other Group
Impact Capital Managers (ICM) is an investment advisory firm that advises its member funds on “impact investing” in environmental and other left-of-center projects. It is a project of the left-of-center Crane Institute of Sustainability (CIS).
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Non-profit
The United States Impact Investing Alliance is a left-of-center coalition that advocates for environmental, social, governance activism (ESG) with funding from major left-leaning foundations. The alliance is a project of the New Venture Fund (NVF), a major pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor in the multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network
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Other Group
European Foundation Centre (EFC) was an international membership association of foundations and corporate funders across Europe. 1 Founded by seven major European philanthropic foundations in 1989, EFC ceased to exist as an independent
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Other Group
Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) is an international association of grantmaking organizations based in Sao Paulo, Brazil that hosts conferences and provides resources targeted to grantmaking organizations, board members, and staff. The group consists of over 190 members that include some of the most notable U.S.-based left-of-center grantmakers as
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Non-profit
The Center for the Study of Technology and Society (TECSOC) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the understanding of the effects of modern science and technology on American values and policy. TECSOC uses research and education to put forth analyses of ethical and policy to promote American strength
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Other Group
European Venture Philanthropy Association is a membership association comprised of organizations that practice venture philanthropy and social investment. Some of the organization’s members include the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, David Richards Kaplan Foundation, We Mean Business Coalition, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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Other Group
Pew Environment Group is a left-of-center research and advocacy organization that focuses on environmental issues such as the problems with marine fisheries, wilderness ecosystems, and changes to the earth’s physical and biological systems. It is a division of the Pew Charitable Trusts,
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Political Party/527
Vets for the People is a project of the left-of-center Working Families Party that recruits ex-military members to represent the party and promote its ideology. It claims that veterans in politics are exploited to perpetuate white supremacy and warmongering.
