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Non-profit
Association for Union Democracy (AUD) is a pro-union advocacy group focused on improving the internal governance of American labor unions. 1 AUD was founded in 1969 by
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Non-profit
Resource Generation (RG) is a left-of-center organization which organizes and encourages wealthy young people to “devote a portion of their financial assets to left-of-center causes.”
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Non-profit
The Jewish Farm School (JFS) was a nonprofit gardening and agriculture training center based in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area until it shut down in 2019. Founded in 2005, the school aimed to teach farming skills as part of a broader project to instill its variety of Jewish values and environmentalist
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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
The Endangered Species Coalition is a left-of-center environmentalist and animal liberation coalition. The coalition is comprised of leaders from environmentalist non-profits, executive agency employees, university professors, representatives of environmentalist-aligned investment firms, and consulting firms. 1 The Endangered Species Coalition advances
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Non-profit
Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is an environmentalist think tank and policy advocacy organization focused on left-of-center climate policies moving toward a zero-emission environment. Its issue areas include development of advanced nuclear energy, carbon capture, reduction in methane emissions, and increased emissions regulation for conventional power plants. CATF works with
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Other Group
Berks Gas Truth is a local activist group in eastern Pennsylvania that protests natural gas drilling and pipelines. 1 Berks Gas Truth has partnered with a wide range of
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Non-profit
Auburn Seminary is a nondenominational religious seminary that is affiliated with the theologically liberal Presbyterian Church USA. It is tied to left-wing religious movements and left-of-center social justice advocacy. The seminary, unlike most other seminaries, does not offer undergraduate degrees or train pastors to minister to their flocks. Instead,
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Non-profit
Muslim Community Network (MCN) is an advocacy organization based in New York City. It primarily acts as an educational group that aims to promote tolerance toward Islam and Muslims, but also advocates left-of-center legislation concerning hate speech, affordable housing, and immigration. Background Muslim Community Network was founded in 2003 to
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Non-profit
JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA) is a left-of-center criminal justice policy organization. JustLeadershipUSA has called the criminal legal system oppressive with remnants of slavery. JLUSA states the United States has been on an incarceration trend based on racism, fear, and political motivation. JLJUSA was founded by an individual convicted of armed robbery who
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Non-profit
East Point Peace Academy is a nonprofit organization that trains its participants in nonviolent activism.
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Non-profit
Earth Day Network is a nonprofit organization that is behind Earth Day, a global environmentalist holiday celebrated on April 22. Earth Day was created as a day to organize activists to host local protests advocating for environmentalist policies. Earth Day Network claims to have over one billion participants each year
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Other Group
Democracy Spring is a left-of-center organization that organized protests against campaign speech and election security. 1 Its website stated that it was nonpartisan, but admitted its leadership was made up of progressives.
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Political Party/527
The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a minor left-wing political party in the United States that was created in 1921 as the result of a forced merger between two rival communist factions, each founded in 1919. As of 2014 it reported only a few
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For-profit
The Black Business Network Exchange (BBNE) is a for-profit small business that describes itself as a “social enterprise.” BBNE’s stated mission is to provide “resources and networking opportunities for minority-owned businesses to increase brand awareness.” The resources include three paid services. The first is a Business Starter Kit, which offers
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Other Group
52Feminists.com was a web-based project featuring short profiles of women (a few men are included) who market themselves as feminist entrepreneurs. Most of those profiled were Americans working in corporate or creative industries, charities, or feminist non-profit organizations. Several are business owners promoting their companies or professional services. A few
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Person
Rob McKay is former chairman of the left-of-center donor convening Democracy Alliance. 1 A venture capitalist, he is the son of former Taco Bell CEO Rob McKay, Sr.
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Person
Rampa Hormel, a left-of-center environmentalist activist and supporter of Democratic Party candidates, is the president of the Enlyst Fund (formerly known as the Global Environment Project Institute), a board member of the League of Conservation Voters, and a partner of the Democracy Alliance donor collective. Background Rampa
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Person
Mary Kay Henry serves as the international president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Henry worked for the union almost continuously since 1979, 1 holding 18 different
