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Note: USAction is no longer in operation and merged to form People’s Action in 2016 USAction was a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. The group was created by activist Heather Booth in 1999 as a successor to the scandal-ridden consumer advocacy group Citizen Action, which
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The Telescope Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking fund that is associated with the New Venture Fund (NVF), which is managed by Arabella Advisors. 1 Telescope Fund was
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The Wyoming Outdoor Council is an environmentalist advocacy organization that lobbies for left-leaning environmental causes, primarily the restriction of industrial land use in Wyoming. Background The Wyoming Outdoor Council was founded in 1967 by Tom Bell. Bell’s vision was “to bring together various organizations throughout the state to speak as
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No New Jails NYC is a now-defunct left-of-center activist group in New York City that sought to close the Rikers Island Prison and, instead of building new prisons, abolish incarceration altogether. It also sought to implement community and social-worker alternatives to law enforcement. Part of the group’s collapse seems to
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Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC) is a nonprofit advocacy group for Pacific Islanders living within and outside of the United States. 1 EPIC advocates for the American government to increase its focus on
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Susan Pritzker is a philanthropist, feminist, and political activist focused on left-of-center issues and redistribution of wealth. She married Nicholas Pritzker, a member of the family that started Hyatt Hotels Corporation and one of America’s richest families, and has spent over 45 years involved in philanthropy and activism. In
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Generation Titans is a now-defunct crowdfunding platform that exclusively served businesses owned by ethnic minorities. It solicited investors to donate to the businesses without receiving equity, presenting the fundraising as contributing to “social impact.”
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Combat Antisemitism Movement is a coalition of about 700 organizations opposed to antisemitism. 1 Adam Beren, a philanthropist from
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The Management Center (TMC) is a left-of-center management consulting and training 1 firm that seeks to advance the critical race theory-influenced concept of social justice. In its programming, TMC coaching helps managers adopt far-left
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The Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom (JMUF) is an activist group that works to bring attention to the treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic populations in northwestern China, which it and many international observers have described as a “genocide.” Founded in 2020, the organization started out as a student group,
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In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
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The Carolina Federation is an organization dedicated to electing North Carolina politicians from the left wing of the Democratic Party. 1 The organization supports politicians who support a more active government role in regulating the economy
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Central Valley Indivisible is an informal left-progressive organization based out of the Central Valley region of California. The organization is a chapter of the Washington, D.C.-based left-of-center advocacy and get-out-the-vote operation Indivisible Project. The organization is most famous for its advocacy against former U.S. Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA).
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Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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The Omidyar Network Fund is a grantmaking nonprofit founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar. Its sister group, the Omidyar Network, is an LLC that makes philanthropic “impact investments.” Omidyar Network Fund and the Omidyar Network are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
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The Meyer Memorial Trust is an Oregon-based left-of-center grantmaking organization founded by funds from the estate of Fred G. Meyer, the owner of the regional grocery store chain Fred Meyer. 1 Since its founding in
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The Just Trust is a left-of-center grantmaking organization established and funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). The group was spun off from the CZI to manage its criminal justice policy efforts. After receiving $350 million in starter funds, The Just Trust has been fiscally managed by the
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The Transnational Institute is a left-wing to far-left research and advocacy group located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a legal status equivalent that of a 501(c) nonprofit organization in the United States. Originally founded as an international branch of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) from 1973
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Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation (RWCF) is a left-of-center advocacy organization which allocates funds to left-progressive organizations that focus on workers within the restaurant industry. It aims to change how the industry operates by unionizing workers and advocating for restaurant workers’ interests under labor law.
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Amy Kurtz is the president of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a “dark money” fund responsible for funneling over $400 million to Democratic and left-of-center causes in 2020.
