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Open the Government (OTG) is a coalition of left-of-center organizations that promote various changes to open records and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws, as well as left-of-center racial preference policies. The group was founded in 2008 and has operated campaigns criticizing the federal government’s counter-terrorism and surveillance programs. The
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Open Source Election Technology Institute (OSET Institute) is a left-leaning technology research and development institute that works with election officials to address what it identifies as challenges of election technology infrastructure and election technology security.
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Non-profit
Americas Society, with its business-oriented counterpart the Council of the Americas, is a cultural and arts focused organization founded by David Rockefeller, Jr. to promote cooperation and understanding in the Americas. Americas Society hosts musicians, artists, writers, and scholars in the United States from throughout the Western Hemisphere. Through
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Other Group
New Orleans Coalition on Open Governance (NOCOG) was a former coalition of differing groups in New Orleans founded at the urging of George Soros’ Open Society Network. The coalition was formed to support the re-building of the city after Hurricane Katrina and focused on economic and criminal justice
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Non-profit
Great Plains Action Society (GPAS) is a left-of-center Native American interests and environmentalist activism group. This project began its formation through small-scale activism in 2014 and was officially founded in 2015 around opposition to oil pipelines that would pass through or near Native American tribal lands. Its early activism focused
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Non-profit
The Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE) is a nonprofit founded in January 2015. The group works with governments and private organizations to use data for left-of-center social agendas. CODE’s president, Joel Gurin, is the former Chair of White House Task Force on Smart Disclosure under President Barack Obama
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Non-profit
The Atlas Society (also called The Objectivist Center, formerly the Institute for Objectivist Studies) is a nonprofit educational organization that supports and aims to further develop the principles, ideas, and philosophy of author Ayn Rand.
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Non-profit
The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) is a UK-based nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank that seeks to advance foreign policy, especially as it concerns the principles of modern liberal democracy, civil rights, environmental responsibility, and a free market economy.
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Non-profit
Data and Society Research Institute (Data & Society) is a left-of-center think that promotes censorship of online speech and applies critical race theory to technology issues.
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Non-profit
The Federalist Society is an educational organization for more than 75,000 mostly conservative and libertarian lawyers and law students. It is active at more than 200 law schools and hosts more than 1000 events each year. Membership in the Society and attendance at its events is open to anyone (including
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Non-profit
The Open Markets Institute is a left-leaning think tank that focuses on monopolies and how to break them up. The organization sees monopolization and corporate concentration as a threat to “democracy, individual liberties, and national security.” The organization was officially launched in September 2017 as an independent organization. Previously, most
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Non-profit
For more information, see Makeway Foundation (Nonprofit) The Tides Canada Initiatives Society is a Canadian nonprofit affiliated with Makeway Foundation (previously titled Tides Canada Foundation), a U.S.- and Canada-based nonprofit associated with the Tides Nexus, a collection of center-left grantmaking and fiscal sponsorship
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Non-profit
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical-left student organization often credited as the main force that created the New Left. It existed from 1960 until its demise in 1969, when it split apart after a Maoist SDS group affiliated with the Progressive Labor Party was expelled by a
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Non-profit
The Legal Aid Society of New York provides criminal, juvenile, and civil legal support to New Yorkers who cannot otherwise afford representation. In addition to taking on individual cases, the Legal Aid Society advocates a political agenda, fighting for left-of-center criminal justice, immigration, and housing policies through the courts. The
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Non-profit
Humane Society International (HSI) is the international-focused arm of the controversial animal-liberation advocacy organization Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The organization works in over 50 countries. 1 HSI claims to
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Non-profit
For more information on this organization, see People’s Action Institute. The Alliance for a Just Society (AJS), formerly the Northwest Federation of Community Organizations, is a policy advocacy research network and nationwide organizing coalition. The network consists of 15 social and economic equality organizations. As of 2016, the group
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Non-profit
The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) is a self-claimed nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded with the intention of tracking money in politics. 1 The CRP was founded in 1983 by former U.S. Senators Frank Church
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Non-profit
The National Geographic Society is a research and exploration nonprofit best known for publishing National Geographic magazine. Founded in 1888, the Society rose to prominence due to the quality of its research, travel stories, and photography, amassing millions of subscribers for its magazine and eventually branching into other commercial interests.
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Non-profit
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, founded in 1977 by self-proclaimed Greenpeace co-founder Paul Watson, is an aggressive and controversial environmentalist and animal liberation protest organization.1 In
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Non-profit
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is a nonprofit organization designed to unite and develop the Muslim community across North America. 1 The ISNA organizes programming for Muslim Americans, including
