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The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is a left-of-center environmental activist and legal advocacy organization based in Tucson, Arizona. 1
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The Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) is a left-of-center public interest law group located in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 2007 and began operations in 2009. Anita Earls, SCSJ’s founder and first executive director, designed it as an organization to help communities and clients with legal assistance,
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The California Budget and Policy Center (formerly California Budget Project) 1 is a labor union- and left-of-center-foundation-funded policy advocacy group focusing on the state of California.
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Southern Partners Fund (SPF) is an Atlanta-based foundation and grantmaking organization that has given more than $20,000,000 to left-of-center activist organizations in the American South since its founding in 1998. 1 SPF runs the
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Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (“RFK Center”) is a human rights advocacy and litigation organization. It is run by Kerry Kennedy, one of the seven children of the late U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) and his wife Ethel.
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The National Lawyers Guild is a radical-left association of attorneys, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers. Founded from late 1936 to early 1937, the Guild has consistently been identified with radical-left groups and political orientations throughout its history. In its early years the National Lawyers Guild was significantly influenced
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The Institute for Southern Studies is a media and research center based in Durham, North Carolina, that advocates for liberal political and social causes in the Southern United States. The Institute conducts research, especially investigative journalism, with a left-of-center viewpoint on issues such as economics, labor unionism, environmentalism, racial identity,
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The Campaign Legal Center is an advocacy group aligned with left-of-center interests that supports strict enforcement of campaign finance laws. Campaign Legal Center attorneys track and participate in a variety of cases around the country involving campaign finance law at the federal, state, and local levels. The Campaign Legal Center
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Non-profit
The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), formerly known as the Lesbian Rights Project, is a left-of-center legal advocacy organization that provides pro bono legal services for LGBT causes and advocates for policy changes in related issue areas. Founded in 1977 by lawyer Donna Hitchens, NCLR frequently files amicus curiae
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Other Group
Lawyers for Good Government was formed in immediate reaction to the 2016 election of President Donald Trump. The morning after election night, Traci Feit Love, a Harvard Law graduate
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Pregnancy Justice, Inc. is a left-of-center legal advocacy organization. It focuses on pregnant women involved with the criminal justice or child welfare systems, labeling such cases as the “criminalization of pregnancy.” 1 Pregnancy Justice asserts that
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Other Group
Credibility Coalition is a self-described news analysis organization that claims to be developing objective metrics to determine the credibility of media outlets. It was founded in 2017 and has support from major media organizations like Twitter, the Associated Press, and Snopes. History Credibility Coalition was founded in 2017
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Labor Union
The Washington Education Association is a left-of-center teachers union that is the Washington state affiliate of the National Education Association. The union represents primarily public-school teachers and teaching assistants throughout the state and is the largest statewide teachers union in the state, outnumbering the American Federation of Teachers
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The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism is a left-of-center advocacy organization co-founded in 2020 by two former high-level Southern Poverty Law Center employees, Heidi Beirich and Wendy Via. 1
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Results for America is a policy advocacy group that aims to influence government workers and politicians to adopt programs it asserts will lead to more equitable outcomes. It subscribes to the left-of-center doctrine of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory-influenced concepts, such as systemic racism.
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The Avram Miller Family Foundation (AMFF) is an environmentalist organization centered around left-leaning causes such as climate change and the environment. It is associated with organizations such as left-of-center Post Carbon Institute, which focuses on energy scarcity and climate change. Avram Miller Avram Miller is president of the Avram
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The Hellman Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking foundation based in and with its primary focus in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2020, the group gave $2,750,000 to the New Venture Fund.
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Other Group
Gulf South for a Green New Deal (GS4GND), a project of Taproot Earth, is a collection of more than 360 environmentalist organizations in Puerto Rico and the U.S states that border the Gulf of Mexico (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida).
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The Cleveland Foundation is a grantmaking foundation based in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in the 1910s, the foundation is among the largest grantmaking institutions in the United States with over $3.2 billion in assets under management and over $120 million in annual grants distributed. The foundation bills itself as the “world’s
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United Women of Color (UWOC) is a left-of-center get-out-the-vote and organizing organization that seeks to mobilize ethnic-minority women and increase their influence in the government decision-making process. 1
