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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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The Advancing Equity and Opportunity Collaborative is a coalition of left-of-center organizations based in the southeastern United States. The focus of the coalition is the promotion of “environmental justice” and opposition to the extraction and use of reliable sources of energy such as fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and
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Mission Investors Exchange is an “impact investing” network for foundations that try to use their investment dollars to push corporations to make social and environmental change. 1 The organization has more than 200
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The Lens is a nonprofit news organization based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Before receiving its charity status, The Lens operated under the “fiscal sponsorship” of the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a left-of-center investigative journalism group headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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Private Equity Stakeholder Project (also known as the Financial Services Stakeholder Project) is an activist group that is critical of the social impact of private equity firms. The group calls on private equity-owned companies to adopt left-of-center employment policies and political stances. It targets private funds’ investments including private equity,
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The Center for Cultural Power (previously Citizen Engagement Lab Education Fund) is a left-of-center organization led by women of color artists focused on activism and community organizing through art.
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Kelly D. Nowlin is a descendent of the early 20th century American industrialist and former U.S. Representative John Andrus (R-NY) and is a board member of the Surdna Foundation that he founded and funded. She also runs her own philanthropic consulting practice and is involved in left-of-center environmentalist and
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Alliance for Educational Justice (AEJ) is a left-wing collaborative of 30 youth-led education activist groups 1
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Freedom Labs is the name of a national partnership between left-of-center police-abolitionist organizations PolicyLink, BYP100, the Center for Popular Democracy, and Law for Black Lives. 1
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Carra Cote-Ackah is chair of the Surdna Foundation, a senior fellow at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, and executive director of community stewardship for Vanguard, a major commercial investment firm. The Surdna Foundation is one of the oldest and largest family foundations in the United States, established
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The National Center for Family Philanthropy is an organization that acts as a network for families engaged in left-of-center philanthropic giving guided by a shared goal to make the world more “resilient” and “equitable.” The Center works to provide its members with information on prospective organizations to support and to
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American Sustainable Business Institute (ASBI) is a policy advocacy organization that promotes left-of-center environmentalist and diversity, equity, and inclusion agendas in business. Founded in 2009, it is a distinct legal entity from its sister organization American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC).
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Melissa L. Bradley is an investor, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist. She is the founder of 1863 Ventures, a business development fund that invests in whom it calls “black and brown entrepreneurs” so that the “New Majority” can “build wealth.”
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The Institute for Nonprofit News (formerly the Investigative News Network) is a left-of-center network of not-for-profit media organizations such as Mother Jones, ProPublica, and The Intercept. Background In 2009, journalists from 27 media organizations met at the Pocantico Center in New York, a historic home of the
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The Center for Innovation in Worker Organization is a research and consulting sector of Rutgers University that partners with various labor unions and other left-leaning advocacy groups including the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers, AFSCME, the National Education Association, the Service Employees International Union, the National Black Workers Center Project,
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Labor Innovations for the 21st Century (LIFT Fund) was founded under the direction of the late former AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka to support organized labor’s efforts to bring non-union-controlled worker groups across the country under the influence and eventual control of the AFL-CIO and its member unions.
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The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Civic Engagement Fund is a left-of-center election activism and grantmaking organization. It is a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund. While the organization claims to support civic engagement throughout the entire AAPI community, the organization’s programs focus on increasing AAPI political
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Kaiser Health News is a national newsroom that produces journalism about health issues and was launched in 2009. 1 It is part of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, also referred to as the Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser
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NDN Collective is a left-of-center Native American advocacy organization based in Rapid City, South Dakota. 1 NDN
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The School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL) is a radical-left activist training organization based in Oakland, California. SOUL primarily provides consulting services including training on fundraising, political campaigning, grassroots activism, and protesting to other radical-left organizations which advocate for socialism and “liberation” ideologies. The organization also teaches workshops that provide
