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Non-profit
The Ordinary People Society (TOPS) is a left-of-center activist group that focuses on the rights and rehabilitation of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, with a special focus on drug issues. The society works to expand the voting rights of prisoners and former felons.
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For-profit
OpenAI is a for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) developer. It was originally founded as a nonprofit organization in 2015 by several technologists and entrepreneurs including Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and Elon Musk. Formerly a nonprofit organization, in 2019 it reorganized with its main business operating as a “profit
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Person
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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Non-profit
The Fresh Sound Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking foundation based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The group focuses largely on giving to the arts and environmentalist causes. The group is a supporter of left-of-center groups working to shift Georgia towards the Democratic Party such as the New Georgia Project, Fair
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Non-profit
Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ) is a left-of-center immigration advocacy organization based in Alabama. 1 It opposes the enforcement of immigration policies, particularly deporting and detaining immigrants for violating
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Common Power is a left-of-center political organizing group founded in 2018 as Common Purpose that promotes left-of-center issues and partners with other advocacy groups to support Democratic campaigns across the United States. The organization is based in Seattle and operates organizing campaigns with an emphasis on the Pacific Northwest. The
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Non-profit
The Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network (MUUSJN) is a Unitarian Universalist religious organization that advocates for broadly left-of-center policies on racial, environmental, economic, and LGBT issues, as well as more maximalist left-wing positions on topics including abortion and election security.
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Net Impact is a left-of-center advocacy group that operates chapters at universities and graduate schools and in cities and companies to engage young people on grassroots organizing; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); and the environment and climate change. In 2021, Net Impact joined with GOOD Worldwide and Upworthy
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Non-profit
American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) is a network of 350 state colleges and universities. AASCU provides support to its members to increase its admissions of low-income students and students of color and to incorporate civics into the student curricula to encourage “democratic engagement.” It organizes networking events,
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Non-profit
The Outrider Foundation is an environmentalist advocacy organization based in Madison, Wisconsin, that promotes climate change advocacy and criticizes nuclear weapons, mainly through financial support for reporting in mainstream journalistic outlets. Background In 1999, Frank Burgess, the chairman of Madison Investment Holding, Inc, a financial firm based in Madison, Wisconsin,
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For-profit
Field Strategies is a political advocacy group that works with labor groups, left-of-center advocacy organizations and campaigns and Democratic parties at the federal and state levels to help win elections through voter registration and outreach. 1
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Person
Michael Harrington (full name Edward Michael Harrington) was an influential left-wing activist. He founded the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), an organization which works to advance far-left politics, including within the Democratic Party, and claims to be the largest socialist group in the United States. He was also involved
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Labor Union
SEIU Local 1000, also known as the Union of California State Workers, is a labor union comprised of California state government employees. The union represents more than 96,000 employees of the California state government across a wide variety of professions and agencies. The union is the largest local union in
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Other Group
Social Change Lab is a social movement research team located in London, England, that examines ways to accelerate left-of-center social activism and provides that information to activists and philanthropists. Its research indicates that activist groups that conduct disruptive civil actions and protests are more effective than the larger nonprofit organizations
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Non-profit
The Sentencing Project is a criminal justice activism organization. 1 Since its founding in 1986 as a legal assistance and training organization for prisoners with
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Non-profit
Psephos is a nonprofit known for founding and managing the National Election Defense Coalition (NEDC), a bipartisan electoral watchdog that includes conservative members like Americans for Tax Reform and left-leaning members like the Brennan Center for Justice. NEDC has also included libertarian members in the past, like
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Non-profit
Hester Street Collaborative is an urban planning nonprofit that partners with municipal governments, community organizations, and other institutions to direct their infrastructure projects towards left-of-center social and environmental goals, which include group equality of outcome, taxpayer-funded housing subsidies, and reduced use of conventional fuels. Hester Street Collaborative is named after
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Other Group
The Veterans Organizing Institute is a left-of-center training organization that provides community organizing and political advocacy training to veterans. The group is a training arm of Common Defense, a left-of-center organization that organizes veterans to support left-of-center political causes. Common Defense formed in 2016 by organizing “Vets Against Trump” protests.
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Non-profit
Transformative Justice Coalition is an advocacy organization founded in 2015 by Barbara R. Arnwine, a left-of-center racial justice activist. It touts its participation in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which among other things allowed employees to sue their employers based on identity discrimination. Activities Transformative
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Non-profit
STAND Central New Jersey is or was a left-of-center activist organization. It does not have its own nonprofit tax status but raises funds through Indivisible, a left-of-center advocacy coalition. When the organization was active, it was involved in promoting Democratic priorities on the state and federal level including the
