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Non-profit
The Health Access Foundation is a left-of-center organization based in Sacramento, California that advocates for changes to health-care policy. The organization has said that it supports the Black Lives Matter movement and believes that there is inequality in the health care industry.
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Non-profit
The Groundswell Fund is a “pass through” grantmaking organization that funds advocacy and direct-services groups working on reproductive issues—especially those that advocate for increased access to abortion for minority groups—and transgender interests. History and Background The Groundswell Fund focuses on increasing access to low-cost or government-funded abortions, contraception, midwifery, and
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Political Party/527
The Greater Wisconsin Committee is a liberal and Democratic Party-aligned advocacy organization that focuses on supporting left-progressive candidates in Wisconsin elections, in which it is consistently one of the largest spenders. The group is funded by various left-leaning organizations, most prominently labor unions, and is best known for funding attack
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Non-profit
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a nonprofit think-tank founded in 1972 by Willy Brandt, at the time West German Chancellor and leader of the left-progressive Social Democratic Party (SDP).
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Non-profit
Free Speech For People is a left-of-center advocacy group that supports expanding campaign finance regulations, including constitutional amendments to limit campaign spending by private individuals and organizations. 1 Free Speech For People was founded
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Non-profit
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) provides legal representation to death row prisoners in Alabama where no public funding existed for their defense. It was founded by Bryan Stevenson, author of the book and film Just Mercy.
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Political Party/527
Emerge America (EA) is a left-of-center candidate training organization that vets and prepares female Democrats who aspire to run for local, state, and federal offices. The organization conducts training to prepare and assist female candidates who choose to run within two to three years of the training. The group was
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Non-profit
The Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) is a national umbrella group for 58 pro-organized labor research organizations. EARN’s website contains a database of research papers produced by its members. EARN is a project of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a left-of-center research organization closely affiliated with labor unions.
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Non-profit
Drug Policy Alliance is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that advocates for total drug decriminalization and uses identity politics as a basis for determining how it wants drug law enforcement spending to be repurposed. 1
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Non-profit
The Commonwealth Fund is a health care policy-focused private foundation. It funds research on and advocacy for health care systems, frequently taking a left-of-center perspective on state intervention in the medical system
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Non-profit
Citizen Works (CW) is a left-of-center organization founded by Ralph Nader. It trains activists to promote ranked-choice voting, the elimination of the Electoral College, defunding the police, reducing the number of prisons, and replacing oil and atomic energy with weather-dependent sources.
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Labor Union
Change to Win (CtW) is a federation of labor unions and “strategic organizing center” closely associated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). It was initially created in 2005 when seven former AFL-CIO affiliated labor unions defected to form their own
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Non-profit
CASA de Maryland (also called CASA) is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) immigration advocacy organization that helps immigrants, most often of Central American extraction, find employment, regardless of their legal status in the United States. CASA’s executive director has told workers he will never turn their names over to federal immigration officials.
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Non-profit
The California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) is the state-level affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG) in California. It is a member of the federation of state left-of-center advocacy groups known as “PIRGs” under the Public Interest Network, a larger federation of left-liberal organizations.
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Non-profit
The left-progressive Alliance for Youth Organizing (AFYO) is the successor of the Bus Foundation Civic Fund founded by Mathew Singer to activate youth voting for left-of-center candidates and issues. It is the sister organization of the left-of-center Alliance for Youth Action (AFYA). Backed with funding from left-of-center foundations and
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Non-profit
The Brookings Institution is an American think tank aligned with the political establishment which conducts research and policy analysis on foreign policy, metropolitan policies, and economics. The Institution has its main office in Washington, D.C. and satellite offices in Doha, Qatar; Beijing, China; and New Delhi, India. The Institution’s predecessor
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Non-profit
The Atlantic Advocacy Fund is a Delaware-based left-of-center 501(c)(4) pass-through nonprofit associated with Atlantic Philanthropies, a Bermuda-based foundation which makes grants in the United States. Funding Between 2007 and 2015, Atlantic Philanthropy’s 501(c)(4) Atlantic Advocacy Fund provided a series of grants toward several Tides Advocacy projects and
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Non-profit
Association for Union Democracy (AUD) is a pro-union advocacy group focused on improving the internal governance of American labor unions. 1 AUD was founded in 1969 by
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Non-profit
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a left-of-center, Quaker-related organization that supports left-progressive policy on immigration, criminal justice, and economic issues. AFSC has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy and advocated for several left-wing policies, including abolishing all prisons, defunding law enforcement organizations, and eliminating funding for
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Political Party/527
America Coming Together (ACT) was a liberal political action committee founded in 2003 dedicated to preventing President George W. Bush from being re-elected in 2004. Billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, Progressive Insurance executive Peter Lewis, and a number of left-of-center organizations joined to form ACT and the Media
