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The Civitas Institute (formerly the John William Pope Civitas Institute) was a conservative public policy think tank based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Institute aimed to remove barriers to freedom, hold elected officials accountable, and increase transparency in state government and mainstream media.
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The Center for Equity and Inclusion is a left-of-center for-profit management consulting organization created in 2015 and based in Portland, Oregon. It is involved in promoting critical race theory-aligned racial ideology. 1
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Saule Omarova is a Soviet Union-born lawyer and academic specializing in banking regulations. Her views on financial reform have been characterized as far-left, including proposals to nationalize much of the private banking system. Omarova is a law professor at Cornell Law School. In November 2021, President Joe Biden announced
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People vs. Fossil Fuels is a left-of-center activist environmentalist organization that was formed in 2021 to demand far-left climate policy action from the Biden Administration. The group demands President Biden declare climate change a “national emergency”; ban all conventional energy infrastructure, leasing, and drilling projects on federal lands;
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The Linden Trust for Conservation is a private grantmaking foundation that funds left-of-center climate change activism as well as environmental conservation efforts. The organization was founded by former Goldman Sachs managing director Lawrence Linden and his wife Dana Weschler Linden as the Lawrence and Dana Linden Family Foundation.
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ESG activism refers to individuals and organizations that advocate for Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) criteria as part of evaluating business operations. ESG considerations can be employed as a basis for investment or divestment in a corporation or fund, and in activism targeting those corporations or funds. This political activism
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The Green New Deal (GND) refers to a U.S. House of Representatives resolution and various legislative proposals supported by radical environmentalist groups. While details of the “Deal” are unclear and frequently change, an attempt to estimate the cost of the plan that critics call a “radical, top-down, socialist makeover of
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at independent agencies of the United States government. Nominations and Appointments AmeriCorps Michael D. Smith is Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service). He most recently served as Executive Director of the My Brother’s
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Nominations and Appointments Pete Buttigieg is Secretary of Transportation. He is the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party’s 2020 Presidential nomination. He also formerly served as an intelligence
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Energy. Nominations and Appointments Shalanda H. Baker is Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she had previously served as Deputy Director for Energy Justice. Prior
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Janet McCabe is a lawyer and environmental activist who in 2021 was appointed the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Biden administration.
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People’s Action, the lobbying arm of the left-wing People’s Action Institute, was created when USAction, Community Organizations in Action, National People’s Action Campaign, and Campaign for America’s Future merged in 2016. 1 The
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ImpactAssets Inc. is a donor-advised fund focused on donating to nonprofits, for-profit companies, and other philanthropic funds to create positive philanthropic impacts. In 2010, ImpactAssets spun off from Calvert Impact Capital, another non-profit investment firm, under the leadership of Timothy Freundlich, Wayne Silby, and Ron Cordes. The founders worked with
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Antha Williams is a left-of-center activist who directs the environment program at the Bloomberg Family Foundation (Bloomberg Philanthropies). In her role with the foundation, Williams has directed programs aimed at eliminating all U.S. coal plants, promoting policies that would reduce personal transportation options, and preventing fishing and exploration in
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Accountable.US Action is the advocacy and political arm of Accountable.US, an environmentalist advocacy group that focuses on climate change, alleged “right-wing corruption,” and economic mobility in the United States. Accountable.US Action is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center pass-through and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the consulting
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Andrew Steer is the president of the Bezos Earth Fund, a charitable organization launched by Amazon founder and left-leaning billionaire Jeff Bezos to provide grants to environmentalist groups.
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Environmental Defender Law Center (EDLC) is a grantmaking organization that provides legal assistance and funds to environmentalist activists in developing countries that oppose business activities and laws deemed to be anti-environment. EDLC has funded projects that oppose mining, dams, and large-scale farming and that support other environmentalist causes. History Environmental
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The Clara Lionel Foundation (CLF) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2012 by popular Barbadian singer Robyn Rihanna Fenty, who performs under her middle name. 1 The CLF mainly offers disaster relief, education, and health services to countries
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Funders for Housing and Opportunity is a left-leaning funding collaborative formed in 2018 by nine of the largest left-leaning grantmaking foundations in United States. The organization is a project of the New Venture Fund, a left-of-center project incubator and funder. The organization focuses on funding affordable housing, health care,
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Fund II Foundation is the grantmaking foundation associated with Robert F. Smith, the billionaire founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners who has become the wealthiest African American in the country. The foundation’s mandate is to fund organizations that preserve African-American culture, combat human rights violations, promote outdoor education,
