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The Bia-Echo Foundation is a left-leaning foundation run by Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Russian-American billionaire and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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iCivics is a nonprofit digital educational platform that provides online civics education programming tailored to K-12 students. The organization was founded by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2009 and has a network of tens of thousands of teachers across 50 states. The organization claims that
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The Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy is a think tank formed in 2018 in Washington, D.C. The organization is named after Reconstruction-era U.S. Rep. Joseph Hayne Rainey (R-SC), the first Black man to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Wren Winslow Wirth is the wife of former U.S. Senator Tim Wirth (D-CO) and a Democratic political activist that advocated for left-of-center environmental policies like population control, the elimination of fossil fuels,1 and the
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Wisconsin Native Vote is a voter turnout initiative of Wisconsin Conservation Voices. The initiative has been active since 2011, and it was formed out of a partnership with the Bad River Band to oppose the development of an iron-ore mine near the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin.
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The Tax Justice Network is a left-of-center network based in the United Kingdom that focuses on advocating for left-of-center tax-related policies and increases in corporate taxes worldwide. 1 It also
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Rights and Democracy NH is an advocacy group located in New Hampshire that supports left-of-center positions on the minimum wage, Medicare expansion, public education, the environment, immigration, gun control, and other social policies. It is a project of the Rights and Democracy Education Fund, a nonprofit organization, and is affiliated
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The Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy is a left-of-center, non-profit law firm and that works on climate related issues in communities located in the south of the United States. The GCCLP’s operations work through the Gulf South states of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
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ProsperUS is a coalition of left-of-center groups that advocates for increased government spending and investment in entitlement programs. It is a project of the left-of-center New Venture Fund (NVF), a pass-through funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors in Washington, D.C.
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PowWow the Vote MN is a voter registration and turnout initiative supported by Honor the Earth. 1 During the 2018 and 2020 elections, PowWow the Vote MN was active in registering Native American
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The Atlantic Council is a think tank based in Washington, D.C. that focuses on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Atlantic alliance, and international affairs. Spread across fourteen different centers worldwide, the Atlantic Council focuses on a variety of policy issues including climate change, economic development, and advocacy of
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The American Clean Power Association (Clean Power) is a left-of-center trade association that has over 1,000 member companies and 120,000 members. Clean Power advocates for a transition to an energy infrastructure that is solely reliant on environmentalist energy sources.
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Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is a libertarian public interest law firm founded in 1973 that represents clients at no charge. 1 PLF’s founders believed public interest law had drifted into supporting, rather than challenging, government
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Nebraskans for Peace is a left-of-center social advocacy organization that has historically opposed all American military efforts since the Vietnam War. Nebraskans for Peace organizes campaigns through a network of affiliated local chapters, some of which are located on college campuses. More recently, it has aligned itself in support of
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Natasha Lamb is an investment advisor who is a managing partner at Arjuna Capital, LLC, a left-of-center investment firm based in Durham, North Carolina, that specializes in activist investment strategies in environmentalist and left-of-center social policy causes. Lamb’s work centers around pressing companies to adopt left-leaning Environmental, Social,
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Bishop M. Garrison, Jr. was the senior advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) on human capital, diversity, equity, and inclusion until 2022. 1 Prior to joining the
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The Green New Deal Network is a coalition of 15 left-progressive nonprofit organizations that coordinate advocacy efforts in support of the so-called Green New Deal and similar radical environmentalist legislation. 1 The proposed
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Metropolitan Group is a public relations firm that services many left-of-center organizations, including Fair Fight, the Kresge Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Earthjustice, Interfaith Power & Light, Trust for America’s Health, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Power to Decide.
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John Kerry is a former U.S. Senator, presidential candidate, and U.S. Secretary of State. Kerry is currently the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate under President Joe Biden. Special Envoy Kerry’s politics have been assessed in the past as on the left wing of the Democratic Party.
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Isra Hirsi is an anti-capitalist climate change activist who is the daughter of left-wing U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN). She was a co-founder and executive director of the Youth Climate Strike organization that now appears to be defunct. Career In 2019 Hirsi cofounded the left-of-center environmental activist group
