Search results for ‘rockefeller fund’


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    National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE)

    The National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE) is a center-left ecumenical organization that advocates for liberal environmental policies. Funding Donors to NRPE FoundationAmountYearGrant Description PB and K Family Foundation$10,0002017General support Wallace Global Fund II$40,0002016Project support for Climate Movement building work Kendeda Fund$75,0002014Charitable event Mertz Gilmore Foundation$50,0002012Strengthening Consensus Program and
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    Government Accountability Project (GAP)

    Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a nonprofit organization that investigates allegations of government corruption and whistleblower cases. It primarily serves as an advocate for whistleblowers, both from the corporate world and from the government. GAP has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
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    Garrison Institute

    Garrison Institute is a retreat center that provides education and performs research on meditative contemplation and how it can be applied to social activism. It offers programs and retreats in its Garrison, New York location that cover the connection of contemplation and “mindfulness” with left-of-center social issues such as environment
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    Friends Committee on National Legislation

    The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) is an activist and lobbying organization associated with the Religious Society of Friends (also known as the Quakers) that advocates for a broad range of left-of-center policies, economic programs, and social causes. The committee was founded in 1943 by members of the Religious
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    Florida Institute for Health Innovation

    The Florida Institute for Health Innovation (formerly known as the Florida Public Health Institute) is a tax-exempt charitable organization based in West Palm Beach, Florida. It performs community-level health research throughout Southeast Florida and claims to provide impartial analysis of healthcare issues for the purpose of impacting public policy.
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    Corporate Accountability International

    Corporate Accountability International is a left-wing advocacy organization founded in 1977 to lead a boycott of Nestlé after it ran a marketing campaign for infant formula that contributed to the deaths of children.
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    Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN)

    The Chesapeake Climate Action Network, is the Capital Area chapter of U.S. Climate Action Network and Climate Action Network-International (CAN-I).  It was founded in July 2002 with a seed grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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    Center for International Environmental Law

    The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded in 1989 in the United States. CIEL has opposed the use of carbon emitting fuels; opposed the use of carbon free nuclear power; and opposed the deployment of carbon capture technology. CIEL supports the
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    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

    The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a foreign policy think tank founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie. It notes that it has a network of more than 150 “experts” who have “served in nearly every administration since the endowment’s founding.”
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    Asia Society

    Asia Society is a New York City-based international nonprofit with a focus on left-of-center topics such as sustainability 1 and climate policy in U.S.-Asia relations.
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    National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)

    The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) is a left-of-center group which advocates for policies and culture favorable to transgender people and other gender-non-conforming people. It currently has about 20 staff members. 1
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    Family Values @ Work

    Family Values at Work (stylized Family Values @ Work or FV@W) is a left-of-center, labor union-funded advocacy organization that provides programming support for coalitions in various states pushing to expand government-mandated paid leave programs. 1
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    Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)

    The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a large and prominent advocacy organization for Muslims in the United States.1 Throughout its history, CAIR has been suspected of supporting
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    American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nearly 100-year-old left-leaning activism organization focused on issues related to civil liberties. During its history, the ACLU has aligned with the ideological Left, becoming a “hub of liberal activism” which declared its intent to spend $25 million attacking Republican candidates during the
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    Rachel Pritzker

    Rachel Pritzker Hunter is the president and founder of the Pritzker Innovation Fund. 1 She is a member of the Pritzker political family of billionaires
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    Patricia Bauman

    Patricia Bauman is a philanthropist and president of the Bauman Family Foundation, 1 a foundation funder of major left-wing organizations such as the Brennan Center for Justice,
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    Joanie Bronfman

    Joanie Bronfman is a longtime left-wing academic and philanthropic consultant. As a member of the board of directors of the Tides Foundation, she has had an enormous influence on left-wing philanthropy.
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    Anne Bartley

    Anne Bartley is a left-of-center activist and funder who was involved in the creation and leadership of numerous liberal advocacy organizations including America Votes, the Threshold Foundation, Democracy Alliance, and Committee on States.
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    Hoover Institution

    The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a think tank that is a division of Stanford University. The organization began as an archive that includes a great many documents dealing with the history of the Soviet Union, as well as the papers of prominent right-of-center intellectuals, including those
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    UPS Foundation

    The UPS Foundation is the corporate foundation of United Parcel Service. The foundation supports the United Way, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, charities in the Atlanta area and, increasingly, organizations that support minorities, women, and the environment. In addition, the foundation provides in-kind donations of shipping and logistical