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Maryland United for Peace and Justice is a left-of-center state-level advocacy organization that functions as an advocacy and education network that works on various issues such as environmentalism, left-progressive social policy, and pacificism. The organization runs and sponsors numerous events and groups including conferences, fundraisers, businesses and other advocacy organizations.
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People Demanding Action is a left-of-center network of activists that focused on economic issues, climate change, voting rights, and left-progressive social policy with an aim to securing liberal victories in elections. 1 It
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Arnold Ventures is a for-profit philanthropy. For more information, see the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (Nonprofit) Arnold Ventures is a center-left philanthropy founded in early 2019 by liberal donors Laura and John Arnold. Arnold Ventures is a for-profit limited liability company (LLC) and its creation represents a
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The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center is a left-leaning advocacy organization focused particularly on non-violent social change. 1 It has provided fiscal sponsorship services to numerous other
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The Socially Responsible Investment Coalition (SRIC) is a left-of-center, faith-based organization which aims to promote left-of-center “environmental, social, and corporate governance” (ESG) policy through exerting shareholder influence in major businesses. The SRIC is a member of the powerful Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and consists of over
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The Priests of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic clerical religious congregation, comprised of both priests and male religious. The order has 457 houses in 40 countries with over 2,000 members, about 1,590 of whom are priests.
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Newground Social Investment is a social purpose corporation dedicated to left-of-center social impact and “environmental, social, and corporate governance” (ESG) investing. Newground acts primarily through shareholder resolutions, encouraging corporations to adopt left-of-center policies, specifically on climate and corporate governance. History Bruce Herbert, the chief executive officer of Newground, founded
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For-profit
Investor Voice is a “shareholder engagement” company that works on behalf of investors to advocate for left-leaning environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies at a corporate level. Investor Voice develops and presents shareholder proposals, negotiates with businesses, and can be hired to lobby Congress and the Securities and
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Benedictine Sisters of Boerne is a religious organization that has been heavily involved in left-of-center corporate engagement since 1982. The Sisters joined the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) in 1990, and are a founding member of the Texas Coalition for Responsible Investment (CRI). The Sisters have filed resolutions
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Non-profit
The New York Communities Organizing Fund Incorporated (NYCOFI) is a left-of-center fundraising group that advocates for laws to restrain landlords from evicting tenants even if rent has not been paid.
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Person
See Also: BlackRock, Inc. (For-Profit) Larry Fink is the co-founder, CEO, and Board Chairman of BlackRock, the world’s largest money management firm, where he has worked since 1988. 1 Fink is known for left-leaning politics,
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See Also: Larry Fink (Person) BlackRock is the world’s largest investment management company, with nearly $7.5 trillion in managed assets as of January 2020.
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The Women in Migration Network (WIMN), formerly the Women and Global Migration Working Group, is an advocacy organization formed to promote the rights of female refugees and migrants. 1 WIMN pushes for various left-of-center
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Inter-American Dialogue, also operating under the name The Dialogue, is a left-of-center foreign policy think tank that pushes for both left-of-center and right-of-center policies in Latin-America. 1 Inter-American Dialogue focuses on four program areas: Education, Energy, Climate Change & Extractive Industries,
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Novara Media is a British far-left media company that claims to report on address “issues that are set to define the 21st century,” which include the “crisis of capitalism,” racism, and climate change. The company writes “output actively intends to feed back into political action,” rather than moderate a debate
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Person
David Blood is a co-founder and senior partner of Generation Investment Management (GIM), a London-based “sustainable” investment fund which bases its $25.1 billion portfolio on an environmentalist ideological outlook and the “environment, social responsibility, and corporate governance” (ESG) investment philosophy. Blood, who was a long-time executive at Goldman Sachs, is
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The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) is a state government agency that manages pension and health benefits for public school educators in California. It relies on environmental-social-governance (ESG)-related investing for most of its funding. Despite currently having an investment portfolio value of approximately $243.2 billion,
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Non-profit
The Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi is an order of Catholic sisters that work in the Franciscan tradition, which emphasizes community life and charitable works in the world. 1 Like
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Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) is an American nonprofit progressive political advocacy organization. Founded in 1996, the organization bills itself as “the strategy center for the progressive movement.” 1 The organization signed a petition
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The Tioga Fund is a left-leaning lobbying and advocacy organization that engages on climate change, left-progressive women’s issues, electoral process issues, and civil liberties. It has been identified as working with the Democracy Alliance