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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a left-of-center organization that provides legal assistance and resources to whistleblowers who speak out about environmental issues in state and federal agencies. PEER is funded both by donations and payouts from lawsuits and settlements. Activities In September 2023, attorneys from Advocates for the West
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The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is the world’s largest nongovernmental conservation organization and ranked 20th on the 2018 Forbes list of the 100 largest U.S.-based charities. 1
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The National Wildlife Federation is one of the nation’s largest and highest-profile environmentalist organizations. In recent years, along with its associated NWF Action Fund advocacy organization, it has transitioned from being a conservation organization representing the interests of hunters and outdoor recreation enthusiasts into a left-leaning pressure group focused on
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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based activist group that uses science policy and climate change to advocate for left-of-center policies. As an activist organization, UCS began in the late 1960s with opposition to the Vietnam War and U.S. nuclear weapons testing, later coming to oppose peaceful
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Rhea Sun Suh is an environmentalist and the president and CEO of donor-advised fund Marin Community Foundation since 2021. 1 She was formerly the president of the
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Environment America is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) advocacy group comprised of multiple state organizations across the country. Environment America researches environmental issues and advocates for policies by lobbying and mobilizing the public. 1 It also engages in interviews, op-ed
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Also see Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund (nonprofit) Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is one of the nation’s largest environmentalist groups. The group has more than $180 million in assets to fund its programs and has been accused of “using baseless scare campaigns to drum up press and
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The Conservation Lands Foundation (CLF) is a left-of-center environmental activist organization that seeks to expand the United States’ National Conservation Lands 1 and operates the Stop Willow Campaign, which opposes the development of the National
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The Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce (OJC) describes itself as a global umbrella for Orthodox Jewish-owned businesses of all sizes, and in all industries. 1 New Jersey real estate developer Duvi Honig is
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Fund for New Leadership (FNL) is a left-of-center private grantmaking organization that provides three-year grant and mentorship support to individuals pinpointed as possible left-of-center social-policy change agents. Issue areas include tenants’ representation and low-income housing, contraception access, gender and racial issues, and higher education initiatives for prison inmates.
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Patagonia is an apparel company known for its activism, including donating 1 percent of its revenue to more than 1,000 nonprofits. 1 Though Patagonia is best known for supporting environmentalist causes, the company also
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Family Endeavors Inc. (Endeavors) is a “Christian community service organization” 1 that operates U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) staging centers for migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The CO2 Coalition is a right-of-center advocacy organization that educates policy makers and the general public about the importance of carbon dioxide to our lives and the U.S. economy. The Coalition intends to be part of the current discussion about climate change, including the role that humans play, climate models’
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#NoDAPL (No Dakota Access Pipeline) is a Twitter hashtag and social media campaign that supported protests and encampments attempting to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argued that the 1,172-mile-long pipeline’s construction would threaten the tribe’s drinking water and sacred sites due
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Reclaim New York is a right-leaning watchdog group that seeks to inform and engage citizens and policy makers on challenges facing the state of New York. 1
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Bighorn Audubon Society is an environmentalist organization that works to preserve the habitats and ecosystems of birds and other wildlife through public policy advocacy. 1 It is a regional chapter of the National Audubon
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Ketanji Brown Jackson is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a court considered the second-most-important federal court in the United States after the Supreme Court. Jackson attended Harvard University for undergraduate and law school and later worked at large corporate law firms.
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Tracy Stone-Manning is a left-of-center environmentalist activist and Democratic Party staffer who worked for the National Wildlife Federation. In April 2021, she was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as Director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
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The Nevada Native Vote Project (NNVP) is the Nevada chapter of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)’s Native Vote project, a Native American advocacy organization. NNVP works with the state’s 27 Native American colonies and tribes, mostly on electoral issues.
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The Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, Inc. (ITCN) is a Reno-based Native American grantmaking and activism organization founded in 1966 to serve as a large political body for small Nevada tribes. ITCN is comprised of 27 member reservations and colonies in Nevada.
