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The ICA Fund, formerly known as Inner City Advisors, is a community development fund based in Oakland, California. 1 Founded in 1996, ICA Fund offers
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America Works USA is a union-funded affiliate of the Democratic Governors Association that engages in political advocacy to support Democratic Party governors and gubernatorial candidates, as well as labor union policy priorities at the state level.
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Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR) is a nonprofit that encourages and assists American universities in hosting refugees. Over 200 refugees have been hosted by ECAR chapters at schools since 2015. 1 ECAR’s
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Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) is a research laboratory located within Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center for the Study of Information Technology that is focused on the concepts of “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
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Leonard A. Leo is the co-chairman of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. 1 Leo is perhaps most notable for playing a role in the confirmation of six right-leaning justices of
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Global Coalition for Tech Justice (GCTJ) is an advocacy group that promotes censorship and regulation in the name of protecting democracy. Global Coalition for Tech Justice is convened by Digital Action. 1 Digital Action
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Alliance for the Great Lakes is a Chicago, Illinois-based environmentalist nonprofit with a focus on the Great Lakes. In March 2021, it announced a left-of-center, identity politics influenced framework of environmental justice is its top priority.
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The Cleveland Foundation is a grantmaking foundation based in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in the 1910s, the foundation is among the largest grantmaking institutions in the United States with over $3.2 billion in assets under management and over $120 million in annual grants distributed. The foundation bills itself as the “world’s
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The Management Action Center is the sister organization of The Management Center (TMC), a left-of-center management consulting and training firm.
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Psephos is a nonprofit known for founding and managing the National Election Defense Coalition (NEDC), a bipartisan electoral watchdog that includes conservative members like Americans for Tax Reform and left-leaning members like the Brennan Center for Justice. NEDC has also included libertarian members in the past, like
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The Democracy Funders Network (DFN) is a collaboration initiative for left-leaning grantmakers. Members of the network coordinate their philanthropic efforts and identify causes in which to invest their money. Causes that DFN and its members support include the perceived threat of right-leaning populist movements and the alleged need to restructure
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Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) is a judicial institute within Georgetown University Law Center 1 that uses litigation to advance various left-of-center policy priorities.
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Bank Black USA advocates for increasing the number and influence of Black-owned financial institutions. The group claims that Black Americans are disadvantaged in access to banking services and in bank ownership, and that these disparities are the result of discrimination on a structural level in both the industry and in
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Eric Bronner is a co-founder and the chief operating officer of Veterans for Political Innovation, an election administration advocacy group that supports open primaries, ranked-choice voting, and other changes to election procedures. Bronner claims not to align with either of the two major political parties and has claimed that electoral
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Third Act Initiative (Third Act) is a left-of-center advocacy group that organizes elderly volunteers to protest and campaign for environmentalist policies as well as eliminating election integrity laws. It supports a total transition to environmentalist energy and has organized campaigns that allege voter identification laws only exist to prevent an
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The Stamp Stampede was an activist project that aimed to promote left-of-center policies on taxation, welfare programs, campaign financing, criminal justice, and other issues, primarily by recruiting volunteers to stamp political slogans on dollar bills and releasing them into circulation. The project’s organizers described their money-stamping campaign as a “sustained
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Justice For All Michigan is a left-of-center political advocacy organization that was launched to support the election of two Democratic nominees for the Michigan Supreme Court, Richard Bernstein and Kyra Harris Bolden, in the 2022 elections.
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Protect Our Votes is a left-of-center group that focuses on issues related to election security. It primarily researches election results and is connected to other left-of-center groups such as Scrutineers, March for Our Lives, and Democracy Labs.
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Validate the Vote USA is an advocacy organization which recruits volunteers to review printouts of vote count totals from voting machines at polling locations—commonly referred to as poll tapes—after elections. The organization claims that its goal is to identify mistakes and make the public increase confidence in election results.
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Northeast Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) is a fishery conservation organization based in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Besides protecting local bodies of water, the group also endorses left-of-center political initiatives and works with left-of-center advocacy partners. Background Northeast Atlantic Marine Alliance was founded in 1995 by fishermen from New England to protect the
