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Non-profit
National Housing Trust (NHT) is a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. focused on low-income housing preservation through real estate development, lending, and housing-policy advocacy. NHT develops and maintains renewable energy solutions for low-income housing properties to support a left-of-center environmental agenda and provides programs and solutions to the low-income communities
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Non-profit
Our Children’s Trust is a left-of-center “public interest” litigation group which has filed lawsuits on behalf of children and young adults in court to secure “systemic, science-based emissions reductions and climate recovery policy at all levels of government.”
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For-profit
Hilltop Public Solutions (HPS) is a left-of-center political consulting firm that manages Democratic political and left-of-center advocacy campaigns.1 The company’s clients have included the campaigns of former President Barack Obama, 2016 Democratic
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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
The Earth Island Institute is a left-of-center environmentalist organization that supports the preservation of federal forests and animals inhabiting federal forests. 1 The Earth Island Institute is openly opposed to the existence of the federal Bureau of Land Management’s
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Non-profit
The Pew Charitable Trusts is a public charity formed in 2003 from the merger of seven foundations created by the Pew family, which made its money in the oil business. It operates the Pew Research Center as a subsidiary. Originally founded as the family foundation of conservative- and Republican-leaning
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Non-profit
The Chrest Foundation is an Irving, Texas-based private grantmaking foundation that serves as the giving vehicle for investors Jeff Jensen and Lou Anne King Jensen. The nonprofit supports causes such as left-leaning criminal justice policy, left-of-center environmental causes, and Turkish nonprofits.
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Non-profit
The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation is a grantmaking nonprofit that supports organizations in the Chicago area and the South Carolina lowlands. The foundation was historically focused on conservation and arts, but has shifted its funding to supporting racial and ethnic minorities since 2016. Background The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley
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Non-profit
NorthLight Foundation (previously the Dan and Sheryl Tishman Family Foundation) is a left-of-center environmentalist grantmaking fund. It was founded in 2011 by real estate heir Daniel Tishman and his wife Sheryl with an endowment from the John L. Tishman Fund, which was originally established to support “education and scholarship.”
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Other Group
U.S. Nature 4 Climate is the United States-branch of the international Nature 4 Climate Initiative, which is based in London and collaborates with international left-of-center environmentalist groups and the United Nations Environment Programme to promote left-of-center environmental policies. Both Nature 4 Climate and U.S. Nature 4 Climate are projects
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Non-profit
The Catena Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation founded by Sam R. Walton, a member of the Walton family and the grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton. The foundation was formed in 2016 and maintained a low profile in the first eight years of its existence by not maintaining
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Non-profit
Community Partners is a grantmaking organization and incubator committed to left-of-center political causes. It contributes funds to independent organizations but also acts as the fiscal sponsor to groups, providing them with operations and strategies. Activities Community Partners welcomes organization leaders or activists looking to start new left-of-center advocacy groups to
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Nominations and Appointments Tommy Beaudreau was formerly Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Prior to joining the Biden Administration, he was a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, and before that
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Non-profit
Rewiring America is a left-of-center group that advocates a massive government mobilization of society, on par with World War II, to dramatically remake the American economy and end the use of oil and natural gas, replacing them with environmentalist energy sources. Rewiring America is a project of the Windward
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Non-profit
The Bright Horizon Foundation is a private grant-making foundation that supports environmentalist organizations and ostensibly non-partisan groups which are closely aligned with left-progressive and Democratic Party positions on education, increased welfare spending, and foreign policy. Former hedge fund manager
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Non-profit
The Kohlberg Foundation is a private family foundation founded by private equity billionaire Jerome Kohlberg and his wife Nancy in 1989, based in Mt. Kisco, New York. The foundation provides grants to numerous left-of-center organizations, focused on legal policy related to health programs, the environment, and education.
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Non-profit
The McKnight Foundation is a Minnesota-based foundation that funds many programs and organizations, including numerous left-of-center advocacy groups. Among the programs the foundation invests in are the arts, education, environmentalist programs, and international development. Most of the donations to domestic programs are towards programs and initiatives in the Midwest. Overview
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Person
Doug Hattaway is a Democratic Party consultant who has worked in a variety of press and communications roles for prominent elected Democrat politicians since the 1990s. Hattaway is involved on the board of directors for a number of left-of-center nonprofits, including the 501(c)(4) funding and fiscal sponsorship group Sixteen Thirty
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Non-profit
Gold Bay Foundation is a grantmaking organization which issues grants to pro-abortion, environmentalist organizations, and supports many investigative journalism organizations which report exclusively on conservative leaning organizations. The organization does not have an online presence despite making considerable contributions to left-of-center organizations, totaling $1,330,200 in 2017.
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Non-profit
The Turner Foundation is a grantmaking nonprofit associated with the family of billionaire media executive Ted Turner. The Foundation primarily supports environmental conservation efforts, but also contributes to left-of-center environmental advocacy groups. Among the Foundation’s initial goals was “developing practices and policies to curb population growth rates,” a long-running
