Search results for ‘american civil liberties union’


  • Non-profit

    Empire Justice Center

    The Empire Justice Center is a New York-based nonprofit advocacy group and litigation firm. It supports federally subsidized housing, LGBT causes, increased access to legal services for immigrants, and increased access to supplemental security income programs. It also supports the NAACP, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the
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    Women in Law Section (WILS)

    The Women in Law Section (WILS), formerly known as the Committee on Women in the Law, is a left-of-center legal association which works in an advisory and policy advocacy role for litigators, especially those dealing with issues of gender equality and women’s issues. WILS is a subgroup of the New
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    The Knowledge House (TKH)

    The Knowledge House (TKH) is an education nonprofit based in the South Bronx which provides technology-focused training, fellowships, and internships to children and young adults from low-income communities. The organization seeks to prepare students with skills to obtain good-paying jobs in the tech sector, with upward mobility and opportunity.
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    Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR)

    The Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR) is a Boston-based affiliate of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USPCR). USPCR is a nationwide network of left-of-center activists and pressure groups pushing to limit Israel’s political and military influence over neighboring territories and limit U.S. support for the Jewish state.
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    MyJIhad Inc.

    MyJIhad Inc. was a public relations and outreach campaign designed to counter both anti-Muslim sentiment as well as Muslim extremism. 1 The organization was founded as a project of CAIR-Chicago, the Chicago branch of the
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    Mellen Foundation

    The Mellen Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation based in Connecticut. The foundation rewards grants to organizations that advocate for abortion access, 1 increased funding for public
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    Equality New Mexico Foundation

    The Equality New Mexico Foundation is a left-of-center LGBT advocacy group that is the educational arm of Equality New Mexico. The group conducts a variety of pro-LGBT advocacy efforts and has led  pro-transgender issue campaigns while supporting other left-of-center issues such as abortion access. The group is
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    Emancipate NC

    Emancipate NC is a left-of-center activist organization of attorneys and organizers focused on eliminating what the group refers to as “structural racism and mass incarceration” through community education, litigation, and policy reform activism. Focus areas include changing the bail system, ending youth imprisonment, leveraging restorative justice to replace incarceration, and
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    Pritzker Traubert Foundation

    The Pritzker Traubert Foundation is a Chicago-based left-of-center private grantmaking foundation belonging to Obama administration Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and her husband Bryan Traubert. In 2021, the foundation donated $200,000 to the New Venture Fund.
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    Georgia Alliance Education Fund

    Georgia Alliance Education Fund is a grantmaking operation for voter mobilization groups based in Atlanta, Georgia. It aims to persuade lawmakers to implement left-of-center policies and finances other groups to do the same. It also conducts reviews of “civic engagement” organizations in state and grades the performance of community outreach
  • Other Group

    Defund Hate Coalition

    The Defund Hate Coalition, also known as the Defund Hate Campaign, is a joint project by dozens of left-wing policy and legal activist groups which pushes to end government funding and support for border-security and immigration enforcement. Instead, members of the coalition demand that these taxpayer dollars be spent on
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    Sills Family Foundation

    The Sills Family Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking foundation. The group focuses much of its grantmaking on liberal criminal justice policies, more permissive immigration policies, environmentalist issues, and other left-of-center priorities. It has expanded its giving to incorporate more members of the Sills family and has created a rapid
  • Person

    Chuck Feeney

    Chuck Feeney was an Irish-American billionaire businessman and philanthropist who made his money in duty-free retail and formed the Bermuda-based grantmaking organization Atlantic Philanthropies. Throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, Feeney anonymously gave away much of his fortune to schools, hospitals, and other philanthropic ventures in the United
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    Dorrance Dance

    Dorrance Dance is a left-wing tap dance performance nonprofit located in New York City. The group attained notice among political watchers for having appeared in a December 2023 holiday-themed musical video filmed at the White House during the Biden administration.
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    Invest in Our Future (IOF)

    Invest in Our Future (IOF) is a left-of-center philanthropic collaborative established to support the implementation of three pieces of legislation passed during the Biden administration: the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, and the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. It is a
  • Other Group

    StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department

    The StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department is a project of the pro-Israel education organization StandWithUs that provides free legal resources to people confronting antisemitic and anti-Israel activity. 1 The Legal Department investigates ethnic-studies curriculums
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    StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism

    StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism is a project of StandWithUs, a Los Angeles-based pro-Israel education organization that challenges what it claims is misinformation targeting Israel and fights against antisemitism.
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    Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

    Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation is a left-of-center grant making foundation that was founded in 1995 by Home Depot co-founder and Democratic Party donor Arthur M. Blank. 1
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    Omid Foundation

    The Omid Foundation is a women’s activist organization which works to reduce traumatic experiences for women between 15 and 25-years-old in areas of the world that speak Persian (also known as Farsi). This is achieved by training parents, educators, psychologists, and university students to consider communities’ mental health. The group
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    Encode Justice

    Encode Justice is a youth-led activist coalition pushing for governance and censorship of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and applications. It claims that AI “algorithms are being used as tools of oppression.”