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Non-profit
Americans for Financial Reform is a left-of-center political alliance of 200 left-leaning organizations seeking stricter regulations on the financial industry. It is a project of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR).
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Non-profit
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a controversial watchdog of extremist groups. It has been criticized for its financial practices and for characterizing non-violent conventional conservative organizations as equivalent to violent extremists. SPLC was co-founded in 1971 by Morris Dees, a lawyer and direct marketing expert and fellow
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Non-profit
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC or ROC-United) is one of the nation’s most prominent “worker centers,” labor-union-like organizations backed by union organizing know-how and left-of-center foundation funding. An outgrowth of a mutual-aid organization for the surviving unionized employees of the Windows on the World restaurant destroyed in the September 11th
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Non-profit
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) was formed in 1981 to analyze federal budget issues, focusing largely on how budget decisions affect Americans with low incomes. The group pursues “federal and state policies designed both to reduce poverty and inequality and to restore fiscal responsibility in equitable and
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Non-profit
For more information, see Tides Nexus The Tides Center is a left-of-center nonprofit created to manage the fiscal sponsorship services of its “sister” organization, the Tides Foundation. Both groups are part of the Tides Nexus of pass-through and fiscal sponsorship nonprofits based in San Francisco, California.
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Non-profit
The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) organization involved in voter mobilization and policy development. The center’s stated mission is “to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions.” CPD has opposed the use of zero carbon
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Non-profit
Also see SourceWatch (other group) The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a Wisconsin-based left-wing media, opposition research, and agitation group. CMD has its origins in the anti-corporate and conspiratorial career of its founder John Stauber and his co-author Sheldon Rampton. While Stauber headed CMD, he and Rampton
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Non-profit
The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a liberal Washington, D.C.-based think tank with strong ties to the Democratic Party establishment created in 2003 as the left-of-center alternative to the right-leaning Heritage Foundation. Since its founding, the organization has exerted significant influence within the American political left. The organization
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Justice. Nominations and Appointments Kristen Clarke is Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. Clarke was most recently the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Energy. Nominations and Appointments Shalanda H. Baker is Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she had previously served as Deputy Director for Energy Justice. Prior
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Government Agency
The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
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Non-profit
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) Action Fund is an environmentalist lobbying group organization whose mission is to fight global warming on a policy level, through opposition to fossil fuels in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. It is the advocacy arm of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a 501(c)(3).
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Non-profit
The Johnson Family Foundation is a New York City-based left-of-center private grantmaking organization. It is also known as the Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson foundation. Until 2000, the foundation’s giving was oriented more towards education and religious philanthropic causes. But since then, the foundation has become a major contributor
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Non-profit
The Oak Hill Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia. 1 The Oak Hill Fund was established in 2001 as a 501(c)(3) organization from the division
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Non-profit
Environmental Law Institute (ELI) is a left-of-center environmentalist legal advocacy organization. ELI runs a judicial education program to teach judges left-of-center climate policy 1 and an environmental justice initiative to teach the far-left concept of
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Non-profit
Coming Clean Inc. (formerly the Environmental Health Fund) is a Vermont-based left-of-center environmentalist advocacy organization that supports increased regulation and taxation of businesses involved in product production and state funding of plastic-to-plastic recycling programs favored by environmentalists. Background The Environmental Health Fund, the predecessor organization to Coming Clean, was founded
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Non-profit
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network, is the Capital Area chapter of U.S. Climate Action Network and Climate Action Network-International (CAN-I). It was founded in July 2002 with a seed grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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Other Group
The Fair Budget Coalition (FBC) is a project of the Social Good Fund devoted to advocating for left-of-center tax policy in Washington D.C., including higher taxes on the rich, more tax credits for low-income earners, and an income-graduated fine system. A 2023 letter from FBC to the District’s Tax
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Other Group
National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) was Canada’s first and largest national women’s organization and operated from 1971 to 2007.
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Person
Yanis Varoufakis is a radical-left Greek economist and politician who served as Greece’s finance minister in 2015. 1 Varoufakis
