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The Global Greengrants Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports community-based attempts to combat climate change and promote local environmentalist efforts. The Fund gives out small grants, typically between $500 and $5000, to left-of-center groups that have difficulty obtaining other avenues of funding. The Fund focuses on so-called “environmental
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Food and Water Action Fund (FWW) is the 501(c)(4) lobbying arm of the environmentalist nonprofit Food and Water Watch. The organization engages voters, lobbies lawmakers, and participate in a variety of functions of political advocacy.
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The Democracy Initiative Education Fund (DIEF) is the nonprofit arm of the Democracy Initiative, a major left-progressive advocacy group coalition. DIEF has received grants and contributions from major left-of-center foundations including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Proteus Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
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The Wallace Global Fund is a major private foundation controlled by the family of former U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace that funds left-of-center “activities and movements that are global or national in scope.” 1 Areas in
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The Proteus Fund is a center-left “pass-through” funder and donor-advised fund provider. Since the Fund’s creation in 1995, Proteus has routed hundreds of millions of dollars from major grantmaking foundations and anonymous donors on the Left to activist groups targeting issues including legalizing same-sex marriage, reducing religious freedom to dissent
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PeoplesHub is a left-of-center, critical race theory-aligned networking and training organization fiscally sponsored by the Social Good Fund. Background PeoplesHub is a digital networking and training organization fiscally sponsored by the Social Good Fund, a left-of-center nonprofit and donor-advised fund provider based in Richmond, California, that fiscally sponsors
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Blue Heart Action is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that solicits small-dollar donations and reimburses them to local groups in the San Francisco, California, and Seattle, Washington, metropolitan areas. 1 It is a fiscally
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Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action is a movement of American Jews promoting left-of-center climate policy that was organized in 2020. Dayenu organized get-out-the-vote campaigns in key states in 2020 and 2022 and conducts political organizing through more than 100 Dayenu Circles, small groups of activists throughout the country.
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Turnout Nation is a get-out-the vote advocacy organization that focuses on peer-to-peer persuasion to increase voter turnout. 1 Though the organization claims to be nonpartisan, it is managed by self-described democratic socialist Kendall Lareau, a
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West Virginia Watch is an online news outlet located in Charleston, West Virginia launched by States Newsroom. It reports on West Virginia state politics and policies focusing on left-of-center issues such as criminal justice, education, health, labor, the environment, and energy.
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Wisconsin Examiner is an online news outlet located in Madison, Wisconsin launched by States Newsroom. It reports on Wisconsin state politics and policies focusing on left-of-center issues in areas such as civil rights and immigration, education, and the environment.
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The Washington State Standard is a nonprofit news outlet located in Olympia, Washington and launched by States Newsroom. It reports on Washington state politics and policies focusing on left-of-center issues such as housing, homelessness, environment, and criminal justice, and ensures that racial and ethnic minority communities are represented.
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San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) is one of the largest and oldest community-based AIDS service organizations in the United States, formed in 1982 at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.
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The Servant Foundation is a Christian nonprofit most known for launching the “He Gets Us” campaign, which included Super Bowl advertisements in 2023 and 2024.
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The Northwest Health Foundation II is the charitable arm of the left-of-center Northwest Health Foundation and was created to act as a donor-advised fund provider affiliated with its sister organization.
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The Northwest Health Foundation is a left-of-center organization that makes grants to organizations based in Washington and Oregon. It uses the guise of promoting health to make grants to local organizations that seek to advance social policies in alignment with critical race theory, while using the identity politics concept of
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The Investigative Project on Race and Equity is a Chicago-based organization that trains ethnic-minority journalists to conduct data-focused investigative reporting focused on race. Founded in 2023,
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The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust is a right-leaning watchdog organization. 1 The organization launched in 2012 as the Free Market American Educational Foundation.
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Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK) is a research and policy advocacy organization focused on patent laws. It claims that pharmaceutical companies keep drug prices high by gaming the patent system and publishes patent data and reports to support these claims. I-MAK is funded by several left-of-center philanthropies including
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Results for America is a policy advocacy group that aims to influence government workers and politicians to adopt programs it asserts will lead to more equitable outcomes. It subscribes to the left-of-center doctrine of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory-influenced concepts, such as systemic racism.
