Search results for ‘open knowledge foundation’


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    Black Philanthropic Alliance (BPA)

    Black Philanthropic Alliance (BPA) is a network of Black philanthropists and nonprofit leaders that work to share knowledge, offer professional development, and increase Black philanthropy and Black representation in nonprofit organizations. It is part of the Black Philanthropic Network (BPN) organized and supported by the Black philanthropy advocacy organization
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    Neville Roy Singham

    Neville Roy Singham is an American businessman and self-described socialist. He is married to Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK, a left-wing advocacy group created to oppose the 2003 Iraq War. He was a member of the Black nationalist-Maoist group League of Revolutionary Black Workers during his youth. Singham
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    Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)

    Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) is a left-of-center research, analysis, advisory, and advocacy organization and think tank headquartered in San Fransico, California. The organization focuses on influencing finance, policy, and land use, particularly in areas of climate change and environmentalist practices.
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    Syrian Legal Development Programme (SLDP)

    Syrian Legal Development Programme (SLDP) is a London-based advocacy organization that supports international organizations in Syria and engages with United Nations (UN) agencies regarding the Syrian Civil War. 1
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    StandWithUs

    StandWithUs is an international education group founded in 2001 that focuses on promoting Israel to the public. 1 The organization says it fights antisemitism and focuses on student and community educational programs on hundreds of college campuses,
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    KC Tenants

    KC Tenants is a left of center activist organization in the Kansas City area. The group mobilizes its membership of renters as activists to lobby for changes to laws and policies in the city, ranging from a renter’s bill of rights, to taking funds from the police department to pay
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    Club Z

    Club Z is an educational organization for Jewish teens to promote understanding of the role of Israel to Jewish people. 1 The organization runs bi-monthly educational meetings, speaker events, an annual retreat, and an annual
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    Effective Institutions Project (EIP)

    Effective Institutions Project (EIP) is a working group of academics, businesses, philanthropic groups, and policy makers who seek to improve the quality of decision making at institutions, especially left-of-center philanthropies. Effective Institutions Project looks at altruistic factors and technological competence along with strategy models for determining how to improve decision
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    NetGain Partnership

    NetGain Partnership is a partnership of left-of-center philanthropies and foundations that hosts events, publishes research, and trains individuals to address challenges and opportunities associated with emerging digital and technology issues. As of October 2023, NetGain Partnership’s members include the Democracy Fund, Ford Foundation, John S. and James
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    Psephos

    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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    New Jersey Ida Just Recovery Fund

    The New Jersey Ida Just Recovery Fund is a donor-advised charitable fund operated by the left-of-center Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, a collection of donor-advised funds (DAFs) that was created as a spin-ff from the  Service Employees International Union-controlled Amalgamated Bank in 2017. Amalgamated Charitable funds a number of left-of-center advocacy
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    The Management Center (TMC)

    The Management Center (TMC) is a left-of-center management consulting and training 1 firm that seeks to advance the critical race theory-influenced concept of social justice. In its programming, TMC coaching helps managers adopt far-left
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    Funders’ Initiative for Civil Society

    Funders’ Initiative for Civil Society (FICS) is a left-of-center donor affinity group that is a project of the London-based philanthropic support program Global Dialogue. 1 The initiative brings together funders to address what the organization
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    Sequoia Climate Fund

    The Sequoia Climate Foundation (also known as the Sequoia Climate Fund) is donor to left-leaning climate advocacy groups that was created in 2020 as a spinoff from the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. In a February 2023 report, Inside Philanthropy declared Sequoia was a “new giant climate change philanthropy” and
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    Al Jazeera

    Al Jazeera (sometimes written as “Aljazeera” or “Al-Jazeera”) is a Qatar-based international news outlet. The organization has been called “the emirate’s most visible export for more than two decades.
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    Los Angeles Waterkeeper

    Los Angeles Waterkeeper (LAW) is an environmental watchdog organization that conducts advocacy and litigation to support left-of-center environmentalist policies for Los Angeles-area waterways. Since its inception in 1993, LAW has filed over 100 lawsuits.
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    Platform

    Platform is a left-of-center organization that mentors “womxn” through trainings, workshops and panels, and roundtables with local startups. 1 Background Platform, also known as “Platform 4 Women,” is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. On founder Samantha Joo’s
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    Civics Center

    Civics Center is a voter registration group focused on high school students. The organization encourages state and local governments, as well as schools and nonprofits, to ease voter registration access and promote youth voting. Civics Center is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Partners,
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    Transparency International (TI)

    Transparency International (TI) is an international anti-corruption coalition of over 100 chapters worldwide that practices research, advocacy, and campaigning to expose corruption, push for greater government transparency, and lobby for anti-corruption legislation and processes. 1 It
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    Immigration Equality

    Immigration Equality is an LGBT-focused immigration advocacy group that provides legal assistance for LGBT asylum seekers. 1 The group also challenges federal immigration regulations and lobbies for liberal expansionist immigration policy.