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The Veterans Organizing Institute is a left-of-center training organization that provides community organizing and political advocacy training to veterans. The group is a training arm of Common Defense, a left-of-center organization that organizes veterans to support left-of-center political causes. Common Defense formed in 2016 by organizing “Vets Against Trump” protests.
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Non-profit
The Siegel Family Endowment is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation that was founded in 2011 by technology entrepreneur David M. Siegel, co-founder of financial services company Two Sigma. The foundation focuses on technology and training programs as well as funding research and development projects connected to various nonprofit organizations. The foundation
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The Public Interest Computer Association (PICA) was a technology-policy advocacy group founded in 1983 by Marc Rotenberg, who later became a leading left-of-center figure on technology privacy and policy issues. 1
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Non-profit
One Step A La Vez is a left-of-center community organization that hosts after-school programming and other programs for at-risk youth in Fillmore, California. The group’s programs, in addition to after-school programs, include behavioral health outreach and engagement, violence prevention, and intervention services. The group also conducts advocacy on left-of-center political
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Non-profit
Stand With Trans is a left-of-center transgender advocacy and activism group. This organization, founded in 2015 by the mother of a transgender child, 1 provides weblinks and resources to trans youth and their parents,
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ShareAction is a U.K.-based pressure group that uses relationships with left-leaning pension funds and other institutional investors to create shareholder activism campaigns that pressure companies around the world into adopting left-of-center environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies.
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For-profit
Persefoni is a for-profit company that specializes in providing carbon-emissions measurement and reporting software for businesses. It has been noted for having close connections to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), specifically with respect to a rule that the agency proposed in 2022 that would require companies to
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For-profit
ALLY Energy (formerly known as Pink Petro) is a for-profit networking, recruitment, and consultancy company founded by activist Katie Mehnert. It is aligned with the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) investing movement. A former networking project of the company, Lean In Network | Energy, was
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Muslim Power Building Project (MPBP) is a left-of-center community organizing initiative that creates leadership development programs for Muslims in the United States. It is a fiscally sponsored project of Faith in Action and is a collaborative effort whose partners are LA Voice (the Los Angeles chapter of Faith in
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Non-profit
The Semilla Project is an anti-capitalist advocacy organization that trains youth and adult program members to advocate for environmentalist policy at the local and state levels. It employs the identity politics concept of “intersectionality” to argue ethnic minority communities should also economically benefit from environmentalist policies.
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Non-profit
JobsWork MKE (formerly the Milwaukee Community Business Collaborative and Milwaukee JobsWork) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to create pathways to employment for those facing barriers to employment. JobsWork MKE aims to help individuals in Milwaukee’s lowest income neighborhoods become self-sufficient through consistent employment.
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Non-profit
Youth Speaks is a left-of-center art activist group in the San Francisco area focused on teacher poetry and providing venues for artistic expression to youth. Comments from the organization’s leader and the tone of various products, such as the organization’s short film series, demonstrate that the organization is left-of-center and
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The B Corp Climate Collective is a coalition of left-of-center companies with environmentalist agendas that advocates for left-of-center environmental policies worldwide. The coalition is affiliated with the nongovernmental organization B Lab. Its members are companies that are certified B Corporations or “B Corps,” a certification program operated by B
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Non-profit
The Action Lab (officially known as the Center for Law and Human Values) hosts training seminars, concerts, and other events for left of center activists. The Action Lab is closely associated with the Center for Popular Democracy, and operated under its management from 2016 to 2020. History The Action
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Non-profit
Local Progress Policy Institute trains and encourages local elected officials to advance left-of-center policies in their official roles. It is funded by labor unions and major left-of-center foundations such as the Ford Foundation, Arnold Ventures, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and includes mayors, district attorneys, county
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The AAPI Victory Alliance is an advocacy group that promotes left-leaning policies on behalf of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. It is a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Advocacy. The nonprofit targets four issues: restricting private firearm ownership, promoting climate-change narratives, combating supposed misinformation, and opposing regulations on voting.
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Assata’s Daughters is a radical-left activist group based in Chicago, Illinois that operates paid and unpaid youth advocacy training programs. 1
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Non-profit
WePower is a left-of-center community activist group focused on the St. Louis region that runs an investment fund and a small business accelerator program for the benefit of Black and Latino communities. The group claims that economic inequality is the result of “systemic oppression” and white supremacy.
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Non-profit
Los Angeles Urban League (LA Urban League) is the local chapter of the National Urban League, a left-of-center nonprofit that supports the Black Lives Matter movement, abortion rights, affirmative action, and targeted welfare spending for specific racial groups.
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Non-profit
The George W. Bush Foundation, which operates as the George W. Bush Presidential Center (shortened as the Bush Center), is a nonpartisan organization that houses the George W. Bush Presidential Museum and the George W. Bush Institute at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) campus in Dallas. The Bush Center’s mission
