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Planned Parenthood Federation of America, or Planned Parenthood, is an organization that provides reproductive health services and abortions both in the U.S. and abroad. In 1921, Socialist Party and American Eugenics Society member Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League. In 1942, the organization was renamed Planned Parenthood. The
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The Vivo Foundation is a left-of-center family foundation formed in 2021 by Medline Industries president Andy Mills and his wife Nancy. The foundation was funded with a $200 million bequest from Andy and Nancy Mills and focuses on funding “education equity” issues mostly in the Chicago area, making grants to
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Instituto Lab is a left-of-center political activism and advocacy organization based in Arizona that advocates for a left-of-center policies and incubates left-of-center campaigns, programs, and organizations. The group is also known as Instituto and consists of two organizations: Instituto Lab, the charitable/educational arm that operates most of the organization’s programs,
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Instituto Power is a left-of-center political activism and advocacy organization based in Arizona that advocates for left-of-center policies and incubates left-of-center campaigns, programs, and organizations. Instituto Power is the lobbying and political action arm of the Instituto organizational group, which consists of Instituto Power and Instituto Lab,
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The Pipeline Fund is an organization dedicated to training female, low-income, and racial and ethnic minority candidates to run for office in the United States. The Fund was launched with assistance from political consultancy Civitas Public Affairs
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The Alyssa Rodriguez Center (ARC) for Gender Justice is a non-profit that advocates for left-of-center policies regarding transgender issues, particularly those related to housing and incarceration assignments. It operates in New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.
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CHOICES Center for Reproductive Health is a Memphis, Tennessee-based nonprofit abortion provider. The Memphis clinic stopped performing abortions after a state-level ban on abortions took affect after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision allowed states to set policy on abortion. The group opened another abortion clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, where
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New Hampshire Bulletin is a left-of-center online news outlet and an affiliate of national news media network States Newsroom. 1 Background New Hampshire Bulletin is the 22nd offshoot
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GreenLight Fund, Inc. is a left-of-center nonprofit that makes small grants to targeted local and regional charities in 13 cities in the United States. The group was founded in 2004 by Margaret Hall, a long-time nonprofit executive in Georgia and was originally funded by John Simon, a venture capitalist who
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The Dudley Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization founded by the late Gerric “Rick” Dudley, the son Franklin Roosevelt administration official and longtime left-of-center activist Tilford Dudley.
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The Tortuga Foundation is the grantmaking foundation of the Livingston family. Though Tortuga primarily contributes to conservation groups, it gives grants to organizations that advocate for left-of-center policies, including the Environmental Integrity Project, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, and Planned Parenthood.
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Arie and Ida Crown Memorial is one of the private family foundations of the billionaire Crown family, who made their money in steel manufacturing and defense contracting.
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Black Feminist Future (BFF) on developing Black feminist activist leaders through training and pushing the Black feminist agenda through campaigns and public events. BFF focuses on building leadership among Black women, girls, and gender expansive people.
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Ariel Investments is the first Black-founded mutual fund in the U.S. and claims to be the largest minority-owned investment fund in the U.S.
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Until We Are All Free (UWAAF) is a Minnesota-based organization that promotes left-of-center criminal justice policies. The organization is led by individuals who were formerly incarcerated and supports current inmates and those who have been recently released by providing a stipend for materials in prison, connecting former inmates to jobs
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The Howard Gilman Foundation is a nonprofit grantmaking foundation located in New York City founded in 1981 by Howard Gilman, a former paper company executive and philanthropist who died in 1998 and left much of his wealth to the foundation. The foundation primarily funds arts organizations, mostly focused on arts
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Susan Pritzker is a philanthropist, feminist, and political activist focused on left-of-center issues and redistribution of wealth. She married Nicholas Pritzker, a member of the family that started Hyatt Hotels Corporation and one of America’s richest families, and has spent over 45 years involved in philanthropy and activism. In
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The Evelyn Sharp Foundation is a New York City-based private grantmaking foundation with a focus on the arts. The foundation has funded politically left-of-center arts organizations, including the Dorrance Dance company, which performed at the White House during the 2023 Christmas season and has far-left views such as prison
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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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Progress Texas Institute is a left-of-center advocacy group. It conducts research and publishes communications on healthcare laws, climate regulation, gun control, voting access, and LGBT issues. 1 Progress Texas Institute is the charitable arm of the lobbying
