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  • Other Group

    Blue Carbon Initiative

    The Blue Carbon Initiative is a joint effort by several organizations focused on using preservation of wetlands and marshes around the world as a means towards carbon sequestration. Co-organizers of the Blue Carbon Initiative, beginning in 2015, include the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Conservation International, and the
  • Non-profit

    American Center for Justice (ACJ)

    The American Center for Justice (ACJ) is a monitoring organization that claims to promote human rights focused on the Middle East. It is supportive of Palestinians over Israelis. ACJ criticized the United States and other countries for suspending funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
  • Non-profit

    CHOICES Center for Reproductive Health

    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
  • Other Group

    New Hampshire Bulletin

    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
  • Other Group

    Nebraska Examiner

    Nebraska Examiner is a left-of-center online news outlet, and a member affiliate of the States Newsroom. 1 Like many other affiliates of States Newsroom, it is
  • Labor Union

    Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA)

    The Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) is a labor union that represents security guards and other privately employed security professionals in the United States. 1 It
  • Non-profit

    West Virginia Watch

    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.
  • Non-profit

    Wisconsin Examiner

    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.
  • Non-profit

    Washington State Standard

    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.
  • Non-profit

    Say Yes to Education

    Say Yes to Education was a nonprofit organization focused on increasing high-school and post-secondary graduation rates for urban youth by providing student support services from kindergarten through high school and post-secondary scholarships to eligible students. It was formed in 1987 by hedge fund manager George Weiss.
  • Movement

    INCITE!

    INCITE is a coalition of radical feminists of color who are dedicated to eradicating violence against women, gender-nonconforming individuals, and trans people of color. The group advocates for dismantling the policing system, contending that the “War on Terror” exacerbates violence against women of color and women in developing countries. Background
  • For-profit

    Clearlake Capital Group

    Clearlake Capital Group (also known as Clearlake) is a private investment firm based in Santa Monica, California. It is perhaps most notable for its ownership stake in Chelsea Football Club, which as of 2024 plays in the English Premier League.
  • Non-profit

    Foot Soldiers Park

    Foot Soldiers Park is a nonprofit organization that is soliciting donations in support of its plans to develop a park to memorialize events that took place during the civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama.
  • Other Group

    Lawfare Media

    Lawfare Media, known simply as Lawfare, is a legal policy website founded by law professors Robert Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittes that covers national security issues and the use of the legal system regarding political and international relations. The site features commentary from a variety of professors and legal scholars
  • Non-profit

    Committee for the Republic

    Committee for the Republic is a right-of-center anti-interventionist foreign policy advocacy group that takes a particularly strong anti-Israel stance. Committee for the Republic was founded in 2003 by John B. Henry. 1
  • Non-profit

    Brooklyn Arts Council

    The Brooklyn Arts Council is a New York City-based nonprofit that specializes in funding and supporting the arts in Brooklyn. While the group does mostly fund artists, it does occasionally fund activist groups that produce arts such as a 2021 mural painted by the left-of-center criminal justice policy group
  • Non-profit

    Hawai’i People’s Fund

    The Hawai’i People’s Fund comprises activists and donors that collaborate to provide support for Hawaii nonprofit organizations, offering grants to those advocating for LGBT interests and confronting systems of oppression such as inequality and racism. Background The Hawai’i People’s Fund (HPF) was funded in 1972.
  • Non-profit

    Asset Funders Network (AFN)

    Asset Funders Network (AFN) is an alliance of grantmaking associations that fund left-of-center causes. Its roster of members includes corporate funders such as Target Foundation and Walmart, banking groups such as Charles Schwab and Bank of America Foundation, and left-of-center grantmakers such as the Foundation for
  • Non-profit

    Water Foundation

    Water Foundation is a Sacramento, California-based left-of-center environmentalist grantmaker with a focus on water-related issues. It occasionally takes stances on non-environmental issues as well. Major donors such as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation provide funds to
  • Non-profit

    Evident Change

    Evident Change, formerly the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, is a left-of-center research nonprofit with a focus on criminal justice and child welfare issues. The group opposed the use of cash bail as a condition of pretrial release, claiming that it places an unfair burden on poor and nonwhite