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Person
Favianna Rodriguez is an artist and left-of-center social activist. Her initial focus was in supporting immigration and free services to illegal migrants. She has since expanded her art and advocacy to include climate, economic equality, sexual liberation, and women’s rights.
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Person
Josh Silver is a left-of-center activist and co-founder and director of Represent.Us, an organization advocating for substantial restrictions on campaign advocacy with both 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) advocacy components. Silver also previously founded and led Free Press, a socialist-aligned media advocacy organization. Represent.Us Josh Silver founded Represent.Us in
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Legislation
The Taft-Hartley Act (known formally as the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947) is a set of amendments to the federal National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) passed after the Second World War to promote industrial peace and correct the pro-organized-labor bias of the New Deal-era Wagner Act (the un-amended
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Non-profit
Citizens Climate Education (CCE) is an environmentalist advocacy organization affiliated with the lobbying group Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL). CCE promotes a carbon tax scheme as its primary solution to climate change, which it refers to as a “carbon fee and dividend.”
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Non-profit
American Library Association, established in 1876, is a nonprofit organization that advocates for legislation that improves libraries in America. The organization has a left-of-center approach to public policy, sponsoring the annual “Banned Books Week” to criticize largely unsuccessful social-conservative efforts to remove books from library shelves and engaging in advocacy
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The Packard Humanities Institute is an organization that funds preservation activities in archaeology, literature, music, and film. It was spun off from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in 1999. History In 1999, the three daughters of David Packard, the technology industry businessman and Nixon administration official who founded
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Non-profit
The National Geographic Society is a research and exploration nonprofit best known for publishing National Geographic magazine. Founded in 1888, the Society rose to prominence due to the quality of its research, travel stories, and photography, amassing millions of subscribers for its magazine and eventually branching into other commercial interests.
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Not to be confused with Demand Progress Action (PAC) Demand Progress Action (DPA) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for policies relating to foreign policy and civil liberties.
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The David H. Koch Charitable Foundation is the philanthropic vehicle of the late David H. Koch, who owned 42 percent of the shares of privately held Koch Industries, an industrial conglomerate. Koch willed his shares to his widow, Julia Koch, and their three children. Forbes estimated in 2022 that the
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Labor Union
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is a labor union that historically represented miners, though today it also counts health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers, and government employees among its members. UMWA is a member of the AFL-CIO labor federation. History Early Years United Mine Workers of America
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Non-profit
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an invitation-only think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. 1
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (known as the Wilson Center), located in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential Memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968. The Wilson Center says it wants to maintain a forum for informed dialogue,
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Other Group
American Indian Movement is a Native American activist organization that was originally founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1968 1 to address poverty and policing issues associated with Native Americans who moved to Minneapolis as
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Non-profit
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a membership society that hosts programs and publishes scientific studies in the United States. Established by a Congressional charter in 1863, NAS operates as an independent nonprofit organization that advises the federal government on scientific issues and conducts studies on its behalf.
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Non-profit
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is a private foundation created by tobacco heiress Doris Duke. The Foundation funds causes associated with the arts, preservation of Duke family properties, healthcare in Africa, and environmentalist land-preservation efforts. History The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation was created by Doris Duke (1912-1993), the only child
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Non-profit
The National Audubon Society is an environmentalist nonprofit ostensibly dedicated to the protection of American birds. The Society consists of nearly 500 chapters across the United States, each of which is an independent nonprofit affiliated with the national Society. The Audubon Society was founded in the 19th century to protect
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Non-profit
Population Connection is a left-leaning nonprofit advocacy group that supports global population control policies. The organization was founded in 1968 as Zero Population Growth by environmentalist and population control activist Paul Ehrlich directly following the publication of his controversial 1968 book, The Population Bomb. The organization affirms that population
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Person
Dustin Aaron Moskovitz is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes. In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana with Justin Rosenstein. Moskovitz and his wife, former Wall Street Journal reporter Cari Tuna, are the founders
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Non-profit
Also see Tides Nexus The Tides Foundation is a major center-left grantmaking organization and a major pass-through funder to numerous left-leaning nonprofits. The San Francisco, California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit was founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, a professional political activist who has since retired from the organization, to funnel
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Non-profit
For more information, see Tides Nexus The Tides Center is a left-of-center nonprofit created to manage the fiscal sponsorship services of its “sister” organization, the Tides Foundation. Both groups are part of the Tides Nexus of pass-through and fiscal sponsorship nonprofits based in San Francisco, California.
