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The Action Center on Race and The Economy Institute (ACRE Institute) is a left-leaning economic policy organization. It is the controlling entity of the Action Center on Race and The Economy (ACRE) a left-leaning political advocacy organization.
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Climate Interactive is an environmentalist think tank focused on climate simulation models and interactive workshops, in order to provide education on climate change policy. 1 It is a project of the New Venture Fund, a funding and
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Nikole Hannah-Jones is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine who in 2019 created and directed of the magazine’s “1619 Project.” Her lead essay for the 100-page journalistic endeavor asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved
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The Narrative Initiative is a project of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit in the Arabella Advisors network of left-progressive “dark money” organizations, that seeks to change and influence narratives surrounding issues of equity and social policy. It was founded in 2017. The Narrative Initiative was “conceived and funded”
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Justine Calma is a justice fellow for Grist, an environmentalist advocacy website which has received donations from left-leaning organizations including NEO Philanthropy, Kendeda Fund, and Surdna Foundation. She sits on the advisory board of The GroundTruth Project, a left-of-center news organization that runs Report for
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The Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) is an Atlanta-based nonprofit that promotes the adoption of local policy initiatives developed through the lens of race. It was previously known as Equity Atlanta but changed its name in 2010. PSE is an offspring of, and works with, the left-of-center PolicyLink to
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The GroundTruth Project (formerly the GroundTruth Initiative) is a 501(c)(3) left-of-center media and journalism nonprofit organization that covers local news. GroundTruth is the fiscal sponsor of Report for America, a group created in 2018 to insert left-leaning journalists into news organizations across the U.S. in order to fill “a
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West Virginia Citizen Action Education Fund (WV CAEF) is a charitable advocacy organization associated with West Virginia Citizen Action Group (WV CAG). WV CAEF signed a June 6, 2022, letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris requesting the use of executive action to
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Jee Kim is the co-founder of 18MillionRising, a center-left Asian American advocacy group. Kim previously worked as a program officer and program director for the Surdna Foundation. He is the former program officer for civic engagement and government for the Ford Foundation.
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The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) is a left-of-center advocacy group that provides training and other support resources to mid-career environmentalist activists. ELP aims to create new models for environmental leadership that would “emphasize diversity, collaboration across sectors, personal sustainability, and effective communication,” while also training new activists to “shape the
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Don Chen has been President of the Surdna Foundation since 2018. He had previously spent ten years at the Ford Foundation, most recently serving as Director of the Just Cities and Regions program.
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Sarita Gupta is a left-of-center activist who currently serves as the director of the Ford Foundation’s Future of Work(ers) program. Gupta’s radical associations include greeting the 7th National Convention of the Young Communist League.
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Fractured Atlas Productions is a New York City-based organization that fiscally sponsors artists and provides them with other business tools. Originally, the organization was a production company that produced productions for the theater; it has since shifted focus to a business service and technology organization for artists after the September
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The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) is a California-based non-profit corporation that funds California artists to support left-leaning political causes. Many of its grants focus on LGBT activism, immigrant advocacy, and left-of-center social policy. Grants in 2018 included support for a documentary film about the history of protests against police
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People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) is a left-wing “direct action” community organizing group primarily active in Buffalo, New York. The organization engages in community redevelopment issues and promotes environmentalist activism as a key to redeveloping Buffalo. PUSH Buffalo is most notable for its protests in opposition to traditional energy
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The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) is a Washington D.C.-based center-left environmental organization. It grew out of the Environmental Study Conference, caucus of federal legislators founded by two liberal Democrats and two centrist Republicans.
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East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) is a left-of-center organizing and policy organization based in Oakland, California. It is a member of the Economic Analysis and Research Network, a coalition of left-wing policy organizations created by the labor-union-aligned Economic Policy Institute. These organizations advocate for economic
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Hip Hop Caucus (HHC) is a left-of-center direct-action organization dedicated to left-of-center environmentalist mobilization and expansion of voter participation, including restoring voting rights to felons. The organization signed a petition supporting the Green New Deal. 1 Hip
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The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is a labor-union-aligned and left-of-center-foundation-funded worker center which organizes and advocates for legislation concerning domestic employees such as child caregivers, household cleaners, elder caretakers, and similar workers.
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Dream Defenders is a Miami-based “revolutionary organization” 1 that seeks to end capitalism in the United States and replace it with a socialist system.
