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Non-profit
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Chicago is the Chicago branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy organization for Muslims in the United States. The founders of the national CAIR organization have been suspected of supporting radical groups, particularly Hamas.
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Non-profit
Alliance for the Great Lakes is a Chicago, Illinois-based environmentalist nonprofit with a focus on the Great Lakes. In March 2021, it announced a left-of-center, identity politics influenced framework of environmental justice is its top priority.
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Non-profit
Foreign Policy for America (FP4A) is a left-of-center foreign policy advocacy organization that was founded in 2017 in response to the election of President Donald Trump. 1
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Other Group
The Muslim Students Association (MSA) is an Islamic community and advocacy group with chapters in universities throughout the United States and Canada. The MSA was originally founded with support from the Muslim Brotherhood and the government of Saudi Arabia, but has since distanced itself from foreign groups. MSA chapters have
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For-profit
Discovery Education is a for-profit web-based science and reading education platform funded by programming it provides to public and charter schools across the United States. The Discovery Education program primarily focuses material related Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Reading (STEM-R). Some modules within the education program, primarily those relating to
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Non-profit
The Coalition for Jewish Values says it represents more than 1,000 rabbis across America and advocates for public policy positions based upon traditional Jewish thought rooted in Biblical and Rabbinic teachings through millennia of Jewish history.
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Non-profit
Council on American-Islamic Relations Texas-Austin and DFW (CAIR-TX) is a chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR-TX works to support the Muslim community in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. CAIR-TX takes a number of left-of-center positions, including opposing funding Israel and supporting canceling all student loan debt and
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Other Group
Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) is a global legal activism organization focused on defending left-of-center climate activists. It was an initiative launched by Equation Campaign, which funds activism to end conventional fuel use and is funded by several left-of-center philanthropies including Schmidt Family Foundation, David Rockefeller Fund,
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Non-profit
The California Institute for Rural Studies (CIRS) is a left-of-center agricultural policy research and advocacy organization that criticizes Californian agricultural systems as racist and colonialist “systems of oppression and extraction.” 1 CIRS was widely
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Non-profit
The National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) is a left-leaning nonprofit organization that seeks to insert race into discussions of HIV/AIDS-related issues and to address what it considers racial inequalities in HIV/AIDS treatment and outcomes.
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Non-profit
Karamah (also known as Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights) is an Islamic activist group operating in the United States and the European Union. Founded in 1993, the group’s stated mission is to “educate all people” on the foundations of Islam, which it claims is “just” and “gender equitable.”
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Other Group
The Tikkun Olam Commission (TOC) is a left-of-center advocacy coordination organization aligned with the Reconstructionist Jewish movement. Founded in April 2018, the commission works to promote activism related to race, immigration, and environmentalism by its members and by sympathetic left-leaning congregations; since 2020, it has focused primarily on racial issues.
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Non-profit
The Jewish Organizing Institute and Network (JOIN) is a left-of-center activist training and networking organization. JOIN, also known as JOIN for Justice, offers a variety of programs for different Jewish groups, including an apprenticeship for young adults, a course aimed at rabbis and rabbinical students, and a variety of consulting
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Non-profit
STAND Central New Jersey is or was a left-of-center activist organization. It does not have its own nonprofit tax status but raises funds through Indivisible, a left-of-center advocacy coalition. When the organization was active, it was involved in promoting Democratic priorities on the state and federal level including the
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Other Group
Missoula Rises is an affiliated project of Montana Human Rights Network, based in Missoula, Montana. It was created as an opposition group to the Trump administration. 1
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Political Party/527
Youth Progressive Action Catalyst is a left-of-center hybrid Political Action Committee (hybrid PAC). The organization labels itself as a “youth-led” organization that, as a hybrid PAC, can both engage in general election-related speech activity and also make financial contributions to the campaigns of left-of-center politicians. Blue Future, a Democratic
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Person
Katie Mehnert, formerly an energy industry executive, is the founder of the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) movement-aligned networking and consultancy company ALLY Energy (formerly known as Pink Petro) and its nonprofit spinoff, Lean In Network | Energy (an affiliate of Lean In, a project of
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Other Group
The Democracy Funders Network (DFN) is a collaboration initiative for left-leaning grantmakers. Members of the network coordinate their philanthropic efforts and identify causes in which to invest their money. Causes that DFN and its members support include the perceived threat of right-leaning populist movements and the alleged need to restructure
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Non-profit
National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) is a left-of-center organization that provides training and assistance to statewide and territorial coalitions seeking to prevent domestic violence. 1 Despite its name, NNEDV does not provide direct counseling
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Non-profit
Jewish Women International (JWI) is a Jewish advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on domestic violence prevention, women’s empowerment, and left-of-center causes like abortion advocacy and gun control. JWI claims that its mission is to champion “everyone who experiences the world as female” of “every race, culture, ability,
