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For-profit
Informing Change is a left-of-center consulting firm located in Oakland, California. Informing Change is guided by the left-of-center concepts of equity and social justice 1
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Non-profit
Mothering Justice is a left-of-center advocacy organization based out of Detroit, Michigan. It primarily focuses on issues related to mothers, such as childcare, abortion, paid family/maternal leave, and healthcare issues. 21 It is a member of
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Other Group
Barnacle Strategies is a left-of-center independent consulting group that advises environmentalist groups in Canada and the United States. Barnacle Strategies was founded and is managed by Dave Secord, an affiliate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, who was previously the president of strategic grantmaking for the
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Non-profit
The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) is an association of post-secondary educational institutions that represents the interests of land-grant colleges and universities that have been designated by their respective state legislatures or the U.S. Congress.
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Non-profit
The Opportunity Agenda is a left-of-center organization that advocates for left-of-center positions on issues including immigration, education, and racial policy. The organization is a former project of the Tides Center, a large left-progressive fiscal sponsorship organization. As of 2024, they have achieved non-profit status.
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Non-profit
All by April is a coalition of left-of-center foundations, nonprofit grantmakers, and individual donors that have committed to making “election-related gifts” early in the 2024 election cycle to fund efforts to “help recruit poll workers, organize nonpartisan voter registration drives, support local election officials, and work to ensure that the
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Non-profit
The Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP) is a left-of-center advocacy organization and think tank founded in 2019 by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams that is centered around promoting racial equity and “economic power” among minority populations in the American South. SEAP focuses its efforts on 12 southern states and
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Non-profit
Free and Fair Elections USA is a Democratic Party-aligned activist organization and independent expenditure committee. 101 Free and Fair Elections USA supports various voter registration efforts
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Person
Chuck Feeney was an Irish-American billionaire businessman and philanthropist who made his money in duty-free retail and formed the Bermuda-based grantmaking organization Atlantic Philanthropies. Throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, Feeney anonymously gave away much of his fortune to schools, hospitals, and other philanthropic ventures in the United
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Non-profit
The Center for Asian Pacific American Women is a nonprofit that advocates for the interests of Asian American and Pacific Islander women. The primary focus of the group is leadership development for Asian American and Pacific Islander women. The group also opposes racism targeted against Asian Americans. In March 2021,
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Non-profit
Biodiversity Funders Group (BFG) is a professional association of philanthropic trustees and private foundation leaders who fund environmentalist causes related to climate change and conservationism. It serves as a donor network for more than 70 formal member organizations. BFG was founded as Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD) in 1987
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Non-profit
Connect U.S. Fund was a policy advocacy and grantmaking organization funded by several large left-of-center foundations, including William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Open Society Institute, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Ford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, Ploughshares Fund, and Carnegie Corporation of
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Non-profit
Warehouse Worker Resource Center (WWRC) is a left-of-center labor organization that campaigns among warehouse workers at companies including Amazon and Walmart in Southern California and California’s Inland Empire region. Although not a labor union, WWRC works in alignment with labor unions and in partnership with the immigrant rights
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Other Group
Nebula Fund is a pooled fund founded in 2022 by seven left-of-center private foundations. It provides grants to LGBT-interests and gender-advocacy organizations internationally. 207 It is a project of left-of-center New Venture Fund (NVF).
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Non-profit
The Rockwood Leadership Institute is a left-of-center activism training organization. 227 The institute offers seminars and other instructional programs, often tailored for representatives of racial and sexual minority groups.
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Non-profit
Growth Philanthropy Network (GPN) operates under the Social Impact Exchange (SIE) banner. It facilitates collaborative investment in philanthropic organizations and nonprofits from private and governmental sources to produce growth capital to scale their initiatives. 242
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Non-profit
Recidiviz is a research and advocacy organization which claims that its methods of data analysis can help reduce rates of incarceration. The organization claims that its purpose is to provide feedback to authorities to improve criminal justice outcomes, but also states that its goal is a “smaller” criminal justice system.
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Non-profit
The FWD.us Education Fund is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit arm of the liberal expansionist immigration advocacy organization FWD.us. 287 FWD.us Education fund supports left-of-center policies on immigration
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Other Group
Life of the Law is a media production organization that produces podcasts and discussion on the law and people’s relationships to it. It is a project of the Tides Center and is supported by groups including the National Science Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Proteus
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Non-profit
Community Partners is a grantmaking organization and incubator committed to left-of-center political causes. It contributes funds to independent organizations but also acts as the fiscal sponsor to groups, providing them with operations and strategies. Activities Community Partners welcomes organization leaders or activists looking to start new left-of-center advocacy groups to
