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The Transnational Institute is a left-wing to far-left research and advocacy group located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a legal status equivalent that of a 501(c) nonprofit organization in the United States. Originally founded as an international branch of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) from 1973
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Non-profit
The Bafrayung Fund is a New York City-based private grantmaking foundation established in 2018. 117 The foundation makes the bulk of its large contributions to numerous left-of-center to radical organizations. People The chair of the
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Non-profit
The Lawyering Project (TLP) is a New York-based pro-abortion litigation and advocacy124 organization that is fiscally sponsored by the left-of-center Tides Center.
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Non-profit
The Reform LA Jails project promotes left-of-center criminal justice and corrections policies in Los Angeles County, California. It sponsored a successful 2020 county-level ballot initiative to give the Los Angeles County Civilian Oversight Commission subpoena power to investigate alleged misconduct by sheriff’s deputies in county jails and require the
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Government Agency
The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
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Non-profit
The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for prison and criminal justice policy changes. It opposes for-profit prison operations595 and works
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Non-profit
Patagonia Org is the nonprofit arm of the Patagonia sportswear company. It supports the company’s avowed left-of-center environmental activist principles by making donations to left-of-center organizations, particularly environmentalist groups, around the world.
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Non-profit
Rising Majority is a coalition of left-of-center activist groups that organize collectively across multiple issues including economics and labor, climate change, feminism, and immigration. It is a project of the Movement for Black Lives, which itself is a fiscally sponsored project of the radical-left fiscal sponsorship organization Alliance for Global
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Non-profit
Casey Family Programs is the West Coast-focused operating foundation created as part of the philanthropy of United Parcel Service founder James E. Casey in 1966. With its East Coast counterpart, Casey Family Services (a division of the Annie E. Casey Foundation), Casey Family Programs provided foster care and stipends
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Non-profit
Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) is an advocacy group focused on organizing, training, and promoting elected prosecutors, including State’s and District Attorneys,660 who adopt lenient, left-progressive approaches to criminal justice. It
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Non-profit
The We Are America Alliance (WAAA) was a national liberal expansionist immigration advocacy organization launched in 2006. WAAA was made up of more than a dozen local, state, and national organizations all pushing for liberal expansionist immigration reform.
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Person
Patrisse Cullors is a California-based political activist and a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter online movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
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Non-profit
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) is an advocacy group comprised of 35 largely left-progressive organizations including major labor unions like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the worker center Caring Across Generations, and advocacy groups like AARP
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Non-profit
The Appeal is a left-of-center media outlet primarily reporting on criminal justice issues created by Tides Advocacy, an organization that incubates and financially supports left-of-center organizations. The group became independent in November 2021 after Tides and the group’s executive director shut down the group in June 2021 following a unionization
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Non-profit
Community Justice Action Fund (CJAF) is the lobbying arm of the gun-control advocacy and criminal justice advocacy group Community Justice Reform Coalition (CJRC). CJAF acts as a centralized funding organization 773 for
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Non-profit
The Skoll Fund was founded by billionaire philanthropist Jeffrey Skoll,824 also the founder of Participant, a firm that produces films such as An Inconvenient Truth, the 2006 documentary featuring former Vice
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Person
Jim Bildner is the CEO of the left-of-center Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK Foundation). Between 2014 and 2016, the Foundation provided up to $250,000 in grants towards the New Venture Fund, a “dark money” organization.
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Person
Sean McElwee is an activist and political consultant who advocates for the Democratic Party to endorse more left-progressive policy platforms. He is the co-founder and executive director of Data for Progress, a left-of-center public research group and a project of Tides Advocacy. McElwee is also the director of
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Non-profit
The Alaska Center (previously called The Alaska Center for the Environment) is a left-of-center environmental advocacy group based in Alaska. The group advocates for automatic voter registration, a carbon tax, mandating 50 percent “renewable” energy statewide by 2025, expanded taxes on oil and natural gas, and other environmentalist policies.
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Person
Kathleen Welch is a principal at Corridor Partners, a left-of-center political advocacy and strategy investment firm that focuses on energy and environment issues. A 2013 HuffPost article described Welch as “a highly influential figure in Democratic fundraising circles, playing a central role in steering money to environmental and
