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The Colorado Independent is a left-of-center political news website focused on Colorado. The site frames stories and publishes opinion pieces in ways that demonstrate support for liberal expansionist immigration policy including legal status for illegal immigrants, environmentalist initiatives, and gun control. The website was founded by the left-of-center American
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Not to be confused with Fiscal Policy Institute, a left-of-center public policy advocacy organization focusing on New York State. The DC Fiscal Policy Institute is a left-of-center research institute and long-time project of the national left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) which advocates for increased budgetary
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The Public Policy Institute of California is an independent, nonpartisan, non-profit research institution. Based in San Francisco, California, the institute was established in 1994 with a $70 million endowment from William Redington Hewlett of Hewlett-Packard.
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The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a nonprofit journalism institution located in St. Petersburg, Florida. It owns and controls Times Publishing Company, which publishes the Tampa Bay Times and previously published Congressional Quarterly. Poynter operates the controversial left-of-center PolitiFact fact-checking organization, which was launched by its subsidiary St. Petersburg
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The Institute for Research on Presidential Elections (IRPE) was launched in 2006 to advocate for replacing the state-by-state Electoral College system of Presidential elections with a nationwide popular vote.
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The Arab American Institute (AAI) is a left-of-center organization which mobilizes Arab-American voters and promotes left-of-center foreign and domestic policies. AAI purports to represent the interests of people of Middle Eastern and North African descent in the United States. AAI was founded in 1985 and is based in Washington, D.C.
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The Berghof Institute for Conflict Studies or the Berghof Foundation is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organization that supports efforts to prevent political and social violence and achieve sustainable peace through conflict transformation.1 The organization was established by Georg
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The R Street Institute is a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was spun off from the right-of-center and Chicago-based Heartland Institute in 2012.
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NOI is defunct. For its successor, see Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) New Organizing Institute Education Fund (NOIEF) was the charitable arm of New Organizing Institute (NOI), a progressive nonprofit that trained digital organizers and campaigners for the Democratic Party. The organization, described by a Washington
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Also see the similarly named Foundation to Promote Open Society (Nonprofit) The Open Society Foundations (OSF; formally Open Society Institute) is a private grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros. OSF was founded in 1993 as the Open Society Institute (OSI), which remains the foundation’s
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NOI is defunct. For its successor, see Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) New Organizing Institute (NOI) was a left-progressive group that trained digital organizers and campaigners for the Democratic Party and liberal political causes. The organization, described by a Washington Post reporter as “the Democratic Party’s Hogwarts
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The Guttmacher Institute is a pro-abortion policy research organization founded in 1968 as a subsidiary of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). It became an independent organization in 2007. 1 Guttmacher publishes studies that
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The Drum Major Institute (DMI) is a nonprofit that advocates left-of-center policies. DMI was founded by supporters of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is run by King Jr.’s oldest son, Martin Luther King III, and King III’s wife, Arndrea Waters King. DMI has received funding from the Sixteen Thirty
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The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Institute is a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes left-of-center, redistributive policies such as government-controlled healthcare, rent control, increased taxation on businesses and wealthy individuals, decreased privatization of public services, and opposition to charter schools.
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The New England Complex Systems Initiative is an independent scientific research institute based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.1
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The Institute for Sustainable Communities is an independent, tax-exempt, nonprofit organization whose primary work includes finding community-based solutions to combating climate change in the U.S. and China and building the capacity of civil society in the Balkans, among other projects.
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The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is a left-of-center think tank and advocacy group that is active on a variety of public policy issues. It operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with 2020 revenues totaling approximately $6.9 million. Since 2021, its executive director has been Tope Folarin.
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The Democracy Matters Institute is a left-of-center voter project and election advocacy group based in Poughkeepsie, New York. The organization also has a lobbying arm that is called Democracy Matters which is mostly inactive and the Democracy Matters Institute operates as simply Democracy Matters. The organization was founded in 2001
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The Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) is a right-of-center nonprofit organization that focuses on policy concerning women. The forum grew out of the “Women for Judge Thomas” group, which supported the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991.
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The People’s Action Institute is a community organizing group formed from the merger of several advocacy organizations in 2016 including the National People’s Action, Alliance for a Just Society, and USAction Education Fund, three left-of-center community organizing groups.
