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Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) is an activist group based in New York City which advocates for research and funding of acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevention and treatment. It also pushes for greater acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) lifestyles in addition to a variety of other left-of-center
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Carbon Mapper is a Pasadena, California-based nonprofit that measures greenhouse gas emissions and helps develop emission-reduction policies. The organization’s central program, also called Carbon Mapper, uses aircraft, satellites, and gas-sensing technology to track methane and carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. The project is being developed by a partnership between
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The Anti-Police Terror Project is a radical-left anti-police activist organization based in Oakland, California. The organization advocates defunding the police, supporting cutting half of the budget of the Oakland Police Department and redirecting those funds towards various social welfare programs including mental health and wellness services.
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Rio Vista Foundation is a grantmaking foundation that is primarily funded by Jess Yawitz, co-founder and CEO of NISA Investment Advisors. 1
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The Mothers’ Agenda NY, also known as the MANY, is a left-of-center community activist and organizing group located in Brooklyn, New York that promotes left-of-center to far-left activism within the New York City school system. It has consistently opposed the policies or New York Mayors Michael Bloomberg (I, later
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True North Group is a left-leaning consultancy that focuses its work on communications strategies, messaging development, and website development for organizations focused on policy, research, and advocacy goals. 1 Previous True North Group projects
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The Sequoia Climate Foundation (also known as the Sequoia Climate Fund) is donor to left-leaning climate advocacy groups that was created in 2020 as a spinoff from the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. In a February 2023 report, Inside Philanthropy declared Sequoia was a “new giant climate change philanthropy” and
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The Sunrise Project is a left-leaning environmental advocacy nonprofit based in Australia. The organization operates internationally with the objective of pressuring financial institutions and various other industries to defund and abandon conventional energy sources, and to expand the use of weather-dependent energy and electric vehicles. The organization became entangled in
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Law Students for Climate Accountability is a project of Earth Island Institute that pressures law firms, their employees, students, and law schools to disengage from the hydrocarbon fuel industry. 1 LSCA
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Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the second-largest public school system in the United States, consisting of more than 571,000 students and 74,000 staff. 1 It is governed by a board of elected officials, chosen
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Democratic Data Exchange (DDx) is a for-profit entity that enables state Democratic parties, Democratic-aligned campaigns, liberal super PACs, and other left-of-center independent groups that are forbidden to coordinate with each other to share information on individual voters.
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TikTok is a social-media service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. 1
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Mayday Health is an abortion education and advocacy organization. It runs a website that provides information on how to obtain abortion pills, especially in states where abortions are restricted. There is controversy over the use of abortion pills and the legality of ordering them through the mail, as laws differ
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American Opportunity is a lobbying group funded in large part by billionaire media executive, former New York mayor, and unsuccessful presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, a major financial contributor to numerous left-of-center causes and Democratic Party political campaigns. The organization attracted media attention in March 2023 after launching a large-scale
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Vote Equality! (sometimes known as Vote Equality US) is an advocacy group supporting the passage of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution that would ensure legal equality between men and women. Vote Equality! is a fiscally sponsored project of the Center for Common Ground. History The
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The Anna Lindh Foundation is an activism and grantmaking organization which promotes left-of-center political and social causes in the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Europe, especially those within the Mediterranean region. Founded in 2003, the foundation claims that its mission is to prevent what it calls a “clash
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Open Collective Foundation (OCF) is an incubator for left-wing advocacy projects in the United States. The foundation provides administrative support, fundraising tools, and assistance with securing nonprofit status to new and growing activist groups, taking a percentage of all donations and grants. OCF claims to be a fiscal sponsor for
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People’s Agenda, also known as the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda (GCPA), is an advocacy organization focused on increasing Black voter turnout in Georgia. It was founded in 1998 by civil rights activist Joseph Lowery.
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Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions is a research institution that promotes increased gun control. It is housed in Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and was formed from the merging of a previous Johns Hopkins gun-control research institute and the Educational Fund to Stop Gun
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The Future of Tourism Coalition is a collection of left-leaning organizations that advocate against what they view as unsustainable tourism. Among other things, the coalition expresses concerns about the effects of tourism on the environment, the environmental impacts of certain popular tourist destinations, the demographics of both tourists and those
