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Emancipate NC is a left-of-center activist organization of attorneys and organizers focused on eliminating what the group refers to as “structural racism and mass incarceration” through community education, litigation, and policy reform activism. Focus areas include changing the bail system, ending youth imprisonment, leveraging restorative justice to replace incarceration, and
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Results for America is a policy advocacy group that aims to influence government workers and politicians to adopt programs it asserts will lead to more equitable outcomes. It subscribes to the left-of-center doctrine of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory-influenced concepts, such as systemic racism.
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The Defund Hate Coalition, also known as the Defund Hate Campaign, is a joint project by dozens of left-wing policy and legal activist groups which pushes to end government funding and support for border-security and immigration enforcement. Instead, members of the coalition demand that these taxpayer dollars be spent on
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The Florida Interfaith Coalition for Reproductive Health and Justice is a Florida-based coalition of people of faith who advocate left-of-center policies such as expanded abortion access and comprehensive sex education for teenagers.
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Foundation for Louisiana (FFL) is a left-of-center grantmaking and fiscal sponsorship organization that works in areas of “racial healing,” gender issues, environmentalism, and left-of-center economic policy in that state. Although its gender program was started in 2015, it is still in its formation and funding stage.
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The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Baltimore. It focuses on progressive education curriculums, abortion access, asylum for illegal immigrants, and politically and theologically liberal and inclusive Judaism.
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TakeRoot Justice (formerly known as the Community Development Project at Urban Justice Center) is a left-of-center legal advocacy, activist, and research nonprofit organization. 1 Based in New York City, it collaborates with over 70 local activist
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Ember is an environmental think tank based in London, England. Founded in 2008 as the Sandbag Climate Campaign, which was created to reform the European Union’s (EU) carbon-emissions trading market, also known as the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). The organization re-branded in 2020 to reflect its new
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United for Democracy is a left-of-center activist campaign consisting of more than 100 Democratic Party-aligned organizations that criticizes the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Force the Issue NJ is a left-of-center nonprofit organization in New Jersey that develops and hosts web sites and online tools that support liberal causes and organizations 1 and publishes endorsements for
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Campaigns for People was an advocacy organization in Texas that operated during the 2000s. It advocated restrictions on individual state-level political contributions, out-of-state contributions to candidates from political action committees (PACs) that receive money from businesses, and issue advertisements and supported a tax on lobbyists to publicly fund campaigns.
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Yarg Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaker that supports programs that works to better teens’ health and make changes to Oregon’s criminal justice system. The foundation was founded by family members of John and Betty Gray, who created the foundation from the couple’s estate.
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The Werner-Kohnstamm Family Giving Fund (WKF) is a family philanthropy focused on left-of-center immigration policy. It is managed by trustees Edward Kissam and Jo Ann Intili. It is organized as a donor-advised charitable giving fund within Fidelity Charitable.
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Common Cause Texas is the Texas state branch of Common Cause, a left-of-center advocacy organization. Common Cause Texas lobbies for changes to the Texas judicial-selection process, campaign finance laws, and election laws. The organization’s executive director said he was “really concerned about violence at the polls” prior to the
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The Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma Counties, also known as the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund, is a community foundation serving the Jewish community in the San Francisco Bay Area. The foundation was founded in 1910 and traces its roots to the settlement
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Climate Defiance is a climate activist group founded in March 2023 focused on young adults. The group engages in direct disruption such as strikes, blockades, and mass occupations to gain media and public attention. In the initial three months since its creation, Climate Defiance has organized several disruptive protests, all
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National Educators United is a left-progressive organization which advocates for changes to the education system. The organization has branches in several states, and it wants to make teachers unions like the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers more left-wing.
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The Election Verification Network (EVN) is a network of election officials and experts who meet annually to discuss election policies and reforms. Although the EVN claims to be nonpartisan, many of its members work at left-of-center advocacy groups, and its funding comes from similar groups. Membership As of March 2023,
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100% Democracy is an advocacy group founded and run by Miles Rapaport that supports universal mandatory voting in the United States. The organization is a project of the New Venture Fund. Leadership Miles Rapoport Miles Rapoport is the co-founder and executive director of 100% Democracy. Rapoport is the former
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Miles Rapoport is a left-wing activist and Democratic politician who served as Secretary of State of Connecticut and ran the left-of-center advocacy groups Demos and Common Cause. He is currently the executive director of 100% Democracy, an advocacy group for mandatory voting based on a book of the
