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Non-profit
The American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) is a conservative legal group founded in 1998 as the American Civil Rights Union. 1 Former Reagan administration adviser Robert Carleson started the organization to advocate for
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Philanthropy Northwest is a network of charitable organizations that promotes left-of-center causes in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. The network receives funding through both government grants and donations from corporations including Microsoft, Boeing, and JP Morgan Chase. The philanthropic consulting organization Arabella Advisors, which manages four major
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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a right-of-center nonprofit think tank that also functions as the nation’s largest voluntary membership association for state legislators. It also offers membership to private sector companies and think tanks. The group authors a variety of publications and utilizes member task forces to adopt
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The Heritage Foundation is a right-of-center policy think tank founded in 1973 that researches and recommends policies such as free markets, limited government, a strong national defense, and courts that adhere to the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution.
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The Free State Foundation (FSF) is a nonpartisan, right-of-center public policy think tank that advocates for laws and policies promoting free enterprise, limited government, and the rule of law. FSF’s primary focus is on eliminating what it deems to be unnecessary and counterproductive regulations affecting the technology and communications industries.
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Non-profit
The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) (formerly the Political Economy Research Center) is a non-partisan, environmental public policy think tank that promotes free market environmentalism and focuses much of its research on voluntary trade’s effects on the environment.
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The Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) is a nonpartisan think tank that conducts local, state, and national economic public policy research. 1 BHI uses its economic and statistical models
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Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a libertarian advocacy nonprofit associated with billionaire businessman and philanthropist Charles Koch and his late brother David. The organization was formed in 2004 after Citizens for a Sound Economy split into Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks. AFP engages in direct grassroots lobbying events
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National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) Action Fund is the political and lobbying arm of the left-of-center National Women’s Law Center. 1 The Fund promotes left-of-center policy on women’s issues through legislative
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Non-profit
The International Labor Organization (ILO) is an agency of the United Nations that promulgates standards for worker protection. The ILO is a tripartite organization in which all programs, policies, and standards must be approved by representatives of governments, employers, and workers.
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Non-profit
BreakOUT (also known as Youth BreakOUT) is a far-left organization that advocates for left-of-center LGBT-interest policies and manages related activist and community programs in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is sponsored by Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, a left-of-center fiscal sponsor and nonprofit incubator. Background In 2010, a group of transgender
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Non-profit
The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) is a nonprofit organization that promotes left-of-center social policy through litigation and policy initiatives. The group supports, advocates for, and attempts to implement left-wing policy approaches, including a federally recognized “right” to an abortion with government-funded abortion access, government-funded birth control, the expansion of
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Non-profit
The Open Markets Institute is a left-leaning think tank that focuses on monopolies and how to break them up. The organization sees monopolization and corporate concentration as a threat to “democracy, individual liberties, and national security.” The organization was officially launched in September 2017 as an independent organization. Previously, most
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Labor Union
AFSCME Council 31 is the Illinois state-level council of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) government worker union, the largest union for government workers other than teachers in the United States and the largest member union of the AFL-CIO labor federation. Council 31 has spent
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For-profit
Omidyar Network is an LLC created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar to make philanthropic “impact investments.” Its sister group, the Omidyar Network Fund is a 501(c)(3) grantmaking foundation. Omidyar Network and the Omidyar Network Fund are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
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For-profit
BallotReady is an online election-education resource that aggregates information from candidates’ websites, social media profiles, and news media outlets. It was launched as a project of the Social New Venture Challenge, a competition for graduate students at the University of Chicago. As of 2016, BallotReady was operational in a dozen
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Non-profit
Also see Women’s Voices Women Vote (Nonprofit) The Center for Voter Information (CVI) is a left-of-center voter registration and outreach group that is permitted to take positions on candidates that works alongside its nominally nonpartisan and charitable “sister,” the Voter Participation Center (VPC). While both organizations run general
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Non-profit
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sisters of Charity BVM) is a religious order of Catholic nuns that advocates for left-of-center social policy in both the public and private sector. Originally founded in the United States to provide education, the order has expanded in recent years to pursue
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Government Agency
18F is a federal agency within the United States General Services Administration that provides technology and technology-related consulting services to other U.S. government organizations and agencies. Critics of the agency maintain that it hinders the profitability of private technology firms, which the government would ostensibly otherwise contract in lieu of
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For-profit
The Children’s Investment Management Fund (TCI) is a for-profit hedge fund created by British billionaire Christopher Hohn, a funder of the radical environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion.
