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MSI Reproductive Choices, formerly Marie Stopes International (MSI), is a leading British-American abortion and birth control advocacy group founded in 1976 and active in 37 countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. The group is named for Marie Stopes (1880-1958), a British activist for women’s suffrage, birth control, abortion, eugenics, anti-Semitism,
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Nonprofit VOTE is a left-of-center organization which engages non-profits to mobilize individuals they interact with to participate in elections and vote. 50 The group has received funding from left-of-center funder organizations, most prominently the Ford Foundation,
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Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG) is a left-of-center donor collaborative that is a project of the Fund for Constitutional Government. 75 PSFG’s donor-related efforts include engaging with other philanthropic stakeholders
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Dream Defenders is a Miami-based “revolutionary organization” 100 that seeks to end capitalism in the United States and replace it with a socialist system.
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Neighborhood Funders Group is a left-of-center philanthropic membership organization and grant maker. Its members and funding partners include some of the most powerful groups in left-of-center philanthropy. Its funding areas and strategies are influenced by concepts like critical race theory, decoloniality, organized labor, wealth redistribution, LGBTQ advocacy, and climate justice.
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The Colombe Peace Foundation (or Colombe Foundation) is a private foundation that was established in 1997 by the Proteus Fund and was administered by Proteus staff. 141 Colombe primarily makes grants to groups that seek to eliminate
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation is the charitable-organization arm of the American Civil Liberties Union, a left-leaning activist organization. The ACLU Foundation is an affiliate organization of the ACLU and mainly engages in the organization’s litigation and communication efforts
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Stanley Center for Peace and Security (previously the Stanley Foundation) is a private foundation focused on research, discussion, and policy action on left-of-center issues including climate change, the reduction of nuclear weapons, and mass violence.
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The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is a left-of-center public policy advocacy organization that focuses primarily on poverty and racial equity.
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The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) is a left-of-center investigative journalism non-profit that operates Reveal News. The organization focuses mostly on political corruption, and is funded by many left-of-center grantmaking nonprofits, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Tides
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The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is an advocacy group aligned with left-of-center interests that supports strict enforcement of campaign finance laws. Campaign Legal Center attorneys track and participate in a variety of cases around the country involving campaign finance law at the federal, state, and local levels. The CLC is
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The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded in 1989 in the United States. CIEL has opposed the use of carbon emitting fuels; opposed the use of carbon free nuclear power; and opposed the deployment of carbon capture technology. CIEL supports the
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The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is a left-of-center legal activist group that aims to frame the United States Constitution as a document whose meaning shifts based on historical and political circumstances and that lawmakers should apply its articles and amendments accordingly. To advance this view, often
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The Voter Participation Center is a left-of-center voter registration nonprofit that was founded in 2003 as Women’s Voices Women Vote, changing its name in 2011 and expanding its mission to become the Voter Participation Center.
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The Proteus Fund is a center-left “pass-through” funder and donor-advised fund provider. Since the Fund’s creation in 1995, Proteus has routed hundreds of millions of dollars from major grantmaking foundations and anonymous donors on the Left to activist groups targeting issues including legalizing same-sex marriage, reducing religious freedom to dissent
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (also known by its abbreviation, RWJF) was named after its founder, Robert Wood “General” Johnson II, son of the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson.
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The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a liberal Washington, D.C.-based think tank with strong ties to the Democratic Party establishment created in 2003 as the left-of-center alternative to the right-leaning Heritage Foundation. Since its founding, the organization has exerted significant influence within the American political left. The organization
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Media Legal Defence Initiative (Media Defence) is a media and digital rights legal advocacy group that provides resources and legal aid to journalists and lawyers internationally. Located in London, this group was founded in 2008 with a grant from the MacArthur Foundation. It is also the recipient of funds
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Gynuity Health Projects (formal name Gynuity Institute) is a far-left abortion research and advocacy organization that conducts clinical studies into 2nd trimester abortion pills in poor countries in Africa and Asia. Although Gynuity received its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 2018, the organization has operated as a for-profit enterprise
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EarthRights International (ERI) is a left-of-center litigation nonprofit created in 1995 that provides pro bono legal representation in environmental lawsuits. The group is run by its two co-founders, Burmese political activist Ka Hsaw Wa and his wife, Katie Redford.
