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North Carolina Public Interest Research Group (NCPIRG) Education Fund is the policy arm of the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group, a left-leaning lobbying group. It produces research papers on energy, environmental, health care, and consumer issues. It is the North Carolina state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest
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The Merle Chambers Fund is a private foundation funded and directed by former oil and natural gas company CEO, lawyer, investor, and Democratic Party fundraiser Merle Chambers. 1 It was called “Chambers Family Fund” from its founding
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Merle Chambers is a former oil and natural gas CEO, lawyer, investor, and Democratic Party fundraiser and donor. She is also a left-leaning philanthropist whose funding organization, the Merle Chambers Fund, donates to abortion and left-leaning advocacy causes, as well as non-political arts and other entities.
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Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an environmentalist think tank based in Colorado. It was established in 1982 by activist Amory Lovins. Lovins has been an opponent of zero carbon nuclear energy and, along with other RMI researchers, has repeatedly criticized nuclear power.
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The Chicago Media Project (CMP) funds and produces documentary films, frequently with a left-of-center political perspective. The organization is credited with providing one-third of the funding for Icarus, a film about state-sponsored athletic doping by the Russian Federation that received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2018
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Phil Radford is a left-wing environmentalist activist and the former executive director of Greenpeace USA (2009-2014). He is also the founder of president of Progressive Power Lab, co-founder of the Democracy Initiative, a board member of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and a board member of the left-of-center environmental advocacy group Green
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Rebecca Lambe is a Democratic political consultant, and the chief political strategist to former U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV). As a Democratic strategist, Lambe is primarily focused on state and federal policy initiatives and Democratic electoral campaigns.
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Americans Against Double Taxation (AADT) was a front group for local government interest groups, government worker labor unions, and other interest groups that opposed the restricting the state and local tax deduction, better known as the SALT deduction, in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. It was unsuccessful
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The National Association of Counties (NACo) is the only national organization that represents county governments in the United States. Of the 3,243 counties and county equivalents in the U.S., 2,385 are NACo members, representing 80 percent of the population. NACo advocates primarily for left-of-center positions, including liberal immigration policies, increased
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The Barr Foundation is a Boston-based private foundation created in 1987 by telecommunications billionaire1 Amos Barr Hostetter, Jr. and largely endowed from the proceeds of the $10.8 billion sale of Continental Cablevision to US
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The 2030 Fund was a left-of-center environmentalist climate change advocacy organization affiliated with the controversial Public Interest Network of left-of-center. Its name was a reference to a claim that the world will reach an environmental “point of no return” in 2030, when the global average temperature rises 1.5 degrees Celsius above
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People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) is a left-wing “direct action” community organizing group primarily active in Buffalo, New York. The organization engages in community redevelopment issues and promotes environmentalist activism as a key to redeveloping Buffalo. PUSH Buffalo is most notable for its protests in opposition to traditional energy
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The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) is a Washington D.C.-based center-left environmental organization. It grew out of the Environmental Study Conference, caucus of federal legislators founded by two liberal Democrats and two centrist Republicans.
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The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) New Voters Project is a left-of-center organization that focuses on increasing participation by left-leaning young voters. It is a part of the left-of-center Public Interest Network (PIN), a collection of over 100 left-leaning advocacy groups that includes the U.S. Public Interest Research
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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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California Public Interest Research Group Education Fund (CALPIRG) is the policy research arm of the California Public Interest Research Group. It is the California state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG), a left-of-center organization which oversees a federation of state liberal advocacy groups also known
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Green Century Capital Management is a left-leaning investment firm that invests in environmentalist nonprofits and causes. The firm was founded by various groups in the Public Interest Network, including the Fund for the Public Interest, U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG), and various state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), and
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Bold Alliance is an environmental advocacy organization, and a project of the Fund for the Public Interest. Bold Allianc has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
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Unite Here Local 25 is a local labor union affiliated with Unite Here principally representing hospitality (especially hotel) employees in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The local donates nearly exclusively to Democratic Party candidates, has campaigned for higher regulations on businesses such as Airbnb, and has donated to other left-of-center organizations
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The McKnight Foundation is a Minnesota-based foundation that funds many programs and organizations, including numerous left-of-center advocacy groups. Among the programs the foundation invests in are the arts, education, environmentalist programs, and international development. Most of the donations to domestic programs are towards programs and initiatives in the Midwest. Overview
