-
Non-profit
The Sea Change Foundation is a major left-of-center foundation whose grantmaking focuses on supporting environmentalist think tanks and advocacy groups, most notably the Energy Foundation, an environmentalist pass-through funder, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an advocacy nonprofit. Sea Change was founded in 2006 by Nathaniel
-
Non-profit
ProgressNow, a 501(c)(4) left-of-center advocacy group formed in 2012, works with its state partner organizations to promote the liberal agenda through media strategies, including targeted email and social media campaigns. It dubs itself as “building the online progressive movement.”
-
Non-profit
NEO Philanthropy (formerly Public Interest Projects) is a New York-based nonprofit that serves as a fiscal clearinghouse for left-of-center causes. The group serves as a vehicle for center-left foundations to pool resources, hosts donor-advised funds, and sponsors various liberal projects.
-
Non-profit
Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Over its 100+ year history The NAACP has grown exponentially to what is now a network of more than 2,200 affiliates covering all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Japan
-
Non-profit
MoveOn Civic Action, also known by the name of its website MoveOn.org, describes itself as “the largest independent, progressive, digitally-connected organizing group in the United States.”1 MoveOn operates as a centralized forum for petitions written by
-
Non-profit
Mother Jones, sometimes referred to colloquially as MoJo or MJ, is a left-of-center bimonthly general interest and politics magazine published out of San Francisco, California.1 The magazine is named for Mary Harris Jones, a
-
Non-profit
MomsRising is a Seattle-based left-of-center advocacy group focusing on issues facing women, such as paid family leave, health care, and nutrition. The group works to educate the public on these issues and to mobilize grassroots actions to assist at the federal, state, and local levels.
-
Non-profit
For the associated 501(c)(3), see Greenpeace Fund (nonprofit) Greenpeace is one of the most internationally recognized environmentalist organizations. It is well-known for its attention-seeking stunts and radical views. Greenpeace has also sought to actively sabotage those industries it sees as harmful to the environment. Like most environmental organizations, Greenpeace
-
Non-profit
Earthjustice (formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund) is a public interest law firm that litigates cases related to left-leaning climate and energy policy, often on behalf of left-leaning climate policy organizations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Center for Biological Diversity, the
-
Non-profit
Demos (formally Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action) is a nonprofit, New York City-based left-wing public policy advocacy group founded in 2000 that favors advocates a staunchly liberal agenda.1 Demos has close ties to the wing
-
Non-profit
Common Cause is a 501(c)(4) progressive advocacy group focusing on campaign finance law, so-called “fair redistricting,” and general liberal policy. Common Cause describes itself as “a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to restoring the core values of American democracy, reinventing an open, honest and accountable government capable of solving today’s challenges
-
Non-profit
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a legal advocacy group with previous connections with political strategist David Brock. The organization describes itself as a “nonpartisan” watchdog group directing litigation against government corruption in an effort to advance the public interest. The group is part of Brock’s
-
Political Party/527
American Bridge 21st Century, also known by its official PAC name AB PAC 1 is a Democratic Party super PAC founded by David Brock on November 23, 2010.
-
Non-profit
350.org is a large environmentalist activist organization that has a presence in 188 countries. Focused on online campaigning, 350.org opposes new oil, gas, and coal exploration and development and calls for “[revoking] the “social license” of the fossil fuel industry and “[taking] money out of the companies that are heating
-
Political Party/527
The Working Families Party (WFP) is a left-wing political party based in Brooklyn, New York. Using New York’s electoral fusion voting system that allows multiple parties to nominate candidates and pool votes cast, the WFP uses its endorsement and ballot line to pressure Democratic Party candidates to take union-friendly stands
-
Non-profit
TomKat Charitable Trust ceased operations in 2015 and was succeeded by the TomKat Foundation The TomKat Charitable Trust is a private foundation formed and funded by left-wing San Francisco billionaire Thomas F. Steyer, and his wife Kathryn Taylor. The organization derives its name from combining the couple’s first
-
Non-profit
The Sixteen Thirty Fund (sometimes styled “1630 Fund”) is a left-of-center lobbying and advocacy organization founded in 2008. 1 Sixteen Thirty Fund often operates alongside its charitable “sister” nonprofit New Venture Fund, which
-
Non-profit
The Sierra Club is one of the nation’s oldest and largest environmentalist organizations. The group has recently risen in prominence as a political force, backing efforts to curtail the use of all fossil fuel energy sources and proven zero-emissions technologies. Despite having taken money from the natural gas industry to
-
Non-profit
Also see Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund (nonprofit) Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is one of the nation’s largest environmentalist groups. The group has more than $180 million in assets to fund its programs and has been accused of “using baseless scare campaigns to drum up press and
-
Person
George Soros is a Hungarian-born American investor, author, left-of-center political donor, and philanthropist. Outside of his political giving and advocacy, he is best known for a set of currency trades that earned him the moniker “the man who broke the Bank of England.”
