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Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a foreign policy institute based in Washington, D.C., that focuses its research and advocacy on national security and foreign policy issues. FDD supports an activist foreign policy for the United States and advocates on issues that it considers priorities for American foreign policy.
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Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is a nonprofit research and advocacy group focused on issues relating to both technological and global security. History The FAS was founded in 1945 by atomic researchers following the “detonation of the atomic bomb.”
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The Democracy Collaborative is a left-of-center organization that advocates for the transition of the United States economic system from a free-market economy to government-controlled socialism. It supports government ownership and control of industries like health care, utilities, and transportation, and the group proposes the creation of a “welfare state” that
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The Common Counsel Foundation (CCF) is a nonprofit foundation consisting of a group of grantmaking funds which donate to over 300 left-of-center advocacy groups each year.1 As of January 2021, CCF is
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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 American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a left-of-center, Quaker-related organization that supports left-progressive policy on immigration, criminal justice, and economic issues. AFSC has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy and advocated for several left-wing policies, including abolishing all prisons, defunding law enforcement organizations, and eliminating funding for
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Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) is an environmentalist organization that seeks to protect endangered or diminishing marine life via protection and restoration of habitat and elimination of fishing techniques that have higher risks of “bycatch,” which refers to the marine life that is killed and discarded as a result of
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The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) is a left-of-center environmental advocacy group. Funding Financial Overview In 2019, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council reported total revenues of $4.1 million, total expenditures of $3.8 million (including grants paid totaling $176,464), and net assets of $3.34 million.
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Also see Steyer Network NextGen America was founded in 2013 as NextGen Climate. The organization changed its name in 2017 to better reflect that it was not only concerned about environmental issues, but also would be a leader in opposing President Donald Trump.
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Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is an environmentalist think tank and policy advocacy organization focused on left-of-center climate policies moving toward a zero-emission environment. Its issue areas include development of advanced nuclear energy, carbon capture, reduction in methane emissions, and increased emissions regulation for conventional power plants. CATF works with
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Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is an environmentalist advocacy organization that pushes for legislation to curtail carbon emissions, with an emphasis on carbon taxes. It advances legislation to impose a carbon tax with redistribution to the populace. Founded on October 6, 2007, CCL created 560 chapters throughout the world, with chapters
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Children’s Aid Society (CAS) provides support for children, youth, and their families in high-needs neighborhoods in New York, New York. It supports teachers, social workers, coaches, and health care providers who provide education, health care, emotional support, and stable families for children that live without one.
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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a foreign policy think tank founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie. It notes that it has a network of more than 150 “experts” who have “served in nearly every administration since the endowment’s founding.”
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Girls Who Code is a non-profit organization aimed at providing women with computer and technology skills to encourage growth in female-held science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs founded in 2012 by failed Democratic politician and one-time deputy to Bill de Blasio in the New York City Public Advocate’s
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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a far-left political activist group in the United States, and the largest socialist organization in the country with approximately 78,000 members as of August 2023.
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Also see Americans for Democratic Action Education Fund (nonprofit) Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) is a left-of-center 501(c)4 political advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. The group was founded in 1947 as a response to defections by extreme-left-wing activists from the mainstream Democratic fold under President Harry Truman by
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Rob Stein was a Democratic political operative best known as a co-founder of Democracy Alliance, a collective of left-of-center donors seeking to establish a permanent “left infrastructure” since 2004. Stein formulated the strategic vision for the organization and also helped found its-state based counterpart, Committee on States. In
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Rob McKay is former chairman of the left-of-center donor convening Democracy Alliance. 1 A venture capitalist, he is the son of former Taco Bell CEO Rob McKay, Sr.
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Michael Kieschnick is the president and CEO of CREDO Mobile, a cellular service company than channels one percent of its revenues into left-of-center causes. Kieschnick has been involved with numerous left-wing groups, including the Real Justice PAC, the League of Women Voters, and NextGen Climate. Kieschnick
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Linda Pritzker is a liberal political donor and member of the prominent Pritzker political family. In the 1970s, Linda Pritzker dropped out of college to become a goat farmer in Montana and started practicing Buddhism, eventually returning to school to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree in psychology.
