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Non-profit
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center is the research and educational arm of the National Student Clearinghouse, an organization that maintains and sells data on high school and college students in the United States. The research center provides data on student enrollment to left-of-center voter advocacy and registration organizations and
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For-profit
TSD Communications is a public-relations firm that serves numerous left-of-center organizations. It was founded and is staffed by numerous alumni of the Clinton administration and Clinton-era Democratic National Committee. Clients TSD Communications has had numerous clients in the left-of-center advocacy sphere, including George Soros’s Open Society
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For-profit
ELMA Philanthropies Services US Inc. (ELMA) is a company based in New York City that manages partnerships, investments, and strategies for the ELMA Group of Foundations, a collection of philanthropic foundations focused on the health and education of children. The company manages a portfolio of global health and education philanthropies
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Person
Robert Malone is an American biochemist credited for performing an experiment on messenger RNA (mRNA) in 1987, in which he mixed strands of mRNA with droplets of fat. Human cells that came into contact with the mRNA strands absorbed them and began creating proteins. These experiments were important for the
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Non-profit
Glasswing International works to improve the education and health care of youth in some of the most violent and poor areas of Central America. Glasswing engages and trains volunteers to provide most of the services, which include public school revitalization, after-school programs, and improvements to healthcare facilities. Its United States
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Non-profit
Valhalla Foundation (Valhalla) is a nonprofit foundation located in Woodside, California that focuses on early childhood education, medical research funding, environmental issues, and equity. It collaborates with other nonprofits, its two main partners being The Audacious Project and Blue Meridian Partners. The Valhalla Foundation was founded in 2003
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Non-profit
Equity in the Center (EiC) provides diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training for nonprofit and for-profit organizations. It is funded by left-of-center nonprofits and generates revenue through its seminars. EiC was originally a project of ProInspire, an ethnic-minority leadership development group, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. EiC was
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Non-profit
Women’s Funding Network (WFN) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports local and regional advocacy groups and public policy programs. The organization focuses on left-of-center gender issues such as abortion and coordinates lobbying and advocacy efforts among local women’s foundations. WFN receives funding from many large national left-of-center funders such
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Non-profit
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is an educational policy advocacy group composed of school administrators and principals. It was one of the primary driving forces behind the push for implementation of the Common Core educational standards. CCSSO publishes online resources, holds more than eighty annual conferences, and runs
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Non-profit
The Women’s Congressional Policy Institute (WCPI) is an advocacy group supporting policies related to women’s health, life for women in foreign countries, and conditions for working women. The institute also runs a fellowship program which aims to increase the number of women working in the field of policymaking, as well
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Non-profit
The Institute for Educational Leadership Inc. (IEL) is a grantmaking, advocacy, and educational organization located in Washington, D.C. IEL works within schools, school districts, community groups, and organizations to support and build networks of community leaders who are focused on areas of race, disability, economic disparity, and immigration and refugee
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Non-profit
19th News (sometimes known as “the 19th” or the “19th*”) is a left-of-center online media outlet focused on American and international politics related to women, especially women of color. Founding 19th News was founded in 2019 by press veterans Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora. Ramshaw was frustrated by how traditional
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Non-profit
Citizen Schools is a left-leaning nonprofit organization that provides after school programs for K-12 students. It also has professional development programs for teachers to incorporate Citizen Schools’ project-based curriculum. 1 Citizen
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Other Group
European Foundation Centre (EFC) was an international membership association of foundations and corporate funders across Europe. 1 Founded by seven major European philanthropic foundations in 1989, EFC ceased to exist as an independent
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Other Group
Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) is an international association of grantmaking organizations based in Sao Paulo, Brazil that hosts conferences and provides resources targeted to grantmaking organizations, board members, and staff. The group consists of over 190 members that include some of the most notable U.S.-based left-of-center grantmakers as
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For-profit
Pivotal Ventures is a private company created and led by philanthropist Melinda French Gates oriented around investing in organizations that support women’s issues. Background The company’s investment activity is divided into six initiatives, all related to women’s issues: Women in Technology and Innovation, which seeks to increase the number
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Non-profit
National League of Cities Institute (NLCI) is the charitable arm of the National League of Cities (NLC). Many of the two organization’s training and educational programs are intertwined with the NLCI providing the funding for conferences and travel expenses. NLCI has received grants from left-of-center nonprofits to facilitate training
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Person
Nina Turner is a left-of-center activist and Democratic politician, who formerly served as a member of the Ohio State Senate. She is a senior fellow at the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School. She is the host of “Unbossed,” a political commentary show hosted
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Non-profit
The Fund for Education Excellence is a nonprofit organization that raises money and supports educational programming in Baltimore City, Maryland public school system. 1 Activities The Fund for Educational Excellence funds and
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Non-profit
Restore Justice Foundation (RJF) is a criminal justice policy organization focusing on youth and young adults incarcerated in Illinois. RJF seeks to expand parole, reduce or eliminate mandatory minimum prison sentences, abolish or limit the felony murder rule, and eliminate sentencing enhancements. Restore Justice Foundation asserts that the American criminal
