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The Outrider Foundation is an environmentalist advocacy organization based in Madison, Wisconsin, that promotes climate change advocacy and criticizes nuclear weapons, mainly through financial support for reporting in mainstream journalistic outlets. Background In 1999, Frank Burgess, the chairman of Madison Investment Holding, Inc, a financial firm based in Madison, Wisconsin,
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The Hellman Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking foundation based in and with its primary focus in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2020, the group gave $2,750,000 to the New Venture Fund.
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UK Feminista is a feminist organization based in London, England. It was founded in 2010 by feminist activist and author Kat Banyard, who has written books titled The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Women and Men Today and Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality.
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Encode Justice is a youth-led activist coalition pushing for governance and censorship of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and applications. It claims that AI “algorithms are being used as tools of oppression.”
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Non-profit
The California Institute for Rural Studies (CIRS) is a left-of-center agricultural policy research and advocacy organization that criticizes Californian agricultural systems as racist and colonialist “systems of oppression and extraction.” 1 CIRS was widely
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The Waitt Institute is a nonprofit research organization dedicated to advancing and supporting global ocean conservation and environmental efforts. Founded in 2005 by philanthropist and entrepreneur Ted Waitt, the institute works to protect and manage marine environments. Background The Waitt Institute was founded by Ted Waitt, the co-founder of Gateway,
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American Endowment Foundation (AEF) is a donor-advised fund (DAF) provider that manages over $4 billion in assets and consists of 10,000 individual donor-advised funds 1 serving donors in all 50 states.
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Urban Ocean Lab is a left-of-center think tank that promotes environmentalist policies with the future of coastal cities in mind. It asserts that coastal cities in the U.S. will experience an average of a one-foot rise in sea levels over the next 30 years, and also focuses on purported racial
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Ecological Management Foundation (EMF) was an environmentalist think tank and policy advocacy organization based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During its active years, EMF focused on water technologies such as desalination and water purification. It was a partner of the Dutch grantmaking organization Adessium Foundation, the World Wide Fund
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, writer, and left-of-center policy advocate. She is the co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank that advocates for climate policies to protect the future of coastal cities. She co-edited the climate anthology All We Can Save, co-founded the All We Can Save
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Design It For Us is a coalition that was formed by activists from left-of-center technology policy activist groups Log Off Movement and Tech(nically) Politics to support the California Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC). 1
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Log Off Movement (stylized as LOG OFF) is a left-of-center technology activist organization that presents itself as a youth technology advocacy organization, but is a registered trade name of the North Fund, a dark money group managed by left-of-center consultancy Arabella Advisors.
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United Women of Color (UWOC) is a left-of-center get-out-the-vote and organizing organization that seeks to mobilize ethnic-minority women and increase their influence in the government decision-making process. 1
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The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (stylized as PACBI) is an initiative which pushes for individuals and institutions involved in education, the arts, and the preservation of cultural heritage to disassociate from their Israeli and pro-Israel counterparts. Launched in 2004, the campaign is a founding
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Non-profit
AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles (AltaSea) is a nonprofit organization that claims that the world’s oceans could be used to solve civilizational problems concerning food security, climate change, and energy production, collectively referring to such technology as “Blue Economy.” It provides educational resources to students and advocates for
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Person
Reinier Beeuwkes is a scientist, biomedical-pharmacy entrepreneur, and Democratic Party philanthropist. Between 2016 and 2020, Beeuwkes and his wife, Nancy Beeuwkes, have collectively made $1,752,100 in contributions to the Democratic Party and left-of-center organizations. 1 A large sum
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STAND Central New Jersey is or was a left-of-center activist organization. It does not have its own nonprofit tax status but raises funds through Indivisible, a left-of-center advocacy coalition. When the organization was active, it was involved in promoting Democratic priorities on the state and federal level including the
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Youth Progressive Action Catalyst is a left-of-center hybrid Political Action Committee (hybrid PAC). The organization labels itself as a “youth-led” organization that, as a hybrid PAC, can both engage in general election-related speech activity and also make financial contributions to the campaigns of left-of-center politicians. Blue Future, a Democratic
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Non-profit
The Waitt Foundation is a nonprofit that supports marine conservation efforts around the world. The foundation’s staff and board members include people with connections to its founder, Ted Waitt, and his prior companies Background The Waitt Foundation, headquartered in La Jolla, California, was established in 1993 by Ted Waitt. The
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The Main Street Growth and Opportunity Coalition was a right-leaning policy advocacy organization founded in 2013 that lobbied for conservative tax reform, expanded trade opportunities, and for comprehensive immigration reform that could prove liberal-expansionist in effect.
