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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF, also known abroad as World Wide Fund for Nature) is an international non-governmental organization that focuses on conservation and environmentalism efforts. The majority of the WWF’s revenue comes in the form of grants and contributions from foundations, government grants, corporations, and individuals including the
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The Pritzker Innovation Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that makes grants to think tanks, academic organizations, and advocacy organizations that work in the areas of energy and the environment. 1 It is funded by the
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The Skoll Global Threats Fund is a private grantmaking foundation and a controlled entity of the Skoll Foundation, both of which are funded by billionaire philanthropist Jeffrey Skoll.1 Skoll is
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The Proteus Fund is a center-left “pass-through” funder and donor-advised fund provider. Since the Fund’s creation in 1995, Proteus has routed hundreds of millions of dollars from major grantmaking foundations and anonymous donors on the Left to activist groups targeting issues including legalizing same-sex marriage, reducing religious freedom to dissent
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The Rockefeller Foundation was founded in 1913 as the primary philanthropic vehicle for the charity of Standard Oil billionaire John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1839-1937). Its projects over the past century have included funding medical research, supporting the “Green Revolution” of agricultural production innovation, and backing controversial population control movements. The
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The New Venture Fund (NVF) is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that makes grants to left-of-center advocacy and organizing projects and provides incubation serves for other left-of-center organizations. The fund focuses primarily on social and environmental change, issuing grants for a variety of projects that include conservation, global
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Protect Our Winters (POW) is a Colorado-based left-leaning climate advocacy group. It conducts political advocacy through an affiliated 501(c)(4) nonprofit, the Protect Our Winters Action Fund (POW AF). POW supports placing weather dependent wind and solar energy facilities on public lands, stating in an annual report that it
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All by April is a coalition of left-of-center foundations, nonprofit grantmakers, and individual donors that have committed to making “election-related gifts” early in the 2024 election cycle, in order to fund efforts to “help recruit poll workers, organize nonpartisan voter registration drives, support local election officials, and work to ensure
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New Left Accelerator (NLA) is a nonprofit advisory organization that helps left-of-center activist groups improve their systems and outreach potential. It was founded after the 2016 election by Deborah Barron, a founding member of Women Lawyers On Guard. NLA is the sister social-welfare organization of the Capacity Shop, a
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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) is a global legal activism organization focused on defending left-of-center climate activists. It was an initiative launched by Equation Campaign, which funds activism to end conventional fuel use and is funded by several left-of-center philanthropies including Schmidt Family Foundation, David Rockefeller Fund,
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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is a nonprofit confronting different forms of violence. It sponsors academic research on the causes and manifestations of war, terrorism, crime, domestic abuse, resource extraction, political extremism, and religious conflict.
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The Equation Campaign is an environmentalist group that funded anti-fossil fuel agitation groups. Two great-great-grandchildren of Standard Oil Company founder John D. Rockefeller, Sr. founded the group. The group works to reduce the supply of conventional fuels by funding anti-oil and gas groups. It funded a campaign to end fuel
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The Shed NYC, also known as Shed NYC, Inc. and formerly known as the Culture Shed, is an arts and cultural center located in the Hudson Yards neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. The development of the center was conceived in the early 2010s during the administration
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Justice For All Michigan is a left-of-center political advocacy organization that was launched to support the election of two Democratic nominees for the Michigan Supreme Court, Richard Bernstein and Kyra Harris Bolden, in the 2022 elections.
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Michael Quattrone is a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family who is a poet, singer-songwriter, and nonprofit consultant, board member, and founder. He has personally funded Democratic candidates and used his position in philanthropy to fund left-of-center organizations. He is a grandson to David Rockefeller and recently become more involved
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The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal; previously known as the Western Tradition Institute and the American Tradition Institute) is a right-of-center nonprofit legal advocacy group that opposes environmentalist legislation and works for transparency in climate science. E&E Legal was central to exposing a plan by left-of-center activist groups
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The Center for Climate and Security is a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group that promotes national security policy that incorporates a left-leaning position on global warming. A number of its senior officials have held posts with Democratic Presidential administrations. The group has received substantial funding from the left-of-center institutional grantmakers
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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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Lee Halprin is a writer and the husband of Abby Rockefeller, a member of the prominent and wealthy Rockefeller family. Like his wife, Halprin has used his wealth to back socialist causes1 and support
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JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA) is a left-of-center criminal justice policy organization. JustLeadershipUSA has called the criminal legal system oppressive with remnants of slavery. JLUSA states the United States has been on an incarceration trend based on racism, fear, and political motivation. JLJUSA was founded by an individual convicted of armed robbery who
