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Non-profit
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the “world’s oldest and largest conservation body,” is a multi-national environmentalist coalition of governments, NGOs, corporations, and other organizations dedicated to global conservation efforts. The IUCN launches and funds a wide range of conservation projects around the world, usually in partnership
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Labor Union
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union representing electrical workers across the United States and Canada. The IBEW a member union of the AFL-CIO labor federation. The IBEW routinely gives large donations to candidates and political action committees affiliated with the Democratic Party, in addition
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Non-profit
The Hopewell Fund is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm. The Hopewell Fund manages a number of left-of-center single-issue advocacy groups, including the Economic Security Project and Get America Covered.
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Non-profit
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a nonprofit think-tank founded in 1972 by Willy Brandt, at the time West German Chancellor and leader of the left-progressive Social Democratic Party (SDP).
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Non-profit
Freedom House is a United States-based non-governmental organization that is primarily funded by the United States government but also receives money from private grantmaking foundations. 133 The organization’s focus is on research and analysis of political
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Non-profit
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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Other Group
The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is an international affairs think tank with offices in multiple cities across Europe. Founded in 2007, the council focuses on strengthening European and international bilateral relations and has attacked European governments that have resisted European Union (EU) mandates. The council supports having
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Non-profit
Democracy Corps is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) research and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1999 by Democratic Party pollster Stanley Greenberg and Democratic Party strategist James Carville, who had worked for the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton. The group provides polling and strategic
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Non-profit
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an invitation-only think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. 217
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Non-profit
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) sponsors initiatives that advance left-of-center causes, particularly those that it claims will benefit Black voters, and that trains policymakers and activists who support these policies. Founded in 1976, the foundation is affiliated with the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), an alliance of Black Democratic members
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Non-profit
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was a Chicago public-school reform project funded in 1995 by a $49.2 million 2-to-1 challenge grant from the Annenberg Foundation. The grant was matched by pledges from three Chicago foundations and public funding from the Illinois 1988 School Reform Act.
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Non-profit
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is an American think tank and research institution created to support American foreign policy and national security during the height of the Cold War.
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Non-profit
CASA de Maryland (also called CASA) is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) immigration advocacy organization that helps immigrants, most often of Central American extraction, find employment, regardless of their legal status in the United States. CASA’s executive director has told workers he will never turn their names over to federal immigration officials.
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Non-profit
California Calls is a left-of-center nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, California, which advocates for state-wide tax increases and runs voter outreach campaigns to that end. Notable pieces of legislation facilitated by the group include Proposition 25, a 2010 measure that overturned a supermajority requirement to pass a state
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Labor Union
The division does business as North America’s Building Trades Unions; for more information on the connections of the BCTD, see the NABTU profile. North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), also known as the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD), is a department of the American Federation of
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Non-profit
The Brookings Institution is an American think tank aligned with the political establishment which conducts research and policy analysis on foreign policy, metropolitan policies, and economics. The Institution has its main office in Washington, D.C. 403 The
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Non-profit
The Atlantic Advocacy Fund is a Delaware-based left-of-center 501(c)(4) pass-through nonprofit associated with Atlantic Philanthropies, a Bermuda-based foundation which makes grants in the United States. Funding Between 2007 and 2015, Atlantic Philanthropy’s 501(c)(4) Atlantic Advocacy Fund provided a series of grants toward several Tides Advocacy projects and
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Other Group
Arab Thought Foundation (ATF) is a Lebanon-based international non-governmental organization that advocates for economic, social, and cultural development in the Arab world. 455 Founded in 2000 through a grant from Prince Khalid Al-Faisal
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For-profit
Apple, Inc. is an American computer and technology company. Apple has been a leader in consumer electronics innovation for almost fifty years, drawing praise for its aesthetic-oriented product design led by co-founder Steve Jobs and its groundbreaking computing advances led by co-founder Steve Wozniak.
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Non-profit
The American Public Health Association (APHA) is a Washington, D.C.-based professional organization for public health professionals in the United States. Founded in 1872 by a group of physicians, APHA has more than 25,000 members worldwide. The APHA supports left-of-center policy goals across a wide range of issues with direct or
