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Political Party/527
Emerge America (EA) is a left-of-center candidate training organization that vets and prepares female Democrats who aspire to run for local, state, and federal offices. The organization conducts training to prepare and assist female candidates who choose to run within two to three years of the training. The group was
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Non-profit
Council on Foundations is a membership association of more than 850 global grantmaking foundations and corporations. The council provides policy insights, legal assistance, networking, and development opportunities for members at its annual conference.
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Non-profit
The Center for International Policy is a non-profit public policy research and advocacy think tank with offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City. It was founded in 1975 in response to the Vietnam War. Funding Donors to CIP Between 1999 and 2018, CIP received over $20 million from foundations:
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Non-profit
The California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) is the state-level affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG) in California. It is a member of the federation of state left-of-center advocacy groups known as “PIRGs” under the Public Interest Network, a larger federation of left-liberal organizations.
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Non-profit
Association for Union Democracy (AUD) is a pro-union advocacy group focused on improving the internal governance of American labor unions. 1 AUD was founded in 1969 by
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Non-profit
The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) was a nonprofit which advocated for American support of a peaceful two-state solution to the crisis between Palestine and Israel. 1 It was
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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
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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a science advocacy organization based in the United States and the largest general science association in the world. It is publisher of the journal Science. AAAS has been accused of promoting a broadly left-leaning policy agenda and associating with front
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Non-profit
Alliance for a Healthier Generation (AHG) is an advocacy organization that works to create support for healthier school lunches, after-school programs, and other children’s health campaigns. It was founded in 2005 by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation in response to the growing rate of childhood obesity.
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Labor Union
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) is a labor union to claims to have more than 61,000 members who are pilots working for nearly 40 different airlines operating out of the United States and Canada.
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Non-profit
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was a left-of-center voter outreach and low-income advocacy umbrella group that disbanded in 2010 after accusations of voter fraud and the release of a series of videotapes appearing to show ACORN employees condoning illegal behavior. ACORN was founded in 1970 as a
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Non-profit
The Academy of Political Science is a nonprofit academic organization that originated as a body within Columbia University, but which became independent in the early 19th century. Since 1886, it has published Political Science Quarterly, at first with the assistance of New York-based publisher George A. Plimpton, and, since
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Non-profit
GRID Alternatives is an environmentalist organization that specializes in installing solar power systems in the U.S., Mexico, Nicaragua, and Nepal. Headquartered in Oakland, California, GRID has multiple offices in California, in Colorado, and in the Mid-Atlantic region.
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Other Group
Green Muslims of New Jersey (GMNJ) is an environmental activist organization based in Central New Jersey with a predominantly Muslim membership base. Leadership Saffet Abid Catovic is the founder and board chair for GMNJ. Catovic is also the head of the Islamic Society of North America‘s (ISNA)
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For-profit
Grassroots Campaigns Inc. (GCI) is a for-profit grassroots campaign organization which works for left-of-center advocacy groups. GCI has been called the “for-profit clone” of the Public Interest Network (PIN), a controversial left-of-center advocacy network that oversees the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG) and a set of state-level
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Non-profit
Garrison Institute is a retreat center that provides education and performs research on meditative contemplation and how it can be applied to social activism. It offers programs and retreats in its Garrison, New York location that cover the connection of contemplation and “mindfulness” with left-of-center social issues such as environment
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Non-profit
The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) is an activist and lobbying organization associated with the Religious Society of Friends (also known as the Quakers) that advocates for a broad range of left-of-center policies, economic programs, and social causes. The committee was founded in 1943 by members of the Religious
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Non-profit
Corporate Accountability International is a left-wing advocacy organization founded in 1977 to lead a boycott of Nestlé after it ran a marketing campaign for infant formula that contributed to the deaths of children.
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Non-profit
Common Dreams is a left-wing nonprofit news organization which frequently publishes news and opinion pieces with a left-of-center perspective. 1 Though the organization claims to maintain editorial independence by refusing corporate and government funding, Common Dreams explicitly
