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Non-profit
The California Wellness Foundation is a grantmaking foundation created in late 1990 and endowed in early 1992 because of the conversion of non-profit California health insurer Health Net into a for-profit health insurance corporation. Announcing the terms of the 1992 endowment, California Wellness stated that it had become the “largest
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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 Labor-Congress of Industrial
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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. 87 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. 139 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
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Non-profit
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker-related organization that supports left-of-center policies on immigration, criminal justice, energy, and economic issues. AFSC opposes the use of zero carbon nuclear energy and advocated for radical policies, including abolishing all prisons, defunding law enforcement organizations, and eliminating funding for Immigration
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Non-profit
Alternate ROOTS is a left-of-center arts and cultural activism organization based in Atlanta comprised of members from the southeastern United States. The group was founded in 1976 by the Highlander Center in Tennessee as the Regional Organization of Theaters South (ROOTS), and expanded fund community-based art programs. The group
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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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For-profit
Abt Global, formerly Abt Associates, is a for-profit research and consulting firm founded by Clark Abt that contracts for governments and private entities. 284 The firm undertakes contracts and research in areas such as healthcare
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Labor Union
32BJ SEIU (“32BJ”), founded in 1977, is the nation’s largest union of property service workers, with over 150,000 members in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Florida, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
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Non-profit
For more information on 1Sky, see 350.org (Nonprofit) 1Sky was an environmentalist organization and the educational arm of 1Sky Action Fund, a “social welfare” lobbying group. 1Sky and 1Sky Action merged with the left-of-center environmentalist nonprofits 350.org and 350 Action in 2011.
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Non-profit
1000 Friends of Wisconsin Inc. (“1000 Friends”) is an urbanist-environmentalist advocacy group involved in so-called “smart growth” development regulation. The group claims to focus on expanding public transportation and developing environmentalist infrastructure. The organization frequently opposes highway projects in Wisconsin and to advocate for requiring “smart growth” plans for local
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Non-profit
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (known as the Wilson Center) is a Washington, D.C.-based Presidential Memorial that was established as a part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1968. The Wilson Center says it wants to maintain a forum for informed
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Non-profit
Scenic Hudson, Inc. is a left-leaning climate advocacy nonprofit that is active on issues involving the Hudson River in New York. Scenic Hudson has been opposed to the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
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Non-profit
Action for a Progressive Future (also known as RootsAction)455 is a left-of-center lobbying group that supports anti-war efforts, automatic voter registration, eliminating bail, and the political efforts
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Non-profit
Resources for the Future (RFF) is an environmentalist think tank based in Washington, D.C. RFF creates policy papers and memos to support their left-of-center agenda. RFF focuses on increasing environmental regulations, especially related to global warming. Background In 1951, President Truman formed the Material Policy Council that issued a report
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Non-profit
Resource Generation (RG) is a left-of-center organization which organizes and encourages wealthy young people to “devote a portion of their financial assets to left-of-center causes.”
