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Non-profit
Classical Uprising (CU) brings classical music to people where they gather as a means of popularizing classical music. The organization’s name was chosen as a call to challenge existing norms and support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and LGBT people.
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Other Group
The Jewish Leadership Project is a right-leaning group founded by pro-Israel activists Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser in 2022 that contends establishment Jewish organizations fail to understand the nature of anti-Jewish bigotry in the United States.
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Labor Union
The Portland Association of Teachers is a left-of-center teachers’ union representing educators in the Portland, Oregon public school district. The union represents around 3,500 teachers within the Portland Public School system, which serves 49,000 students. The union has supported a variety of left-of-center issues and causes in its history and
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Labor Union
Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) is a cross-industry service-sector labor union primarily located in located in the American South. 1 USSW formed in November 2022
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Labor Union
The Texas State Teachers Association is a left-of-center teachers union representing public school educators in Texas. The union is affiliated with the left-of-center National Education Association and is one of two major statewide teachers’ unions in Texas, the other being the Texas AFT affiliated with the American Federation
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Non-profit
Dorrance Dance is a left-wing tap dance performance nonprofit located in New York City. The group attained notice among political watchers for having appeared in a December 2023 holiday-themed musical video filmed at the White House during the Biden administration.
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Non-profit
The William T. Grant Foundation is a donor nonprofit that gives between five and six-figure annual donations to universities, such as Duke University, to fund programs such as Duke’s “Making Black Reparations in America,” on controversial public-policy topics. The foundation also gives grants to policy and media groups like
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Non-profit
Hoffman Brouse Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation founded by Mark Brouse and Lynn Hoffman-Brouse in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2022, the foundation distributed $67,000 in grants. The largest donations went to organizations focused on the environment and abortion access.
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Non-profit
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Chicago is the Chicago branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy organization for Muslims in the United States. The founders of the national CAIR organization have been suspected of supporting radical groups, particularly Hamas.
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Non-profit
Education Reform Now (ERN) is a left-of-center education activist organization. ERN supports the far-left Black Lives Matter movement,
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For-profit
Adasina Social Capital is an investment advisory firm that focuses its investments on left-of-center social advocacy involving race, gender, economic equality, and climate. 1 It developed the Adasina Social Justice Investment Criteria to create investment
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Non-profit
Alliance for the Great Lakes is a Chicago, Illinois-based environmentalist nonprofit with a focus on the Great Lakes. In March 2021, it announced a left-of-center, identity politics influenced framework of environmental justice is its top priority.
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Non-profit
Foreign Policy for America (FP4A) is a left-of-center foreign policy advocacy organization that was founded in 2017 in response to the election of President Donald Trump. 1
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Non-profit
Common Justice is a Brooklyn-based criminal justice advocacy organization that promotes efforts to defund the police and end the incarceration of criminals, including violent felons. 1 The
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For-profit
Discovery Education is a for-profit web-based science and reading education platform funded by programming it provides to public and charter schools across the United States. The Discovery Education program primarily focuses material related Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Reading (STEM-R). Some modules within the education program, primarily those relating to
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Non-profit
The Elkhart Education Foundation is a left-of-center organization that provides extracurricular programmatic support, as well as other resources, to the Elkart Community Schools system in Elkhart, Indiana. 1 In 2021, EKF provided the school system with $30,000 in grants
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Non-profit
The Omid Foundation is a women’s activist organization which works to reduce traumatic experiences for women between 15 and 25-years-old in areas of the world that speak Persian (also known as Farsi). This is achieved by training parents, educators, psychologists, and university students to consider communities’ mental health. The group
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Non-profit
The Cleveland Foundation is a grantmaking foundation based in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in the 1910s, the foundation is among the largest grantmaking institutions in the United States with over $3.2 billion in assets under management and over $120 million in annual grants distributed. The foundation bills itself as the “world’s
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Other Group
Social Change Lab is a social movement research team located in London, England, that examines ways to accelerate left-of-center social activism and provides that information to activists and philanthropists. Its research indicates that activist groups that conduct disruptive civil actions and protests are more effective than the larger nonprofit organizations
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Other Group
The Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity (SACReD) is a left-of-center advocacy organization comprised of pro-abortion religious organizations and individual churches that promotes left-of-center abortion policy. The alliance is a project of NEO Philanthropy, a New York-based nonprofit that serves as a fiscal clearinghouse for left-of-center causes. NEO
