Search results for ‘open knowledge foundation’


  • Non-profit

    Planned Parenthood of New York City

    Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) was a local affiliate of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s largest network of abortion providers and a left-of-center activist organization, that folded into Planned Parenthood of Greater New York in January 2020.
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    American Psychological Association

    The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology and psychologists in the United States. 1 APA is active in left-of-center policy advocacy and grantmaking activities
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    Trump-Russia Collusion Claims

    See also: For a more complete list of public figures who promoted collusion claims, please see this resource  from the Capital Research Center. Starting at least by July 2016 and continuing through March 2019, the FBI and then the office of Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert
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    Minnesota Freedom Fund

    The Minnesota Freedom Fund is a Minneapolis-based bail fund and nonprofit organization which serves incarcerated individuals within the state of Minnesota as well as those under detention by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 1 Its
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    Fair and Just Prosecution

    Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) is a group focused on organizing, training, and promoting elected prosecutors, including State’s and District Attorneys,1 who adopt lenient, left-progressive approaches to criminal justice. It is
  • Person

    Patrisse Cullors

    Patrisse Cullors is a California-based political activist and a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter online movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
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    Candid

    Candid is an organization that collects data, conducts research, and publishes news on nonprofit organizations. It was established in February 2019 by a merger of GuideStar and Foundation Center. Candid has offices in New York City, Williamsburg, Washington, San Francisco, Cleveland, and Atlanta. With a budget of $40 million, Candid
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    Coalition of Women for Peace

    The Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP) is a left-of-center, pro-Palestinian activism organization based in Tel Aviv, Israel that protests the Israeli government and supports the creation of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state.
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    No More Deaths

    No More Deaths (NMD), also known by the Spanish “No Mas Muertes,” is an immigration advocacy group founded in 2004 to protect illegal immigrants facing life and death struggles crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. In 2008, it became an official ministry of the left-of-center Unitarian Universalist Church of
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    Inter-American Dialogue (IAD)

    Inter-American Dialogue, also operating under the name The Dialogue, is a left-of-center foreign policy think tank that pushes for both left-of-center and right-of-center policies in Latin-America. 1 Inter-American Dialogue focuses on four program areas: Education, Energy, Climate Change & Extractive Industries,
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    Kimberlé Crenshaw

    Kimberlé Crenshaw is a left-leaning law professor at UCLA and Columbia University known for her work in “civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law.” 1 She is also
  • Non-profit

    AgroEcology Fund (AEF)

    AgroEcology Fund is a left-of-center environmentalist-aligned project that advocates for issues regarding small farms and other agricultural issues. The organization supports small farmers and opposes industrial agriculture primarily through grantmaking. 1 The organization is a fiscally
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    Next Century Cities

    Next Century Cities (NCC) advocates for expanding high-speed broadband internet access within communities and for shrinking the “digital divide.” NCC is a project of New Venture Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by left-leaning consulting firm Arabella Advisors.
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    Progress North Carolina (Progress NC)

    Progress North Carolina (Progress NC) is an advocacy group created with the goal of shifting North Carolina’s policies to the political left, including increasing taxes, expanding government involvement in health care, and supporting environmentalist initiatives. Progress NC works in conjunction with Progress North Carolina Action, which serves as an
  • Person

    Susan Desmond-Hellmann

    Susan Desmond-Hellman is a medical researcher, academic, and left-leaning philanthropic executive best known as the former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the former chancellor of the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF). Before working on academia and for the Gates Foundation, she worked for various biotechnology
  • Person

    Ron Unz

    Ron Unz is a financially successful former investment industry and software entrepreneur. Since 2013, he has been the publisher of the Unz Review, a website notable for spreading anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories, especially about U.S. policies related to Israel and the Middle East. Unz Review writers, including Unz himself, have
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    Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME)

    The Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the New Venture Fund, a leading “dark money” pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor, to promote sweeping changes to the elections process, including state laws that automatically register voters at state agencies.
  • Person

    Margaret Sanger

    Margaret Sanger was a prominent advocate for contraception, eugenics, population control, and abortion best known for founding the American Birth Control League, the immediate predecessor of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Sanger popularized the term “birth control” as central to her larger philosophy of Birth Control (later
  • Person

    Katie Redford

    Katie Redford is a co-founder of Earth Rights International (ERI). She worked as co-counsel on Doe v. Unocal, a lawsuit through which environmentalists challenged the construction of a pipeline in the country of Myanmar (also known as Burma).
  • Person

    MacKenzie Scott

    MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Formerly known as MacKenzie Bezos, she is recognized as the third-wealthiest woman in the world after a divorce settlement left her with an estimated $37 billion.