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Racial Justice Investing is a Black Lives Matter movement-aligned membership organization of activist investors. Background Racial Justice Investing (sometimes styled as the Racial Justice Investing Coalition) was founded as a group of activist investors aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement in December 2017. According to the organization’s
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The British Broadcasting Corporation is a state-funded media organization formed in 1927 under a Royal Charter in the United Kingdom. The organization receives most of its money through television license fees, which every UK household must pay if that household watches or records live television, or if it uses the
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Non-profit
Braver Angels is a cross-partisan organization that hosts workshops, debates, and other events aimed at bringing people from diverse political perspectives together in discussion. Braver Angels seeks to move participants along a spectrum away from feelings of “hatred or disdain” for their opponents, and instead move them towards “respect and
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Non-profit
The Ocean Foundation (TOF) is a left-of-center fiscal sponsorship and grantmaking organization that focuses on environmental issues, especially those related to the world’s oceans. Founded in 2001, TOF has received private and governmental funding, and also offers corporate partnerships, drawing attention to the public relations face-lift it can bestow: “improved
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Non-profit
The Kinsey Institute is a controversial research institution that studies human sexuality and sexual behavior. Located at Indiana University, the Institute pushes broadly left-of-center and socially liberal views on sexuality and gender identity. The Institute was founded by and is named after sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, whose work has garnered
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Global Cooling Prize was an award competition from 2018 until 2021 that awarded $3 million in prizes to submissions to built more energy-efficient home air conditioning units. The eight competition finalists each received $200,000 to build working prototypes for testing, with the winner of the Global Cooling Prize receiving $1
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Non-profit
The Taproot Foundation is a nonprofit organization that connects nonprofits and “social change organizations” with volunteers who provide such organizations with marketing, strategy, human resources, and information technology services. The organization was founded in 2001 and has made significant commitments to left-of-center ideologies and organizations in relation to racial issues
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Non-profit
Dev Color (stylized as /dev/color) is a career network and accelerator for Black software engineers, 1 technologists, entrepreneurs,
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The Just Economy Institute (JEI) is an advocacy group which pushes for wealth and resource redistribution towards left-of-center political, social, and environmental causes through both government policies and private-sector initiatives. The JEI describes itself as a collective of “financial activists” working to change to “purpose of wealth” in American society,
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Social Watch is an international network of activist groups which promotes left-wing wealth redistribution programs and cultural values. Founded in 1995, the network describes itself as holding national governments, non-government organizations (NGOs), and the United Nations (UN) accountable for making progress towards implementing its preferred economic and societal principles,
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Non-profit
The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) is a left-of-center California-based policy and research organization that advocates for policies it believes will reduce gun violence and increase leniency in the criminal justice system . Founded in 2017, NICJR is a member of the African American-led Coalition to Advance Public Safety,
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Clean Up the River Environment (CURE) is a left-of-center environmentalist advocacy group that works to influence energy policies and the political climate in rural Minnesota. CURE’s “Equity Statement” says that it works to alter systems that drive problems with both the environment and society, and that “CURE must practice equity,
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Third Act Initiative (Third Act) is a left-of-center advocacy group that organizes elderly volunteers to protest and campaign for environmentalist policies as well as eliminating election integrity laws. It supports a total transition to environmentalist energy and has organized campaigns that allege voter identification laws only exist to prevent an
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Person
Hamid Khan is the founder of the left-of-center Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, the organization that publishes the Watch the Watchers database which provides Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers’ headshots, names, hire dates, ranks, and ethnicities to the public.
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Non-profit
University of Orange is a far-left nonprofit organization based in Orange, New Jersey, that advocates for the restoration of cities. It classifies its political views as “restoration urbanism” and states that it aims to “cultivate a just and equitable city.”
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Non-profit
National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) is a left-of-center association that focuses its efforts on the concept of “media literacy.” 1
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The Election Verification Network (EVN) is a network of election officials and experts who meet annually to discuss election policies and reforms. Although the EVN claims to be nonpartisan, many of its members work at left-of-center advocacy groups, and its funding comes from similar groups. Membership As of March 2023,
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Be Internet Citizens is a program designed to shape online behavior that is designed for children aged 13 to 15 that was founded in partnership with the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and American technology company Google.
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Online Civil Courage Initiative is a Facebook-founded European initiative challenging what the organizers call hate speech and extremism online. The OCCI was founded in Berlin, Germany, by social media company Facebook and is being led by the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
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Occupy Los Angeles was a protest movement that emerged as a local manifestation of Occupy Wall Street, a left-of-center anti-capitalist movement that began in 2011. It formed as a camp around Los Angeles City Hall on October 1, 2011 to advocate general left-wing and anti-capitalist sentiments. Police eventually dispersed
