Search results for ‘rockefeller fund’


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    Environmental Grantmakers Association

    The Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is an organization that coordinates the distribution of grants to advance the left-of-center environmentalist movement.
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    East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Reform Coalition

    The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Reform Coalition is a left-of-center community coalition focused on improving prison conditions and ending supposed mass incarceration through education and advocacy. The Coalition is part of the Promise of Justice Initiative
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    Darrick Hamilton

    Darrick Hamilton is the Henry Cohen professor of economics and urban policy at The New School and the founding director of the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy. 1 Hamilton is an
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    After Party

    The After Party is a six-part video course for churches, church small groups, and individuals that says it helps to navigate “extreme polarization” that has resulted from politics. 1 It is a project of
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    Pregnancy Justice, Inc.

    Pregnancy Justice, Inc. is a left-of-center legal advocacy organization. It focuses on pregnant women involved with the criminal justice or child welfare systems, labeling such cases as the “criminalization of pregnancy.” 1 Pregnancy Justice asserts that
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    General Atlantic Foundation

    The General Atlantic Foundation is an investment foundation that claims to be managing $83 billion in assets which they invest into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. They are partnered with groups like The Nature Conservancy, an environmental foundation that had over $9 billion in assets in 2021,
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    Palestinian American Research Center (PARC)

    The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) is a left-of-center think tank that promotes the exchange of research between Palestinian and American scholars and operates a variety of programs promoting Palestine. As an educational group that aims to teach students and professors about Palestine, many of the group’s affiliated scholars include
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    Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company (APSC)

     The Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company (APSC) was the American arm of Atlantic Philanthropies, the grantmaking foundation of the late Charles “Chuck” Feeney. 1 In
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    Criterion Institute

    The Criterion Institute is an activist think tank which works to “disrupt traditional power dynamics” by shifting investor and tax dollars towards international non-governmental organizations and businesses which support left-of-center social movements. Criterion focuses on how finances can be used to shift towards a society which prioritizes social movements such
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    Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network

    Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network is a think tank with hundreds of scholars from around the world producing policy analysis and ideas to help Palestinians gain social and other support against Israel. Al-Shabaka is registered in the state of California as the Middle East Policy Network.
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    Michael Moritz

    Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born American billionaire investor best known for his work with Sequoia Capital. As of March 2024, Moritz had an estimated net worth of $5.7 billion. 1 In April 2012, Moritz and his
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    Freshwater Trust

    The Freshwater Trust is an environmentalist group based in Portland, Oregon that often receives funding from grants and contracts with state and federal government agencies in connection with its regional conservation efforts. Background In 1983, the predecessor organization to the Freshwater Trust, Oregon Trout, was formed as a wild fish
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    Tortuga Foundation

    The Tortuga Foundation is the grantmaking foundation of the Livingston family. Though Tortuga primarily contributes to conservation groups, it gives grants to organizations that advocate for left-of-center policies, including the Environmental Integrity Project, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, and Planned Parenthood.
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    United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 policy goals that were adopted by all United Nations (UN) member states in 2015 as a part of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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    Ian Fuller

    Ian Fuller is a strategy consultant and the co-founder and CEO of Westfuller, a consulting from that provides strategic management services to left-of-center nonprofit organizations. As of 2024, Fuller sat on boards and committees of a number of prominent left-of-center organizations, such as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, ImpactAssets,
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    Black Feminist Futute (BFF)

    Black Feminist Future (BFF) on developing Black feminist activist leaders through training and pushing the Black feminist agenda through campaigns and public events. BFF focuses on building leadership among Black women, girls, and gender expansive people.
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    Water Foundation

    Water Foundation is a Sacramento, California-based left-of-center environmentalist grantmaker with a focus on water-related issues. It occasionally takes stances on non-environmental issues as well. Major donors such as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation provide funds to
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    MacMillan Family Foundation

    The MacMillan Family Foundation (officially known as The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc.) is a grantmaking foundation focused on “cancer and medical research, education, and the arts.” 1 The Foundation also gives to some left-of-center organizations,
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    Evident Change

    Evident Change, formerly the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, is a left-of-center research nonprofit with a focus on criminal justice and child welfare issues. The group opposed the use of cash bail as a condition of pretrial release, claiming that it places an unfair burden on poor and nonwhite
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    Lauren Sanchez

    Lauren Sanchez is an American media personality who has worked in television and film as a news anchor, journalist, reporter, and actress. In 2016, she founded Black Ops Aviation, the first female-owned and operated aerial film and production company.