Search results for ‘texas public policy foundation’


  • Non-profit

    Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization

    The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization is a right-leaning organization founded by three professors from Hamilton College. 1 The organization
  • Non-profit

    Justice Action Network

    Justice Action Network (JAN) is a criminal justice advocacy group working at both the state and national levels. JAN provides research and polling information to assist other organizations across the political spectrum to create their own campaigns to advocate for liberalization of the criminal justice system. It also hosts events
  • Non-profit

    Lucy Burns Institute

    The Lucy Burns Institute (LBI) is a nonpartisan educational organization that publishes Ballotpedia, an online encyclopedia of over 300,000 articles related to American politics and elections. 1 The Lucy Burns Institute has been doing business as
  • Non-profit

    1889 Institute

    The 1889 Institute is a non-partisan research and education organization focused on public policy analysis and development in Oklahoma. The 1889 Institute promotes free enterprise and limited government by making public policy recommendations on issues like education, healthcare, “economic liberty,” and state finances.
  • Non-profit

    American Federation for Children Growth Fund (AFC Growth Fund)

    American Federation for Children Growth Fund (AFC Growth Fund) is a grantmaking and advocacy organization that that supports school choice in the American educational system. 1 Activities American Federation for Children Growth
  • Other Group

    VOCAL-TX

    VOCAL-TX is an advocacy group focused on issues such as AIDS, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, and homelessness. The group claims these issues are due to “institutional oppression.” 1 It spun off from the Texas Harm
  • Other Group

    Zealous

    Zealous is an advocacy group that uses art, media, and storytelling to push for left-of-center criminal justice policies through the training and support of public defense attorneys. Launched in 2019, it claims to work with roughly 52 public defenders representing 42 offices, and operating in 27 states.
  • Non-profit

    Mano Amiga

    Mano Amiga is an activist organization that advocates for left-of-center criminal justice and immigration policies such as reducing incarceration rates and resisting jail expansion for illegal aliens and minorities in Texas. The group condemned President Joe Biden’s executive order allowing temporary border closures.
  • Non-profit

    Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA)

    Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) is a nonprofit organization that provides mentoring programs to children and youth in the United States. In 1904, a New York City court clerk named Ernest Coulter saw increasing numbers of youth in trouble with the law, and reasoned that attention and guidance
  • Non-profit

    Waco Pride Network (WPN)

    Waco Pride Network (WPN) is a left-of-center LGBT community and activist group in Waco, Texas. The network administers a variety of different social groups and hosts social events. Notably, WPN runs an under-18 youth group and partners with Planned Parenthood to run “Sex-Ed Summer Camp” for middle schoolers and
  • Political Party/527

    Movement Voter PAC

    The Movement Voter PAC is a political action committee affiliated with the left-of-center Movement Voter Project and its sister organization, the Movement Voter Fund. 1 Background The Movement Voter PAC was
  • For-profit

    Metric Media

    Metric Media is a right-of-center media organization that operates more than 1,200 local news sites across the United States as well as business news publications in education, health care, hospitality, energy, law enforcement, and science. 1
  • Non-profit

    Green Advocacy Project

    The Green Advocacy Project, sometimes referred to as the Green Advocacy Fund, 1 is a left-of-center organization that provides funds to left-of-center to far-left political organizations to promote Democratic candidates and environmentalist issue
  • Person

    Simone Otus Coxe

    Simone Otus Coxe is a Democratic Party donor, 1 philanthropist, co-founder of the left-of-center news outlet CalMatters, and
  • For-profit

    The Free Press (TFP)

    The Free Press (TFP, formerly called Common Sense, not to be confused with the left-of-center advocacy group Free Press) is an internet-based media company founded by former New York Times opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss. The Free Press aims to produce news stories that exemplify the journalistic
  • Other Group

    Powerful Parent Movement (PPM)

    The Powerful Parent Movement (PPM) is a coalition of left-of-center education advocacy groups located across the United States that support increasing funding for public schools and “racial justice” policies.
  • Non-profit

    Telescope Fund

    The Telescope Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking fund that is associated with the New Venture Fund (NVF), which is managed by Arabella Advisors. 1 Telescope Fund was
  • Non-profit

    Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF)

    Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is a left-of-center nonprofit offering loans and consulting services to small and mid-sized groups working toward liberal social policy, mental health, education, workforce development, and other sectors. 1 It is
  • Non-profit

    Community Movement Builders (CMB)

    Community Movement Builders (CMB) is a Marxist, Black-focused organization calling for defunding the police, ending cash bail, mass releases of prisoners and illegal immigrants from detention centers, decriminalizing minor offenses and drug laws, and removing police from protests, schools, and public housing. CMB is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and insists
  • Person

    Charles Butt

    Charles Butt is the heir and CEO of the Texas-based H-E-B grocery chain and a prominent donor to left-of-center education initiatives, particularly those that champion public schools over private schools, school choice programs, and homeschooling.