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Non-profit
National League of Cities Institute (NLCI) is the charitable arm of the National League of Cities (NLC). Many of the two organization’s training and educational programs are intertwined with the NLCI providing the funding for conferences and travel expenses. NLCI has received grants from left-of-center nonprofits to facilitate training
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Non-profit
Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) is a nonprofit investment fund that provides “debt and equity financing” to media companies in war-torn regions and countries with authoritarian governments. 1 MDIF aligns itself with the
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Other Group
Integrity Action (formerly known as Tiri 1) is a United Nations-aligned global sustainable development organization that creates apps and digital services for citizens of developing countries to monitor their countries’ policies and infrastructure projects.
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Other Group
Institute for Human Sciences (in German: “Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen,” or IWM) is think tank for the humanities and social sciences located in Vienna, Austria. 1 Financier and billionaire George Soros is
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Non-profit
Muslim Advocates is a left-of-center nonprofit faith-based organization that was founded in response to the effects of the USA Patriot Act of 2001, which it alleges has “led to widespread surveillance and discrimination.” 1 The
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Other Group
The International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, better known as INTERIGHTS, was a London-based human rights legal organization established in 1982. The organization closed in 2014. 1 Two of the primary
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Non-profit
The Arab Studies Institute (ASI), formally organized as ASI-KP, is 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that studies and publishes research on the Arab world. 1
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Other Group
Inclusion International is a left-of-center nongovernmental organization and a London-based charity focused on the welfare of individuals with mental disabilities. Inclusion International is an accredited non-governmental organization in the United Nations and participates in UN sessions regarding the intellectually disabled.
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For-profit
DTI Associates is a government contractor that provides services to the U.S. military and the U.S. Department of Education. It is owned by Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, a publicly-traded military technology company which develops and tests military-grade weapons.
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Non-profit
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) is a nonprofit fund which awards grants to artistic and cultural endeavors in the Middle East. It promotes a more relaxed approach to traditionally strict Arab cultural norms which is exemplified through both the artistic nature of its projects, as well as
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Other Group
The Association for Promoting Inclusion (API) is a Croatian-based non-governmental organization that advocates for more societal support for and the deinstitutionalization of intellectually disabled citizens in Croatia. 1 The organization is largely funded by the Foundation
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Other Group
The 1956 Institute Foundation is a private organization in Hungary that was created to document the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the conditions Hungarians lived in under Soviet Communist domination during the Cold War. From 1995 to 2010, it was adopted as a publicly owned foundation in Hungary to educate
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Non-profit
Restore Justice Illinois (RJI) is the lobbying arm of the Restore Justice Foundation. Restore Justice Illinois advocates for reducing or eliminating mandatory minimum prison sentences, rolling back sentencing enhancements including for the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime, limiting the scope of the felony murder
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Political Party/527
Black Voters Matter Action PAC was formed in the fall of 2020 and was very active in the 2020 U.S. Senate races in Georgia. Most of the organization’s money came from Democracy PAC, one of a constellation of groups funded by billionaire George Soros.
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Other Group
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is a non-governmental organization which opposes Israeli law, especially as it applies to treatment of Palestinians. PCHR’s stated mission is to establish Palestine as an independent nation with Jerusalem as its capital and to expel Israeli citizens from the territory.
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Non-profit
The United States Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) is a network of left-of-center activists and pressure groups which pushes to end the political and military influence of Israel over its neighboring territories, the status of which is disputed between the Jewish state and Palestinian Arab nationalists. The organization also demands
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Person
Barre Seid is a Chicago industrialist and former owner of Tripp Lite, which makes surge protectors. In 2021, Tripp Lite was acquired by Eaton for $1.65 billion in a transaction that involved transferring control of Tripp Lite to the Marble Freedom Trust, a social welfare organization which then sold the
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Other Group
Freedom to Marry Global is a pressure group which pushes for the normalization and legalization of homosexuality in foreign countries. The initiative is a successor to the Freedom to Marry (FTM) project in the United States and aims to build on the success of the same-sex marriage campaign, which
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Non-profit
The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) is a left-of-center advocacy group critical of free-market economic systems and privatization. The group advocates for a larger government role in the economy to redistribute wealth.
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Other Group
Democracy R&D (sometimes written as Democracy Research and Development) funds and organizes local conferences to discuss means of improving democracy and informing the public. Democracy R&D has 95 individual and organizational members throughout the world.
