Search results for ‘Independent Institute’


  • Non-profit

    OneVoice Movement

    OneVoice Movement is a project of the Peaceworks Foundation, a nonprofit founded to support a two-state solution to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. Originally operating in the United States, it has expanded to Europe and the Middle East, with one division in each Israel and Palestinian territories.
  • For-profit

    NextEra Energy

    NextEra Energy is the world’s largest utility company. It has a presence in 49 states and four Canadian provinces. 1 It has two principal business interests, Florida Power & Light Company and NextEra Energy Resources.
  • Other Group

    Gender and Family Project

    The Gender and Family Project is a left-of-center transgender advocacy and education group and a project of the Ackerman Institute for the Family, a New York-based therapy organization providing psychological therapy to families in distress. The Ackerman Institute was founded in 1960 and is known for being an early adopter
  • Non-profit

    Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT)

    The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust is a right-leaning watchdog organization. 1 The organization launched in 2012 as the Free Market American Educational Foundation.
  • Non-profit

    Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK)

    Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK) is a research and policy advocacy organization focused on patent laws. It claims that pharmaceutical companies keep drug prices high by gaming the patent system and publishes patent data and reports to support these claims. I-MAK is funded by several left-of-center philanthropies including
  • Non-profit

    Activating Change

    Activating Change is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that provides services for deaf and disabled victims of violence and other crimes. It also advocates for policies that reduce incarceration for deaf and disabled individuals as well as other forms of “institutionalization.”
  • Non-profit

    Georgia Alliance Education Fund

    Georgia Alliance Education Fund is a grantmaking operation for voter mobilization groups based in Atlanta, Georgia. It aims to persuade lawmakers to implement left-of-center policies and finances other groups to do the same. It also conducts reviews of “civic engagement” organizations in state and grades the performance of community outreach
  • Person

    Michael P. Polsky

    Michael P. Polsky is the CEO and founder of Invenergy, which claims it is the “largest privately held global developer, owner and operator of renewable energy.”
  • Non-profit

    Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA)

    Coalition for a Prosperous America is a research and advocacy group championing trade-protectionist policies in the United States. The organization opposes various U.S. trade agreements with China. Background The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) was founded in 2007 by a group of farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, and labor representatives.
  • Non-profit

    Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)

    Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) is a left-of-center research, analysis, advisory, and advocacy organization and think tank headquartered in San Fransico, California. The organization focuses on influencing finance, policy, and land use, particularly in areas of climate change and environmentalist practices.
  • Non-profit

    Asfari Foundation

    The Asfari Foundation is a United Kingdom-registered left-of-center grantmaking organization. The organization has contributed to foreign policy and education nonprofits in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and the disputed Palestinian territories. 1 Background The
  • Non-profit

    Edmund Burke Foundation

    The Edmund Burke Foundation (EBF) is a national-conservative research organization that traces Anglo-American conservative tradition from its earliest days up through the 20th century. 1 It is named for Edmund Burke, an 18th-century British
  • Non-profit

    Blittersdorf Family Foundation

    The Blittersdorf Family Foundation is a Charlotte, Vermont-based private grantmaking foundation belonging to weather-dependent energy businessman David Blittersdorf which mostly donates to environmentalist causes. The group supported the left-of-center activist group Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG) which in 2014 successfully campaigned for the closure of Vermont’s only carbon-free nuclear
  • Non-profit

    Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation

    Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation (BSOF) is an anti-nuclear proliferation and Holocaust education grantmaking foundation. It partners with Hibakusha Stories, a group which presents testimonials from survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. 1
  • Non-profit

    Civil Eats

    Civil Eats is a California-based left-of-center food and food-policy publication that promotes claims critical of some industrial agriculture practices, such as the general administration of antibiotics to livestock and, in some cases, the genetic modification of crops. In addition to publishing its own independent content, the organization also publishes content
  • Non-profit

    David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness Based Education

    The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness Based Education is a foundation founded by film director David Lynch to promote the practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM) to reduce societal stress and various social ills. Since its establishment in 2005, the Foundation has introduced TM to over 500,000 individuals.
  • Non-profit

    People Acting in Community Together (PACT)

    People Acting in Community Together (PACT) is a left-of-center faith-based network in San Jose, California, affiliated with Faith in Action (formerly the PICO Network). Background People Acting in Community Together was founded in 1985 in San Jose, California as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It is an affiliate of
  • Person

    Leonard Leo

    Leonard A. Leo is the co-chairman of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. 1 Leo is perhaps most notable for playing a role in the confirmation of six right-leaning justices of
  • Political Party/527

    Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)

    Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) is a political action committee (PAC) associated with left-of-center education activist organization Education Reform Now (ERN). 1
  • For-profit

    Investing for Good

    Investing for Good is a left-of-center consultancy based in the United Kingdom that promotes “impact investing” among nonprofit organizations such as charities, private foundations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The organization consults with mostly UK-based organizations to advise them on leveraging their portfolios to make investments benefiting left-of-center social and economic