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The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) New Voters Project is a left-of-center organization that focuses on increasing participation by left-leaning young voters. It is a part of the left-of-center Public Interest Network (PIN), a collection of over 100 left-leaning advocacy groups that includes the U.S. Public Interest Research
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The Simons Foundation is a private foundation founded by left-leaning Renaissance Technologies hedge fund founder James Simons and his wife, Marilyn. The Foundation funds research in four broad areas: mathematics and physical sciences, life sciences, autism research, and “Outreach & Education.” The Foundation conducts its own research through the Flatiron
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Not to be confused with the Boston, Massachusetts-based organization of the same name. The Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) is a San Francisco-based left-wing community organizing group focusing on the Chinese-American communities in the city. The group grew out of radical-left and pro-People’s Republic of China cadres; academic research has
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Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation) is the primary organizational outgrowth of the more decentralized Black Lives Matter movement. According to an Associated Press report from February 2021, BLM Global Network Foundation was granted tax-exempt status by the IRS in December 2020.
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Denise Cardinal is the executive director of the left-of-center activist organization WIN Minnesota. 1 She has held communications and political roles for liberal candidates, causes, campaigns, and elected officials for more than 20 years.
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Generation Progress is the youth arm of the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action), the 501(c)(4) advocacy arm of the Center for American Progress, a left-of-center think tank created in 2003 as a left-of-center counter to the conservative Heritage Foundation. Generation Progress was created in
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The Amalgamated Charitable Foundation is a donor-advised fund that was spun off from the Service Employees International Union-owned Amalgamated Bank in 2017. 1 It funds a number of left-progressive advocacy organizations and sponsors a campaign targeting social-conservative and
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Civic Hall Labs is the independent nonprofit1 research and development arm of Civic Hall, a left-leaning nonprofit incubator and networking forum.
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Also see Democracy Fund (Non-profit) Democracy Fund Voice is a left-leaning lobbying and electoral advocacy group within the advocacy-philanthropy network of eBay chairman and founder Pierre Omidyar.
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Deepak Bhargava is a career left-of-center activist and community organizer who worked for 16 years as executive director and president of the Center for Community Change (CCC), a left-of-center national organization that coordinates local community organizers. Bhargava led the organization to focus on liberal expansionist immigration policy and ethnic
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Borealis Philanthropy is a left-of-center philanthropic intermediary that has supported the creation, provided operational expertise, and staffed 299 groups since its founding in 2014. Borealis is deeply involved in identity-interest advocacy and organizing; it is perhaps most notable for partnering with the Black Lives Matter movement since 2016.
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Hidden Leaf Foundation is a grantmaking organization that funds left-of-center advocacy groups. Each year, it states that it gives up to $2 million to around 35 organizations. 1
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The Windward Fund is an environmentalist fiscal sponsor organization in the network of “dark money” organizations controlled by philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Fund was created in February 2015 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with startup funding of $5.25 million provided by an unknown source. According to its bylaws, Windward
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Also see Tides Nexus Tides Advocacy (formerly The Tsunami Fund, The Advocacy Fund, and the Tides Advocacy Fund) is a left-of-center advocacy organization associated with the Tides Nexus, a collection of center-left pass-through funders and fiscal sponsorship nonprofits grouped around the Tides Foundation. While Tides Advocacy has
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The Open Society Policy Center (OSPC) is a lobbying group associated with the Open Society Network and the Open Society Foundations, the principal advocacy philanthropic efforts of left-of-center financial billionaire George Soros. From May 2002 to April 2023, OSPC has reported spending over $161 million on lobbying.
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Also see the similarly named Foundation to Promote Open Society (Nonprofit) The Open Society Foundations (OSF; formally Open Society Institute) is a private grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros. OSF was founded in 1993 as the Open Society Institute (OSI), which remains the foundation’s
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The JPB Foundation is a private foundation created by Barbara Picower in 2011. It is one of the largest grant-making foundations in the United States. 1 Focused on medical, environmental, and poverty issues, the
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The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is a nonprofit organization designed to unite and develop the Muslim community across North America. 1 The ISNA organizes programming for Muslim Americans, including
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The Hopewell Fund is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm. The Hopewell Fund manages a number of left-of-center single-issue advocacy groups, including the Economic Security Project and pro-Obamacare Get America Covered. The Hopewell Fund often operates alongside its “sister” nonprofits, primarily
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CASA de Maryland (also called CASA) is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) immigration advocacy organization that helps immigrants, most often of Central American extraction, find employment, regardless of their legal status in the United States. CASA’s executive director has told workers he will never turn their names over to federal immigration officials.