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Non-profit
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) is a left-of-center healthcare worker training and research nonprofit. Located in Bronx, New York, this group advocates for increased training and pay for “direct care” workers who perform in-home services as an alternative to nursing homes or live-in patient care facilities. PHI also has a research
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Other Group
Onward Toward Progress is a left-of-center organization that formed after the 2016 presidential election. Its focus is primarily on voter registration and canvassing efforts in California, Nevada, and Michigan. Onward Toward Progress partners with Field Team 6, a left-of-center voter mobilization organization, to host fundraisers and events. About Onward
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Non-profit
The Gender Spectrum Charitable Fund, commonly shortened to Gender Spectrum, was an organization that promoted transgender ideology among youth. It provided resources, conferences, and “social groups” for families of children experiencing gender dysphoria.
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Non-profit
Detroit Action Education Fund is the educational arm of the Detroit Action organization, a left-of-center community organizing and activist group that pushes for left-of-center economic policy through education, activism, and voter drives in the Detroit area. It is not an independent nonprofit but rather exists as a fiscally sponsored project
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Non-profit
Sister Love Inc. is a sex education and policy advocacy group that focuses on issues related to HIV/AIDS and sexual health among African-American women. 1 Activity Sister Love Inc. operates various programs to
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Non-profit
Next Steps Florida is a left-of-center organization dedicated to electing non-centrist Democratic Party candidates within the state of Florida. 1 Next Steps Florida seeks to incubate activists that align with climate change activism, race-centric politics, and increased government
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Non-profit
Association of American Educators (AAE) is a non-union membership organization for educators. It supports school choice policies, including increasing the availability of charter and magnet schools along with programs such as school vouchers, tax-credit scholarships, and education savings accounts (ESAs). Activities Association of American Educators was formed in 1994 as
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Non-profit
The Wege Foundation is a family foundation started by the family that owns Steelcase Inc., a publicly traded office-furniture company. 1 The foundation focuses on funding areas that include diversity, equity, and inclusion; the environment; education;
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Other Group
Generation Ratify is a pro-abortion and Equal Rights Amendment-advocacy and organizing student group fiscally sponsored by the Action Network. In 2022, it supported student protests after a leaked draft opinion suggested the Supreme Court might overturn Roe v. Wade, which found an expansive constitutional right to abortion nationwide.
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For-profit
The Culturally Responsive School Leadership Institute is a critical race theory-aligned consulting organization that specializes in providing consulting services and training programs to educational professionals. The firm’s “sister company” is Adjusted Equity Solutions, which specializes in conducting “equity audits” of schools. Background The Culturally Responsive School Leadership Institute is a
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For-profit
Integrated Comprehensive Systems for Equity (ICS) is a left-of-center consulting firm focused on providing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory-inspired services to public school districts. The firm was founded by Colleen Capper and Elise Frattura, both former professors of education within the University of Wisconsin system. Much
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Other Group
Republicans for Voting Rights (RVR) advocates for loosened voting requirements and opposes election integrity legislation. While the organization is nominally right-of-center, claiming to represent Republican Party voters, it explicitly targets Republican lawmakers and policy advocates who support measures aimed at preventing voter fraud and election manipulation. RVR also calls on
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Non-profit
The Carter Center, founded by former U.S. President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, promotes democratic institutions, global development, and serves as an election observer around the world. It has worked as a watchdog for 113 elections in 39 countries through its “Democracy Program,” and announced in August 2020 that it
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Non-profit
The Equity Lab (formerly the Fellowship for Race and Equity in Education) is a left-wing advisory firm that advises individuals and institutions to address the concepts of race, equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI) to create a critical race theory-inspired society filled with an “equitable, anti-racist citizenry.” Founded in 2014 to
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Non-profit
The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) is a Texas-based association of teachers and scholars from colleges and universities, public policy institutes, and industry that promotes business and free enterprise. The organization has advocated conservative and libertarian-leaning ideas on economics and questions government bureaucracies.
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Labor Union
The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) is a membership organization of women from various labor unions. The organization was founded in the 1970s to promote the feminist movement within organized labor and continues to promote “workplace affirmative action” policies along with other left-leaning gender policies in the United States.
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Person
Laura Williamson, a left-of-center activist, is the associate director for policy and research in the area of democracy reform for Demos, a think tank with close ties to the self-described “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party. Background Prior to joining Demos, Williamson participated in voting rights-related advocacy, organizing,
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Non-profit
Governing for Impact (GFI) is a secretive left-of-center regulatory policy think tank created in 2019 to “prepare a new administration for transformative governance” by writing left-leaning regulatory recommendations for federal bureaucratic agencies.
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Other Group
Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is a left-of-center criminal justice initiative associated with the Defund the Police movement that was launched in the fall of 2018 by the “Social Justice Institute” of the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), a feminist and social justice academic project of Barnard College.
