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Non-profit
Beyond Plastics is a project of Bennington College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action. The group promotes campaigns against plastic products in multiple states, and trains student activists.1 Beyond Plastics has opposed conventional plastic recycling,
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Non-profit
The Zaitlin-Nienberg Family Fund is the philanthropic giving vehicle for left-of-center activists Jody “Jaz” Zaitlin and Mark Nienberg of Kensington, California. It does not file financial reports with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and may be a donor-advised fund within a larger charitable organization.
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Non-profit
Inside Climate News is a media outlet founded in 2007 that covers environmentalist stories across the country and is funded by left-of-center organizations including the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Rockefeller Family Fund.
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Other Group
KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development (KindHearts) is a defunct fundraising and humanitarian aid organization that was connected to terrorism It was listed as the progeny of other fundraising entities that were convicted of providing material support to Hamas and Al Qaeda, including the Holy Land Foundation for Humanitarian Development
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Non-profit
The Action Now Initiative (ANI) is a grantmaking foundation founded by financier John Arnold and his wife, Laura Arnold. ANI has previously donated to organizations advocating left-of-center policy towards education, criminal justice, and health care.
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Non-profit
The Ladies of Liberty Alliance was established in 2009 when a group of women led by Nena Whitfield, a former aide to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who has said there is a shortage of women in the liberty movement. The organization became a nonprofit in 2011.
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Non-profit
American Gateways is a left-leaning advocacy organization which provides legal services to immigrants and refugees from Central America. Its services are provided to legal and illegal immigrants. Originally founded in 1987 as the Political Asylum Project of Austin, it provides its services to low-income immigrants in San Antonia, Austin, Waco,
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Non-profit
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) is a nonprofit organization that claims to empower communities of veterans, service members, and their families to advocate for policy solutions that will improve the lives of Americans.
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Non-profit
The Movement Advancement Project (MAP) is a left-of-center think tank that oversees several projects including an “Equality Map” and “Democracy Map,” which purport to rank U.S states based on their policies regarding LGBT interests and election legislation.
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Non-profit
Global Refuge (formerly Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service) is the second-largest refugee resettlement organization in the United States, and its network partners operate at 50 resettlement and placement sites in the United States. 249
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Non-profit
North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) is an Islamic organization that operates as a form of a conventional trust or endowment program that follows Islamic law-compliant financial practices known as “waqf.” 289 NAIT holds
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Government Agency
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is an international refugee crisis organization based in Geneva, Switzerland with 554 locations in 136 countries around the world. 311 The UNHCR
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For-profit
Katz Compliance (formerly Evans & Katz LLC) is a Washington, D.C.-based political consulting firm that manages Democratic Party and left-of-center political action committees (PACs) and organizations. 352
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Person
Karl Rove is a Republican political operative and political commentator who was a senior advisor to President George W. Bush as a candidate and in the White House from 2000 through 2007. 365
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Non-profit
C3 Solutions (Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions) is a right-of-center environmentalist organization that advocates right-leaning responses to issues including climate change, energy policy, and economic development. 376 In 2024, C3 Solutions
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Other Group
Safer From Harm is a center-left project promoting policies that encourage “harm reduction” rather than an abstinence approach to illicit drug policy. Safe from Harm promotes research and programs throughout the United States that emphasize harm reduction policies for a variety of uses “from opioids to sexual health to tobacco
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Non-profit
The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) is a philanthropic coalition for 157 Jewish federations and nearly 400 Jewish communities across the continent. 404 The group came from a 1999 merger of the
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Non-profit
Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) is a conservationist organization focused on educating the public and advocating for marine life conservation at the local, state, and federal levels. It has 224 chapters in 19 coastal states
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Non-profit
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. 436 Activities American Federation for Children Growth
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Other Group
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.” 445 It spun off from the Texas Harm
