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Speech First is an advocacy organization that supports free speech for students on college campuses to protect students’ First Amendment rights. Supported by a membership base of students, parents, alumni, and faculty, Speech First files court cases challenging issues on campus such as speech codes, bias response teams, and acceptable use
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Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) is a left-of-center advocacy organization that supports increased immigration and expanded legal protections for immigrants. It was founded as the Border Rights Coalition in the early 1990s with support from the American Friends Service Committee,
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Klarman Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that is the private foundation of investor Seth Karman, the brother of left-of-center academic Michael Klarman. 26
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The New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development was founded in 1890 as the first school of “pedagogy,” or educational theory, in the United States. It has expanded to include programs in the arts, health, and media studies, organized around a central theme of “learning how people
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Julie Fernandes is the associate director for institutional accountability and individual liberty at the left-of-center Rockefeller Family Fund 63
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Janai Nelson is an academic, entrepreneur, and civil rights attorney. After working at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) for 13 years and establishing herself as the organization’s “long-time second-in-command,”
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LiberatED LLC is a left-of-center educational consulting company founded by Dena Simmons, a speaker and writer on education policy and social justice. Through this company, Simmons markets her speaking and workshop services focused on social-emotional intelligence and critical race theory-aligned “anti-racism” and “racial oppression” in education.
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Sherrilyn Ifill is an academic who previously worked as president & director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) from 2013 until she stepped down from her position in 2022. As of 2024, former associate director counsel Janai Nelson serves in the position as president and director-counsel.
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WorkMoney Inc. is a left-of-center “dark money group” 111 with “prominent connections to the U.S. labor
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Votebeat is an online media platform under the Civic News Company that reports on local elections across the United States from a left-of-center perspective. The platform publishes content by corporate sponsors and prominent donors in addition to its routine reporting. Votebeat also states that it times its reporting to match
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Rakim Brooks is a left-leaning attorney who since July 2021 has been the president of the Alliance for Justice, a left-leaning legal policy advocacy organization known for its advocacy on behalf of left-leaning federal judicial nominees and opposition to Republican-nominated judicial nominees. Brooks previously worked for the American
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True the Vote is a Houston-based right-of-center nonprofit founded in 2011 by Catherine Engelbrecht that focuses on election integrity and stopping voter fraud. 165
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Nate Silver is a statistician and polling expert best known as the founder of FiveThirtyEight. Silver has been credited with greatly increasing the popularity of political polling and poll analysis with the media, politicians, and the general public.
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Tomas Robles (also known as Tomas Robles, Jr.) is an activist for expansionist immigration and other left-of-center policies in Arizona. He has been the executive director of Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) since 2013. In October 2021, Robles led LUCHA in launching a series of confrontations against
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Job Creators Network Foundation is the research and education arm of the advocacy group Job Creators Network. It was founded by Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus. 211 The foundation proposed the “Healthcare for You”
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World Vision is a Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization that focuses on children, families, and communities and aims to end poverty. The organization was founded in the United Kingdom in 1950, 220 but
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The Election Official Legal Defense Network, a project of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, was created in 2021 by election lawyers Benjamin Ginsberg and Bob Bauer to offer election officials free legal “advice and protection” after the 2020 presidential election.
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The Citizens United Foundation is the education and research arm of the Citizens United, a right-of-center advocacy organization. The Citizens United Foundation includes a traditional American values program, a legal and judicial action program, and a documentary film production division.
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is a national activist organization based out of Texas which advocates for stricter laws to limit alcohol consumption and prevent driving while intoxicated. The organization was established in 1980 by Candace Lightner, the mother of a teenage girl killed by an intoxicated driver. The group
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Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation (RWCF) is a left-of-center advocacy organization which allocates funds to left-progressive organizations that focus on workers within the restaurant industry. It aims to change how the industry operates by unionizing workers and advocating for restaurant workers’ interests under labor law.
