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Non-profit
National Equity Project (NEP) is a non-profit consulting company that provides equity and social justice training for schools, foundations, governments, and other organizations. NEP specializes in “liberatory design,” an approach to developing equity by redesigning societal structures.
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The Stratosphere is a newsletter published by the left-of-center journalist Teddy Schleifer. The newsletter is focused on American billionaires, especially tech billionaires, and their influence in politics and philanthropy. The newsletter is a precursor to the media company Puck News (forthcoming as of July 2021), with which Schleifer is a
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The Center for Education Reform (CER) is a non-partisan education policy organization that advocates for the expansion of school choice in order to create innovation, improve economic outcomes, and promote freedom. 1
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The Education Trust is a left-leaning advocacy, research, and grantmaking organization based in Washington, D.C. that advocates for more spending on public school systems among other initiatives. The organization lobbies for left-leaning educational policy at the state and federal level and provides research and resources to activists and school districts.
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For-profit
Capitol Impact is a consulting firm located in Sacramento, California, that works with nonprofits including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and governmental organizations.
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America Achieves is an education-policy advocacy group supporting implementation of the Common Core educational standards that is funded by major left-of-center foundation funders. In July 2021, America Achieves partnered with left-of-center think tank New America to issue an open letter to members of Congress to add $100 billion in
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The American Press Institute Inc. (API) is a nonprofit educational organization affiliated with News Media Alliance, an organization that advocates on behalf of the news media. API provides research, analytics tools, and other assistance to journalists and news organizations across the country.
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For-profit
Allen Education LLC is a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training and presentation company based in Kansas City, Missouri. The company is led by Amy McCart, an academic at the University of Kansas. The company gives presentations, trainings, and lectures to school systems and organizations across the country. The company
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Non-profit
Bolder Giving was founded as a project of the Zing Foundation in 2007 by Anne and Christopher Ellinger to promote charitable giving among wealthy left-progressive activists. In 2016, the left-of-center National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) bought Bolder Giving’s assets and announced plans to use the initiative to advance
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Non-profit
Chalkbeat is a left-of-center nonprofit media organization that is focused on local reporting on education issues in the United States. Since 2020, the organization has embraced critical race theory-inspired “antiracist” activism and regularly reports on the use of critical race theory in teaching and efforts to bar it from public
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Accountability Lab is a nonprofit organization that works to expose governmental and aid sector corruption in developing countries. Blair Glencorse, the founder and executive director of Accountability Lab, is associated with the left-of-center groups Echoing Green and Americans for Informed Democracy.
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The Arizona Community Foundation (ACF) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization and one of the largest community foundations in the state of Arizona. The ACF has approximately $903 million in assets as of March 2020 and has provided $853 million in grants since 1978.
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Non-profit
Hometown Action Alabama (Hometown Action) is an activist organization that advocates for left-of-center positions on LGBT, labor, and abortion issues, as well as the expansion of Medicare. Founded in 2018, it is partnered with the left-wing advocacy organization People’s Action.
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EcoHealth Alliance is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that focuses on understanding the emergence and spread of infectious diseases around the world. Initially a nonprofit organization that focused on wildlife conservation, it re-branded in 2010 to study infectious disease.
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Non-profit
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation– and Rockefeller Foundation-funded nonprofit organization created to address food insecurity and poverty in Africa by imposing genetically modified seeds, patented fertilizers and pesticides on Africa’s food systems. Critics have argued that AGRA’s impact
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Non-profit
ExcelinEd (formerly the Foundation for Excellence in Education) is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy think tank that advocates for educational innovation. ExcelinEd advocates for policies that support school choice, increased technologies and online learning, and programs that better prepare graduates for college and careers.
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Non-profit
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is a charitable organization associated with the left-of-center American Bar Association (ABA). Founded in 1952, the ABF employs researchers to conduct studies related to legal institutions and the legal profession.
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Philanthropy Northwest is a network of charitable organizations that promotes left-of-center causes in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. The network receives funding through both government grants and donations from corporations including Microsoft, Boeing, and JP Morgan Chase. The philanthropic consulting organization Arabella Advisors, which manages four major
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Non-profit
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is a right-of-center think tank that promotes free markets and an active foreign policy role for the United States. AEI is considered one of the premier sources of neoconservative thought in the United States. AEI is the primary right-leaning rival to the Heritage Foundation,
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The Institute for Justice (IJ) is a libertarian public interest law firm that pursues constitutional litigation in support of free-market ideals, school choice, free speech, and private property rights. IJ also runs advocacy programs, research initiatives, and trainings to promote free-market economic policy.
