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Fund II Foundation is the grantmaking foundation associated with Robert F. Smith, the billionaire founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners who has become the wealthiest African American in the country. The foundation’s mandate is to fund organizations that preserve African-American culture, combat human rights violations, promote outdoor education,
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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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The Center for Michigan is a public policy nonprofit that operates two news sites: Bridge Michigan, which covers the state, and BridgeDetroit, which focuses on Detroit. Media Bias/Fact Check has rated Bridge Michigan as having a “left-center bias,” which includes taking editorial positions that favor left-of-center perspectives.
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Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is a libertarian public interest law firm founded in 1973 that represents clients at no charge. 1 PLF’s founders believed public interest law had drifted into supporting, rather than challenging, government
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Michigan United is a left-of-center advocacy group in Michigan that focuses on expanding protections for illegal immigrants, in addition to promoting left-of-center policy on criminal justice, the environment, and health care.
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The Reform LA Jails project promotes left-of-center criminal justice and corrections policies in Los Angeles County, California. It sponsored a successful 2020 county-level ballot initiative to give the Los Angeles County Civilian Oversight Commission subpoena power to investigate alleged misconduct by sheriff’s deputies in county jails and require the
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Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist best known for founding LinkedIn. Hoffman was relatively apolitical prior until 2016, when he became an outspoken critic of then-Republican candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Following the election, Hoffman called President Trump “worse than useless as
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The Beacon Center of Tennessee, formerly known as the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, is a right-of-center think tank that promotes free-market solutions for Tennessee state-level policy matters. The Center’s research areas include economic, education, and health care policy. It is also a member of the State Policy Network,
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The Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is a right-of-center organization that opposes wasteful and corrupt government spending. Since 1984, CAGW has served as a taxpayer watchdog organization and has published reports exposing politicians that aim to pass questionable financial legislation.
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Empower Mississippi is a right-of-center advocacy organization focused on education, criminal justice, and labor policy issues in Mississippi. 1 Founded in 2014 by conservative activist Grant Callen, Empower Mississippi is a member of the right-of-center State
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Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania (CVP) is a left-of-center environmentalist advocacy organization that endorses and supports state and local candidates in the state of Pennsylvania. CVP is affiliated with the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), a national environmentalist organization that has been accused of being a “dark money heavyweight” by
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The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) is a nonprofit organization that promotes left-of-center social policy through litigation and policy initiatives. The group supports, advocates for, and attempts to implement left-wing policy approaches, including a federally recognized “right” to an abortion with government-funded abortion access, government-funded birth control, the expansion of
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NDN Collective is a left-of-center Native American advocacy organization based in Rapid City, South Dakota. 1 NDN
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Ibram X. Kendi is a professor, activist, and author most known for pioneering the radical-left ideology of “antiracism,” which claims that any racial inequalities are inherently the result of racist policies. Kendi has argued that there is no such thing as being “non-racist,” and that in order to avoid being
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Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square. Dorsey has said little publicly about his political beliefs, aside from supporting calls for a “universal basic income” welfare program. Dorsey has previously donated to Democratic candidates, particularly in the 2020 election cycle
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Disabled in Action of Metropolitan New York is a left-of-center civil rights organization that focuses on alleged discrimination against individuals with disabilities. Disabled in Action raises awareness of discrimination against people with disabilities and uses litigation and advocacy efforts to promote legal change. History Disabled in Action was founded in
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The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a single-issue right-of-center advocacy organization that promotes responsible firearms ownership and use. It is involved in firearms-related education, training, and political activism, supporting policies that it sees as furthering the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment to the
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For more information, see Sixteen Thirty Fund (Nonprofit) and Arabella Advisors (For-Profit) The North Fund is a left-of-center
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Black to the Future Action Fund (BFAF) is a political advocacy group associated with Black Lives Matter. BFAF aims to educate and organize left-of-center African-American voters to elect African-American officials to further its political goals. The organization’s Black Agenda 2020 lays out a left-wing platform for reforming the allegedly
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The Abelard Foundation is a left-of-center family foundation created by Albert B. Wells and funded with profits from the American Optical Company in 1958. 1 The Foundation makes grants to left-of-center nonprofit start-up organizations that seek to build
