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Iara Lee is a left-of-center anti-war and pro-Palestinian activist who was married to hockey, film, and environmental enthusiast George Gund III until his death in 2013.
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The Sustainability Group at Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge is an investment advisory group involved in the left-of-center “environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) movement that is a part of the Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge investment firm. The group mostly works with individuals and trusts by handling investment management, investment advisory accounts,
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The Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island, also known as ERSRI, is the $8 billion retirement system that covers Rhode Island state employees, teachers, and municipal employees that include police, fire, corrections officers, public health nurses, state police and judges.
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is a United Kingdom-based, nonprofit charity that is active in multiple continents around the world and focuses on accelerating the implementation of an environmentalist “circular economy” to combat climate change and reduce material waste.
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Christopher Hohn is an English hedge fund manager and billionaire philanthropist with a personal fortune of £1.2 billion (approximately $1.56 billion) as of 2019
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Donald Gips is president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, a leading environmentalist funding organization founded by former eBay president Jeffrey Skoll. Gips’s career spans the Clinton and Obama administrations, anti-poverty efforts domestically and internationally, and four years as the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. Gips
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Center for Global Policy Solutions is a left-of-center nonprofit founded by Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, a candidate for U.S. Representative in the special election to fill the seat for the 7th District, and widow of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD).
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Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA) is an evangelical Christian environmental advocacy group and the youth wing of the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN), which advocates left-leaning environmentalist messages to right-leaning Christians. EEN and YECA are in part funded by liberal foundations, including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Energy
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We Are Still In is a coalition of state and local governments, businesses, investors, universities, and other organizations created by the left-of-center Bloomberg Philanthropies to support the Paris Climate Accords, an environmentalist agreement negotiated by the Obama administration, not submitted to the United States Senate for ratification, and
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Abortion On Our Own Terms advocates for self-managed abortions (SMA), an abortion procedure involving a two-drug cocktail. 1 It is a project of Progress Florida Education Institute (PFEI), an abortion-advocacy and generally left-of-center group based
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Ellen Pao is the former interim CEO of Reddit and the founder of Project Include. She rose to national prominence after suing her former employer, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, for gender discrimination; she lost the case.
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The 11th Hour Project is the main grant-making vehicle of the left-of-center Schmidt Family Foundation of former Alphabet (Google) CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy Schmidt. It chiefly supports nonprofit organizations that focus on environmentalist advocacy and international development issues. Background Founded in 2006, the
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Provide is a Massachusetts-based organization which specializes in training social service and medical professionals to refer for abortions. Its operations largely take place in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States. 1 The organization has been
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The Hispanic Federation (HF) is a left-of-center New York-based membership organization that works with Hispanic communities across the United States, with its member groups primarily on the East Coast. The HF works in areas of education, health, immigration, economic empowerment, civic engagement, and the environment, with advocacy targeted and specific
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ACRONYM is a left-of-center political and advocacy organization designed to launch voter mobilization and digital advertising programs while also working on communications for left-progressive causes. 1 ACRONYM advances a left-of-center agenda at the
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The South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center (SCALJC) is a left-of-center advocacy organization that advocates for policies including Obamacare, LGBT adoption,1 and illegal immigration.
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Arjuna Capital LLC is a left-of-center investment firm based in Durham, North Carolina that specializes in activist investment strategies in environmentalist and social justice causes. The firm encourages shareholder activism and leads in the development of financial portfolios that promote left-of-center initiatives including gender pay equity, support for environmentalist energy
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Mercy for Animals (MFA) is an animal liberation group that seeks to abolish animal agriculture. In the short run, it advocates for policies that increase government regulations on livestock farming practices. MFA has faced criticism for creating misleading narratives in order to target and accuse farmers of abuse.
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Citizens Action Coalition (formerly Citizens Energy Coalition) is a political advocacy organization that lobbies for left-of-center causes, especially environmentalist policies, in Indiana. It was formed in 1974 when several labor unions, churches, nonprofits, and other organizations, united by their shared environmentalist outlook and concern that utility companies were exploiting consumers,
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Saket Soni is a left-of-center community organizer responsible for organizing, and ultimately mobilizing, left-leaning constituencies on issues such as immigration and labor, having been profiled as the “architect of the next labor movement” by USA Today.
