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The People’s Action Institute is a community organizing group formed from the merger of several advocacy organizations in 2016 including the National People’s Action, Alliance for a Just Society, and USAction Education Fund, three left-of-center community organizing groups.
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Operating as a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a U.S. federal agency, the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) holds annual grant competitions to match federal dollars with money from foundations and other private sources, providing funding for non-profit programs targeting youth development, economic opportunity and health
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Jamie Gorelick is an attorney and longtime Washington, D.C. Democratic political operative. She is currently a partner at the DC-based WilmerHale law firm. Her career has been marked by controversy. As Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, she drafted a memo that greatly restricted information sharing between federal law
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Amalgamated Bank of New York (known as Amalgamated Bank) is a labor union-aligned and formerly labor union-owned bank. Created by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), until its initial public offering in 2018 the bank was owned by labor unions, most recently the Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU)
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Avaaz is a left-of-center international campaigning organization and online pressure co-founded in 2007 by online activist groups Res Publica and Moveon.org, along with several individuals, including former U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA), Eli Pariser, and Ricken Patel. Patel is the organization’s president and CEO.
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New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is a left-of-center think tank in the United States. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, education, and the economy. The think tank’s scholars and affiliated commentators include former and some
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Freedom to Marry (FTM) advocated for the for state recognition and normalization of same-sex marriage across the United States. The organization was disbanded in 2016 after the Supreme Court in 2015 struck down laws prohibiting recognition of same-sex marriages in Obergefell v. Hodges.
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Conservation International is a left-of-center environmentalist organization headquartered in Virginia. Founded in 1987, Conservation International lobbies political authorities to implement environmentalist policies while also promoting private investment in conservationist projects. 179 Background Conservation International is an environmentalist
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The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is a left-of-center legal activist group that aims to frame the United States Constitution as a document whose meaning shifts based on historical and political circumstances and that lawmakers should apply its articles and amendments accordingly. To advance this view, often
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The Urban Institute is a non-profit that was originally founded by President Lyndon Johnson and group of his handpicked cohorts to provide research supporting his administration’s liberal entitlement programs.
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The National Immigration Forum (NIF) was established in 1982 to advocate for immigrants in the United States. The organization advocates for granting legal status to most illegal immigrants already in the United States and staunchly opposes border enforcement policies. The organization also promotes naturalization and learning English. Background Rick Swartz,
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The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is the nation’s largest LGBT-interest activist organization and a prominent force in left-of-center politics. Together with the affiliated Human Rights Campaign Foundation charitable arm and super PAC, HRC has built relationships with powerful mostly Democratic Party politicians and major corporations, and has taken a
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Friends of the Earth is a global environmentalist group based in the Netherlands. The U.S. branch is based in San Francisco and was started in 1969 by former Sierra Club executive director David Brower. The organization routinely moves beyond environmental matters and into various other left-of-center advocacy including economic
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Dustin Aaron Moskovitz is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes. In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana with Justin Rosenstein. 366
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The Wyss Foundation is a private foundation established in 1998 by Swiss billionaire and former Synthes CEO Hansjorg Wyss, an environmentalist activist and former CEO of the controversial medical device manufacturer Synthes.
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Waterkeeper Alliance, started by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in 1999, focuses on enforcing environmental laws and preventing pollution, often with aggressive campaigns that have included lawsuits against small farmers.
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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is the seventh largest private foundation in the United States, and the largest nonprofit in Michigan.
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Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC or ROC-United) is one of the nation’s most prominent “worker centers,” labor-union-like organizations backed by union organizing know-how and left-of-center foundation funding. An outgrowth of a mutual-aid organization for the surviving unionized employees of the Windows on the World restaurant destroyed in the September 11th
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The New Venture Fund (NVF) is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that makes grants to left-of-center advocacy and organizing projects and provides incubation serves for other left-of-center organizations. The fund focuses primarily on social and environmental change, issuing grants for a variety of projects that include conservation, global
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The Joyce Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Chicago that finances advocacy for gun control, environmental causes, and liberal education policy; opposition to right-of-center election reforms; and left-of-center nonprofit media outlets. Beatrice Joyce Kean established the organization in 1948. Before he was elected President of the United States, then-Illinois
