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Non-profit
Peace Action is a left-of-center anti-war advocacy organization founded during the Cold War in opposition to nuclear proliferation. Originally called SANE/FREEZE and formed by the merger of the Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, Peace Action has dozens of affiliates at the state and
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Political Party/527
VoteVets PAC was founded in 2006 with the goal of electing to Congress Afghanistan or Iraq war veterans who were critical of the execution of the war in Iraq.16 VoteVets PAC has given nearly
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Non-profit
The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is a left-of-center think tank and advocacy group that is active on a variety of public policy issues. It operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with 2020 revenues totaling approximately $6.9 million. Since 2021, its executive director has been Tope Folarin.
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Non-profit
9to5 (also known as 9to5, National Association of Working Women) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1973 in Boston during the rise of the Women’s Movement by Karen Nussbaum (now head of AFL-CIO affiliate Working America) and Ellen Cassedy.
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Person
Anna Burger has spent nearly her entire 40-year career working for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) joining in 1972.317 Labeled as the “Queen of Labor,”
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Non-profit
Also see Tides Nexus The Tides Foundation is a major center-left grantmaking organization and a major pass-through funder to numerous left-leaning nonprofits. The San Francisco, California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit was founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, a professional political activist who has since retired from the organization, to funnel
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Labor Union
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the largest union for government workers other than teachers in the United States. Founded in 1932 in Wisconsin, a state that was for decades a stronghold of organized labor, AFSCME represents over 1.3 million government workers and over 188,000