Common Cause Texas is the Texas state branch of Common Cause, a left-of-center advocacy organization. Common Cause Texas lobbies for changes to the Texas judicial-selection process, campaign finance laws, and election laws. The organization’s executive director said he was “really concerned about violence at the polls” prior to the

The Common Cause Education Fund is the 501(c)(3) partner organization of Common Cause, an influential and controversial 501(c)(4) advocating for left-of-center causes headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Common Cause Education Fund exists to raise tax-deductible dollars from liberal donors and foundations that can be used to support the progressive

Common Cause is a lobbying and advocacy group focused on advancing left-of-center policy priorities at the national, state, and local levels. Common Cause has state offices in 28 states and a sister education and advocacy group called the Common Cause Education Fund.

Faith Commons is an interfaith organization that advocates for left-of-center social policies in Dallas, Texas. It welcomes “multi-faith, multi-ethnic” members and focuses on education, discussion, and advocacy related to left-leaning issues such as race, immigration, and abortion access. During the 2024 election cycle, Faith Commons produced a series of videos

Common Crawl is a nonprofit which maintains an open repository of “crawled” internet data. The group makes the information which it crawls from the internet free and open to researchers. Some news outlets began demanding that the group not crawl their websites because of the group’s role in training artificial

Alliance for Common Sense is a political organization founded by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) to support the re-election of Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D). The Alliance sponsored several ads in 2022 that attacked the Republican candidate Tim Michels, claiming he was too radical and divisive for

Common Justice is a Brooklyn-based criminal justice advocacy organization that promotes efforts to defund the police and end the incarceration of criminals, including violent felons. 100 The

Common Good Iowa is a left-of-center advocacy organization that advocates increased social welfare spending in Iowa. The organization opposes cutting Iowa’s state income tax, claiming that tax cuts would benefit the wealthy and lead to draconian cuts in Iowa’s welfare spending.

Vote Common Good is an left-leaning voter advocacy and education group focused on religious voters. Founded in 2018 by longtime liberal evangelical activist Doug Pagitt, Vote Common Good was explicitly founded to oppose the policies of the Trump administration.

The Common Sense Institute (CSI) is a non-partisan, public-policy think tank that intends to protect and promote Colorado’s economy using principles that support free markets, individual freedom, and individual opportunity. 137 CSI is

The Commonwealth Fund is a health care policy-focused private foundation. It funds research on and advocacy for health care systems, frequently taking a left-of-center perspective on state intervention in the medical system

Rally for Common Ground is a left-wing organization which helps organize protests and events promoting left-wing environmental causes.185

Common Dreams is a left-wing nonprofit news organization which frequently publishes news and opinion pieces with a left-of-center perspective. 186 Though the organization claims to maintain editorial independence by refusing corporate and government funding, Common Dreams explicitly

GenDemocracy is a left-of-center activist group which argues for “advancing social justice at the intersection of gender and democracy.” 208 The group’s most visible activity is Stop the Coup 2025, a website opposing Project 2025,

Sheriffs for Trusting Communities (also known as Sheriff Accountability Action) is a left-of-center anti-policing nonprofit based in Durham, North Carolina. The group supports defunding sheriffs’ offices, “promotes alternative safety models,” and works to oppose “deportations and mass incarceration.”

Unite Oregon, also known as the Center for Intercultural Organizing, 238 is a local membership organization that claims to advocate for the creation of a “multicultural movement for

The Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA) is an advocacy group for Muslims that claims to promote the Islamic faith in North America, particularly in the United States, through interfaith dialogue and community outreach.

The Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation is a private family grantmaking organization founded in 1943 by Bernard and Alva Gimbel. As of December 2024, the foundation was managed by Bernard and Alva Gimbel’s granddaughter, Leslie Gimbel.

Imagine North Carolina First is a left-of-center activist group with a mission to increase representation of ethnic and racial minorities by funding policy research and garnering votes. The group claims its actions are nonpartisan, though it has targeted the Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly for criticism.

The Governors Action Alliance (GovAct) is an umbrella group that oversees Governors Safeguarding Democracy and the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, a pair of state-governor coalitions that support left-of-center and Democratic Party-backed policies. In September 2024, GovAct received $500,000 in funding from Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund. GovAct is