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

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland (ACLU of Maryland) is a left-of-center activist organization and the state-level arm of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). ACLU of Maryland engages in litigation, legislation, lobbying, and public education, with an emphasis on racial issues, across the state of Maryland. The group claims

The Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund is a grantmaking organization based in Baltimore. Maryland and is a supporting foundation of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. It provides grants towards left-of-center issues including low-income housing, behavioral health, and environmentalism.

Fair Count is an Atlanta-based voter mobilization organization founded in 2000 by former Georgia state legislator and Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams 52 and Ronald W. Walters, Endowed Chair for

The Voter Project is a left-of-center organization that promotes increased vote-by-mail and voter registration in Pennsylvania. 67 Originally founded in 2020 to implement Pennsylvania’s Act 77 law that expanded

Democracy Rising is a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) activist group that is fiscally sponsored by left-of-center “fiscal clearinghouse” NEO Philanthropy. 95 The organization initially formed in 2020, with the group’s website claiming its objective to be

The Fair Election Funds (not to be confused with the right-of-center voter security group, the Fair Election Fund) are government-run and financed funds for political candidates in local elections. Local governments establish these funds to encourage small-dollar donors to become involved in local elections. Fair Election Funds are operated in

The Fund for Change is a grantmaking organization created by The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore (The Associated) to provide grants to groups that work with low-income communities and focus on left-of-center issues including criminal justice, low-income housing, and environmental issues. It is one of 43 related organizations that

The Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance is a left-of-center advocacy group affiliated with the left-of-center Unitarian Universalist Association. The group has opposed the construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline claiming that it constitutes “white supremacist destruction of the Earth.”

We Choose Us Action is the political action wing of We Choose Us, a left-of-center coalition of 26 groups based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that promote left-wing voting policies such as expanding voter registration and that mobilize young activists to change election laws.

Children’s Advocacy Institute (CAI) is an academic, research, and advocacy organization established at the University of San Diego (USD) focused on children’s issues. It advocates at the state and federal levels for improvements to the child protection and foster care systems and addresses issues concerning child abuse and sexual exploitation,

A More Perfect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy is a coalition of left-of-center Jewish advocacy organizations that hopes to mobilize 10,000 American Jewish organizations during the 2024 election cycle. 185

Unheard Voices Outreach (UVO) is a left-of-center criminal justice advocacy organization founded by former prisoner Rahim Buford focused on support for the previously incarcerated and decreasing incarceration rates. UVO claims that the root problem of mass incarceration is racism and “felonism,” defined as discrimination against felons.

Students Learn Students Vote (SLSV) is a nationwide voter education and activation network focused on college student voter participation. 222 Though SLSV describes itself as nonpartisan, its leadership is aligned with the Democratic Party,

TrueGivers, LLC, is a mailing service company that provides database services to nonprofits and other customers. 234 In recent years, its TrueNCOA service has been used by election integrity activists to identify potential issues with

Latino Policy Institute (LPI) advocates on state legislation and conducts research and education to advance left-of-center and Latino-focused interests within the state of Rhode Island. 252 The organization claims credit for expanding health coverage

The North Carolina NAACP is a civil rights organization and a state conference of the national NAACP that was founded in 1940.  North Carolina at one point had the largest state NAACP conference in the United States.

The Campbell Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that primarily supports environmentalist organizations focused on issues relating to the Chesapeake Bay and environmentalist organizations on the West Coast. 277 The organization contributes to numerous local chapters of the

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice (Hive Fund) is an organization that connects larger funders to local organizations that directly impact communities and regions. 290 The Hive Fund