Search results for ‘common cause’


  • Other Group

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    The Southern Christian Leadership conference is a collection of local chapters located throughout the country that advocates for racial justice and government welfare programs for economic redistribution. Founded by Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization hosts demonstrations against businesses that it claims are engaged in racism and discrimination against African
  • Other Group

    Open the Government (OTG)

    Open the Government (OTG) is a coalition of left-of-center organizations that promote various changes to open records and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws, as well as left-of-center racial preference policies. The group was founded in 2008 and has operated campaigns criticizing the federal government’s counter-terrorism and surveillance programs. The
  • Other Group

    Transparency International (TI)

    Transparency International (TI) is an international anti-corruption coalition of over 100 chapters worldwide that practices research, advocacy, and campaigning to expose corruption, push for greater government transparency, and lobby for anti-corruption legislation and processes. 19 It
  • Other Group

    ElectionIntegrityCaucus.us

    ElectionIntegrityCaucus.us is a left-of-center election activist group based in Petaluma, California. 39 It supports the proposed For the People Act, which would federalize U.S. election administration
  • Non-profit

    CASE Action Fund

    CASE Action Fund (also named CASE Action) is a left-of-center voter engagement and policy advocacy organization founded in 2016 and located in Arizona. 59 It is associated with 501(c)(3) Central Arizonans for a
  • Non-profit

    Campaign to Unload

    Campaign to Unload was a gun control advocacy coalition of over 50 left-of-center organizations focused on changing gun law policies and encouraging organizations and individuals to divest of all investments in gunmakers.
  • Non-profit

    In Our Own Voice National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda

    In Our Own Voice National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda is a pro-abortion activist organization that asserts that there are “systems of oppression that target black women.” It is a partnership of eight Black women’s activist organizations, is a member of left-leaning coalition Declaration for American Democracy and is
  • Other Group

    Scrutineers

    Scrutineers is a left-of-center election activist organization that plans strategies and works to implement the critical race theory-influenced concept of “election justice.” 112 Scrutineers is a member of the left-leaning Declaration for American Democracy (DFAD)
  • Non-profit

    Lawyers Defending American Democracy

    Lawyers Defending American Democracy is a left-of-center political advocacy organization that authored letters, statements, and briefs about issues it deems are threats to democracy and presses the legal community to act on said perceived threats.
  • Movement

    The Twitter Files

    In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
  • For-profit

    Pythia Public

    Pythia Public is a consulting firm specializing in public relations and public affairs for political candidates, issue advocacy campaigns, and corporations. In 2022, Pythia Public was named the best political public relations firm in New York, citing its work for New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D), Comptroller
  • For-profit

    Civic Eagle

    Civic Eagle is a for-profit company that sells Enview, a federal and state-level legislation tracking and explaining service to businesses, nonprofits, lobbying groups, and law firms, From its founding in 2019 to May 2022, Civic Eagle had served more than 2,000 users
  • For-profit

    Action Squared

    Action Squared is a for-profit company that builds online tools for left-wing non-profits and labor unions, primarily through Action Network and Action Builder. Action Network is an online toolset and the sole owner of Action Squared. Action Builder, another online development toolset, is owned by Action Squared and was
  • Non-profit

    Andrew Goodman Foundation

     Andrew Goodman Foundation (AGF) is a left-of-center nonprofit that advocates for student voting through lawsuits, supporting legislation, and on-campus get-out-the-vote campaigns. AGF is named for Andrew Goodman, a college student who joined Freedom Summer, a 1964 civil rights voter registration drive in Mississippi who was murdered along with two other
  • Non-profit

    ACLU Foundation of Maryland

    ACLU Foundation of Maryland is the Maryland state-level branch of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, the charitable arm of the ACLU. ACLU Foundation of Maryland is funded in part by larger grantmaking entities including Open Society Foundations.
  • For-profit

    YouGov

    YouGov is a British polling company founded in 2000 by Stephan Shakespeare and Nadhim Zahawi. YouGov has 20 million members worldwide whom it surveys, along with 1,600 employees across 39 offices. 445 YouGov claims to be non-partisan.
  • Non-profit

    Voters’ Right to Know (VRTK)

    Voters’ Right to Know (VRTK) is a social welfare advocacy group that promotes transparency in elections and the disclosure of political spending. 459 It is led by and has partnered with left-of-center individuals and
  • Person

    Sophia L. Lakin

    Sophia Lin Lakin is deputy director of the Voting Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in New York City. 467 She’s an attorney registered with the state of New York.
  • Person

    Karen Hobert Flynn

    Karen Hobert Flynn was the president of Common Cause, a progressive advocacy group oriented around campaign finance law and policy, redistricting, and left-of-center policy objectives, as well as respectively the co-chair and member of the board of the Democracy Initiative and Democracy21. She passed away in March
  • Non-profit

    Jewish Communal Fund

    The Jewish Communal Fund is a community foundation and administrator of donor-advised funds that promotes and facilitates charitable giving within the Jewish community in the greater New York City area. The organization was founded in 1972 and since has grown to serve donor-advised fund holders across the United States and