The North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) began informally after the First Annual Community North Carolina Environmental Justice Summit in 1998. In 1999, the group hired Naeema Muhammad, an activist from Black Workers for Justice, to spearhead community organizing. Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, NCEJN seeks to advance “environmental

Sequoia Forestkeeper (SFK) is a California-based environmentalist organization focused on the protection and management of Sequoia National Forest and the Giant Sequoia National Monument. Founded in 2001 by environmentalist Martin Litton, the group has consistently promoted strict forest preservation policies, frequently opposing timber management, fire-mitigation projects, and other active interventions

The California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) is a nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes left-of-center climate and energy policies. CEJA organizes activists and campaigns to advocate against drill sties, power plants, and oil refineries while promoting members to challenge oil and gas lobbyists in order to prevent climate change.

Rural Progress, sometimes known as RuralOrganizing.org, is a left-of-center organization advocates for left-of-center policy aimed at rural communities. The group has a sister nonprofit called the RuralOrganizing.org Education Fund, which shares a similar mission. 44

The People’s Parity Project (PPP) is a left-leaning legal advocacy group that mobilizes law students and early-career attorneys to oppose corporate influence and promote progressive judicial reforms. 61 Founded in 2019, the organization seeks to

Lynne Benioff is the wife of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. She and her husband are prominent philanthropists who signed the Warren Buffett-led Giving Pledge in 2016 and have been on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s “Philanthropy 50” ten times since 2010. Their philanthropy focuses on children’s health, affordable housing,

Step Up for Action is a lobbying and advocacy organization that emphasizes voter engagement, policy advocacy, and an “education and economic justice program” in New Orleans, Louisiana. 107 Step

Not to be confused with 350.Org’s “Climate Defenders” initiative Climate Defenders (also known as Climate Defenders Action) is an environmentalist activist group that has organized and participated in demonstrations and other protest movements advocating against conventional sources of energy like oil and natural gas while arguing in favor of

Pennsylvania Policy Center, also known as Penn Policy, is a research and policy advocacy organization that was a former project of labor-union-aligned left-of-center policy group Keystone Research Center. 134 Several members of Penn

Tax Fairness for Virginia is a coalition run by the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis and New Virginia Majority.

The El Paso Community Foundation, a grantmaking organization, was founded in 1977 and serves the El Paso, Texas area. 159 The foundation’s efforts focus on education and supporting families, but it has

Nihad Awad is a co-founder and the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights advocacy organization in the United States. 174 Before co-founding CAIR,

The Clean Energy Fund of Texas is a self-described “green energy” bank in Texas that focuses on providing loans and financial services to promote weather-dependent energy in racial minority communities. 203

Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI) is a coalition of veterans established by left-of-center activist organization Human Rights First. 213 It organizes veteran advocacy campaigns supporting refugees and illegal immigrants, inclusive military

 The Politivist Action PAC is a political action committee (PAC) founded in 2025 by former U.S Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) to support the campaigns of Democratic Party candidates who claim to refuse funding from “corporate PACs.”

Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Action is a left-of-center anti-Israel group that is the lobbying and political action arm of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a self-described Jewish group that opposes U.S. assistance to the state of Israel and supports allowing Palestinians to live on land within Israel vacated

Beyond Plastics is a project of Bennington College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action. The group promotes campaigns against plastic products in multiple states, and trains student activists.272 Beyond Plastics has opposed conventional plastic recycling,

Make America Great Again Inc., also known as MAGA Inc., is a super PAC that supported former president Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. 349 The organization was founded in 2022.

Davis “Dave” Regan is senior labor union official in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). As of 2025, Regan was president of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West Local 2005 (SEIU-UHW) which represents over 110,000 workers in the health care industry, including at hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and home-health agencies

The Ohio Student Association (OSA) is a left-of-center advocacy group focused on activating young voters for left-of-center policies. 385 Its primary areas of focus are higher education, criminal justice and civic engagement,