Search results for ‘independent sector’


  • Labor Union

    National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET)

    The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET) is a labor union for production employees in the television, radio, and film industries. The union was founded in the 1930s and merged with the large left-leaning union Communications Workers of America (CWA) in the 1990s and since has been
  • Legislation

    National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

    The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), sometimes called the Wagner Act after its chief sponsor, Sen. Robert F. Wagner (D-N.Y.), is the principal federal law governing the operation and organizing of labor unions in the private sector and their relations with management representatives. Enacted in 1935 as part of President
  • Non-profit

    National Housing Trust Community Development Fund

    National Housing Trust Community Development Fund (NHTCDF), an affiliate of National Housing Trust, provides funding and loans for the development and preservation of low-income communities. NHTCDF is chartered as a community development financial institution (CDFI),
  • Non-profit

    Young Invincibles

    Young Invincibles (YI) is a left-of-center youth advocacy, research, grantmaking, and lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C. 65 Co-founded in 2009 by Ari Matsuiak, a special assistant to the President during
  • Non-profit

    Windward Fund

    Note: This profile will be updated regularly as more information emerges on Arabella Advisors‘ acquisition by Sunflower Services. The Windward Fund is an environmentalist fiscal sponsor organization in the network of “dark money” organizations controlled by philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Fund
  • Labor Union

    Virginia AFL-CIO

    The Virginia AFL-CIO is the state-level body for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO) labor union federation in Virginia. The AFL-CIO is the largest federation of labor unions in the United States, and the Virginia AFL-CIO is the state’s largest federation of labor unions.
  • Non-profit

    American Prospect

    The American Prospect is a publication that promotes left-of-center public policy through articles on its website and in print. Founded in 1989 by Robert Kuttner, Paul Starr, and former Clinton administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, the Prospect has received grants from a number of left-of-center organizations,
  • Non-profit

    Open Society Foundations (Open Society Institute)

    Also see the similarly named Foundation to Promote Open Society (Nonprofit) The Open Society Foundations (OSF; formally Open Society Institute) is a private grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros. OSF was founded in 1993 as the Open Society Institute (OSI), which remains the foundation’s
  • Labor Union

    Office and Professional Employees International Union

    The Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) is a trade union representing white-collar clerical and office workers in the public and private sectors. It is notable for its efforts to organize university student workers, nonprofit employees, and high-tech workers. It is a member of the AFL-CIO labor union
  • Labor Union

    New York State AFL-CIO

    The New York State AFL-CIO is a state chapter of the AFL-CIO, the largest association of labor unions in the United States. The chapter represent New York-based labor unions by advocating for better employee benefits, pro-union legislation, and left-of-center political causes.
  • Non-profit

    New Organizing Institute (NOI)

    NOI is defunct. For its successor, see Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) New Organizing Institute (NOI) was a left-progressive group that trained digital organizers and campaigners for the Democratic Party and liberal political causes. The organization, described by a Washington Post reporter as “the Democratic Party’s Hogwarts
  • Labor Union

    National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU)

    The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) is the second-largest federal-government worker union in the United States381 with 150,000 employees from 33 government departments
  • Labor Union

    National Association of Government Employees (NAGE)

    The National Association of Government Employees (NAGE; also known as SEIU Local 5000) is a government worker union affiliated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) representing mostly federal and state government employees, though some EMT and paramedic members work for private ambulance companies. The union was created in
  • Labor Union

    Michigan State AFL-CIO

    The Michigan American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (MI AFL-CIO) is an umbrella organization for left-of-center labor unions and a lobbying organization made up of numerous local and national unions. The MI AFL-CIO claims to represent over 1,000,000 active and retired members of 59 unions throughout Michigan, which include
  • Labor Union

    Maryland State and D.C. AFL-CIO

    The Maryland State and District of Columbia AFL-CIO (more commonly abbreviated to MDDC AFL-CIO) is a state federation of labor unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. Founded in 1954, MDDC AFL-CIO claims to
  • Non-profit

    Marguerite Casey Foundation

    The Marguerite Casey Foundation is the smaller of the two major left-of-center private foundations created from the legacy of United Parcel Service founder James E. Casey, the other being the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The Marguerite Casey Foundation emerged nearly two decades after James E. Casey’s death from Casey
  • Non-profit

    Legal Services Corporation

    The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is a federal government-created and funded nonprofit which distributes federal money to regional nonprofits across the United States to provide legal aid to low-income individuals. In 2019, the LSC had a budget of $440 million distributed to over 130 regional organizations serving 1.8 million clients.
  • Labor Union

    Union Lawyers Alliance, AFL-CIO

    The AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance (ULA) is a professional association of labor lawyers affiliated with the American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest association of labor unions in the United States. In November 2020, the organization changed its name from the Lawyers Coordinating Committee
  • Non-profit

    Islamic Relief USA

    Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA) is the U.S. affiliate of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), one of the largest Islamic charities in the world. IRUSA operates charitable programming within the United States and abroad focused on food security, refugee support, education, climate change, health care, emergency response, public health, orphans, sanitation, and
  • Labor Union

    International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades

    International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades (IUJAT) is a federation of 38 national and local labor unions that claims 73,437 members across the automotive, construction, transportation, service, energy, public, and other sectors.