Search results for ‘independent sector’


  • Non-profit

    Monitoring Influence

    Not to be confused with InfluenceWatch.org Monitoring Influence is a left-of-center website that curates profiles of conservative and right-leaning activists, organizations, and funders in imitation of InfluenceWatch.org. These profiles accuse mainstream conservative groups of trying to “stack the courts” with “like-minded ideologues” expressing “ultraconservative . . . legal theories”
  • Non-profit

    Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future (CCEF)

    Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future (CCEF) is a center-right organization that advocates for the election of Republican candidates in favor of providing tax credits, carbon trading, and other subsidies for weather-dependent forms of energy.
  • For-profit

    Devex

    Devex is a for-profit news outlet based in Washington, D.C., that is geared towards the international aid and development community. The outlet specializes in reporting news that is of interest to those who work in the fields of global development and foreign aid. The focus of Devex’s reporting is issues
  • Non-profit

    National Student Legal Defense Network

    National Student Legal Defense Network (NSLDN) is a left-of-center organization that seeks to limit private-sector options to finance higher education, to limit higher education choice, and to expand student loan forgiveness programs through litigation and lobbying. 1
  • Non-profit

    Omidyar Network Fund

    The Omidyar Network Fund is a grantmaking nonprofit founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar. Its sister group, the Omidyar Network, is an LLC that makes philanthropic “impact investments.” Omidyar Network Fund and the Omidyar Network are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
  • Non-profit

    Check My Ads Institute

    Check My Ads Institute (CMA) is a left-of-center social media and advertising industry activist organization that pressures advertisers to drop their sponsorship of center-right and right-of-center websites and television programs under the guise of “rooting out disinformation and hate speech from their digital media buys.”
  • For-profit

    Rhodium Group

    Rhodium Group is a think tank that focuses on environmentalism and the economy and politics of China. 1 It has received funding from multiple left-of-center private foundations including the Heising-Simons Foundation,  William
  • For-profit

    Buffalo Cloud Consulting, LLC

    Buffalo Cloud Consulting, LLC provides diversity, equity, and inclusion training, as well as marketing, management, and non-profit consulting and strategy, to private companies, nonprofits, and schools.
  • Other Group

    Transnational Institute

    The Transnational Institute is a left-wing to far-left research and advocacy group located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a legal status equivalent that of a 501(c) nonprofit organization in the United States. Originally founded as an international branch of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) from 1973
  • Non-profit

    Philanthropy Roundtable

    The Philanthropy Roundtable is a non-profit organization that supports and advises philanthropists to strengthen a free American society. The Roundtable aims to protect philanthropic freedom and advance liberty, opportunity, and personal responsibility. 1
  • Non-profit

    The Bridgespan Group

    The Bridgespan Group is a charitable organization that provides consulting services to non-profits across the United States and around the globe. The Bridgespan Group was formed in 1998 by Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach, both of whom had experience in the management consulting firm, Bain and Company. Tierney and Bradach
  • Non-profit

    Institute for Nonprofit News

    The Institute for Nonprofit News (formerly the Investigative News Network) is a left-of-center network of not-for-profit media organizations such as Mother Jones, ProPublica, and The Intercept. Background In 2009, journalists from 27 media organizations met at the Pocantico Center in New York, a historic home of the
  • For-profit

    Center for Equity and Inclusion

    The Center for Equity and Inclusion is a left-of-center for-profit management consulting organization created in 2015 and based in Portland, Oregon. It is involved in promoting critical race theory-aligned racial ideology. 1
  • Non-profit

    The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

    The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is a left-leaning membership organization that provides professional development resources to educators. Background The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development was created from the merger during March 1943 of the Society for Curriculum Study and the National Education Association (NEA)’s Department
  • Non-profit

    Time’s Up Now

    Time’s Up Now is the lobbying and advocacy wing of the left-of-center Time’s Up Foundation. Time’s Up Now has advocated for policies that extend the statute of limitations in rape cases,
  • Non-profit

    Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy

    The Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy is a think tank formed in 2018 in Washington, D.C. The organization is named after Reconstruction-era U.S. Rep. Joseph Hayne Rainey (R-SC), the first Black man to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Person

    Susan Rice

    Susan Elizabeth Rice is a Democratic governmental aide, a former U.S. diplomat, and national security official. Under the Clinton administration, Rice held several positions on the White House National Security Council in addition to serving as Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton. From 2002 to 2008, she
  • Non-profit

    The Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP)

    The Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy is a left-of-center, non-profit law firm and that works on climate related issues in communities located in the south of the United States. The GCCLP’s operations work through the Gulf South states of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
  • Non-profit

    American Constitutional Rights Union

    The American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) is a conservative legal group founded in 1998 as the American Civil Rights Union. 1 Former Reagan administration adviser Robert Carleson started the organization to advocate for
  • Non-profit

    Philanthropy Northwest

    Philanthropy Northwest is a network of charitable organizations that promotes left-of-center causes in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. The network receives funding through both government grants and donations from corporations including Microsoft, Boeing, and JP Morgan Chase. The philanthropic consulting organization Arabella Advisors, which manages four major