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. 1 Co-founded in 2009 by Ari Matsuiak, a special assistant to the President during
  • Non-profit

    Windward Fund

    The Windward Fund is an environmentalist fiscal sponsor organization in the network of “dark money” organizations controlled by philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Fund was created in February 2015 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with startup funding of $5.25 million provided by an unknown source. According to its bylaws, Windward
  • 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

    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 States1 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

    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
  • 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.
  • Non-profit

    Hopewell Fund

    The Hopewell Fund is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm. The Hopewell Fund manages a number of left-of-center single-issue advocacy groups, including the Economic Security Project and pro-Obamacare Get America Covered. The Hopewell Fund often operates alongside its “sister” nonprofits, primarily
  • For-profit

    Goldman Sachs

    Goldman Sachs is an international investment bank and financial services corporation based in New York City. Since its founding in 1869, the firm has since grown into one of the largest and most influential financial institutions in the world. Since in the 1980s, a number of Goldman Sachs executives have
  • Labor Union

    Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

    The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) advocates for the interests of Black and other ethnic minority union members within the larger labor movement, and works to bring attention to national and international issues relating to labor and race.