List of progressive organizations

A list of progressive organizations, that is, organizations which promote progressive values while not having any regressive ideological ties. Organizations may be listed under multiple applicable categories; particularly notable or relevant books may also be included.

Equality

 * American Civil Liberties Union

Age

 * Children's Defense Fund
 * Gray Panthers


 * Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex by Judith Levine
 * Escape From Childhood by John Holt

Gender

 * National Organization for Women
 * EMILY's List (fundraising for pro-choice women candidates)
 * Feminist Majority Foundation
 * MADRE
 * Women's Action for New Directions
 * Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
 * Women Leaders Online

National origin

 * American Indian Movement
 * Fourth World Rising

Race

 * Black Commentator
 * National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Religion

 * Americans United for Separation of Church and State
 * American Atheists
 * American Humanist Association
 * Interfaith Alliance

Sexual orientation

 * Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
 * Human Rights Campaign
 * National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
 * Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays

Species

 * Animal Welfare Institute
 * People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
 * The Humane Society of the United States

Foundations

 * Acra Foundation
 * Glaser Progress Foundation
 * Nathan Cummings Foundation
 * Otto Haas Charitable Trust
 * Overbrook Foundation
 * Park Foundation
 * Quixote Foundation
 * Schumann Center for Media and Democracy

Freedom

 * American Civil Liberties Union

Drugs

 * Drug Policy Alliance
 * Marijuana Policy Project

Expression

 * American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
 * American Library Association, Office for Intellectual Freedom
 * Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression
 * Feminists for Free Expression
 * Free Expression Policy Project
 * Free Expression Network
 * Free Speech Coalition
 * Freedom to Read Foundation
 * First Amendment Center
 * First Amendment Project
 * National Coalition Against Censorship
 * Online Policy Group
 * Peacefire

Reproductive

 * Planned Parenthood
 * NARAL Pro-Choice America
 * Voters for Choice

Sexual

 * National Coalition for Sexual Freedom


 * Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex by Judith Levine

Technology and intellectual monopolies

 * Center for Democracy and Technology
 * Center for Digital Democracy
 * Center for Social Media
 * Chilling Effects
 * Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
 * Consumer Project on Technology
 * CopyNight
 * Creative Commons
 * Downhill Battle
 * Participatory Politics Foundation
 * Participatory Culture Foundation
 * Electronic Frontier Foundation
 * Electronic Privacy Information Center
 * Free Expression Policy Project
 * Free Software Foundation
 * IP Justice
 * IPac
 * International Center for Technology Assessment
 * League for Programming Freedom
 * Online Policy Group
 * Peacefire
 * Public Knowledge
 * Public Patent Foundation
 * Union for the Public Domain
 * Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
 * Verified Voting (electronic voting)
 * freeculture.org (student group)


 * Internet Archive
 * Libraries for the Future

Fulfillment

 * Center for Studies of the Person

Government

 * Green Party
 * Ralph Nader
 * Socialist Party of America
 * Communist Party
 * Freedom Socialist Party
 * New Party
 * Peace and Freedom Party
 * Socialist Labor Party of America
 * Socialist Workers Party
 * Working Families Party
 * Social Democratic Party (1897-1901)


 * Democracy for America
 * MoveOn.org
 * Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
 * TrueMajority


 * 21st Century Democrats
 * People for the American Way (stopping the religious right: judicial nominations, organizing community groups)
 * Center for American Progress
 * Progressive Policy Institute
 * Institute for Policy Studies
 * New America Foundation
 * New Democrat Network

Watchdogs

 * Common Cause
 * Fund for Constitutional Government
 * Government Accountability Project
 * Project On Government Oversight
 * Truth-Telling Project (gov. whistleblowers)
 * Center for the Study of Responsive Law

Elections

 * California Voter Foundation
 * Center for Voting and Democracy
 * Open Debates
 * Verified Voting (electronic voting)
 * America Coming Together
 * Music for America
 * League of Conservation Voters
 * League of Rural Voters
 * League of Pissed Off Voters
 * Rock the Vote
 * Americans For Democratic Action

Fundraising

 * ActBlue (ActBlue.com) (fundraising)
 * Media Fund
 * National Committee for an Effective Congress
 * Progressive Majority
 * Voters for Choice


 * EMILY's List (fundraising for women)
 * IPac

Watchdogs

 * Center for Public Integrity
 * Center for Responsive Politics
 * OpenSecrets.org
 * Public Campaign

Courts

 * American Constitution Society
 * American Civil Liberties Union
 * Alliance for Justice
 * Center for Constitutional Rights
 * Earthjustice (formerly Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund)
 * Electronic Frontier Foundation
 * First Amendment Center
 * Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
 * National Lawyers Guild
 * Southern Poverty Law Center
 * Brennan Center for Justice
 * Free Expression Policy Project


 * Institute for Democratic Studies (independent judiciary)

Economy

 * Citizens for Tax Justice
 * Center for Economic and Policy Research
 * Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
 * Economic Policy Institute
 * Preamble Center
 * Taxpayers for Common Sense
 * United for a Fair Economy


 * Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich by David Cay Johnston

Media

 * Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
 * Institute for Public Accuracy
 * Media Alliance
 * Media For Democracy
 * People for Better TV
 * Center for Creative Voices in Media
 * Free Press
 * Center for Digital Democracy
 * Project Censored
 * Free Expression Policy Project
 * Women's Media Center

Creation:


 * Prometheus Radio Project

Public journalism:


 * Breaking the News by James Fallows
 * Jay Rosen

Monitoring

 * Center for Media and Democracy
 * PR Watch
 * SourceWatch
 * Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
 * Extra!
 * Counterspin
 * Media Matters for America
 * The Republican Noise Machine by David Brock
 * NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak
 * Quarterly Review of Doublespeak
 * Institute for Media Analysis
 * CovertAction Quarterly (publication suspended)
 * Lies Of Our Times (defunct)
 * MediaChannel.org


 * Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
 * Eric Alterman
 * What Liberal Media?
 * column in The Nation
 * Altercation (MSNBC weblog)

Outlets

 * Adbusters Media Foundation
 * Adbusters
 * Air America Radio
 * Alternative Radio
 * AlterNet
 * The American Prospect
 * Moving Ideas Network
 * AntiWar.com
 * The Baffler
 * Business Ethics
 * Buzzflash
 * ColdType
 * Common Dreams
 * Consumer Reports
 * Counterpunch
 * Cursor.org
 * Dollars and Sense
 * Grist
 * Guerilla News Network
 * In These Times
 * International Socialist Review
 * Left Business Observer
 * London Review of Books
 * Media Matters
 * Mother Jones
 * MoveOn.org
 * Daily Misleader
 * Bush Greenwatch
 * The Nation
 * Pacifica Radio
 * ''Democracy Now!
 * The Progressive
 * The Progressive Radio Network ]
 * The Progress Report (American Progress Action Fund)
 * Toward Freedom
 * Socialist Worker
 * TomPaine.com
 * Upside Down World
 * Z Magazine

And, to a lesser extent:


 * The New Yorker
 * Harper's
 * The Atlantic Monthly
 * Salon.com
 * New York Review of Books
 * 
 * Other Magazine
 * NOW with Bill Moyers

Scholarly journals

 * New Left Review
 * Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars

Book publishers

 * Akashic Books
 * Black Rose Books
 * Berrett-Koehler Publishers
 * Chealsea Green
 * Common Courage Press
 * Haymarket Books
 * The New Press
 * Seven Stories Press
 * South End Press
 * Verso Books
 * Pluto Press

Columnists and commentators

 * Paul Krugman, New York Times
 * Joe Conason, Salon.com
 * This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow
 * Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau
 * Michael Moore, filmmaker


 * Mark Achbar, filmmaker
 * Mark Crispin Miller
 * Seymour Hersh, journalist
 * Howard Zinn, historian
 * Alexander Cockburn, journalist
 * Studs Terkel
 * Ted Rall, comics
 * Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling

Usage
Framing:
 * Rockridge Institute
 * Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff
 * Don't Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff
 * Frameworks Institute

Children

 * Coalition of Essential Schools
 * Center for Commercial-Free Public Education
 * Commercial Alert
 * Commercialism in Education Research Unit
 * Giving Kids the Business by Alex Molnar
 * FairTest
 * Child Development Project


 * John Dewey
 * Democracy and Education


 * John Holt
 * Growing Without Schooling
 * How Children Learn, How Children Fail


 * Alfie Kohn
 * No Contest: The Case Against Competition
 * Punished By Rewards

Citizens

 * Abolition 2000 (nuclear testing)
 * Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
 * Nuclear Information and Resource Service
 * Center for Defense Information
 * Center for International Policy
 * Federation of American Scientists
 * School of the Americas Watch
 * Union of Concerned Scientists


 * Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
 * Peace Action
 * Peaceful Tomorrow (nonviolent response to terrorism)
 * Veterans for Peace
 * Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
 * Americans for Peace Now (Israeli-Palestinian conflict)
 * CODEPINK


 * Violence Policy Center


 * Fellowship of Reconciliation
 * Mobilization for Global Justice (anti-World Bank)
 * Women's International League for Peace and Freedom


 * Mothers Against Drunk Driving

City planning

 * The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

Consumers

 * Center for Science in the Public Interest (food/nutrition)
 * Consumers Union
 * Public Citizen
 * Public Interest Research Groups
 * Center for Auto Safety
 * Commercial Alert
 * Center for Media and Democracy (PR watch)
 * Consumer Federation of America
 * Consumer Project on Technology
 * Consumers Union
 * Consumer Reports
 * Consumer Federation of America
 * Public Interest Research Group

Criminals

 * Innocence Project

Environment, environmental health, and environmental justice
List of environmental organizations

Human rights

 * Australian Coalition for Transitional Justice in East Timor
 * Amnesty International (see page for serious criticism)
 * International Committee of the Red Cross
 * Human Rights Watch (see page for serious criticism)
 * Americas Watch (see page for serious criticism)
 * Human Rights First
 * Inter-American Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States (see page for serious criticism)
 * Andean Commission of Jurists
 * Center for Investigation and Popular Education (CINEP)
 * If Americans Knew (Israel/Palestine)

Labor

 * AFL-CIO (ties to government)
 * SEIU
 * Jobs with Justice
 * SafeSpaces (formerly National Safe Workplace Institute)
 * Sweatshop Watch


 * Rivethead by Ben Hamper (car factory)
 * Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (service industry)
 * Workers in a Labyrinth by Robert Jackall (clerical bureaucracy)

Poor

 * Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
 * Center for Community Change
 * Center for Third World Organizing
 * Families USA (health care)
 * Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
 * Bread for the World (hunger)
 * Food First!
 * Hunger Project
 * Habitat for Humanity (homeless)
 * National Coalition for the Homeless
 * National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
 * Oxfam

Sick

 * Access to Essential Medicines Campaign
 * Drugs for Neglected Diseases
 * Universities Allied for Essential Medicines

Society

 * Noam Chomsky
 * Understanding Power


 * Alfie Kohn
 * No Contest: The Case Against Competition
 * Punished By Rewards


 * Parecon

Religious

 * Religious Tolerance
 * Liberals Like Christ
 * Sojourners Magazine
 * Americans United for Separation of Church and State
 * Canadian Council of Churches
 * National Council of Churches

Worker self-management

 * Workers Without Bosses
 * Promote Direct Democracy
 * Cooperative Social Economy
 * Protect Indigenous Rights
 * Fight Privatization
 * Chain Worker Advocacy
 * Global Fight for Justice
 * Occupy, Resist, Produce
 * Zapatistas
 * Znet?s Latin America Watch

Canada:


 * Promote Worker Co-operatives
 * Protect Worker Rights
 * Educate. Organize. Activate.
 * Advocate Economic & Social Justice
 * Partnerships With People in the South
 * Partnerships For Global Change
 * Promote Workable Alternatives
 * Expose Sweatshop Abuses
 * Rights of Low Income Citizens
 * Resist Global Capitalism
 * Linking Canada with Latin America & the Caribbean
 * Enhance Political Dialogue
 * Promote International Awareness
 * Research, Education, Advocacy, Action
 * Fighting Back Makes A Difference
 * Reclaim Our Culture
 * An Alternative POV
 * Promote Global Human Security
 * Moving Social Justice Forward

Anti-globalization

 * The Fences and Windows Fund
 * International Relations Center
 * RightWeb

Other

 * 20/20 Vision (peace, environment, democracy)
 * 2030 Center (economic future)
 * 50 Years Is Enough
 * Activist Media Project
 * ActUP
 * Ad Council
 * Advocacy Institute
 * Affero
 * Alicia Patterson Foundation
 * Alliance for Democracy
 * Alliance for Better Campaigns (campaign finance reformers)
 * Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning
 * The American Democracy Institute (youth leadership development/civic engagement)
 * American Friends Service Committee (Quaker)
 * American Muslim Voice
 * American Social Science Association
 * Atmo
 * Australian Privacy Foundation
 * Berman Center
 * Bits of Freedom (Netherlands)
 * British Columbia Civil Liberties Assocation (Canada)
 * Business for Social Responsibility
 * CASPIAN
 * Campaign for America's Future
 * Center for a Better South
 * Center for Health, Environment and Justice
 * Center for Justice and Democracy
 * Center for Progressive Leadership Action Network
 * Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia University Law School
 * Center for Progressive Leadership
 * Century Foundation
 * Children Now
 * Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes
 * Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination
 * Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR)
 * Community Media Center
 * Conservation Fund
 * Consumer Action
 * Consumer Federation of America
 * Consumer Task Force for Automotive Issues
 * Consumers International
 * Conventional Arms Transfer Project
 * Co-op America
 * Critical Art Ensemble
 * Council for a Livable World
 * Council for Responsible Genetics
 * Dads and Daughters
 * Death Penalty Information Center
 * Demos!
 * The Disinformation Company
 * Doctors Without Borders
 * Earth Charter USA
 * Earth Day Network 2000
 * East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN)
 * Educators for Social Responsibility
 * Environmental Media Services
 * Federacuón de Consumidores en Acción (FACUA) (Spain)
 * Fellowship of Reconciliation
 * Food Not Bombs
 * Foundation for Information Policy Research (UK)
 * Foundation on Economic Trends
 * Freedom Center
 * Friends of the Earth
 * Fund for Investigative Journalism
 * Global Exchange
 * Global Green USA
 * Growing Without Schooling
 * Help for Sewage Victims
 * Independent Media Institute
 * Alternet
 * Wiretap
 * Indymedia
 * INFACT
 * International Relations Center
 * Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
 * Institute for Global Communications
 * Institute for Policy Studies
 * Jubilee 2000/USA (debt freedom)
 * Latin America Working Group
 * Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
 * League of Women Voters
 * Media Alliance
 * Media Educational Foundation
 * Media Justice Network
 * Mobilization for Global Justice (anti-World Bank)
 * Nathan Cummings Foundation
 * Moral Mazes, Robert Jackall
 * National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators (NACAA)
 * National Breast Cancer Coalition
 * National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
 * National Consumers League
 * National Education Association (teachers)
 * National Jewish Democratic Council
 * National Priorities Project
 * National Security Archive, "a nonprofit organization that publishes declassified US government documents"
 * New Century Alliance for Social Security
 * Open Society Institute
 * Open Society Policy Center
 * Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
 * Physicians for Social Responsibility
 * Political Research Associates (research the right)
 * PrivacyActivism
 * Privacy International (UK)
 * Privacy Rights Now Coalition
 * Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
 * Privacy Times
 * Private Citizen, Inc.
 * Privaterra (Canada)
 * Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
 * ProgressivePunch/VoterPunch
 * Public Information Research, Inc.
 * Public Interest Pictures
 * Public Voice for Food and Health Policy
 * Redefining Progress
 * Safe Food Coalition
 * Social Science Research Center
 * Sojourners
 * Southern Development Foundation
 * Speak Out
 * The Spin Project
 * Students for an Orwellian Society
 * Stanford Center for Internet and Society, law school
 * Sudbury School
 * Teach for America
 * Teach Peace Foundation
 * Third World Majority
 * Tides Center
 * Toward Peace
 * Transparency International (fighting corruption)
 * Utility Consumers' Action Network
 * Waste Risk Education Fund
 * Propaganda Review
 * Wellstone Action
 * Women's Action for New Directions
 * Women's Economic and Development Organization
 * Working Assets
 * World Centric
 * World Privacy Forum
 * Worldwatch Institute
 * The Yes Men


 * Berkman Center for Internet and Society
 * Redefining Progress
 * Affluenza
 * Rainbow-PUSH Coalition


 * Priority Africa Network
 * GRAIN
 * corpwatch.org
 * corporatepolicy.org
 * Design Action Collective
 * Inkworks Press
 * Center for Investigative Reporting
 * warprofiteers.com
 * saferparks.org
 * Envirovideo
 * Ruckus Society
 * socialistalternative.org
 * blackboxvoting.org
 * activeopposition.com
 * deceptiondollar.com
 * onlinejournal.com
 * legitgov.org
 * standdown.net
 * globalresearch.ca
 * cooperativeresearch.org
 * fromthewilderness.com

More

 * Alternatives to Capitalism
 * 500 Leading U.S. Progressive Organizations by Category
 * FAIR resources
 * ZNET resources
 * Funding Exchange
 * Resist, Inc.
 * Ralph Nader
 * Bay Area Progressive Directory
 * Air America guest list