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Organizations Funded by George Soros
and His Open Society Foundations -
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The upper portion of this page is devoted to organizations that are funded
directly by George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF). The
lower portion of the page focuses on organizations which do not receive
direct funding from Soros and OSF, but which receive money from one or
more groups that do get direct OSF funding.
Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society
Foundations
By Discover The Networks
Organizations that, in recent years, have received direct funding and assistance
from George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF) include the
following. (Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the "Groups" section
of DiscoverTheNetworks.org):
Advancement Project: This organization works to organize "communities of
color" into politically cohesive units while disseminating its leftist
worldviews and values as broadly as possible by way of a sophisticated
communications department.
Air America Radio: Now defunct, this was a self-identified "liberal" radio
network.
network.
Al-Haq: This NGO produces highly politicized reports, papers, books, and
legal analyses regarding alleged Israeli human-rights abuses committed
against Palestinians.
All of Us or None: This organization seeks to change voting laws -- which
vary from state to state -- so as to allow ex-inmates, parolees, and even
current inmates to cast their ballots in political elections.
Alliance for Justice: Best known for its activism vis a vis the appointment of
federal judges, this group consistently depicts Republican judicial
nominees as "extremists."
America Coming Together: Soros played a major role in creating this group,
whose purpose was to coordinate and organize pro-Democrat votermobilization
programs.
America Votes: Soros also played a major role in creating this group, whose
get-out-the-vote campaigns targeted likely Democratic voters.
America's Voice: This open-borders group seeks to promote
“comprehensive” immigration reform that includes a robust agenda in favor
of amnesty for illegal aliens.
American Bar Association Commission on Immigration Policy: This
organization "opposes laws that require employers and persons providing
education, health care, or other social services to verify citizenship or
immigration status."
American Bridge 21st Century: This Super PAC conducts opposition
research designed to help Democratic political candidates defeat their
Republican foes.
American Civil Liberties Union: This group opposes virtually all post-9/11
national security measures enacted by the U.S. government. It supports
open borders, has rushed to the defense of suspected terrorists and their
abettors, and appointed former New Left terrorist Bernardine Dohrn to its
Advisory Board.
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: This Washington, DCbased
think tank seeks to move American jurisprudence to the left by
recruiting, indoctrinating, and mobilizing young law students, helping them
acquire positions of power. It also provides leftist Democrats with a bully
pulpit from which to denounce their political adversaries.
American Family Voices: This group creates and coordinates media
American Family Voices: This group creates and coordinates media
campaigns charging Republicans with wrongdoing.
American Federation of Teachers: After longtime AFT President Albert
Shanker died in in 1997, he was succeeded by Sandra Feldman, who slowly
“re-branded” the union, allying it with some of the most powerful left-wing
elements of the New Labor Movement. When Feldman died in 2004,
Edward McElroy took her place, followed by Randi Weingarten in 2008. All
of them kept the union on the leftward course it had adopted in its post-
Shanker period.
American Friends Service Committee: This group views the United States
as the principal cause of human suffering around the world. As such, it
favors America's unilateral disarmament, the dissolution of American
borders, amnesty for illegal aliens, the abolition of the death penalty, and
the repeal of the Patriot Act.
American Immigration Council: This non-profit organization is a prominent
member of the open-borders lobby. It advocates expanded rights and
amnesty for illegal aliens residing in the U.S.
American Immigration Law Foundation: This group supports amnesty for
illegal aliens, on whose behalf it litigates against the U.S. government.
American Independent News Network: This organization promotes "impact
journalism" that advocates progressive change.
American Institute for Social Justice: AISJ's goal is to produce skilled
community organizers who can “transform poor communities” by agitating
for increased government spending on city services, drug interdiction,
crime prevention, housing, public-sector jobs, access to healthcare, and
public schools.
American Library Association: This group has been an outspoken critic of
the Bush administration's War on Terror -- most particularly, Section 215 of
the USA Patriot Act, which it calls "a present danger to the constitutional
rights and privacy rights of library users."
The American Prospect, Inc.: This corporation trains and mentors young
leftwing journalists, and organizes strategy meetings for leftist leaders.
Amnesty International: This organization directs a grossly disproportionate
share of its criticism for human rights violations at the United States and
Israel.
Applied Research Center: Viewing the United States as a nation where
“structural racism” is deeply “embedded in the fabric of society,” ARC
“structural racism” is deeply “embedded in the fabric of society,” ARC
seeks to "build a fair and equal society" by demanding “concrete change
from our most powerful institutions."
Arab American Institute Foundation: The Arab American Institute
denounces the purportedly widespread civil liberties violations directed
against Arab Americans in the post-9/11 period, and characterizes Israel as
a brutal oppressor of the Palestinian people.
Aspen Institute: This organization promotes radical environmentalism and
views America as a nation plagued by deep-seated “structural racism.”
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now: This group
conducts voter mobilization drives on behalf of leftist Democrats. These
initiatives have been notoriously marred by fraud and corruption.
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center: This organization seeks to advance “a
national progressive strategy” by means of ballot measures—state-level
legislative proposals that pass successfully through a petition (“initiative”)
process and are then voted upon by the public.
Bend The Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice: This organization
condemns Voter ID laws as barriers that “make it harder for communities of
color, women, first-time voters, the elderly, and the poor to cast their vote.”
Bill of Rights Defense Committee: This group provides a detailed blueprint
for activists interested in getting their local towns, cities, and even college
campuses to publicly declare their opposition to the Patriot Act, and to
designate themselves "Civil Liberties Safe Zones." The organization also
came to the defense of self-described radical attorney Lynne Stewart, who
was convicted in 2005 of providing material support for terrorism.
Black Alliance for Just Immigration: This organization seeks to create a
unified movement for “social and economic justice” centered on black
racial identity.
Blueprint North Carolina: This group seeks to “influence state policy in
North Carolina so that residents of the state benefit from more progressive
policies such as better access to health care, higher wages, more
affordable housing, a safer, cleaner environment, and access to
reproductive health services.”
Brennan Center for Justice: This think tank/legal activist group generates
scholarly studies, mounts media campaigns, files amicus briefs, gives pro
bono support to activists, and litigates test cases in pursuit of radical
"change."
Brookings Institution: This organization has been involved with a variety of
internationalist and state-sponsored programs, including one that aspires
to facilitate the establishment of a U.N.-dominated world government.
Brookings Fellows have also called for additional global collaboration on
trade and banking; the expansion of the Kyoto Protocol; and nationalized
health insurance for children. Nine Brookings economists signed a
petitionopposing President Bush's tax cuts in 2003.
Campaign for America's Future: This group supports tax hikes, socialized
medicine, and a dramatic expansion of social welfare programs.
Campaign for Better Health Care: This organization favors a single-payer,
government-run, universal health care system.
Campaign for Youth Justice: This organization contends that “transferring
juveniles to the adult criminal-justice system leads to higher rates of
recidivism, puts incarcerated and detained youth at unnecessary risk, has
little deterrence value, and does not increase public safety.”
Campus Progress: A project of the Soros-bankrolled Center for American
Progress, this group seeks to "strengthen progressive voices on college
and university campuses, counter the growing influence of right-wing
groups on campus, and empower new generations of progressive leaders."
Casa de Maryland: This organization aggressively lobbies legislators to
vote in favor of policies that promote expanded rights, including amnesty,
for illegal aliens currently residing in the United States.
Catalist: This is a for-profit political consultancy that seeks "to help
progressive organizations realize measurable increases in civic
participation and electoral success by building and operating a robust
national voter database of every voting-age American."
Catholics for Choice: This nominally Catholic organization supports
women's right to abortion-on-demand.
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good: This political nonprofit group is
dedicated to generating support from the Catholic community for leftwing
candidates, causes, and legislation.
Center for American Progress: This leftist think tank is headed by former
Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, works closely with Hillary Clinton, and
employs numerous former Clinton administration staffers. It is committed
to "developing a long-term vision of a progressive America" and "providing
to "developing a long-term vision of a progressive America" and "providing
a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals."
Center for Community Change: This group recruits and trains activists to
spearhead leftist "political issue campaigns." Promoting increased funding
for social welfare programs by bringing "attention to major national issues
related to poverty," the Center bases its training programs on the
techniques taught by the famed radical organizer Saul Alinsky.
Center for Constitutional Rights: This pro-Castro organization is a core
member of the open borders lobby, has opposed virtually all post-9/11
anti-terrorism measures by the U.S. government, and alleges that
American injustice provokes acts of international terrorism.
Center for Economic and Policy Research: This group opposed welfare
reform, supports "living wage" laws, rejects tax cuts, and consistently
lauds the professed achievements of socialist regimes, most notably
Venezuela.
Center for International Policy: This organization uses advocacy, policy
research, media outreach, and educational initiatives to promote
“transparency and accountability” in U.S. foreign policy and global
relations. It generally views America as a disruptive, negative force in the
world.
Center for Reproductive Rights: CRR's mission is to guarantee safe,
affordable contraception and abortion-on-demand for all women, including
adolescents. The organization has filed state and federal lawsuits
demanding access to taxpayer-funded abortions (through Medicaid) for
low-income women.
Center for Responsible Lending: This organization was a major player in the
subprime mortgage crisis. According to Phil Kerpen (vice president for
policy at Americans for Prosperity), CRL “sh[ook] down and harass[ed]
banks into making bad loans to unqualified borrowers.” Moreover, CRL
negotiated a contract enabling it to operate as a conduit of high-risk loans
to Fannie Mae.
Center for Social Inclusion: This organization seeks to counteract
America's "structural racism" by means of taxpayer-funded policy
initiatives.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Reasoning from the premise that
tax cuts generally help only the wealthy, this organization advocates
greater tax expenditures on social welfare programs for low earners.
greater tax expenditures on social welfare programs for low earners.
Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS): Aiming to redistribute wealth by
way of higher taxes imposed on those whose incomes are above average,
COWS contends that "it is important that state government be able to
harness fair contribution from all parts of society – including corporations
and the wealthy."
Change America Now: Formed in December 2006, Change America Now
describes itself as "an independent political organization created to
educate citizens on the failed policies of the Republican Congress and to
contrast that record of failure with the promise offered by a Democratic
agenda."
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: This group litigates
and brings ethics charges against "government officials who sacrifice the
common good to special interests" and "betray the public trust." Almost all
of its targets are Republicans.
Coalition for an International Criminal Court: This group seeks to
subordinate American criminal-justice procedures to those of an
international court.
Color Of Change: This organization was founded to combat what it viewed
as the systemic racism pervading America generally and conservatism in
particular.
Common Cause: This organization aims to bring about campaign-finance
reform, pursue media reform resembling the Fairness Doctrine, and cut
military budgets in favor of increased social-welfare and environmental
spending.
Constitution Project: This organization seeks to challenge the legality of
military commissions; end the detainment of "enemy combatants”;
condemn government surveillance of terrorists; and limit the President's
executive privileges.
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund: Defenders of Wildlife opposes oil
exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It condemns
logging, ranching, mining, and even the use of recreational motorized
vehicles as activities that are destructive to the environment.
Democracy Alliance: This self-described "liberal organization" aims to raise
$200 million to develop a funding clearinghouse for leftist groups. Soros is
a major donor to this group.
a major donor to this group.
Democracy 21: This group is a staunch supporter of the Bipartisan
Campaign Reform Act of 2002, also known as the McCain-Feingold Act.
Democracy Now!: Democracy Now! was created in 1996 by WBAI radio
news director Amy Goodman and four partners to provide "perspectives
rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media," i.e., the views of
radical and foreign journalists, left and labor activists, and ideological foes
of capitalism.
Democratic Justice Fund: DJF opposes the Patriot Act and most efforts to
restrict or regulate immigration into the United States -- particularly from
countries designated by the State Department as "terrorist nations."
Democratic Party: Soros' funding activities are devoted largely to helping
the Democratic Party solidify its power base. In a November 2003
interview, Soros stated that defeating President Bush in 2004 "is the
central focus of my life" ... "a matter of life and death." He pledged to raise
$75 million to defeat Bush, and personally donated nearly a third of that
amount to anti-Bush organizations. "America under Bush," he said, "is a
danger to the world, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is."
Demos: This organization lobbies federal and state policymakers to
“addres[s] the economic insecurity and inequality that characterize
American society today”; promotes “ideas for reducing gaps in wealth,
income and political influence”; and favors tax hikes for the wealthy.
Drum Major Institute: This group describes itself as “a non-partisan, nonprofit
think tank generating the ideas that fuel the progressive movement,”
with the ultimate aim of persuading “policymakers and opinion-leaders” to
take steps that advance its vision of “social and economic justice.”
Earthjustice: This group seeks to place severe restrictions on how U.S. land
and waterways may be used. It opposes most mining and logging
initiatives, commercial fishing businesses, and the use of motorized
vehicles in undeveloped areas.
Economic Policy Institute: This organization believes that “government
must play an active role in protecting the economically vulnerable,
ensuring equal opportunity, and improving the well-being of all Americans.”
Electronic Privacy Information Center: This organization has been a harsh
critic of the USA PATRIOT Act and has joined the American Civil Liberties
Union in litigating two cases calling for the FBI "to publicly release or
account for thousands of pages of information about the government's use
account for thousands of pages of information about the government's use
of PATRIOT Act powers."
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights: Co-founded by the revolutionary
communist Van Jones, this anti-poverty organization claims that “decades
of disinvestment in our cities” -- compounded by “excessive, racist
policing and over-incarceration” -- have “led to despair and
homelessness.”
EMILY's List: This political network raises money for Democratic female
political candidates who support unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded
abortion-on-demand.
Energy Action Coalition: Founded in 2004, this group describes itself as “a
coalition of 50 youth-led environmental and social justice groups working
together to build the youth clean energy and climate movement.” For EAC,
this means “dismantling oppression” according to its principles of
environmental justice.
Equal Justice USA: This group claims that America's criminal-justice
system is plagued by “significant race and class biases,” and thus seeks to
promote major reforms.
Fair Immigration Reform Movement: This is the open-borders arm of the
Center for Community Change.
Faithful America: This organization promotes the redistribution of wealth,
an end to enhanced interrogation procedures vis a vis prisoners-of-war,
the enactment of policies to combat global warming, and the creation of a
government-run heath care system.
Families USA: This Washington-based health-care advocacy group favors
ever-increasing government control of the American healthcare system.
Feminist Majority: Characterizing the United States as an inherently sexist
nation, this group focuses on "advancing the legal, social and political
equality of women with men, countering the backlash to women's
advancement, and recruiting and training young feminists to encourage
future leadership for the feminist movement in the United States."
Four Freedoms Fund: This organization was designed to serve as a conduit
through which large foundations could fund state-based open-borders
organizations more flexibly and quickly.
Free Exchange on Campus: This organization was created solely to oppose
the efforts of one individual, David Horowitz, and his campaign to have
universities adopt an "Academic Bill of Rights," as well as todenounce
Horowitz's 2006 book The Professors. Member organizations of FEC
include Campus Progress (a project of the Center for American Progress);
the American Association of University Professors; theAmerican Civil
Liberties Union; People For the American Way; the United States Student
Association; theCenter for Campus Free Speech; the American Library
Association; Free Press; and the National Association of State Public
Interest Research Groups.
Free Press: This "media reform" organization has worked closely with many
notable leftists and such organizations as Media Matters for America, Air
America Radio, Global Exchange, Code Pink, Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Mother Jones magazine,
and Pacifica Radio.
Funding Exchange: Dedicated to the concept of philanthropy as a vehicle
for social change, this organization pairs leftist donors and foundations
with likeminded groups and activists who are dedicated to bringing about
their own version of "progressive" change and social justice. Many of these
grantees assume that American society is rife with racism, discrimination,
exploitation, and inequity and needs to be overhauled via sustained
education, activism, and social agitation.
Gamaliel Foundation: Modeling its tactics on those of the radical Sixties
activist Saul Alinsky, this group takes a strong stand against current
homeland security measures and immigration restrictions.
Gisha: Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement: This anti-
Israel organization seeks to help Palestinians "exercise their right to
freedom of movement."
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect: This group contends that
when a state proves either unable or unwilling to protect civilians from
mass atrocities occurring within its borders, it is the responsibility of the
international community to intervene -- peacefully if possible, but with
military force if necessary.
Global Exchange: Established in 1988 by pro-Castro radical Medea
Benjamin, this group consistently condemns America's foreign policy,
business practices, and domestic life. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
Global Exchange advised Americans to examine "the root causes of
resentment against the United States in the Arab world -- from our
resentment against the United States in the Arab world -- from our
dependence on Middle Eastern oil to our biased policy towards Israel."
Grantmakers Without Borders: GWB tends to be very supportive of leftist
environmental, anti-war, and civil rights groups. It is also generally hostile
to capitalism, which it deems one of the chief "political, economic, and
social systems" that give rise to a host of "social ills."
Green For All: This group was created by Van Jones to lobby for federal
climate, energy, and economic policy initiatives.
Health Care for America Now: This group supports a “single payer” model
where the federal government would be in charge of financing and
administering the entire U.S. healthcare system.
Human Rights Campaign: The largest "lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender"
lobbying group in the United States, HRC supports political candidates and
legislation that will advance the LGBT agenda. Historically, HRC has most
vigorously championed HIV/AIDS-related legislation, “hate crime” laws, the
abrogation of the militaryʼs “Donʼt Ask, Donʼt Tell” policy, and the
legalization of gay marriage.
Human Rights First: This group supports open borders and the rights of
illegal aliens; charges that the Patriot Act severely erodes Americans' civil
liberties; has filed amicus curiae briefs on behalf of terror suspect Jose
Padilla; and deplores the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities.
Human Rights Watch: This group directs a disproportionate share of its
criticism at the United States and Israel. It opposes the death penalty in all
cases, and supports open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.
I'lam: This anti-Israel NGO seeks "to develop and empower the Arab media
and to give voice to Palestinian issues."
Immigrant Defense Project: To advance the cause of illegal immigrants, the
IDP provides immigration law backup support and counseling to New York
defense attorneys and others who represent or assist immigrants in
criminal justice and immigration systems, as well as to immigrants
themselves.
Immigrant Legal Resource Center: This group claims to have helped gain
amnesty for some three million illegal aliens in the U.S., and in the 1980s
was part of the sanctuary movement which sought to grant asylum to
refugees from the failed Communist states of Central America.
Immigrant Workers Citizenship Project: This open-borders organization
advocates mass immigration to the U.S.
Immigration Advocates Network: This alliance of immigrant-rights groups
seeks to “increase access to justice for low-income immigrants and
strengthen the capacity of organizations serving them.”
Immigration Policy Center: IPC is an advocate of open borders and
contends that the massive influx of illegal immigrants into America is due
to U.S. government policy, since “the broken immigration system […] spurs
unauthorized immigration in the first place.”
Independent Media Center: This Internet-based, news and events bulletin
board represents an invariably leftist, anti-capitalist perspective and serves
as a mouthpiece for anti-globalization/anti-America themes.
Independent Media Institute: IMI administers the SPIN Project (Strategic
Press Information Network), which provides leftist organizations with
"accessible and affordable strategic communications consulting, training,
coaching, networking opportunities and concrete tools" to help them
"achieve their social justice goals."
Institute for America's Future: IAF supports socialized medicine, increased
government funding for education, and the creation of an infrastructure "to
ensure that the voice of the progressive majority is heard."
Institute for New Economic Thinking: Seeking to create a new worldwide
"economic paradigm," this organization is staffed by numerous individuals
who favor government intervention in national economies, and who view
capitalism as a flawed system.
Institute for Policy Studies: This think tank has long supported Communist
and anti-American causes around the world. Viewing capitalism as a
breeding ground for "unrestrained greed," IPS seeks to provide a corrective
to "unrestrained markets and individualism." Professing an unquestioning
faith in the righteousness of the United Nations, it aims to bring American
foreign policy under UN control.
Institute for Public Accuracy: This anti-American, anti-capitalist
organization sponsored actor Sean Pennʼs celebrated visit to Baghdad in
- It also sponsored visits to Iraq by Democratic Congressmen Nick
Rahall and former Democrat Senator James Abourezk
Institute for Women's Policy Research: This group views the U.S. as a
nation rife with discrimination against women, and publishes research to
draw attention to this alleged state of affairs. It also advocates unrestricted
draw attention to this alleged state of affairs. It also advocates unrestricted
access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, stating that "access to
abortion is essential to the economic well-being of women and girls."
International Crisis Group: One of this organization's leading figures is its
Mideast Director, Robert Malley, who was President Bill Clinton's Special
Assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs. His analysis of the Mideast conflict is
markedly pro-Palestinian.
J Street: This anti-Israel group warns that Israelʼs choice to take military
action to stop Hamas' terrorist attacks “will prove counter-productive and
only deepen the cycle of violence in the region”
Jewish Funds for Justice: This organization views government intervention
and taxpayer funding as crucial components of enlightened social policy. It
seeks to redistribute wealth from Jewish donors to low-income
communities “to combat the root causes of domestic economic and social
injustice.” By JFJ's reckoning, chief among those root causes are the
inherently negative by-products of capitalism – most notably racism and
“gross economic inequality.”
Joint Victory Campaign 2004: Founded by George Soros and Harold Ickes,
this group was a major fundraising entity for Democrats during the 2004
election cycle. It collected contributions (including large amounts from
Soros personally) and disbursed them to two other groups, America
Coming Together and the Media Fund, which also worked on behalf of
Democrats.
Justice at Stake: This coalition calls for judges to be appointed by
nonpartisan, independent commissions in a process known as “merit
selection,” rather than elected by the voting public.
LatinoJustice PRLDF: This organization supports bilingual education, the
racial gerrymandering of voting districts, and expanded rights for illegal
aliens.
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: This group views America
as an unremittingly racist nation; uses the courts to mandate race-based
affirmative action preferences in business and academia; has filed briefs
against the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to limit the
wholesale granting of green cards and to identify potential terrorists;
condemns the Patriot Act; and calls on Americans to "recognize the
contribution" of illegal aliens.
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: This organization views
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: This organization views
the United States as a nation rife with racism, sexism, and all manner of
social injustice; and it uses legislative advocacy to push for “progressive
change” that will create “a more open and just society.”
League of United Latin American Citizens: This group views America as a
nation plagued by "an alarming increase in xenophobia and anti-Hispanic
sentiment"; favors racial preferences; supports the legalization of illegal
Hispanic aliens; opposes military surveillance of U.S. borders; opposes
making English America's official language; favors open borders; and
rejects anti-terrorism legislation like the Patriot Act.
League of Women Voters Education Fund: The League supports taxpayerfunded
abortion-on-demand; supports "motor-voter" registration, which
allows anyone with a driver's license to become a voter, regardless of
citizenship status; and supports tax hikes and socialized medicine.
League of Young Voters: This organization seeks to “empowe[r] young
people nationwide” to “participate in the democratic process and create
progressive political change on the local, state and national level[s].”
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee: IRS records indicate that Soros's Open
Society Institute made a September 2002 grant of $20,000 to this
organization. Stewart was the criminal-defense attorney who was later
convicted for abetting her client, the "blind sheik" Omar Abdel Rahman, in
terrorist activities connected with his Islamic Group.
Machsom Watch: This organization describes itself as "a movement of
Israeli women, peace activists from all sectors of Israeli society, who
oppose the Israeli occupation and the denial of Palestinians' rights to move
freely in their land."
MADRE: This international women's organization deems America the
world's foremost violator of human rights. As such, it seeks to
"communicat[e] the real-life impact of U.S. policies on women and families
confronting violence, poverty and repression around the world," and to
"demand alternatives to destructive U.S. policies." It also advocates
unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: This group views the U.S. as a nation
replete with racism and discrimination against blacks; seeks to establish an
independent black nation in the southeastern United States; and demands
reparations for slavery.
reparations for slavery.
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition: This group
calls for the expansion of civil rights and liberties for illegal aliens; laments
that illegal aliens in America are commonly subjected to "worker
exploitation"; supports tuition-assistance programs for illegal aliens
attending college; and characterizes the Patriot Act as a "very troubling"
assault on civil liberties.
Media Fund: Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose
purpose was to conceptualize, produce, and place political ads on
television, radio, print, and the Internet.
Media Matters for America: This organization is a "web-based, not-forprofit
… progressive research and information center" seeking to
"systematically monitor a cross-section of print, broadcast, cable, radio,
and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation." The group
works closely with the Soros-backed Center for American Progress, and is
heavily funded by Democracy Alliance, of which Soros is a major financier.
Mercy Corps: Vis a vis the Arab-Israeli conflict, Mercy Corps places all
blame for Palestinian poverty and suffering directly on Israel.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund: This group
advocates open borders, free college tuition for illegal aliens, lowered
educational standards to accommodate Hispanics, and voting rights for
criminals. In MALDEF's view, supporters of making English the official
language of the United States are "motivated by racism and anti-immigrant
sentiments," while advocates of sanctions against employers reliant on
illegal labor seek to discriminate against "brown-skinned people."
Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein, PC: This influential defender of Big Labor
is headed by Democrat operativeHarold Ickes.
Midwest Academy: This entity trains radical activists in the tactics of direct
action, targeting, confrontation, and intimidation.
Migration Policy Institute: This group seeks to create "a North America with
gradually disappearing border controls ... with permanent migration
remaining at moderate levels."
Military Families Speak Out: This group ascribes the U.S. invasion of Iraq to
American imperialism and lust for oil.
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment: This group is the
rebranded Missouri branch of the now-defunct, pro-socialist, community
organization ACORN.
organization ACORN.
MoveOn.org: This Web-based organization supports Democratic political
candidates through fundraising, advertising, and get-out-the-vote drives.
Ms. Foundation for Women: This group laments what it views as the
widespread and enduring flaws of American society: racism, sexism,
homophobia, and the violation of civil rights and liberties. It focuses its
philanthropy on groups that promote affirmative action for women,
unfettered access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, amnesty for
illegal aliens, and big government generally.
Muslim Advocates: Opposed to U.S. counter-terrorism strategies that
make use of sting operations and informants, MA characterizes such
tactics as forms of “entrapment” that are inherently discriminatory against
Muslims.
NARAL Pro-Choice America: This group supports taxpayer-funded
abortion-on-demand, and works to elect pro-abortion Democrats.
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund: The NAACP supports racial
preferences in employment and education, as well as the racial
gerrymandering of voting districts. Underpinning its support for race
preferences is the fervent belief that white racism in the United States
remains an intractable, largely undiminished, phenomenon.
The Nation Institute: This nonprofit entity sponsors leftist conferences,
fellowships, awards for radical activists, and journalism internships.
National Abortion Federation: This group opposes any restrictions on
abortion at either the state or federal levels, and champions the
introduction of unrestricted abortion into developing regions of the world.
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty: This group was established
in 1976 as the first "fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted
to abolishing capital punishment."
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy: This group depicts the
United States as a nation in need of dramatic structural change financed
by philanthropic organizations. It overwhelmingly promotes grant-makers
and grantees with leftist agendas, while criticizing their conservative
counterparts.
National Committee for Voting Integrity: This group opposes "the
implementation of proof of citizenship and photo identification
requirements for eligible electors in American elections as the means of
assuring election integrity."
National Council for Research on Women: This group supports big
government, high taxes, military spending cuts, increased social welfare
spending, and the unrestricted right to taxpayer-funded abortion-ondemand.
National Council of La Raza: This group lobbies for racial preferences,
bilingual education, stricter hate-crime laws, mass immigration, and
amnesty for illegal aliens.
National Council of Women's Organizations: This group views the United
States as a nation rife with injustice against girls and women. It advocates
high levels of spending for social welfare programs, and supports race and
gender preferences for minorities and women in business and academia.
National Immigration Forum: Opposing the enforcement of present
immigration laws, this organization urges the American government to
"legalize" en masse all illegal aliens currently in the United States who have
no criminal records, and to dramatically increase the number of visas
available for those wishing to migrate to the U.S. The Forum is particularly
committed to opening the borders to unskilled, low-income workers, and
immediately making them eligible for welfare and social service programs.
National Immigration Law Center: This group seeks to win unrestricted
access to government-funded social welfare programs for illegal aliens.
National Lawyers Guild: This group promotes open borders; seeks to
weaken America's intelligence-gathering agencies; condemns the Patriot
Act as an assault on civil liberties; rejects capitalism as an unviable
economic system; has rushed to the defense of convicted terrorists and
their abettors; and generally opposes all U.S. foreign policy positions, just
as it did during the Cold War when it sided with the Soviets.
National Organization for Women: This group advocates the unfettered
right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; seeks to "eradicate racism,
sexism and homophobia" from American society; attacks Christianity and
traditional religious values; and supports gender-based preferences for
women.
National Partnership for Women and Families: This organization supports
race- and sex-based preferences in employment and education. It also
advocates for the universal "right" of women to undergo taxpayer-funded
abortion-on-demand at any stage of pregnancy and for any reason.
abortion-on-demand at any stage of pregnancy and for any reason.
National Priorities Project: This group supports government-mandated
redistribution of wealth -- through higher taxes and greater expenditures
on social welfare programs. NPP exhorts the government to redirect a
significant portion of its military funding toward public education, universal
health insurance, environmentalist projects, and welfare programs.
National Public Radio: Founded in 1970 with 90 public radio stations as
charter members, NPR is today a loose network of more than 750 U.S.
radio stations across the country, many of which are based on college and
university campuses. (source)
National Security Archive Fund: This group collects and publishes
declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act
to a degree that compromises American national security and the safety of
intelligence agents.
National Women's Law Center: This group supports taxpayer-funded
abortion-on-demand; lobbies against conservative judicial appointees;
advocates increased welfare spending to help low-income mothers; and
favors higher taxes for the purpose of generating more funds for such
government programs as Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, foster care,
health care, child-support enforcement, and student loans.
Natural Resources Defense Council: One of the most influential
environmentalist lobbying groups in the United States, the Council claims a
membership of one million people.
New America Foundation: This organization uses policy papers, media
articles, books, and educational events to influence public opinion on such
topics as healthcare, environmentalism, energy policy, the Mideast conflict,
global governance, and much more.
New Israel Fund: This organization gives support to NGOs that regularly
produce reports accusing Israel of human-rights violations and religious
persecution.
NewsCorpWatch: A project of Media Matters For America,
NewsCorpWatch was established with the help of a $1 million George
Soros grant to Media Matters.
Pacifica Foundation: This entity owns and operates Pacifica Radio, awash
from its birth with the socialist-Marxist rhetoric of class warfare and hatred
for capitalism.
Palestinian Center for Human Rights: This NGO investigates and
Palestinian Center for Human Rights: This NGO investigates and
documents what it views as Israeli human-rights violations against
Palestinians.
Peace and Security Funders Group: This is an association of more than 60
foundations that give money to leftist anti-war and environmentalist
causes. Its members tend to depict America as the world's chief source of
international conflict, environmental destruction, and economic
inequalities.
Peace Development Fund: In PDF's calculus, the United States needs a
massive overhaul of its social and economic institutions. "Recently,"
explains PDF, "we have witnessed the negative effects of neo-liberalism
and the globalization of capitalism, the de-industrialization of the U.S. and
the growing gap between the rich and poor ..."
People for the American Way: This group opposes the Patriot Act, antiterrorism
measures generally, and the allegedly growing influence of the
"religious right."
People Improving Communities Through Organizing: This group uses
Alinsky-style organizing tactics to advance the doctrines of the religious
left.
Physicians for Human Rights: This group is selectively and
disproportionately critical of the United States and Israel in its
condemnations of human rights violations.
Physicians for Social Responsibility: This is an anti-U.S.-military
organization that also embraces the tenets of radical environmentalism.
Planned Parenthood: This group is the largest abortion provider in the
United States and advocates taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
Ploughshares Fund: This public grantmaking foundation opposes
America's development of a missile defense system, and contributes to
many organizations that are highly critical of U.S. foreign policies and
military ventures.
Prepare New York: This group supported the proposed construction of a
Muslim Community Center near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan – a
project known as the Cordoba Initiative, headed by Imam Feisal Abdul
Rauf.
Presidential Climate Action Project: PCAP's mission is to create a new 21stcentury
economy, completely carbon-free and based largely on renewable
century economy, completely carbon-free and based largely on renewable
energy. A key advisor to the organization is the revolutionary communist
Van Jones.
Prison Moratorium Project: This initiative was created in 1995 for the
express purpose of working for the elimination of all prisons in the United
States and the release of all inmates. Reasoning from the premise that
incarceration is never an appropriate means of dealing with crime, it deems
American society's inherent inequities the root of all criminal behavior.
Progressive Change Campaign Committee: This organization works “to
elect bold progressive candidates to federal office and to help [them] and
their campaigns save money, work smarter, and win more often.”
Progressive States Network: PSN's mission is to "pass progressive
legislation in all fifty states by providing coordinated research and strategic
advocacy tools to forward-thinking state legislators."
Project Vote: This is the voter-mobilization arm of the Soros-funded
ACORN. A persistent pattern of lawlessness and corruption has followed
ACORN/Project Vote activities over the years.
Pro Publica: Claiming that “investigative journalism is at risk,” this group
aims to remedy this lacuna in news publishing by “expos[ing] abuses of
power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other
institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform
through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.”
Proteus Fund: This foundation directs its philanthropy toward a number of
radical leftwing organizations.
Psychologists for Social Responsibility: This anti-capitalist, anti-corporate,
anti-military, anti-American organization “uses psychological knowledge
and skills to promote peace with social justice at the community, national
and international levels.”
Public Citizen Foundation: Public Citizen seeks increased government
intervention and litigation against corporations -- a practice founded on
the notion that American corporations, like the capitalist system of which
they are a part, are inherently inclined toward corruption.
Public Justice Center: Viewing America as a nation rife with injustice and
discrimination, this organization engages in legislative and policy advocacy
to promote "systemic change for the disenfranchised."
Rebuild and Renew America Now (a.k.a. Unity '09): Spearheaded by
MoveOn.org and overseen by longtime activist Heather Booth, this
MoveOn.org and overseen by longtime activist Heather Booth, this
coalition was formed to facilitate the passage of President Obamaʼs
"historic" $3.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010.
Res Publica: Seeking to advance far-left agendas in places all around the
world, RP specializes in “E-advocacy,” or web-based movement-building.
Roosevelt Institute: Proceeding from the premise that free-market
capitalism is inherently unjust and prone to periodic collapses caused by
its own structural flaws, RI currently administers several major projects
aimed at reshaping the American economy to more closely resemble a
socialist system.
Secretary of State Project: This project was launched in July 2006 as an
independent "527" organization devoted to helping Democrats get elected
to the office of Secretary of State in selected swing, or battleground,
states.
Sentencing Project: Asserting that prison-sentencing patterns are racially
discriminatory, this initiative advocates voting rights for felons.
Social Justice Leadership: This organization seeks to transform an
allegedly inequitable America into a "just society" by means of "a renewed
social-justice movement."
Shadow Democratic Party: This is an elaborate network of non-profit
activist groups organized by George Soros and others to mobilize
resources -- money, get-out-the-vote drives, campaign advertising, and
policy iniatives -- to elect Democratic candidates and guide the
Democratic Party towards the left.
Sojourners: This evangelical Christian ministry preaches radical leftwing
politics. During the 1980s it championed Communist revolution in Central
America and chastised U.S. policy-makers for their tendency "to assume
the very worst about their Soviet counterparts." More recently, Sojourners
has taken up the cause of environmental activism, opposed welfare reform
as a "mean-spirited Republican agenda," and mounted a defense of
affirmative action.
Southern Poverty Law Center: This organization monitors the activities of
what it calls “hate groups” in the United States. It exaggerates the
prevalence of white racism directed against American minorities.
State Voices: This coalition helps independent local activist groups in 22
states work collaboratively on a year-round basis, so as to maximize the
impact of their efforts.
Talking Transition: This was a two-week project launched in early
November 2013 to “help shape the transition” to City Hall for the newly
elected Democratic mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio.
Think Progress: This Internet blog "pushes back, daily," by its own account,
against its conservative targets, and seeks to transform "progressive ideas
into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action,
grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other
progressive leaders throughout the country and the world."
Thunder Road Group: This political consultancy, in whose creation Soros
had a hand, coordinates strategy for the Media Fund, America Coming
Together, and America Votes.
Tides Foundation and Tides Center: Tides is a major funder of the radical
Left.
U.S. Public Interest Research Group: This is an umbrella organization of
student groups that support leftist agendas.
Universal Healthcare Action Network: This organization supports a singlepayer
health care system controlled by the federal government.
Urban Institute: This research organization favors socialized medicine,
expansion of the federal welfare bureaucracy, and tax hikes for higher
income-earners.
USAction Education Fund: USAction lists its priorities as: "fighting the right
wing agenda"; "building grassroots political power"; winning "social, racial
and economic justice for all"; supporting a system of taxpayer-funded
socialized medicine; reversing "reckless tax cuts for millionaires and
corporations" which shield the "wealthy" from paying their "fair share";
advocating for "pro-consumer and environmental regulation of corporate
abuse"; "strengthening progressive voices on local, state and national
issues"; and working to "register, educate and get out the vote ... [to] help
progressives get elected at all levels of government."
Voter Participation Center: This organization seeks to increase voter
turnout among unmarried women, "people of color," and 18-to-29-yearolds
-- demographics that are heavily pro-Democrat.
Voto Latino: This group seeks to mobilize Latin-Americans to become
registered voters and political activists.
We Are America Alliance: This coalition promotes “increased civic
We Are America Alliance: This coalition promotes “increased civic
participation by immigrants” in the American political process.
Working Families Party: An outgrowth of the socialist New Party, WFP
seeks to help push the Democratic Party toward the left.
World Organization Against Torture: This coalition works closely with
groups that condemn Israeli security measures against Palestinian
terrorism.
YWCA World Office, Switzerland: The YWCA opposes abstinence
education; supports universal access to taxpayer-funded abortion-ondemand;
and opposes school vouchers.
"Secondary" or "Indirect" Affiliates of the George Soros Network
By Discover The Networks
In addition to those organizations that are funded directly by George Soros and
his Open Society Foundations (OSF), there are also numerous "secondary" or
"indirect" affiliates of the Soros network. These include organizations which do
not receive direct funding from Soros and OSF, but which are funded by one or
more organizations that do.
Center for Progressive Leadership: Funded by the Soros-bankrolled
Democracy Alliance, this anti-capitalist organization is dedicated to
training future leftist political leaders.
John Adams Project:This project of the American Civil Liberties Union was
accused of: (a) having hired investigators to photograph CIA officers
thought to have been involved in enhanced interrogations of terror
suspects detained in Guantanamo, and then (b) showing the photos to the
attorneys of those suspects, some of whom were senior al-Qaeda
operatives.
Moving Ideas Network (MIN): This coalition of more than 250 leftwing
activist groups is a partner organization of the Soros-backed Center for
American Progress. MIN was originally a project of the Soros-backed
American Prospect and, as such, received indirect funding from the Open
Society Institute. In early 2006, The American Prospect relinquished
control of the Moving Ideas Network.
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control of the Moving Ideas Network.
New Organizing Institute: Created by the Soros-funded MoveOn.org, this
group "trains young, technology-enabled political organizers to work for
progressive campaigns and organizations."
Think Progress: This "project" of the American Progress Action Fund,
which is a "sister advocacy organization"of the Soros-funded Center for
American Progress and Campus Progress, seeks to transform "progressive
ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative
action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other
progressive leaders throughout the country and the world."
Vote for Change: Coordinated by the political action committee of the
Soros-funded MoveOn.org, Vote for Change was a group of 41 musicians
and bands that performed concerts in several key election
"battleground"states during October 2004, to raise money in support of
Democrat John Kerry's presidential bid.
Working Families Party: Created in 1998 to help push the Democratic Party
toward the left, this front group for the Soros-funded ACORN functions as
a political party that promotes ACORN-friendly candidates.