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Potpourri of Political Nonprofits |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
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| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 384 Words, 2,784 Characters |
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In terms of sheer numbers, most left-of-center nonprofit advocacy groups focus on specific issues. Organizations such as Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Food Research and Action Center, and the National Association for Public Interest Law generally advocate stern regulation, often by barraging the public with scary stories about the environment, safety,...
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...e biggest grant-making "nonprofit foundation" is the federal government itself. The Departments of Education, Labor, Commerce, Energy, Health and Human Services, and the rest dole out billions a year in grants to study every imaginable social ill. And their tilt is a liberal one, for they tend to favor researchers who affirm the beneficial role of bigger government in rehabilitating soceity.
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