interest groups

People and organizations matching the keywords,"interest groups".

• Action on Smoking and Health

  Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a pressure group which seeks to publicise the health risks associated with tobacco smoking and campaigns for greater restrictions thereon.[http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/26738692/ ASH - Action on Smoking and He... [Wikipedia]

• AFL-CIO

  American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL-CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions (including Canadian), to... [Wikipedia]

• African National Congress

  Wikipedia: The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party, and has been South Africa's governing party supported by a tripartite alliance between itself, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South A... [Wikipedia]

• Air Transport Association

  The Air Transport Association is a trade organization of the largest North American airlines. The ATA was formed in 1936 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.. ATA numbers are used to identify parts of an aircraft in a standard way. The Air Transp... [Wikipedia]

• Alianza por el cambio
• Alianza Republicana Nacionalista
• America’s Health Insurance Plans
• American Academy of Family Physicians
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)
• American Astronomical Society
• American Atheists

  American Atheists is an organization in the U.S. dedicated to defending the civil liberties of atheists and advocating for the complete separation of church and state. Founded in 1963 by Madalyn Murray O'Hair (born Madalyn Mays, she would later adopt... [Wikipedia]

• American Business Media

  American Business Media is an association of business information providers that was founded in 1906. Currently, the association has more than 300 member companies and delivers business intelligence to industry, Madison Avenue, Wall Street and the Be... [Wikipedia]

• American Civil Liberties Union

  |headquarters = New York, NY |formation = 1920 |website = http://www.aclu.org/}}The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) consists of two separate non-profit organizations: the ACLU Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization which focuses on litigation and... [Wikipedia]

• American Coalition of Citizens with Disability
• American College Health Association
• American College of Physicians (ACP)

  The American College of Physicians (ACP) is a national organization of doctors of internal medicine (internists), physicians who specialize in the prevention, detection and treatment of illnesses in adults. With more than 119,000 members, ACP is the ... [Wikipedia]

• American Dental Association
• American Enterprise Institute

  The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative think tank, founded in 1943. According to the institute its mission is "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capi... [Wikipedia]

• American Federation of Musicians
• American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

  The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the second- or third-largest labor union in the United States and one of the fastest-growing, representing over 1.4 million employees, primarily in local and state governmen... [Wikipedia]

• American Federation of Teachers
• American Hunters and Shooters Association

  The American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) is an organization involved in advocacy for gun control. Its critics claim that AHSA is a front organization aimed at dividing gun owners by pointing to AHSA members' bias against private ownership... [Wikipedia]

• American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
• American Jewish Congress
• American Medical Association

  The American Medical Association (AMA), founded in 1847 and incorporated 1897, is the largest association of physicians and medical students in the United States. The AMA's mission is to promote the art and science of medicine for the betterment of t... [Wikipedia]

• American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
• American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)
• American Obesity Association
• American Postal Workers Union

  The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is a labor union in the United States. It represents employees of the United States Postal Service who are clerks, maintenance employees, and motor vehicle service workers. It also represents approximately 2,0... [Wikipedia]

• American Small Business League (ASBL)
• American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)

  ASNE, in full, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, is a membership organization for daily newspaper editors (both print and online) and people who serve the editorial needs of these publications (wire service editors, news executives at newspa... [Wikipedia]

• American Trucking Associations (ATA)

  The American Trucking Associations (ATA) was founded in 1933 by a national affiliation of state trucking organizations. Their purpose is to influence state and federal laws, and to improve the image and profitability of the trucking industry.*[http:/... [Wikipedia]

• Americans for Tax Reform

  Americans for Tax Reform is an interest group seeking to reduce the overall level of taxation in the United States, at the federal, state and local level. Its founder and president is Grover Norquist, an influential Republican lobbyist. Americans for... [Wikipedia]

• Amnesty International
• Bill McCoshen
• Brent Scowcroft

  Wikipedia: Brent Scowcroft (born March 19, 1925 in Ogden, Utah) was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. He al... [Wikipedia]

• British Humanist Association

  The British Humanist Association is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes Humanism. The BHA is committed to secularism, human rights, democracy, equality and mutual respect. It works for an open and inclusive society with freedom of be... [Wikipedia]

• British Medical Association

  {| class="infobox bordered" style="width: 25em; text-align: left; font-size: 90%;"|-| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | |- ! Founded:| 1832|- ! Members:| 130,000 (August 2007)|- ! Country:| United Kingdom|-- ! Key People:| Dr Hamish Meldrum - ... [Wikipedia]

• British Phonographic Industry (BPI)

  The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is the British record industry's trade association. Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four 'major' record companies (Warner Music Group, EMI, Sony BMG, and Universal Music Group... [Wikipedia]

• California Nurses Association
• Cato Institute

  The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C.The Institute's stated mission is "to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, ... [Wikipedia]

• Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA)

  #REDIRECT CTIA - The Wireless Association [Wikipedia]

• Center for American Progress

  The Center for American Progress is a liberal political policy research and advocacy organization. Its website describes it as "... a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures o... [Wikipedia]

• Center for Constitutional Rights
• Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Change to Win Federation

  The Change to Win Federation is a coalition of American labor unions originally formed in 2005 as an alternative to the AFL-CIO. The coalition is associated with strong advocacy of the organizing model.At the dawn of the twenty-first century, labor u... [Wikipedia]

• Children’s Rights Council
• Christian Coalition of America
• Citizens Commission on Human Rights
• Common Cause

  Common Cause is a nonpartisan, nonprofit citizens' lobby and advocacy organization. The organization was founded in 1970 by former cabinet secretary John W. Gardner with a mission focused on making U.S. political institutions more open and accountabl... [Wikipedia]

• Communications Workers of America

  Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States (the union also has locals in Canada), representing over 700,000 workers in both the private and public sectors. CWA is headquartered in ... [Wikipedia]

• Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)

  The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a non-profit public policy organization founded in 1984 by Fred L. Smith, Jr. CEI's stated belief is that consumers are best helped not by government regulation of commercial interests, but by consumers b... [Wikipedia]

• Concerned Women for America
• Conservative and Unionist Party (UK)
• Constitution Party

  The Constitution Party is a conservative United States political party. It was founded as the U.S. Taxpayers' Party in 1992. The party's official name was changed to the ''Constitution Party'' in 1999; however, some state affiliate parties are known ... [Wikipedia]

• Consumer Electronics Association
• Consumer Federation of America

  The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, education and advocacy.According to CFA's website, its members are approximately 300 consumer-oriented non-profit... [Wikipedia]

• Consumers Union

  Consumers Union is an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization serving consumers in the United States. Its mission is to test products, inform the public, and protect consumers. Its income is derived from the sale of its magazine '... [Wikipedia]

• Convergencia
• Council for National Policy

  From the Council for National Policy official website: The Council for National Policy is an educational foundation organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We do not lobby Congress, support... [Wikipedia]

• Council on Foreign Relations
• Culinary Workers Union

  Culinary Workers Union or UNITE HERE local 226 is a private sector local union in Nevada, USA, affiliated with UNITE HERE, a national labor union. With 60,000 members, the Culinary Workers Union represents more members than any other union in Nevada.... [Wikipedia]

• DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa)
• Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
• Discovery Institute
• Dramatists Guild of America

  The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for playwrights, composers, and lyricists working in the U.S. theatre market. Membership as an Associate Member is open to any person having written at least one stage play. Active Member... [Wikipedia]

• Economic Policy Institute

  The Economic Policy Institute or EPI is an organization based in Washington, D.C. which concerns itself with the formulation of economic policy. It is considered to be center left in its views. It was established in 1986 by a group of economists incl... [Wikipedia]

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Ellen Johnson
• Family Research Council
• Fence for Life
• Financial Services Roundtable
• Foreign Policy In Focus
• Free Speech Coalition
• FreedomWorks

  FreedomWorks is a conservative non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., United States. FreedomWorks' agenda includes reducing the size of government, and lowering taxes. FreedomWorks trains and organizes volunteers to engage fellow citizens ... [Wikipedia]

• Freelancers Union
• Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional
• Frente para la Victoria
• Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional
• Gran Alianza Nacional
• Green Party (USA)

  One of the political parties in the United States, and similar in mission to many of the worldwide Green Parties, the Greens have been active as a third party since 2001. The party first gained widespread public attention during Ralph Nader's preside... [Wikipedia]

• Grover Norquist

  Wikipedia: Grover Glenn Norquist (born October 19, 1956) is the president of the noted anti-tax lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform, and a conservative activist. His close business and political ties to recently indicted ... [Wikipedia]

• Guttmacher Institute

  The Guttmacher Institute is a non-profit organization which works to advance reproductive health as defined by the World Health Organization. The institute operates in the United States and globally "through an interrelated program of social science ... [Wikipedia]

• Hoover Institution
• Human Rights Campaign
• Human Rights Watch
• Independent Film & Television Alliance
• Institute for Public Policy Research
• International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees

  #REDIRECT International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes [Wikipedia]

• International Association of Fire Fighters
• International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

  The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is an AFL-CIO/CLC trade union representing approx. 646,933 workers as of 2006 in more than 200 industries.The IAM was formed in 1888 by 19 machinists meeting in a locomotive pit in Atl... [Wikipedia]

• International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
• J Street

  J Street is a Jewish nonprofit advocacy group based in the United States that promotes meaningful American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israel conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. J Street supports a new direction for Americ... [Wikipedia]

• John Podesta

  Wikipedia: John David Podesta (born January 15, 1949) was the fourth and final White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton from 1998 until 2001. After President Clinton left office, Podesta founded and is currently Pres... [Wikipedia]

• Labor Party (Israel)
• Labour Party (UK)
• Liberal Democrats (UK)
• Libertarian Party

  The Libertarian Party is a United States political party founded on December 11, 1971[http://www.lp.org/organization/history.shtml Libertarian Party:Our History], LP.org. More than 200,000 voters are registered with the party, making it one of the la... [Wikipedia]

• Likud
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

  The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) is a national non-profit civil rights organization formed in 1968 to protect the rights of Latinos in the United States."MALDEF" entry in ''Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the Ci... [Wikipedia]

• Minority Media and Telecommunications Council
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving
• Movimiento de Liberación Nacional
• National Alliance on Mental Illness
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

  #REDIRECT National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [Wikipedia]

• National Association of Social Workers
• National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
• National Education Association
• National Federation of Independent Business

  The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is a lobbying organization with offices in Washington, D.C. USA, and in all 50 state capitals. NFIB claims a membership base of about 350,000, down from an excess of more than 600,000 members. NF... [Wikipedia]

• National League of Cities

  The National League of Cities is the oldest and largest organization in the United States devoted to strengthening and promoting cities as centers of opportunity, leadership and governance. The National League of Cities is a resource and advocate for... [Wikipedia]

• National Organization for Women

  The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest American feminist organization. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.NOW was founded o... [Wikipedia]

• National Physicians Alliance (NPA)
• National Right to Life Committee
• National Taxpayers Union

  National Taxpayers Union (NTU) is a taxpayers advocacy organization in the United States, founded in 1969 by James Dale Davidson. NTU advertises that it is the largest and oldest grassroots taxpayer organization in the nation, with 362,000 members na... [Wikipedia]

• Neturei Karta
• New America Foundation
• Nuclear Energy Institute
• Oxford Research Group
• Parents Television Council
• Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)

  Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) is a group of family members and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. According to PFLAG's mission statement, the organization "promotes the health and well-bein... [Wikipedia]

• Partido Acción Ciudadana
• Partido Acción Nacional
• Partido Comunista de Cuba
• Partido Conservador
• Partido Conservador Colombiano
• Partido de la Liberación Dominicana
• Partido de la Revolución Democrática
• Partido del Trabajo
• Partido Justicialista Argentino
• Partido Liberación Nacional
• Partido Liberal Colombiano
• Partido Liberal Constitucionalista
• Partido Liberal de Honduras
• Partido Nacional
• Partido Polo Democrático Alternativo
• Partido Popular de España
• Partido Revolucionario Democrático
• Partido Revolucionario Institucional
• Partido Socialista Obrero Español
• Partido Verde Ecologista de México
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
• Pharmacists for Life International
• Physicians for a National Health Program
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• Project 21

  Project 21 is a conservative public policy group that provides broadcasters and the print media with prominent African-American conservative commentators as columnists and guests. The organization refers to itself as "The National Leadership Network ... [Wikipedia]

• Public Citizen

  Public Citizen is a Washington, D.C.-based public interest group engaged in consumer advocacy, government accountability, clean democracy and ethical government, access to the courts, global trade, and regulatory and science policy. Founded in 1971 b... [Wikipedia]

• Public Knowledge
• Reason Foundation

  The Reason Foundation is an American nonprofit think tank founded in 1978 that also publishes ''Reason magazine''. Based in Los Angeles, Reason is self-described as nonpartisan and publishes a statement of values that can best be described as liberta... [Wikipedia]

• Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA)
• Rockridge Institute
• Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
• Screen Actors Guild

  The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is an American labor union representing over 120,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide. According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild seeks to: negotiate and enforce collectiv... [Wikipedia]

• Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

  Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a labor union representing more than 2 million workers in over 100 occupations in the United States and Canada. The main divisions are health care (around 50% of the union's membership), including hosp... [Wikipedia]

• Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA)
• Songwriters Guild of America

  The Songwriters Guild of America (SGA) is an organization founded in 1931, to help "advance, promote, and benefit" the profession of songwriters. It was founded as the "Songwriters Protective Association" by Billy Rose, George M. Meyer and Edgar Lesl... [Wikipedia]

• Student National Medical Association (SNMA)
• Teamsters
• The Broadway League
• The Brookings Institution

  The Brookings Institution is a non-profit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C.[http://www.brookings.edu/about.aspx About Brookings] One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social scienc... [Wikipedia]

• The Democratic Party

  The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the wo... [Wikipedia]

• The Heritage Foundation

  The Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies drew significantly from Heritage's policy s... [Wikipedia]

• The Humane Society

  #REDIRECT Humane Society [Wikipedia]

• The Newspaper Guild

  The Newspaper Guild is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933 who noticed that unionized printers and truck drivers were making more money than they did. In addition to improving wages and working conditions, its constitution says its... [Wikipedia]

• The Project for the New American Century

  The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was an American neoconservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., co-founded in early 1997 as a non-profit educational organization by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. The PNAC's stated goal is "to... [Wikipedia]

• The Republican Party

  The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP. Founded in Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1854 by anti-slavery expansion activ... [Wikipedia]

• The Senior Citizens League
• Transport Workers Union
• U.S. PIRG

  The US Public Interest Research Group (also known as PIRG) is a political lobby non-profit organization in the United States and Canada, composed of self-governing affiliates at the state and province level. Its fundraising arm is the Fund for Public... [Wikipedia]

• United Auto Workers
• United Food and Commercial Workers

  The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is a labor union representing approximately 1.4 million workers in the United States and Canada in many industries, including agriculture, health care, meatpacking, poultry and food processin... [Wikipedia]

• United Mine Workers of America

  The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union that represents workers in mining. One of the groups in the forefront of the fight for collective bargaining in the early 20th century, the UMW was founded in Columbus, ... [Wikipedia]

• United States Chamber of Commerce

  The United States Chamber of Commerce (USCC) is the world's largest not-for-profit business federation, representing*3,000,000 businesses (via its Federation of local chambers and association members. Actual direct membership is several tens of thous... [Wikipedia]

• United Steelworkers
• United Transportation Union
• Waterkeeper Alliance
• Writers Guild of America

  The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions: * The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), representing TV and film writers around New York City.* The Writers Guild of America, West (W... [Wikipedia]