Secrets of the Public Interest Pyramid: Infiltrating Universities
The oldest and perhaps best-known part of the Public Interest Network are the Public Interest Research Groups, or “PIRGs.” The PIRGs grew out of the student activism of the 1960s…
Organization Trends
Secrets of the Public Interest Pyramid: Trickle-Down Organizing
While the PIRGs form the backbone of the Public Interest Network’s lobbying efforts, much of its canvassing is directed by the lesser-known Fund for the Public Interest (or “the Fund.”)…
Secrets of the Public Interest Pyramid: A Left-wing Labyrinth
While the size of the Public Interest Network gives the impression of containing dozens of sprawling, organic advocacy organizations located in nearly every state, PIN is really controlled by offices…
Secrets of the Public Interest Pyramid: Clipboard Canvassing
While we’ve examined many of the nonprofits in the Public Interest Network, we turn to the groups which provide the rest of its professional activist services. While the Fund for…
Taking PETA Radicals to Court
[Editor’s Note: This article has been edited to clarify information after CRC received additional information about the publicly available court filings. 2/19/2019] People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals…
Planned Parenthood, NARAL Behind Sponsors of Bill That Roiled Virginia
House Bill 2491 (the “Repeal Act”) introduced by Delegate Kathy Tran (D-Fairfax) in the Virginia State Legislature spurred heated debate last week. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) endorsed the bill,…
Net Neutrality’s Dark Funders
If you believe many on the Left, online freedom as we know it is about to end—again. Last week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard a lawsuit challenging…
New Dark Money Front Targets Pro-Life HHS Appointees
Left-wing state governments in New York and Virginia are proposing laws creating ever-more-aggressive abortion regimes: New York passed the Reproductive Health Act on the 46th anniversary of Roe v.
Agnes Irwin and Her Legacy: Educating Young Women
“In the summer of 1869,” according to Agnes Repplier’s 1934 Agnes Irwin: A Biography, “two principals of a girls’ school in Philadelphia were drowned at Bar Harbor. This tragic happening…
Agnes Irwin and Her Legacy: Diversity Policies in Action
On Friday, January 8, 2016, an Agnes Irwin School junior told her 11th-grade homeroom that she identified as a male. The Thursday before, without any notification to parents, the student…