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- Center for Insurance Research
The Center is a leading non-profit advocacy organization working on behalf of policy holders. It is based in Cambridge, MA, and conducts studies, provides
public education and brings impact litigation to push insurance reforms.
- HancockWatch
A web site for policyholders and the public that contains information about what was wrong with the plan of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Company to convert from a mutual owned by its policyholders to a stock company in 2000.
- Essential Information
Essential Information is a Ralph Nader organization that provides links to
important consumer advocacy organizations working on a wide variety of issues.
- Consumer Federation of America
A non-profit association of some 260 pro-consumer groups that was founded in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through advocacy and education.
- National Association of Insurance
Commissioners
The NAIC is the state insurance regulators' forum for the development
of uniform insurance policy and model state laws. (Click here to access insurance companies' annual financial statements.)
- The Insurance Forum
A monthly periodical directed at persons with a professional interest in the insurance business
- Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice is a progressive lawyers’ organization that brings and refers cases in the public interest. This site also contains a useful link to hundreds of public interest groups around the country.
- Public Citizen
Public Citizen is a highly effective consumer advocacy, litigation and policy organization based in Washington, DC, that leads major consumer reform efforts in Congress and nationwide.
- Consumers Union
Consumers Union is the publisher of Consumer Reports which evaluates consumer items and services for quality and cost-effectiveness. Its site contains a vast array of helpful consumer information.
- Schiff's Insurance Observer
This investigative newsletter unmasks the shenanigans in the insurance industry all while making reading about insurance fun, if you can believe that, due to Schiff's clever writing style.
- Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR)
FTCR is a nationally recognized consumer group that has been fighting corrupt corporations and crooked politicians since 1985. FTCR claims to have already saved Americans billions of dollars and improved countless peoples' lives by speaking out on behalf of patients, ratepayers and policyholders.
- Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT)
PUBPAT is a not-for-profit legal services organization that represents the public's interests against the harms caused by the patent system, particularly harms caused by wrongly-issued patents and unsound patent policy. PUBPAT provides the general public and specific persons or entities otherwise deprived of access to the system governing patents with representation, education and advocacy.
- Ashoka
Ashoka is a non-profit organization that promotes positive social change by investing in social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions that are sustainable and replicable, both nationally and globally. Since its founding in 1981, it has helped establish programs in over 60 countries and supports the work of over 1,800 Ashoka Fellows. It also employs 160 staff in 25 regional offices throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
- Echoing Green Foundation
Echoing Green provides first-stage funding and support to visionary leaders with bold ideas for social change. As an angel investor in the social sector, Echoing Green identifies, funds and supports emerging leaders and the organizations they launch. Through a two-year fellowship program, it helps these entrepreneurs develop new solutions to some of society’s most difficult problems and to address deeply-rooted social, economic and political inequities.
- National Voting Rights Institute (NVRI)
NVRI is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to making real the promise of American democracy that meaningful political participation and power should be accessible to all regardless of economic or social status. NVRI attorneys served as co-counsel in the above litigation against the FEC.
- Open Debates
Open Debates is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to reforming the presidential debate process. The group asserts that: “Currently, the presidential debates are secretly controlled by the major parties, through the private bipartisan corporation called the Commission on Presidential Debates, resulting in the stultification of format, the exclusion of popular candidates, and the avoidance of pressing national issues.” Importantly, Open Debates has organized an alternative presidential debate sponsor - the nonpartisan Citizens' Debate Commission - comprised of national civic leaders committed to maximizing voter education.
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