What other organizations exist like ALEC?

Here is an organization we talked about in one of the classes I recently visited:

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
"The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America's colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience — the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE's core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them." http://thefire.org/about/mission/

Sounds like they do good work right? Well, that's open to interpretation. Check out this article from 2003 on NPR (surprisingly, that was the most recent NPR piece on the organization).

"A Philadelphia-based group sues Shippensburg University, saying a school code aimed at promoting sensitivity and protecting the rights of minorities violates the First Amendment. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which plans to file similar challenges at universities across the country, says the policy bars students from speaking out."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1260465


This was the best example of a nonprofit doing very political work, in my opinion. Are there others you know of? Please share in the comments section!