Rainforest Action Network

environmental advocacy nonprofit

Rainforest Action Network

Industry Environment

An environmental and human-rights advocacy nonprofit pressuring corporations and banks over forests, climate, fossil fuels, and frontline-community harms. Rainforest Action Network scores well because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and the institution is less hostile to people with weak bargaining power, and no current penalty outweighs that structure.

Why this matters: RAN is a strong case for targeted corporate-pressure advocacy, especially where ecological damage intersects with Indigenous rights, labor, and community power.

Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 58* A - Good

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material49
Bonus+9
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap58
Penalties0
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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Extraction; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.

Strengths

  • Extraction8/10
  • Solidarity with the Unemployed6/7
  • Loss-Bearing Fidelity6/7

Penalties

  • No penalties applied in this version.

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessExhaustive (AI)
  • Linked claims14
  • Direct axis claims13
  • Coverage13/13

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
5 / 10

Rainforest Action Network is a nonprofit advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Rainforest Action Network is a nonprofit advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
5 / 10

RAN publishes nonprofit organizational and financial materials for its campaign work.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • RAN publishes nonprofit organizational and financial materials for its campaign work. [2]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
8 / 10

RAN directs resources toward forest, climate, finance, and corporate-accountability campaigns rather than investor extraction.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Uncertainty
  • This axis would benefit from deeper internal-workplace evidence before human verification.
Linked evidence
  • RAN directs resources toward forest, climate, finance, and corporate-accountability campaigns rather than investor extraction. [3]
  • context Rainforest Action Network is a nonprofit advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context RAN publishes nonprofit organizational and financial materials for its campaign work. [2]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
5 / 7

RAN is a professional campaign nonprofit; workers and campaign partners have some agency but not structural worker ownership.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Uncertainty
  • This axis would benefit from deeper internal-workplace evidence before human verification.
Linked evidence
  • RAN is a professional campaign nonprofit; workers and campaign partners have some agency but not structural worker ownership. [4]
  • context Rainforest Action Network is a nonprofit advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context RAN publishes nonprofit organizational and financial materials for its campaign work. [2]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
6 / 7

RAN campaigns connect environmental protection with frontline, Indigenous, and community harms beyond ordinary employment relations.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Uncertainty
  • This axis would benefit from deeper internal-workplace evidence before human verification.
Linked evidence
  • RAN campaigns connect environmental protection with frontline, Indigenous, and community harms beyond ordinary employment relations. [5]
  • context Rainforest Action Network is a nonprofit advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context RAN publishes nonprofit organizational and financial materials for its campaign work. [2]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
6 / 7

RAN bears campaign and reputational costs to pressure powerful corporations and financial institutions.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Uncertainty
  • This axis would benefit from deeper internal-workplace evidence before human verification.
Linked evidence
  • RAN bears campaign and reputational costs to pressure powerful corporations and financial institutions. [6]
  • context Rainforest Action Network is a nonprofit advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context RAN publishes nonprofit organizational and financial materials for its campaign work. [2]
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5

RAN does not use consumer lock-in or rent extraction as its ordinary model.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Uncertainty
  • This axis would benefit from deeper internal-workplace evidence before human verification.
Linked evidence
  • RAN does not use consumer lock-in or rent extraction as its ordinary model. [7]
  • context Rainforest Action Network is a nonprofit advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context RAN publishes nonprofit organizational and financial materials for its campaign work. [2]
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

RAN core output is targeted environmental and human-rights advocacy.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • RAN core output is targeted environmental and human-rights advocacy. [8]
  • context Rainforest Action Network is a nonprofit advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context RAN publishes nonprofit organizational and financial materials for its campaign work. [2]
Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
4 / 5

RAN scale increases pressure on high-harm institutions but remains dependent on campaign prioritization by a nonprofit organization.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • RAN scale increases pressure on high-harm institutions but remains dependent on campaign prioritization by a nonprofit organization. [9]
  • context Rainforest Action Network is a nonprofit advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context RAN publishes nonprofit organizational and financial materials for its campaign work. [2]

Penalties

No penalties applied in this version.

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
2 / 3

RAN uses public campaign pressure and protest tactics to create space for dissent against corporate environmental harm.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • RAN uses public campaign pressure and protest tactics to create space for dissent against corporate environmental harm. [10]
Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms even where private law does not strictly require it.
2 / 3

Rainforest Action Network the organization uses rights, courts, public process, or civil-society advocacy to constrain stronger institutions.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Rainforest Action Network the organization uses rights, courts, public process, or civil-society advocacy to constrain stronger institutions. [11]
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
3 / 3

Ordinary users receive unusually fair value, durability, access, or surplus. Full credit is reserved for unusually clear, profile-specific evidence rather than ordinary compliance language.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Rainforest Action Network the public receives durable environmental, legal, land, or stewardship value without ordinary customer lock-in. [12]
Cost Transparency
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Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency, especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or individualized pricing are normal.
2 / 3

Rainforest Action Network the organization publishes meaningful financial, annual-report, or accountability materials.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Rainforest Action Network the organization publishes meaningful financial, annual-report, or accountability materials. [13]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 79/100

14 verified linked claims 13 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 13/13 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 15/20

14 verified linked claims

Source quality 12/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

13 direct claims across 13 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

13/13 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessExhaustive (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Rainforest Action Network is a nonprofit advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company.

Ownership Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

2RAN publishes nonprofit organizational and financial materials for its campaign work.

Governance Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

3RAN directs resources toward forest, climate, finance, and corporate-accountability campaigns rather than investor extraction.

Extraction Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

4RAN is a professional campaign nonprofit; workers and campaign partners have some agency but not structural worker ownership.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

5RAN campaigns connect environmental protection with frontline, Indigenous, and community harms beyond ordinary employment relations.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

6RAN bears campaign and reputational costs to pressure powerful corporations and financial institutions.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

7RAN does not use consumer lock-in or rent extraction as its ordinary model.

Market Conduct Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

8RAN core output is targeted environmental and human-rights advocacy.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

9RAN scale increases pressure on high-harm institutions but remains dependent on campaign prioritization by a nonprofit organization.

Scale Integrity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

10RAN uses public campaign pressure and protest tactics to create space for dissent against corporate environmental harm.

Openness To Dissent Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

11Rainforest Action Network the organization uses rights, courts, public process, or civil-society advocacy to constrain stronger institutions.

Constitutional Spirit Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

12Rainforest Action Network the public receives durable environmental, legal, land, or stewardship value without ordinary customer lock-in.

Good Deal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

13Rainforest Action Network the organization publishes meaningful financial, annual-report, or accountability materials.

Cost Transparency Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

14Rainforest Action Network's public materials state a mission, values, ownership model, advocacy role, or institutional standpoint plainly enough that this record does not identify penalty-level neutrality theater.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

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