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Person
Barbara Dalio is an American philanthropist and the wife of Ray Dalio, the founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. Together they run Dalio Philanthropies, a grantmaking foundation that primarily funds universities and research projects. She is the founder and co-director of Dalio Education, which provides funding for public-school projects
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Non-profit
National Association of School Nurses (NASN) is a professional society of about 18,000 members that promotes the placement of a permanent full-time registered nurse in every school in the United States. The group was founded in 1968 as an arm of the National Education Association (NEA) labor union but
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration judicial nominations to federal courts. Supreme Court of the United States Ketanji Brown Jackson is a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. She had previously been serving as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
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Person
Cecily M. Carson is a fashion industry figure and philanthropic donor. She is the president of the Carson Family Charitable Trust 1 and founded CMC Jewelry Designs, Inc.
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Non-profit
ExcelinEd (formerly the Foundation for Excellence in Education) is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy think tank that advocates for educational innovation. ExcelinEd advocates for policies that support school choice, increased technologies and online learning, and programs that better prepare graduates for college and careers.
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Person
John Koza is a left-leaning California mathematician, businessman, and registered Democratic voter. Koza is the co-founder, chair, and a member of the board of directors of National Popular Vote, an organization attempting to replace the state-by-state Electoral College in Presidential elections with a plurality-at-large national vote. Anti-Electoral College Advocacy
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For-profit
Screen Strategies Media is a for-profit media buying and placement company that primarily works with Democratic candidates and center-left causes. The company has worked with some of the biggest names in the Democratic Party and on several swing district Congressional races. In the 2020 elections, Screen Strategies Media did more
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Political Party/527
Voices for Progress PAC is a political action committee and coordination group for left-of-center donors. It is affiliated with Voices for Progress, an advocacy project of the Tides Foundation-affiliated Advocacy Fund, and the Voices for Progress Education Fund, a nonprofit project of the Tides Center. Voices for Progress PAC makes donations
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Non-profit
Voices For Progress is an advocacy and coordination group for left-wing donors. It is a project of The Advocacy Fund, which is affiliated with the incubation and funding group the Tides Foundation. The organization works to promote its issues by educating lawmakers and their staffs on left-of-center proposals and
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Non-profit
NOI is defunct. For its successor, see Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) New Organizing Institute (NOI) was a left-progressive group that trained digital organizers and campaigners for the Democratic Party and liberal political causes. The organization, described by a Washington Post reporter as “the Democratic Party’s Hogwarts
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Non-profit
The Connecticut Citizen Action Group (CCAG) is a Connecticut-based lobbying group which advocates for environmentalist policies and anti-market regulations. Though it is nominally nonpartisan, the CCAG typically supports Democratic Party policies and calls for left-of-center economic legislation.
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Political Party/527
MoveOn Political Action, which jointly operates MoveOn.org with its associated 501(c)(4) organization MoveOn Civic Action, describes itself as “the largest independent, progressive, digitally-connected organizing group in the United States.”1 MoveOn Political Action gathers donations from
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Non-profit
The Center for Innovative Policy is a political advocacy and fundraising organization focused on supporting Democratic Party policy positions, state governors, and gubernatorial candidates. 1 Its principal officer, Noam Lee, is a political consultant
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Non-profit
The Libertas Institute is a non-partisan public policy think tank that advocates for free markets, individual freedom, and limited government in Utah. The institute was founded in 2011 and produces educational resources and policy proposals focused primarily on state and local laws and policies.
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Non-profit
PennEnvironment is a left-of-center environmentalist organization that advocates for the use of environmentalist energy sources, conservationist policy, and government regulation to combat climate change. The organization has also advocated against natural gas exploration using hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania. PennEnvironment is the Pennsylvania state affiliate of Environment America, a network
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Government Agency
The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
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For-profit
The Atlantic is a left-of-center literary, political, and ideas magazine that publishes ten issues per year. It was founded as The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 by several prominent American literary figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Person
Also see Sea Change Foundation (Nonprofit) Nathaniel “Nat” Simons is a billionaire, hedge fund manager, and major donor to left-of-center causes and organizations, much of it through the Sea Change Foundation, a San Francisco-based grantmaking foundation he co-founded in 2006 with his wife, Laura Baxter-Simons.
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Non-profit
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) is a cross-party think tank focusing on federal fiscal policy and the budget deficit. Former U.S. Rep. Robert Giaimo (D-CT) and former U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon (R-OK) started the CRFB in June 1981.
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Person
Daniel Penchina is the president of consulting firm Penchina Partners. He previously served as president of advocacy groups Voices for Progress and Voices for Progress Education Fund. In addition, he has worked as the legislative director for Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), the legislative director for Senator Christopher Murphy
