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Dustin Aaron Moskovitz is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes. In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana with Justin Rosenstein. 1
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See Also Meta (For-Profit) for updates on Facebook’s Parent Company Meta, formerly doing business as Facebook, is a social media and networking service based in Menlo Park, California. Along with chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founders include Andrew McCullum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin.
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Gaurav Shirole is co-founder and executive director of Future Forward Political Action Committee (FF PAC) and Future Forward USA Action (FF USA). FF PAC was designated by President Joe Biden as the primary Democratic Party PAC. Previously, Shirole led President Barack Obama’s digital advertising during his
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GiveDirectly is a charitable organization that gives out direct cash payments to people living in extreme poverty, primarily in Africa and the United States. Since 2009, GiveDirectly has given over $800 million to over 1.6 million people.
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The Just Impact Fund is a left-of-center donor-advised fund organization dedicated to left-of-center lenient criminal justice policy. It is managed by Chloe Cockburn, the founder and chief executive officer of Just Impact Advisors, and is officially administered by the National Philanthropic Trust. It allows grantors to remain anonymous
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OpenAI is a for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) developer. It was originally founded as a nonprofit organization in 2015 by several technologists and entrepreneurs including Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and Elon Musk. Formerly a nonprofit organization, in 2019 it reorganized with its main business operating as a “profit
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Founded in 2018, Secure Democracy, now known as Secure Democracy USA, is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that bills itself as a nonpartisan organization, but has deep ties to left-leaning activists, PACs, and law firms. The organization works exclusively on election policy advocacy, and supports expanding early voting, further use of mail-in
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People’s Action, the lobbying arm of the left-wing People’s Action Institute, was created when USAction, Community Organizations in Action, National People’s Action Campaign, and Campaign for America’s Future merged in 2016. 155 The
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The Accountable Justice Action Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that was founded with funding from organizations run by Facebook co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Mark Zuckerberg. Contributions made to the Accountable Justice Action Fund have been used to fund far-left district attorney campaigns based on platforms of
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Mind the Gap (MTG) is a left-wing super PAC dedicated to helping Democratic political candidates win elections. The PAC earns millions of dollars in donations primarily from Silicon Valley executives “who are keen on quietly funneling massive political donations into the Democratic Party”
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The Reform LA Jails project promotes left-of-center criminal justice and corrections policies in Los Angeles County, California. It sponsored a successful 2020 county-level ballot initiative to give the Los Angeles County Civilian Oversight Commission subpoena power to investigate alleged misconduct by sheriff’s deputies in county jails and require the
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Future Forward USA PAC (also known as “FF PAC”) is a Democratic Party-aligned super PAC based in Palo Alto, California. FF PAC reportedly spent $108 million in a “blitz” of spending during the last five weeks of the 2020 election to support President Joe Biden’s campaign by attacking then-President
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Andrew Cockburn is a journalist, author, and filmmaker. He is currently the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine. Cockburn’s politics are left-of-center as he has expressed support for increased economic regulations, opposition to military intervention in the Middle East, and concern over alleged voter suppression of racial minorities. However, Cockburn
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Robert Edward “Ted” Turner III is a billionaire media proprietor best known as the founder of CNN and TBS and a major donor to left-progressive causes, especially environmentalist efforts. Turner retired from active media work in 2006 and is currently the chairman of Turner Enterprises, his investment holding company. Turner
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Jeffery Shaun King is a left-of center political activist and social media personality. His 2014 Twitter-based coverage of the police-shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has been credited with helping create momentum for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Facebook. Zuckerberg founded the company while at Harvard with classmates Andrew McCullum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are also active left-of-center advocacy philanthropists; in 2015, the couple founded the philanthropic limited liability
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Chloe Cockburn was the previous criminal justice program officer at Open Philanthropy, a grantmaking foundation funded and managed by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna. She is also the director and a board member of the Bia-Echo Foundation, and the creator of the
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Non-profit
The Open Philanthropy Action Fund (OPAF) is the political arm of Open Philanthropy, a grantmaking foundation that gives to left-of-center organizations advocating criminal justice policy. Open Philanthropy began as a project of GiveWell and Good Ventures , the later being the private grantmaking foundation of Facebook co-founder
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Not to be confused with Open Philanthropy (Nonprofit) The Open Philanthropy Project Fund (OPPF) is a donor-advised fund based in Silicon Valley that disburses most of the donations for Open Philanthropy, a grantmaking foundation established along “effective altruism” principles which gives to many left-of-center nonprofits involved in criminal
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Open Philanthropy, previously called the Open Philanthropy Project, is a left-of-center funding group founded in 2016 by political donor Cari Tuna and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. It is the sister fundraising organization of the Open Philanthropy Action Fund (OPAF), a nonprofit advocacy group.
