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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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Non-profit
The Chan Zuckerberg Foundation is the formally charitable arm of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the nonprofit foundation of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. The Advocacy has a political sister group, Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy. All three groups receive 100% of their funding from
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The Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy is the political arm of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the nonprofit foundation of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. The Advocacy has an educational sister group, the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation. Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy primarily supports left-of-center political causes
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For-profit
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is the grantmaking brand of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. Though the Initiative has broadly nonpartisan goals, it donates to many left-of-center foundations and a substantial fund to Zuckerberg’s pro-Democrat PAC, FWD.us. The Initiative is organized as an
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The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration (abbreviated as “the Presidents’ Alliance”) is comprised of over 550 university presidents, and advocates for left-of-center expansionist immigration policy.
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For-profit
Running Tide Technologies is a research, technology, and advocacy firm with a mission to “restore ocean health” and reduce the use of fossil fuels in global supply chains. To achieve this, the firm develops ocean diagnostic systems, grows biomass to consume carbon in the atmosphere, and restores aquatic and coastal
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REFORM Alliance is a criminal justice advocacy organization that focuses on left-of-center policy change to reform the probation and parole laws in the United States, primarily at the state levels. It was founded by rappers Meek Mill and Jay-Z, along with six billionaires.
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Non-profit
The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy (PCSP) is an activist project which campaigns against the practice of public school systems and state education departments selling or otherwise disclosing the personal information of students to corporations and other outside organizations. Founded in 2014, the PCSP also advocates for more restrained collection
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Non-profit
Recidiviz is a research and advocacy organization which claims that its methods of data analysis can help reduce rates of incarceration. The organization claims that its purpose is to provide feedback to authorities to improve criminal justice outcomes, but also states that its goal is a “smaller” criminal justice system.
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Non-profit
The FWD.us Education Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking entity closely tied to, and funded by, Facebook cofounder and Mark Zuckerberg. The organization focuses on promoting left-of-center criminal justice reform and immigration policy changes. The organization also operates a fiscally sponsored project, Informed Immigrant, which aims to provide “all undocumented
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Christopher Piper is a political operative and was working as the chief operating officer of the Elections Group, a consulting organization that works with election offices and other local, state, and federal entities. Background Christopher Piper has an extensive career in election administration and law. From 2003 to 2008,
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Kim Barton is the supervisor of elections for Alachua County, Florida. 1 Barton is associated with several state and national associations, including the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a left-leaning organization best known
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Sureel Sheth is a mergers, acquisitions, and major investor advisor for technology companies. He is a general partner with JMI Equity, a venture capital and business advising firm with offices in the Washington, D.C. area and California. He also sits on the board of directors of the Center for
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Movement
In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
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Joanna Francescut is the Assistant County Clerk and Registrar of Voters for Shasta County, California. 1 Francescut
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Non-profit
Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF) is an advocacy group based in Egypt that supports artists, journalists, researchers, and other content creators, and seeks to reform the education systems of Egypt and other Arab countries. In addition to its presence in the Middle East, the ADEF is also active within the
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Person
Tony Xu is a Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of the food delivery company Doordash. In addition to supporting relatively non-controversial causes, Xu is a donor to left-of-center politicians and causes.
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Senzing is a technology company that produces software that conducts “entity resolution,” 1 or the use of artificial intelligence to match data and clean
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Institute for Responsive Government (IRG) is a policy think tank that purports to seek to improve government effectiveness and correct bureaucratic inefficiency. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit managed by consulting company Arabella Advisors that makes grants to left-of-center organizations.
