Search results for ‘The Make Yourself Foundation’


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    Make Yourself Foundation

    Make Yourself Foundation is a private foundation created by the musicians Michael Einziger, Brandon Boyd, and Jose Pasillas of the band Incubus. It supports left-of-center advocacy causes.
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    Roddenberry Foundation

    The left-of-center Roddenberry Foundation was created by Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, to honor his father’s politically progressive world view.
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    National Parents Union

    The National Parents Union is an advocacy group created in January 2020
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    Accountable Tech

    Accountable Tech is a left-of-center advocate for restrictions on free speech on online platforms. The group was created as a fiscally sponsored project of the North Fund, which is part of the advocacy nonprofit network managed by Arabella Advisors.
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    American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)

    The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a right-of-center nonprofit think tank that also functions as the nation’s largest voluntary membership association for state legislators. It also offers membership to private sector companies and think tanks. The group authors a variety of publications and utilizes member task forces to adopt
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    Robin DiAngelo

    Robin DiAngelo is an author and speaker who promotes far-left perspectives on racial issues. 1 DiAngelo places special emphasis on white people, claiming that they do not sufficiently acknowledge their alleged role in reinforcing racism, which she claims
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    Biden-Harris Transition

    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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    Trump-Russia Collusion Claims

    See also: For a more complete list of public figures who promoted collusion claims, please see this resource  from the Capital Research Center. Starting at least by July 2016 and continuing through March 2019, the FBI and then the office of Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert
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    Nikole Hannah-Jones

    Nikole Hannah-Jones is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine who in 2019 created and directed of the magazine’s “1619 Project.” Her lead essay for the 100-page journalistic endeavor asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved
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    1619 Project

    The 1619 Project is an artistic and journalistic project of the New York Times Magazine that asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619  and not the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or the drafting of
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    Stuart Appelbaum

    Stuart Appelbaum is president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). He is also an executive vice president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), the parent union of RWDSU. Appelbaum is a vice-president of the national AFL-CIO and serves on the
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    Voto Latino

    Voto Latino (also known as the Voto Latino Action Fund) is a left-of-center voter mobilization group targeted at Latino voters. Co-founded by Maria Theresa Kumar and actress Rosario Dawson, Voto Latino has registered hundreds of thousands of voters since 2004. The organization also advocates for abortion through its advertising and
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    David Rockefeller Fund

    The David Rockefeller Fund is a left-of-center philanthropic organization that makes grants related to art, climate change, and criminal justice. Founded in 1989 and expanded in 2001, its grants go to independent organizations as well as initiatives affiliated with established groups like the Tides Foundation and the Arabella
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    Resource Generation

    Resource Generation (RG) is a left-of-center organization which organizes and encourages wealthy young people to “devote a portion of their financial assets to left-of-center causes.”
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    Garrison Institute

    Garrison Institute is a retreat center that provides education and performs research on meditative contemplation and how it can be applied to social activism. It offers programs and retreats in its Garrison, New York location that cover the connection of contemplation and “mindfulness” with left-of-center social issues such as environment
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    Peter B. Lewis

    Peter B. Lewis was an American insurance industry executive and a major financial backer of left-of-center political and social causes. While he was best known for his career with Progressive Corporation, one of the largest automobile insurance firms in the United States, Lewis was also a patron of the
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    Norman Lear

    Norman Lear is a television producer who created a number of politically charged television shows, including “All in the Family,” “Maude,” and “The Jeffersons.” 1 Lear is a self-admitted
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    Ploughshares Fund

    The Ploughshares Fund is an anti-nuclear proliferation organization pooling and directing donations from wealthy individuals and philanthropies. It is reportedly “the largest grant-making foundation in the United States focusing exclusively on peace and security issues.”
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    Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)

    Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a legal advocacy group with previous connections with political strategist David Brock. The organization describes itself as a “nonpartisan” watchdog group directing litigation against government corruption in an effort to advance the public interest. The group is part of Brock’s