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The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a Chicago, Illinois-based center-left election reform advocacy group formed in 2012. The organization pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration. It has a wide reach into local elections offices across the nation and is funded by many left-of-center funding organizations
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Workforce and Organizational Research Center, Inc. (WORC) is a research and consulting organization that seeks to improve the quality of frontline jobs. WORC claims that “Better Jobs Mean Better Business” and that improving the quality of jobs for employees will improve outcomes for employers.
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The Election Center, also known as the National Association of Election Officials, is a nonprofit organization comprised of state, local, and federal election-administration workers as well as academics and voting software and equipment companies. The group is headquartered in Texas and its members are primarily government employees who oversee or
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Pam Anderson is a Republican election official from Colorado who previously served as the elected city clerk in the City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and as the elected clerk for Jefferson County, Colorado. She is a board member of the left-leaning election administration advocacy group Center for Tech and
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The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a national organization comprised of government agencies, companies and associations that provides cyber-security consulting and information sharing services that is heavily funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. Among its many subject areas,
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The Center for Renewing America is a right-leaning nonprofit organization created by Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget under former President Donald Trump. The organization’s work focuses on opposing censorship of conservatives big tech companies, opposing the spread of critical race theory, and advocating for
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Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) is an electoral policy advocacy group which provides grants and conducts research ostensibly to increase voting security and increase voter turnout. The organization was created in the wake of the 2016 election in response to foreign interference and alleged low voter turnout; in
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The Center for Civic Design (CCD) is an election-administration policy organization that frequently partners with left-of-center organizations like Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund.
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The Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the New Venture Fund, a leading “dark money” pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor, to promote sweeping changes to the elections process, including state laws that automatically register voters at state agencies.
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Stand Up America is a left-of-center advocacy group created by Sean Eldridge, an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives and spouse of liberal activist Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. Eldridge founded Stand Up America in 2016 to oppose the election of Donald Trump, supporting theories
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The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice, education issues, public pensions, dietary policy, and scientific research reform. The foundation
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Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE), formerly known as the Grantmakers Forum for Community and National Service, serves as a “philanthropic laboratory” that engages in research and activism experiments to derive best practices for civil engagement advocacy. As of April 2020, PACE has 58 members, many of which are left-of-center
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The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is a major private grantmaking foundation based in Milwaukee. The foundation’s reported net assets totaled approximately $893 million as of December 31, 2017, and it approved a net of about $33.5 million in grant contributions for charitable purposes that year.
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The Voter Participation Center is a left-of-center voter registration nonprofit that was founded in 2003 as Women’s Voices Women Vote, changing its name in 2011 and expanding its mission to become the Voter Participation Center.
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (also known as the Hewlett Foundation) is a private foundation established in 1966 by Hewlett-Packard co-founder William R. Hewlett, his wife Flora, and his son Walter.
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The Pew Research Center is a research institution focusing on questions of public policy and national culture. It is a subsidiary of the Pew Charitable Trusts. The center conducts research in seven areas. Each section of the Pew Research Center includes analytical reports and polling. The Center was founded
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The Loud Hound Foundation is a San Francisco-based left-of-center grantmaking foundation. 1 William Moritz is the president of the Loud Hound Foundation. His father, venture capital billionaire and Sequoia Capital director
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One Degree works to build and provide “easy-to-use technology” to low-income people to connect with government social services such as health care, housing, legal help, and food services. 1
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The Shared Ascent Fund is a left-of-center nonprofit organization based in Sacramento, California, that advocates left-of-center principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and alleges that there is a “growing threat to our democracy.”
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Lyna Lam is a philanthropist based in San Francisco, California. She is the child of refugees from the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge communist regime. Her husband, Chris Larsen, is the founder of blockchain technology Ripple. Personal Life Lyna Lam is married to Chris Larsen. Larsen co-founded Ripple,