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Non-profit
The Democracy Matters Institute is a left-of-center voter project and election advocacy group based in Poughkeepsie, New York. The organization also has a lobbying arm that is called Democracy Matters which is mostly inactive and the Democracy Matters Institute operates as simply Democracy Matters. The organization was founded in 2001
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Other Group
Reclaim Our Democracy is a social action group at First Parish, a Unitarian Universalist church in Concord, Massachusetts. It is part of the Unitarian Universalist Association which supports left-of-center social action.
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Political Party/527
Democracy for America is a left-of-center political action committee that claims to have more than 1 million members, to have raised more than $70 million for progressive candidates, and been responsible for 1,091 left-progressive candidates being elected to office across the United States.
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Non-profit
Democracy Corps is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) research and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1999 by Democratic Party pollster Stanley Greenberg and Democratic Party strategist James Carville, who had worked for the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton. The group provides polling and strategic
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Non-profit
The Democracy Collaborative is a left-of-center organization that advocates for the transition of the United States economic system from a free-market economy to government-controlled socialism. It supports government ownership and control of industries like health care, utilities, and transportation, and the group proposes the creation of a “welfare state” that
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Non-profit
Stand Up! For Democracy in DC (or Free DC) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for statehood of the District of Columbia and expanded autonomy under home rule. In addition to advocating for statehood and greater home rule for the District of Columbia, the organization has taken left-of-center stances on
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Other Group
Democracy Spring is a left-of-center organization that organized protests against campaign speech and election security. 1 Its website stated that it was nonpartisan, but admitted its leadership was made up of progressives.
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Non-profit
Media Matters for America (MMfA) was established in 2004 by conservative-turned-liberal activist David Brock. MMfA was created as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. MMfA positions itself as a fact-checker, focusing on conservative media bias and inaccuracies. In practice, the organization frequently criticizes opinions of conservative commentators. In November 2023, MMfA was
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Other Group
Also see Committee on States (Other Group) and Democracy Alliance Conferences (Other Group) The Democracy Alliance is a collective of left-of-center donors that has been active in orchestrating “the activities of a permanent ‘left infrastructure’” since 2004.
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Non-profit
The Foundation for Civic Leadership is an incubator for left-leaning voter engagement programs. Its founder and president is Ian Simmons, a longtime Democratic donor and a co-founder of Blue Haven Initiative, an investment firm which uses returns to fund left-leaning social policy.
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Person
Cornel West is a left-wing academic, philosopher, and public intellectual noted for working as one of the honorary chairs of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). 1 Over the past
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Non-profit
The Chang K. Park Foundation (CKPF) is a left-of-center organization that funds multiple left-wing and left-of-center groups. It was founded and is led by Chang K. Park, CEO of Universal Remote Control and an immigrant from South Korea who came to the United States as a teenager to gain
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Non-profit
The National Democratic Institute (NDI), or National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, works with partners in developing countries to increase the effectiveness of democratic institutions. The institute was founded in 1983 as one of the “core institutes” of the National Endowment for Democracy to support democracy abroad and has
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Other Group
Mirror Indy is an Indianapolis-based news site founded by the nonprofit Free Press Indiana and affiliated with the American Journalism Project. 1 The news site’s top funders include the Nina Mason Pulliam Trust, the Herbert
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Other Group
Lawfare Media, known simply as Lawfare, is a legal policy website founded by law professors Robert Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittes that covers national security issues and the use of the legal system regarding political and international relations. The site features commentary from a variety of professors and legal scholars
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Non-profit
Effective Institutions Project (EIP) is a working group of academics, businesses, philanthropic groups, and policy makers who seek to improve the quality of decision making at institutions, especially left-of-center philanthropies. Effective Institutions Project looks at altruistic factors and technological competence along with strategy models for determining how to improve decision
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Non-profit
American Endowment Foundation (AEF) is a donor-advised fund (DAF) provider that manages over $4 billion in assets and consists of 10,000 individual donor-advised funds 1 serving donors in all 50 states.
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Person
Thomas D. Klingenstein is the chairman of the board of directors of the right-of-center Claremont Institute and a principal in the investment firm Cohen Klingenstein, LLC. 1 He founded the
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For-profit
Third Plateau (sometimes called Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies) is a consulting firm that assists left-of-center nonprofits. Its clients have included the Democracy Funders Network, the Pritzker Innovation Fund, and the NDN Collective. According to co-founder Jonathan Kaufman, Third Plateau both consults on specific projects for large
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Non-profit
Transformative Justice Coalition is an advocacy organization founded in 2015 by Barbara R. Arnwine, a left-of-center racial justice activist. It touts its participation in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which among other things allowed employees to sue their employers based on identity discrimination. Activities Transformative
