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Heather Holdridge is a left-of-center digital strategist who since November 2021 has been the managing director of Real Voices Media, a news aggregator that operates a network of social media, community, and news websites that support Democratic candidates and policy positions. Holdridge previously worked for Planned Parenthood Federation of
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ExcelinEd (formerly the Foundation for Excellence in Education) is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy think tank that advocates for educational innovation. ExcelinEd advocates for policies that support school choice, increased technologies and online learning, and programs that better prepare graduates for college and careers.
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The Shareholder Commons, Inc. (TSC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that specializes in corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activism. TSC strives to reshape the capitalist system to be in the interests of so-called “stakeholders” across society, rather than shareholders.
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All On The Line is a left-of-center advocacy campaign focused on pushing congressional redistricting efforts favorable to Democratic politicians. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of the National Redistricting Action Fund (NRAF). All On the Line was created when NRAF merged with Organizing for Action (OFA), an advocacy group
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Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is a shareholder advisory firm that assists shareholders with research in asset management, proxy voting, and corporate governance. In recent years, the firm has gained a reputation in the business sector for supporting the appointment of board members with activist agendas and for advocating in favor
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Our Lives on the Line is a left-of-center healthcare advocacy organization created to oppose repeal of Obamacare. It is a division of Health Care Voter and a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship lobbying organization managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy
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Caroline Ciccone is a Democratic political consultant and activist and the president of Accountable.US, a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit and a former project of the “dark money” funder New Venture Fund. Beforehand she served as the group’s executive director.
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Jacqueline Pata is an Alaska Native political activist and is the outgoing executive director of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the lobbying organization which functions as the advocacy representative for treaty-recognized tribal governments. Prior to joining NCAI, Pata served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Native American Programs in the U.S.
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Eric Himpton Holder Jr. is an American attorney who served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015. Holder, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama, was the first African American to hold the position of U.S. Attorney General. Holder is chairman of the
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Not to be confused with the Laura and John Arnold Foundation Arnhold Foundation is the left-of-center philanthropic organization of the late Henry Arnhold, a banker from New York City. Arnhold had employed George Soros at the Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder bank for a decade, helping launch Soros’s
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The Threshold Foundation is a nonprofit and membership organization funding a variety of left-of-center causes. Based in Katonah, New York, the foundation’s president is Joan Briggs. 1 History and Causes Threshold Foundation was founded in 1981
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Cristobal Alex is left-of-center activist and Democratic Party operative who served as the Biden Administration’s White House Deputy Cabinet Secretary and a Special Assistant to the President from 2021 to 2022.
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For the 501(c)(3), see Color of Change Education Fund (Nonprofit) Color of Change is an online organizing organization created by the Obama administration’s former “green jobs czar” Van Jones and the former director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org, James Rucker, in 2005.
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The Campbell Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that primarily supports environmentalist organizations focused on issues relating to the Chesapeake Bay and environmentalist organizations on the West Coast. 1 The organization contributes to numerous local chapters of the
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The William Randolph Hearst Foundation is a nonprofit based in New York and San Francisco founded by publishing and journalism giant William Randolph Hearst that provides grants supporting youth political engagement and journalism, culture, education, health, and social services.
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Not to be confused with Southwest Organizing Project, a New Mexico-based environmentalist coalition. The Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) is a left-of-center community organizing group based in southwestern Chicago, Illinois. As of April 2024, SWOP has 43 member organizations, primarily consisting of schools, health centers, and religious organizations.
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Oklahoma Voice is a left-of-center online state-level news outlet focused on Oklahoma launched in 2023 by national media network States Newsroom. 1 Background Oklahoma Voice was launched in
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Hearst Foundation Inc. is a New York- and San Francisco-based nonprofit founded by publishing and journalism giant William Randolph Hearst that provides grants supporting youth political engagement and journalism, culture, education, health, and social services.
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The Wyoming Outdoor Council is an environmentalist advocacy organization that lobbies for left-leaning environmental causes, primarily the restriction of industrial land use in Wyoming. Background The Wyoming Outdoor Council was founded in 1967 by Tom Bell. Bell’s vision was “to bring together various organizations throughout the state to speak as
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Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) is an advocacy organization based in San Francisco that provides services for people at the local level (such as translation services), trains community leaders, and gets them involved in local politics. It also advocates for left-of-center policies at the state and national levels. Background Chinese
