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Oprah Winfrey is a world-renowned television host, media personality, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Best known for her over 23-year TV show “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Winfrey is the first African-American woman billionaire and the owner of multiple TV networks, publications, and charitable foundations, including Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation and the
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Endeavor Group Holdings is a major talent agency based in Beverly Hills, California. It was formed in 2007 by a merger of Endeavor, co-founded by Ari Emanuel, and the William Morris Agency. After a failed initial public offering in 2019, Endeavor made an initial public offering in 2021.
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March for Our Lives is a gun control advocacy network founded and fronted by survivors of the 2018 Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting. 1 The organization’s name derives from a March 24,
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Beth Kobliner is an author, commentator and journalist focused primarily on personal finance. She has written two New York Times bestselling books,1 is a philanthropist through her family foundation,
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GirlTrek (GT) is a left-of-center foundation that promotes walking to improve the health of African American communities. GT actively supported left-of-center political and advocacy causes during the 2020 election cycle. GT led its one million members during the 2020 election cycle to activate voters from African American communities in support
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David Geffen is a recording industry executive and major Democratic political donor. Geffen founded Asylum Records and Geffen Records. He was also a co-founder of DreamWorks SKG. 1 Background David Lawrence Geffen is a
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The Atlantic is a left-of-center literary, political, and ideas magazine that publishes ten issues per year. It was founded as The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 by several prominent American literary figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Black Girls Code (BGC) is a non-profit organization focused on teaching computer coding to girls from racial and ethnic minority groups. BGC focuses on teaching computer programing skills to “young women of color between the ages of 7-14,”
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Jeffery Shaun King is a left-of center political activist and social media personality. His 2014 Twitter-based coverage of the police-shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has been credited with helping create momentum for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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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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The Diller Foundation (also known by the doing business as name Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation or DVFFF) is a private foundation funded by Barry Diller, a television and motion picture executive, and Diane Von Furstenberg, a prominent fashion industry figure. It supports left-of-center advocacy groups in a number of areas,
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OurStates is a project of StayWoke, a left-of-center activism group born out of the Black Lives Matter movement. The nearly defunct project serves as a resource for activists on the state level to identify and track legislation to support or oppose. The project also includes guidance for activists
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The Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation (MJKF) is a Los Angeles-based private grantmaking foundation established by Hollywood movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and his wife, Marilyn. The foundation supports higher education, the arts and culture, Jewish charities, environmentalist causes, and general human services.
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Michelle Rhee is an education reform activist, former Chancellor of the District of Columbia public schools, and spouse of Kevin Johnson, the former Mayor of Sacramento, California. She is the founder of Students First, an education advocacy group, and served as its executive director until the organization merged with
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The Hispanic Federation (HF) is a left-of-center New York-based membership organization that works with Hispanic communities across the United States, with its member groups primarily on the East Coast. The HF works in areas of education, health, immigration, economic empowerment, civic engagement, and the environment, with advocacy targeted and specific
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Shout Your Abortion (styled #ShoutYourAbortion) is a campaign for abortion supporters and a project of the left-of-center fiscal sponsorship group NEO Philanthropy. The group was created with the intention of normalizing abortion. 1 It launched
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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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Maya Harris is a professional left-of-center policy advocate and advisor. She has served in a leadership role for numerous left-wing organizations. Among those organizations are the Ford Foundation, Center for American Progress, and the ACLU of Northern California. She also sits on the advisory board of
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The Creative Alliance is a coalition of private advertising and marketing companies which provide volunteer creative marketing services to the left-of-center viral marketing producer Civic Nation. The coalition partnered with the Obama administration to produce celebrity-backed advertisements promoting the Obama administration’s policies to combat perceived widespread campus sexual assault.
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The March for Our Lives Action Fund emerged from the March for Our Lives gun control rally held in Washington on March 24, 2018 in the wake of a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 of that year. National gun control organizations
