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Valerie Jarrett is a Democratic Party operative who served as a senior advisor to President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017 and as co-chair of the Obama-Biden Presential Transition Team following the 2008 presidential election.
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Ariel Investments is the first Black-founded mutual fund in the U.S. and claims to be the largest minority-owned investment fund in the U.S.
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My Brother’s Keeper (MBK), also known as the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, is a networking organization for teenage and young adult men of Black and other ethnic minority backgrounds. It also pushes for policies which it perceives to be beneficial to minority groups. MBK was founded in February 2014 by
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Christina “Tina” M. Tchen1 is a Chicago-based lawyer, former Obama administration official,
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Time’s Up Now is the lobbying and advocacy wing of the left-of-center Time’s Up Foundation. Time’s Up Now has advocated for policies that extend the statute of limitations in rape cases,
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The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation, formerly the Comcast Foundation, is the corporate foundation of Comcast Corporation, which owns the Comcast cable television service, the NBC television network, and Universal movie studios. The foundation gives extensive local grants in cities for which Comcast is the primary cable operator, as well as nationally
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Blue Crab Strategies is a political consulting firm that caters to left-of-center clients. In 2020, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the firm to consult on strategy for his Democratic presidential primary campaign in Maryland.
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The Democracy Alliance (DA), a collective of wealthy Democratic and left-progressive individual and institutional donors, hosts semi-annual conferences for its members and guests. Described as a “major gathering of the institutional left,” the conferences primarily serve to connect prospective left-leaning donors with similarly minded activist groups, and to provide
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When We All Vote is a self-described non-partisan voter outreach and registration organization and was started as an initiative of Civic Nation, an advocacy-based nonprofit group, in 2018. 1 The organization was
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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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Peter Amber is a gun control activist who co-founded and works as executive director of Giffords, an organization that supports stricter regulations on firearms. Prior to his work at Giffords, Ambler had years of experience working in multiple Democratic offices.
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Civic Nation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 2015, headed by President Jason Waskey (CEO of Blue Crab Strategies LLC) and Executive Director Jenn Brown. Touting itself as an organ of widespread positive social change, Civic Nation funds several large charitable initiatives: Erase the Hate, College Promise, It’s On Us,
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The George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) is a grantmaking organization associated with billionaire oilman George Kaiser the owner of BOK Financial Corporation. 1
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Change to Win (CtW) is a federation of labor unions and “strategic organizing center” closely associated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). It was initially created in 2005 when seven former AFL-CIO affiliated labor unions defected to form their own
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The National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) is a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group. The group, which is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization under IRS tax rules, takes left-of-center stances on abortion, economics, and judicial nominations. The group is critical of Republicans and supports left-of-center policies. Background The NPWF was founded
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The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) is a civil-rights-focused left-of-center organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as an umbrella organization for over 200 mostly left-wing organizations which lobby and advocate before Congress and other federal agencies on legislation and Presidential appointments to the executive departments and
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Organizing for Action (OFA) was an advocacy group that was the lineal descendant of the campaign organizations supporting the election of former President Barack Obama, Obama for America and Organizing for America. OFA was a 501(c)(4) devoted to preserving and building on the Obama agenda.
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Freedom to Marry (FTM) advocated for the for state recognition and normalization of same-sex marriage across the United States. The organization was disbanded in 2016 after the Supreme Court in 2015 struck down laws prohibiting recognition of same-sex marriages in Obergefell v. Hodges.
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The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is the nation’s largest LGBT-interest activist organization and a prominent force in left-of-center politics. Together with the affiliated Human Rights Campaign Foundation charitable arm and super PAC, HRC has built relationships with powerful mostly Democratic Party politicians and major corporations, and has taken a
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The Joyce Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Chicago that finances advocacy for gun control, environmental causes, and liberal education policy; opposition to right-of-center election reforms; and left-of-center nonprofit media outlets. Beatrice Joyce Kean established the organization in 1948. Before he was elected President of the United States, then-Illinois
