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The Equity Collaborative is a left-leaning consulting firm that provides critical race theory-aligned diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting services to schools and other organizations. It is perhaps most notable for contracting with the Loudoun County, Virginia school board to conduct a controversial “equity study” that led to public outrage and
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The Free Press (TFP, formerly called Common Sense, not to be confused with the left-of-center advocacy group Free Press) is an internet-based media company founded by former New York Times opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss. The Free Press aims to produce news stories that exemplify the journalistic
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The Kaleidoscope Group is a diversity and inclusion consulting firm based in Chicago.
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The Leadership Collaborative is an educational consulting firm that provides critical race theory-aligned coaching, consulting, and professional development to schools and school districts. 29 It was created by left-of-center activist Jen Benkovitz.
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The Lever is a news and commentary outlet founded by David Sirota, a far-left journalist and former speechwriter for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT). Background The Lever originated as The Daily Poster, a Substack founded by David Sirota in April 2020. In May 2021, The Daily Poster moved
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The Management Action Center is the sister organization of The Management Center (TMC), a left-of-center management consulting and training firm.
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The Minor Collective LLC (Minor Collective) is a left-of-center educational training and consulting firm that works against perceived inequity in school system structures and classrooms, and advocates for unorthodox teaching methods such as outdoor education. Founded in 2018 by husband-and-wife team Cornelius and Kassandra Minor, it hosts virtual events and
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The Nation is the oldest weekly magazine in the United States. It was initially founded as a classical liberal magazine but as the liberal movement has evolved, it steadily became a more left-progressive or social-democratic magazine. In the first half of 2016, it had 110,007 subscribers, more than 30,000 fewer
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The New Media Firm is a left-progressive Democratic Party-aligned for-profit public relations firm based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 2007 by Democratic public relations operatives Will Robinson and Tierney Hunt. 98
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The New Republic (TNR) is a left-of-center opinion journal founded in 1914 and originally intended as a platform to promote the ideas of its first managing editor, Herb Croly, who advocated for a more powerful federal government, wealth redistribution, much more powerful labor unions, increased regulation on business, and higher taxes.
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The Organizing Group (TOG) is a for-profit political consulting firm founded by former AFL-CIO political director Steve Rosenthal, who serves as its president. 132 It leverages the labor union and other
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The Outrage is a left-wing activism group that makes and sells clothes to promote advocacy for left-wing issues. The Outrage supports free access to abortion, LGBT interests, free access to housing, free access to healthcare, and open borders.
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The Pride Fund is a Columbus, Ohio-based investment fund attempting to raise $10 million to invest in LGBT-themed or LGBT-owned businesses. Founded in 2019, the fund has invested in a producer of CBD sparkling drinks, a queer TV service provider, and an owner of rental communities in Texas.
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The Smiley Group, Inc. (TSG) is a private communications company that oversees multiple media broadcast outlets and online advertising sources; advocates, “in support of human rights and related empowerment issues.” 157
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The Stratosphere is a newsletter published by the left-of-center journalist Teddy Schleifer. The newsletter is focused on American billionaires, especially tech billionaires, and their influence in politics and philanthropy. The newsletter is a precursor to the media company Puck News (forthcoming as of July 2021), with which Schleifer is a
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The Vaid Group LLC is a for-profit consulting and strategy firm that caters to left-of-center nonprofits and political causes.
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The Vulcan Inc. is a Seattle-based private investment company that conducts a wide-range of projects related to science, public policy, technology, art, and real estate. Vulcan also gives funds toward environmentalist research and climate change policy efforts. Background The company was created in 1986 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft
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The Walt Disney Company is a media and entertainment conglomerate based in Burbank, California. As of March 2022, the company has more than 200,000 employees and a market capitalization of more than $250 billion. 173 Leadership
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The Worker Agency, LLC is a for-profit communications firm founded in 2018 by William Fitzgerald, a former lobbyist and corporate communications employee for Google. It helps shape narratives, messaging, and policy communications that align with left-of-center social justice policies for labor unions and left-of-center advocacy groups. Clients of the
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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
