Kendra Alexander Foundation is an organization that supports and administers the Center for Political Education, which trains radical-left activists. The foundation seeks to inject “a socialist perspective” in left-wing social justice movements. [1]
Background
Kendra Alexander Foundation is a continuing-education organization with a stated mission to promote education concerning workers’ social issues. [2] The foundation says it supports activists’ efforts to “educate themselves in order to make a socialist perspective a more integral part of the complex of struggles for social justice.” [3]
The foundation says that it advocates for “economic democracy,” “environmental justice,” and against racism, sexism, homophobia, and imperialism. The foundation owns a building in San Francisco’s Mission District. [4]
Projects
Kendra Alexander Foundation operates the Center for Political Education, an organization that develops and sponsors lectures, classes, workshops, and conferences from radical-left activists. [5] The organization also runs the radical-left Committees for Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. [6]
Federal Loan
During the COVID-19 lockdown, the federal Small Business Administration provided a $30,762 loan in May 2020 to the Kendra Alexander Foundation through the Paycheck Protection Program. The loans were intended to prevent layoffs. The organization retained 18 employees as a result of the taxpayer-backed loan. [7] Kendra Alexander Foundation. PPP Detective. Accessed January 7, 2022. https://www.pppdetective.com/ppp/ca/san_pablo/kendra_alexander_foundation