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The Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity, also known as CGRE, is a coalition of leftwing groups promoting abortion rights, organizing at the state and local level, and changes to the judiciary.
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1VoteCloser is a left-leaning ostensibly nonpartisan organization that works to increase voter turnout in elections. Its main focus is to provide education on the issues through a series of short videos explaining left-of-center issue stances that are uploaded to the organization’s website by its users. During the 2020 elections, the
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For-profit
TED Foundation Inc. (commonly known as TED or TED Conferences) hosts speeches and discussions on a wide array of topics. It is best known for its “TED Talks,” speeches of no more than 18 minutes given by prominent scientists, businesspeople, artists, and others which have been viewed billions of times
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The Audacious Project is a project of the TED Foundation which funds organizations intended to catalyze positive large-scale social impacts. Many of the groups it funds have left-of-center policy goals, particularly related to environmentalism and social justice. From its founding in 2018 to 2020, the Audacious Project spent almost $2
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The Minneapolis Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that views the critical race theory-influenced concept of equity as its “responsibility.” 1 In 2021, the foundation
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Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) is an organization for girls that has traditionally emphasized service, interaction with the outdoors, and self-reliance. 1 Since
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Person
Julie Packard is an environmentalist activist and philanthropist whose father, David Packard was the co-founder of Hewlett Packard. Packard has been the executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium since it was founded by her family in the 1970s, and she is the vice-chair of the David and Lucile
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Real Voices Media is a left-of-center news aggregator that operates a network of social media, community, and news websites that support Democratic candidates and policy positions. The group is directed by Heather Holdridge, a former digital content manager for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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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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Person
Aileen Adams is chair of the board of the Weingart Foundation, a left-of-center California grantmaking institution. She was appointed to high-ranking positions in the administrations of former President Bill Clinton, former California Governor Gray Davis (D), and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D). She has
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Person
Susan Packard Orr is the daughter of David and Lucile Packard and former chair of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Packard Foundation), having sat on the board since 1967 and still sitting in an honorary capacity since her retirement in early 2022. She also runs a software company
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Person
Jeffrey L. Bradach is a co-founder and managing partner of the Bridgespan Group, a charitable organization which provides consultation to nonprofit groups. 1 Before forming Bridgespan with Tom Tierney, both founders worked at managing consulting
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Non-profit
The Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion (WCLA), also known as Choice Matters, is an activist group which promotes removing restrictions on abortion and opposes the pro-life movement. The group also supports the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which treats abortion as a matter of personal privacy and
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Non-profit
For more information on the 2020 election, see Center for Technology & Civic Life (Nonprofit) The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is a coalition of left-of-center election reform nonprofits created in 2022 as an initiative of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to bolster election security
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Emily Kaiser is a left-leaning journalist currently working on initiatives to help fellow journalists. Through her position at the Aspen Institute and Global Press Institute, Kaiser oversees journalism education programs in media, advocacy, and editorial training. She is a trustee of her family’s nonprofit, the George Kaiser Family
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Regan Pritzker is a member of the wealthy and politically involved Pritzker family and a donor to left-leaning political causes and candidates. Pritzker is on the board of directors of the left-of-center nonprofits Libra Foundation and Kataly Foundation.
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Engage Michigan (also known as Progress Michigan Education) is a left-of-center advocacy group that offers web development; spokesperson training; and media, public relations, and communications services for left-of center non-profits. 1 It is an arm of the
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Non-profit
Ragtag Volunteers Community and Education Fund is the sister-group of Ragtag, an consisting of tech and legal experts who volunteer to provide technical services to left-of-center advocacy groups. Structure Ragtag Volunteers Community and Education Fund has no website, and no public disclosures are available on the IRS website
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Public Wise is a left-of-center advocacy group and funding organization that was founded in 2019 by Eric Laufer, a New York City-based entrepreneur in the wind-reliant energy industry. The organization funds projects and organizations with the goal of increasing turnout for Democratic candidates in minority communities. The organization publishes the
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Hillman Family Foundations is a collection of 18 left-of-center grantmaking organizations that fund other organizations and causes predominantly in Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania. 1 Some of the foundations also operate in California, New York, and
