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Non-profit
The American Independent Business Alliance (commonly known as “Amiba”) is a left-of-center association that claims to represent independent businesses. The organization’s focus is the growth and development of local independent business alliances. The organization takes left-of-center views on issues such as antitrust, where it supports breaking up large businesses, especially
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the Executive Office of the President. Nominations and Appointments Jen O’Malley Dillon is White House Deputy Chief of Staff. She was Campaign Manger for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, and prior to that for Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign. She was a
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Energy. Nominations and Appointments Shalanda H. Baker is Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she had previously served as Deputy Director for Energy Justice. Prior
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Person
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm is the 16th U.S. Secretary of Energy and was sworn in Feb. 25, 2021. She was the governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011. 1 Granholm was picked by President Joe Biden
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Non-profit
E Foundation for Oklahoma is a non-partisan economic think tank that advocates for limited government, entrepreneurship, and a global economy. 1 A report from 2019 suggested that E Foundation for Oklahoma was no longer
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Non-profit
The Institute for Family Studies (IFS) is a think tank which promotes right-of-center policies intended to improve family formation and child care. The institute also supports conservative perspectives towards marriage and family structure. In addition to research and advocacy, IFS tracks statistics such as birth rates and income levels in
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Non-profit
The Archbridge Institute is a right-leaning public policy think tank that conducts academic research in order to propose policy solutions intended to increase opportunities for individuals. The Institute purports that “artificial barriers” created by public policy limit opportunity and thereby stand in the way of individual success, especially at is
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Non-profit
Living Goods supports pregnant women and newborns primarily in East Africa, but internationally as well, working with governments to train community health workers. The group provides education and supports women selling food and contraceptives.
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Non-profit
BRAC – Ultra Poor Graduation Initiative is a left-of-center nonprofit that purports to address extreme poverty globally by advocating for anti-poverty programs that promote the attainment of sustainable employment. The initiative advises and governments, nonprofits, and United Nations entities to adapt and implement its programs.
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Non-profit
The Edge Funders Alliance is an affinity funding network formed by the merger of Grantmakers without Borders and the Funders Network on Transforming the Global Economy.
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Non-profit
The Laudes Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization with the stated goal of reducing inequality in fashion, construction, and other industries, associated with the European clothing store chain C&A. The foundation cites inequality in these industries and climate change as its motivation to reform and restructure these industries.
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Non-profit
CAMFED, founded in 1993 as the Campaign for Female Education, is a charity focused on providing scholarships to girls and young women for primary and secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa. CAMFED is funded through donations to its international affiliates and through funds provided by former CAMFED alumni directly to students.
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Government Agency
The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
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Non-profit
Paid Leave for All is a left-of-center campaign which advocates for government-mandated paid family leave for all employees to be used for recovering after an illness or injury, caring for a family member, taking care of a new child, or mourning the passing of a family member.
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Non-profit
BankFWD is a campaign that pressures banks to stop financing oil and gas companies and their projects. Founded by members of the Rockefeller family descended from early 20th century oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, the project is fiscally sponsored by the Sustainable Markets Foundation, an environmentalist funding organization that
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Non-profit
Woodtiger Fund is a Pennsylvania-based foundation that primarily funds environmentalist projects, especially opposition to natural gas exploration. The organization also funds environmentalist journalism and wildlife conservation projects. The fund is an offshoot of the Wallace Global Fund, which traces its roots to a foundation created by former U.S. Vice
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Other Group
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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Other Group
The Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations was founded in 1945 as one of four statutory, or “contract,” colleges created by the New York Legislature at New York’s land grant college, Cornell University.
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Non-profit
The Priests of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic clerical religious congregation, comprised of both priests and male religious. The order has 457 houses in 40 countries with over 2,000 members, about 1,590 of whom are priests.
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Person
David Blood is a co-founder and senior partner of Generation Investment Management (GIM), a London-based “sustainable” investment fund which bases its $25.1 billion portfolio on an environmentalist ideological outlook and the “environment, social responsibility, and corporate governance” (ESG) investment philosophy. Blood, who was a long-time executive at Goldman Sachs, is
