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The Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) is a research organization focused on promoting a left-of-center narrative around climate change. 4C is part of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. 4C conducts research on public perceptions of climate change and then uses that research to advocate for environmentalist policy through
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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic family foundation founded in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan, former president and CEO of General Motors. The Sloan Foundation today serves as a grantmaking organization which funds projects in science, economics, and technology. A number of the Sloan Foundation’s grants support
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The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE), also known as Action for Climate Emergency Inc., is a left-of-center environmentalist education and activist group focused on educating low-income urban high schoolers about climate change activism.
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Susan Sandler is a San Francisco-based left-wing political activist and philanthropist known for her support of Democratic candidates and left-wing causes and organizations. Sandler and her husband Steven Phillips, who is also a left-of-center advocacy donor, founded the Sandler Phillips Center to advocate for left-wing causes. Sandler sits on
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Kim Anderson is the executive director of the National Education Association (“NEA”), the nation’s largest labor union, and the former executive vice president of the Democracy Alliance. Anderson was named Executive Director of the NEA—which represents nearly three million government workers, principally teachers—in June 2019, and began work the following September.
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Ralph Nader is an American environmentalist and consumers’-interests activist and left-of-center politician. Though he affiliates with neither major party, his views are generally considered left-wing and he focuses on promoting anti-free-market regulations. Nader became a household name in the 1960s with Unsafe at Any Speed, his investigative report on the
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Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) is a right-leaning environmental advocacy organization funded by and connected to left-wing environmentalist organizations. 134 The
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The American Conservation Coalition (ACC) is a right-of-center environmental advocacy group with financial and advisory board ties to left-of-center environmentalist groups. The group was founded by Benjamin “Benji” Backer, then-a student at the University of Washington, who led the group until 2023 when Danielle Butcher Franz became CEO and Chris
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The Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund is an affiliate of the Ohio Environmental Council and was formed in 2015 as OEC’s lobbying arm. OECAF endorses left-of-center candidates that are sympathetic to environmentalism. Political Activities In February of 2019, Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund campaigned against Sam Randozzo, nominated by Governor
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Jeremiah Chapman is a left-of-center political activist and the national director of cultural organizing for NextGen America, a project of billionaire Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer. 216 His particular area of expertise is in mobilizing left-leaning constituencies,
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Jess McIntosh is a Democratic Party operative and left-wing activist who has worked for Democratic and liberal candidates and political efforts in New York, Minnesota, and at the national level. As of 2020, she was editor-at-large for the American Independent (formerly Shareblue), a liberal blog network associated with controversial operative
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Social Security Works Political Action Committee (PAC) is the political arm of Social Security Works. The PAC was created in 2017 and donates to and endorses candidates who support expanding left-of-center welfare programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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Alliance for Justice Action Campaign (AFJAC) is a left-of-center judicial policy advocacy group. It is the political advocacy arm of Alliance for Justice (AFJ), a research and advocacy group devoted to confirming judges appointed by Democratic presidents and governors and preventing the confirmation of Republican-appointed judges. AFJAC sponsored campaigns
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Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation) is the primary organizational outgrowth of the more decentralized Black Lives Matter movement. According to an Associated Press report from February 2021, BLM Global Network Foundation was granted tax-exempt status by the IRS in December 2020.
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MPower Change Action Fund (also known as MPower Action) is the lobbying sister affiliate of the organization MPower Change, a left-of-center advocacy group focusing on issues related to American Muslims. 362 In the 2024 Democratic
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Mijente is a left-of-center activist organization that claims to represent the interests of Latino and Chicano individuals in the United States. It is the sister organization of the charitable Mijente Support Committee.
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Win Minnesota PAC is the federal Super PAC associated with the left-of-center advocacy organization WIN Minnesota. It was particularly active in the 2014 elections. 2014 Elections During the 2014 elections, Win Minnesota PAC raised and spent a little over $1.6 million on behalf of Democratic candidates in Minnesota.
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Oakland Rising (OR) is a left-of-center activist project of the Movement Strategy Center (MSC) that focuses on voter mobilization among of low-income people, immigrants, and people of color in Oakland, California. Operating under the Bay Rising umbrella with sister organizations San Francisco Rising and Silicon Valley Rising,
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Ilona Prucha is a senior program officer for Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, a major left-of-center grantmaking foundation that was created in 2001 as part of a secretive network of grantmaking organizations funded by three hedge fund billionaires
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The Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, formerly known as the Matan B’Seter Foundation, was created in 2001 as part of an elaborate and secretive network of grantmaking organizations funded by three hedge fund billionaires: Andrew Shechtel, David Gelbaum and C. Frederick Taylor.
