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Marc Benioff is founder, chairman, and co-CEO of Salesforce.com, a leading software company. Benioff engages in a substantial amount of advocacy-philanthropic giving, and he has espoused numerous left-of-center political views opposing capitalism, favoring strict gun control, defending liberal-left approaches to homelessness, and supporting liberal expansionist immigration policy. As of 2018,
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Center for Global Policy Solutions is a left-of-center nonprofit founded by Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, a candidate for U.S. Representative in the special election to fill the seat for the 7th District, and widow of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD).
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Participant (formerly known as Participant Media) was a film production company founded by Jeffrey Skoll, a left-leaning billionaire who was formerly the president of eBay.
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The Sparkplug Foundation is a left-wing grant making organization that assists start-up and smaller left-of-center groups. 1 Sparkplug Foundation has provided support to anti-Israel groups that support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement
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Courier Newsroom is a partisan media project that supports liberal politics and Democratic political candidates while appearing to be state-level independent news outlets. Left-leaning donors supported the Democratic digital politics network ACRONYM to bypass traditional online advertising tactics by utilizing news sites that claim to be local news outlets.
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The Legal Aid Society of New York provides criminal, juvenile, and civil legal support to New Yorkers who cannot otherwise afford representation. In addition to taking on individual cases, the Legal Aid Society advocates a political agenda, fighting for left-of-center criminal justice, immigration, and housing policies through the courts. The
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StayWoke (or Stay Woke) is a left-wing organization and digital accelerator that grew out of the Black Lives Matter campaigning and demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri after the police-involved shooting death of Michael Brown. The organization was founded and is led by left-wing activists involved in promoting protests against police,
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United Domestic Workers (UDW, also known as UDW/AFSCME Local 3930) is a left-of-center California labor union of home care workers affiliated with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). UDW membership is largely based around In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS), a California state program which provides at-home
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Nicole Berner is a left-of-center activist currently working as general counsel for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as a partner in the labor union-side labor law firm James and Hoffman PC.
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MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Formerly known as MacKenzie Bezos, she is recognized as the third-wealthiest woman in the world after a divorce settlement left her with an estimated $37 billion.
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The Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy (SCAA) is a left-of-center think tank focused on government funding for poverty programs in New York. It advocates for legislation on government provided health insurance, mostly through Medicaid funding in New York. It also focuses on New York tax allocations for foster care,
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AFSCME Council 75 is the Oregon division of the left-of-center American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union. The group represents over 25,000 government workers in Oregon and has been one of the leaders on left-of-center labor advocacy in the state.
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 503 is an Oregon-based government worker union and local affiliate of the controversial SEIU labor union. SEIU 503 represents care-workers, nonprofit employees, and public workers throughout Oregon. SEIU 503 actively pushes for left-of-center economic policy and aggressive unionization in Oregon, leading the
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Northwest Area Foundation (NWAF) is a left-of-center private foundation which was formed in 1934 by railroad magnate Louis W. Hill. In 2023, NWAF updated its grantmaking to focus on “racial, social, and economic justice,” aligning more strongly to left-of-center causes.
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The Oil and Gas Accountability Project (OGAP) is a project of Earthworks which focuses on federal, state, and local reform to increase government regulation of the energy sector. OGAP focuses most of its advocacy in the American West, especially in New Mexico and Colorado, and promotes left-of-center energy policy,
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Peter Ward is the president of the New York Hotel Trades Council (HTC), vice-president of the New York State AFL-CIO, and has been described as one of the most powerful labor leaders in New York due to his union’s efforts in political organizing.
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Jewish Voice for Peace is a left-wing, nominally Jewish group that opposes U.S. assistance to the state of Israel and supports allowing Palestinians to live on land within Israel vacated by Arabs during the Israeli War of Independence. The group supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement to
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New Jersey Citizen Action (NJCA) is a state affiliate of the now defunct Citizen Action, a national left-of-center voter mobilization and community organizing group. Citizen Action of New Jersey works in tandem with its sister 501(c)(3) group, New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund to conduct left-progressive advocacy and social service
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David Bookbinder is an attorney and chief counsel to the Niskanen Center, a center-left and nominally libertarian think tank. Prior to that, Bookbinder was chief climate counsel to the Sierra Club, where he managed the group’s involvement in the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA, which established the
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The Progressive Congress Action Fund (PCAF) was a left-progressive advocacy organization affiliated with Progressive Congress. 1 2
