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Mary Kay Henry serves as the international president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Henry worked for the union almost continuously since 1979, 1 holding 18 different
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Jared Polis is a liberal politician, internet businessman, and political donor. From 2009 to 2018, he served as the Democratic U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 2nd district, which is dominated by the university town of Boulder. In the 2018 midterm election, Polis was elected governor of Colorado. Polis earned a fortune
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Dirk Wiggins is the CEO of echo19, a Washington, D.C.-based telecommunications platform that consults for and assists left-of-center political and advocacy groups. He is also the chairman of the board for Code for Progress. 98 Wiggins
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BerlinRosen (also styled Berlin Rosen) is a for-profit public relations and campaign communications consulting firm headquartered in New York City that works for Democratic campaigns, progressive nonprofit organizations, and labor unions, with a focus on New York. Founded in 2005 by former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
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Also see Center for American Progress (Nonprofit) The Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action) is a 501(c)(4) left-of-center policy group established in 2003 as the lobbying arm of the Center for American Progress (CAP) think tank. The Action Fund is also the home of the
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Rahm Emanuel is an American politician who served as the 55th mayor of Chicago from 2011 through 2019.208 Emanuel has served in several senior positions in government, including Senior Advisor to President Bill Clinton,
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth (Equitable Growth) is a research and grantmaking organization that advances left-of-center economic policies, particularly policies that claim to reduce economic disparities. The Center funds research that supports its agenda and works to make its findings accessible to lawmakers.
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Note: This profile will be updated regularly as more information emerges on Arabella Advisors’ acquisition by Sunflower Services. Arabella Advisors, commonly called “Arabella,” or the “Arabella network,” is a left-leaning philanthropic consulting company that provides strategy, advocacy, impact investing, and management services to high-dollar foundations, nonprofits, corporations,
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The Piper Fund is a campaign finance reform donor collaborative hosted by the Proteus Fund, a center-left funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit. The Piper Action Fund is the advocacy arm of the Piper Fund and is hosted by the 501(c)(4) Proteus Action League. Both the Piper Fund and
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Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) is a left-of-center political alliance of 200 left-leaning organizations seeking stricter regulations on the financial industry. It was formerly a project of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) but has since obtained independent tax status.
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The Center for Food Safety (CFS) is a left-of-center, environmentalist nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. The organization has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy and biotechnology, especially the production of genetically engineered (GE) foods.
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The Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization with over $11 billion in assets. The Foundation conducts most of its grantmaking through donor-advised fund (DAF) accounts established with oversight from individual donors who can advise how their gifts are distributed for charitable purposes. SVCF has drawn criticism
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Also see Oxfam America Advocacy Fund (Non-profit) Oxfam America is the American nonprofit arm of the worldwide group Oxfam International, which advocates for expanded international aid programs worldwide. 559 Oxfam America’s programs focus
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The National Wildlife Federation is one of the nation’s largest and highest-profile environmentalist organizations. In recent years, along with its associated NWF Action Fund advocacy organization, it has transitioned from being a conservation organization representing the interests of hunters and outdoor recreation enthusiasts into a left-leaning pressure group focused on
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The ClimateWorks Foundation is a left-of-center “pass-through” funding entity that distributes funds from donors to environmentalist advocacy groups around the world. Many of said groups lobby for climate-based policies including emissions taxes, restricting coal use, international climate treaties with strict enforcement mechanisms, and diminishing the use of cars.
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The Voter Participation Center is a left-of-center voter registration nonprofit that was founded in 2003 as Women’s Voices Women Vote, changing its name in 2011 and expanding its mission to become the Voter Participation Center.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a controversial left-of-center advocacy group that claims to be a watchdog of extremist groups. It has been criticized for its financial practices and for characterizing non-violent conventional conservative organizations as equivalent to violent extremists.
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The Proteus Fund is a left-of-center “pass-through” funder and donor-advised fund provider. Since the Fund’s creation in 1995, Proteus has routed hundreds of millions of dollars from major grantmaking foundations and anonymous donors on the Left to activist groups targeting issues including legalizing same-sex marriage, reducing religious freedom to dissent
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Friends of the Earth is a global environmentalist group based in the Netherlands. The U.S. branch is based in San Francisco and was started in 1969 by former Sierra Club executive director David Brower.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based activist group that uses science policy and climate change to advocate for left-of-center policies. As an activist organization, UCS began in the late 1960s with opposition to the Vietnam War and U.S. nuclear weapons testing, later coming to oppose peaceful
