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Other Group
Power the Polls is a poll worker recruitment project of Work Elections, which is in-turn a project of the Fair Elections Center, a left-of-center litigation and election policy advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. Background Power the Polls was launched in June 2020, by a group of businesses and
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Non-profit
People’s Agenda, also known as the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda (GCPA), is an advocacy organization focused on increasing Black voter turnout in Georgia. It was founded in 1998 by civil rights activist Joseph Lowery.
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Non-profit
Project Unloaded is the left-of-center gun control advocacy organization that encourages young people not to purchase firearms, and supports efforts to reduce the number of firearms in the United States. The organization is a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund.
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For-profit
ELMA Philanthropies Services US Inc. (ELMA) is a company based in New York City that manages partnerships, investments, and strategies for the ELMA Group of Foundations, a collection of philanthropic foundations focused on the health and education of children. The company manages a portfolio of global health and education philanthropies
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Non-profit
Kansas Values Institute is a left-of-center political advocacy organization in Kansas that has been “long aligned with Democrats.”
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Non-profit
Mississippi Votes is a left-of-center, youth-focused get-out-the-vote organization based in Jackson, Mississippi. 1
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For-profit
The Redstone Strategy Group is a consulting firm which serves left-leaning activist groups, philanthropic institutions, and private companies. Redstone explicitly identifies itself with left-wing politics, describing itself as “in the business of social change” and touting its race, gender, and identity-based hiring criteria.
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Other Group
The Hasso Platner Institute of Design at Stanford University, also known as the d.School, is an academic school within Stanford University centered around “design thinking” that conducts engineering and design projects in technology, consumer goods, business processes, and more. The school was founded in 2004 by mechanical engineering professors at
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Labor Union
Colorado Families for a Fair Wage was a labor coalition created in 2016 by members of the Everyone Economy, an informal group of left-of-center economic organizations that strategized raising the minimum wage in February 2014.
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Non-profit
MediaJustice (formerly Center for Media Justice) is a left-of-center activist group that opposes corporate media mergers and advocates for control of the media by minority racial, gender, and socioeconomic groups. The organization was formally founded in 2009 by Malkia Devich-Cyril, Amy Sonnie, and Jen Soriano.
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Non-profit
The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice (also known as Latina Institute) is an advocacy group that supports abortion and health care policies that make it easier for women to have abortions.
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Non-profit
Fair Representation in Redistricting (FRR) is a coalition of left-of-center donors and foundations that aims to influence how states draw legislative and congressional maps in order to favor likely Democratic voters. It is a project of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit in Arabella Advisors’ multi-billion-dollar network.
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Non-profit
Minnesota Youth Collective (MYC) is a left-of-center advocacy organization focusing on young people, particularly people of color and LGBT youth. Minnesota Youth Collective supported a failed Minneapolis ballot initiative to abolish the police and promoted the most restrictive rent control policies in the country. MYC has raised money for
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Non-profit
The Dangerous Speech Project is a project of the New Venture Fund to promote online censorship. The Dangerous Speech Project advocates for censoring speech that it argues can lead to violence. It defines speech as any form of human expression and argues that any speech that can inspire violence
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Non-profit
The Women’s Foundation of California is a left-of-center, feminist-aligned foundation based in California. It has received financial support from various private grantmaking foundations including Bank of America, Akonadi Foundation, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Microsoft, New Venture Fund, California Endowment, Blue Shield of California Foundation,
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Non-profit
The Black Institute (TBI) is a left-of-center think tank based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 2010 by Bertha Lewis, former CEO of the defunct low-income advocacy and voter outreach group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the Black Institute focuses on issues related to African Americans,
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Non-profit
Not to be confused with InfluenceWatch.org Monitoring Influence is a left-of-center website that curates profiles of conservative and right-leaning activists, organizations, and funders in imitation of InfluenceWatch.org. These profiles accuse mainstream conservative groups of trying to “stack the courts” with “like-minded ideologues” expressing “ultraconservative . . . legal theories”
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Non-profit
The United States Impact Investing Alliance is a left-of-center coalition that advocates for environmental, social, governance activism (ESG) with funding from major left-leaning foundations. The alliance is a project of the New Venture Fund (NVF), a major pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor in the multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network
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Non-profit
Aileen Getty Foundation is a left-of-center private foundation founded and operated by Aileen Getty, an heiress to the Getty family fortune. The Foundation provides grants to left-of-center organizations, including LGBT-interest and environmentalist groups. 1
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Non-profit
The Providence Student Union (PSU) is a student organizing and activist organization based in Providence, Rhode Island that promotes left-of-center policies within the Providence public school system. The organization was formed in 2010 and has organized campaigns opposing student resource officers in public school, advocating for curricular changes including instituting
