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Other Group
The Progressive State Leaders Committee is a left-leaning advocacy organization that focuses on providing resources and advocacy to convince Democratic state attorneys general to unilaterally enact left-of-center policies. 1 The organization is closely
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Non-profit
The Voter Protection Project is a left-of-center political action committee that donates to far-left candidates for office who support eliminating many U.S. election security laws, including prohibiting all voter identification requirements.
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Other Group
The Honest Elections Project (HEP) is a right-of-center election monitoring organization founded in 2020 as a project of the 85 Fund.
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Non-profit
The Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) is a left-of-center education and advocacy project of the center-left Aspen Institute. The Center promotes civic engagement and political activism among Native American youth. CNAY has accused the United States of continuously perpetrating “systemic racism” and “white supremacy,” while calling on African
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Non-profit
Founded in 1995, the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is a left-of-center nonprofit aimed at expanding the economic and political leverage of Americans with disabilities through programmatic and advocacy efforts. It partnered with left-of-center advocacy and “civic engagement” organizations including Alliance for Justice, Center for American
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Non-profit
Pennsylvania Voice is a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit and the Pennsylvania state affiliate of State Voices, a network of left-of-center groups that has created a voter mobilization infrastructure for liberal candidates running for public office in key battleground states.
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Non-profit
For more information, see Sixteen Thirty Fund (Nonprofit) and Arabella Advisors (For-Profit) The North Fund is a left-of-center
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Non-profit
North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Citizen Lobby (NCPIRG) is the lobbying arm of the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Education Fund and the North Carolina state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG), one of a network of left-progressive advocacy and canvassing organizations controlled
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Non-profit
San Francisco Rising (SFR) is a project of the left-wing Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) that operates under the umbrella of Bay Rising (BR). BR is fiscally sponsored by the left-wing Movement Strategy Center (MSC).
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Other Group
The Transition Integrity Project is a nominally bipartisan but functionally left-progressive and Democratic-leaning group of political and media figures that convened in the summer of 2020 to conduct simulations of the 2020 presidential election, including potential reactions by Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
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For-profit
BallotReady is an online election-education resource that aggregates information from candidates’ websites, social media profiles, and news media outlets. It was launched as a project of the Social New Venture Challenge, a competition for graduate students at the University of Chicago. As of 2016, BallotReady was operational in a dozen
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Person
Jennifer Morrell is a former election official who currently works in a variety of left-leaning election policy roles, most notably she works as a consultant to the left-leaning Democracy Fund, where she leads the fund’s Election Validation Project. Much of Morrell’s work and consulting focuses on combatting alleged interference
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Non-profit
Also see Women’s Voices Women Vote (Nonprofit) The Center for Voter Information (CVI) is a left-of-center voter registration and outreach group that is permitted to take positions on candidates that works alongside its nominally nonpartisan and charitable “sister,” the Voter Participation Center (VPC). While both organizations run general
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Other Group
The Poor People’s Campaign (PPC): A National Call for Moral Revival is a left-of-center anti-poverty campaign founded in 2018 by William J. Barber II. 1 PPC was founded to build a “new electorate” of low-income
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Other Group
People Demanding Action is a left-of-center network of activists that focused on economic issues, climate change, voting rights, and left-progressive social policy with an aim to securing liberal victories in elections. 1 It
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Political Party/527
Progress America is a left-of-center political organization. It supports left-progressive positions on voting rights, the internet, and economic policy. 1 It is a member and participant of the Action Network, an online organizing hub
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Person
Laura Arnold, born Laura Munoz, is an American philanthropist and activist. Together with her husband, the retired hedge fund manager John D. Arnold, she is the co-founder of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and the grantmaking organization Arnold Ventures. She is also a founding partner of
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Non-profit
Movement for Black Lives (MBL) is a coalition of more than 50 left-of-center racial-advocacy organizations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. Along with the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the MBL serves as a unifying umbrella organization to coordinate BLM activism and move towards concrete policy
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Non-profit
Investor Advocates for Social Justice (IASJ, formerly the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment) is a left-of-center shareholder advocacy organization which promotes a left-of-center environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) agenda. In recent years, most of IASJ’s shareholder advocacy has focused on promoting left-of-center labor policy.
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Non-profit
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sisters of Charity BVM) is a religious order of Catholic nuns that advocates for left-of-center social policy in both the public and private sector. Originally founded in the United States to provide education, the order has expanded in recent years to pursue
