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Kelly Craighead is the CEO of the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA) and former president of Democracy Alliance, a major donor clearinghouse for Democratic and left-wing donors and advocacy organizations. Craighead started her political career in the Clinton White House and is reportedly a close associate and friend
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Bell Policy Center is a left-of-center state-level think tank based in Colorado. It is known for its support of efforts to raise state taxes and increase state spending; the group opposes the state’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR). It also focuses on other economic issues with a self-described emphasis on
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American Oversight (AO) is an activist and litigation organization focusing on filing open records requests targeting Republican interests, especially the administration of President Donald Trump. The organization was launched in March 2017, following and in response to the election of President Trump’s inauguration and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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Laurie Zeller, sometimes written as Laurie Hirschfeld Zeller, is currently a Denver-based non-profit consultant. She has served as an executive at several left-wing organizations in Colorado. Zeller has been involved in left-wing causes since the 1980s. She was executive director of the Colorado Democracy Alliance. As of early 2019,
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Karen Leaffer is a left-of-center nonprofit lawyer based in Denver, Colorado. She is the founder and managing partner of Leaffer Law Group, a specialized firm which provides legal counsel to nonprofit organizations. Leaffer is an active philanthropist and member of left-of-center donor networks, serving on the board of the
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Adam J. Lewis is the son of billionaire Peter B. Lewis, the former chairman of Progressive Insurance and an early partner in the liberal donor collective Democracy Alliance, who died in 2013. Adam Lewis is a board member of Spear Point Energy, a solar energy company.
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The Lewis Foundation is a private foundation primarily funded by its president Adam J. Lewis. 102 Adam Lewis is the son of the late billionaire Peter B. Lewis, the former
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Ken Grossinger is a left-wing political consultant working for Democracy Partners as director of the firm’s Impact Philanthropy and Donor Advising Division. He previously worked as a political strategist for the Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO.112 He
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The Civic Participation Action Fund (CPAF) was a secretive left-of-center advocacy group created by the Atlantic Advocacy Fund in December 2014 with a multi-million dollar endowment. The Atlantic Advocacy fund is one of several 501(c)(4) nonprofits created by Atlantic Philanthropies, a principally offshore left-of-center grantmaking foundation associated with
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The Douglas H. Phelps Foundation is the private foundation of left-progressive activist Doug Phelps, president of the Public Interest Network, Fund for the Public Interest, Grassroots Campaigns Inc., and a number of related Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) organizations.
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Green Century Capital Management is a left-leaning investment firm that invests in environmentalist nonprofits and causes. The firm was founded by various groups in the Public Interest Network, including the Fund for the Public Interest, U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG), and various state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), and
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The Jerome L. Greene Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization. The foundation is based in New York City and focuses its grants in the area. Left-wing groups that have received funding from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation include the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Planned Parenthood, and
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Joe Zimlich is chief executive of the Bohemian Group, a left-leaning family financial management firm affiliated with the Bohemian Foundation, and a founding member of the Democracy Alliance.
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AAPI Victory Fund is a left-of-center super PAC working to elect Democrats by mobilizing Asian-American and Pacific Islander voters. The group has attempted to flip Texas to Democratic control by making a large investment in support of the Texas Democratic Party and Democratic infrastructure in the state.
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Shekar Narasimhan is a professional real estate advisor involved in left-of-center political advocacy groups, including the Center for American Progress and Democracy Alliance. 222 Narasimhan is the chair and founder of the
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Farhad Ebrahimi is a left-wing political activist, supporter of the radical Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, advocacy donor, and founder of the Chorus Foundation. He is also a board member of the Democracy Alliance, a network of wealthy donors bankrolling Democratic campaigns and left-of-center advocacy organizations. Ebrahimi is
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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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Not to be confused with the Boston, Massachusetts-based organization of the same name. The Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) is a San Francisco-based left-wing community organizing group focusing on the Chinese-American communities in the city. The group grew out of radical-left and pro-People’s Republic of China cadres; academic research has
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The Moriah Fund is a 501(c)(3) organization that has contributed over $58 million dollars to left-of-center organizations in the since 2012.274 It has worked with major left-of-center groups to fund the left-wing agenda and is
