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Non-profit
The Zaitlin-Nienberg Family Fund is the philanthropic giving vehicle for left-of-center activists Jody “Jaz” Zaitlin and Mark Nienberg of Kensington, California. It does not file financial reports with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and may be a donor-advised fund within a larger charitable organization.
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Labor Union
The Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) Local 3220 is a graduate assistants’ union based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is the first graduate student union established in the country and is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
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Non-profit
The Clean Slate Initiative is a campaign originally launched by the left-of-center Center for American Progress (CAP) in 2018 to push for state laws that automatically clear criminal records for most misdemeanors and some felonies if certain criteria are met. The group has launched state-level organizations in over a
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Non-profit
The Fight Back Fund is a left-of-center pro-labor union organization affiliated with and operated by the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 150, the labor union that represents construction workers in the Chicago area. The organization acts as a lobbying arm for the union to oppose right-to-work laws
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Other Group
Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC) is a left-of-center hub designed to respond to and oppose preemption laws, which allow higher levels of government to prevent lower levels of government from passing more restrictive legislation.
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Other Group
The Dane Sanctuary Coalition (DSC) is a left-of-center organization based in Madison, Wisconsin, which offers “physical sanctuary” to immigrants and refugees. 87 The organization is affiliated with the New Sanctuary movement, and it was
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Other Group
Take on Wall Street is a coalition of several major labor unions and dozens of left-leaning nonprofits dedicated to continuing the efforts of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It advocates for a wide range of left-of-center policy positions, such as increased taxes on investments; implementing a wealth tax; providing
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Labor Union
The International Association of Sheet Metal Air, Rail, and Transportation (SMART) Workers is a North American labor organization that coordinates the activities of 700 different local unions consisting of 203,000 members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
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Other Group
The Zinn Education Project is a joint project of Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change, two left-of-center organizations that seek to promote far-left and anti-American interpretations of history in the K-12 educational system through education modules informed by the writings of radical-left historian Howard Zinn.
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Non-profit
Children’s Action Alliance (CAA) is an Arizona-focused left-of-center policy advocacy organization. CAA Is a member of the labor union-aligned Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a member of EPI’s Black Lives Matter and Anti-Racist Resources list, and a member of the Economic Analysis and Research Network, a coalition of liberal-left
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Person
Dan O’Sullivan is a career left-of-center labor organizer. He currently works as the director of communications for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the largest and most influential labor unions in the United States with deep ties to the Democratic Party establishment. Previously, he worked as a
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Hub
The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. Formed in 1955 in a merger between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the AFL-CIO boasts membership of over 9 million voting members and
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Non-profit
LeftNet is a digital activism organization that produces left-of-center petitions and letters. The organization circulates petitions for signatures with assistance from the Action Network, an online tool created by Brian Young, former digital director for U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry during his time as a U.S.
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Non-profit
ProsperUS is a coalition of left-of-center groups that advocates for increased government spending and investment in entitlement programs. It is a project of the left-of-center New Venture Fund (NVF), a pass-through funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors in Washington, D.C.
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Government Agency
The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
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Other Group
Democracy Funders Collaborative Census Subgroup, sometimes abbreviated to Democracy Funders Collaborative, is an unofficial group of left-of-center grantmakers that assembled in 2015 to strategize activism surrounding the 2020 Census count. Democracy Funders Collaborative is currently chaired by Adam Ambrogi of the Democracy Fund and Ilona Prucha of the
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Lawrence Mishel is an author, economist, and former president of the left-of-center and labor-union-aligned Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Mishel has written a number of books on economic policy and has contributed to various left-of-center media outlets.
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Non-profit
Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) is an American nonprofit progressive political advocacy organization. Founded in 1996, the organization bills itself as “the strategy center for the progressive movement.” 672 The organization signed a petition
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Labor Union
The Non-Profit Employees Union (NPEU) is a labor union that represents employees at more than a dozen left-of-center non-profit organizations, mostly in Washington, D.C. NPEU is a local affiliate (Local 70) of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), an international labor union affiliated with the
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Person
Leslie Hanauer is an American liberal political activist and philanthropist known for her association with her husband Nick Hanauer and as the codirector of their foundation, the Nick and Leslie Hanauer Foundation. Background Leslie Hanauer is the wife of Nicholas “Nick” Hanauer, a liberal donor, venture capital investor,