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The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), based in Accra, Ghana, funds various women’s organizations and movements in Africa and the Middle East. The fund supports pro-abortion activism, pro-LGBT activism, and expanded access to birth control. It solicits funding from both left-of-center organizations and foundations in the United States and foreign
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Yochai Benkler is an law professor specializing in analyzing the role of the internet in information production. He is a board member of U.S. Programs at Open Society Foundations, a grantmaking organization created by left-of-center billionaire George Soros. Career On his website, Yochai Benkler lists his first job
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New York Women’s Foundation (NYWF) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization located in New York City, to which it directs all of its grants. The foundation is focused on economic and social issues affecting women and transgendered people, with an emphasis on left-of-center conceptions of “social justice” and “structural racism.”
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The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) is a now-defunct nonprofit organization that houses research regarding campaign finance and money in politics. The organization was founded in 1999 and merged with the National Institute on Money in State Politics (NIMSP) in 2018. In 2021, the NIMSP merged with the Center
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The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund is a non-profit organization that focuses on funding initiatives that promote Latino political engagement. It also promotes left-of-center talking points on immigration, voting rights, the Census, and election administration. NALEO Educational Fund receives most of its revenue from
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The Predistribution Initiative (PDI) pressures investors and financial institutions to comply with left-of-center policy and social objectives, particularly those related to environmentalism and race and class. Founded by a team of career investors and financial managers in 2019, the initiative highlights corporate practices that do not sufficiently support environmental,
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For The Long Term (FTLT) is an activist group which promotes investment practices that comply with left-progressive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policy goals. The organization focuses primarily on state, regional, and city governments, aiming to pressure their treasurers and financial oversight departments to adopt policies that are compatible
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Delilah Rothenberg is a financial advisor and political activist. She is the co-founder and executive director of the Predistribution Initiative (PDI), an organization which pressures financial services providers to choose their investments in ways that advance left-progressive causes. Rothenberg has previously worked on a broad range of international government and
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Chiraag Bains is Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council for Racial Justice and Equity at the White House as of March 2022. Bains previously was a Special Assistant to the President for Criminal Justice and Guns Policy from January 2021 to March
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Dana Paikowsky is a left-of-center lawyer who focuses on voting issues. She is most notable for her work in trying to allow felons and the incarcerated the right to vote in elections. In 2021, she joined the U.S. Department of Justice in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights
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Law for Black Lives (L4BL) is a self-described “political organization” 1 that includes more than “6,000 radical lawyers, legal workers, and law students.”
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The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation supports journalism by funding documentary films, supporting authors and journalists researching nonfiction articles and books, preserving newspaper archives, and producing podcasts. Recipients of its grant funding include prominent left-of-center nonprofit journalism entities, including Institute for Nonprofit News, Report for America, and Fund for
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Governing for Impact (GFI) is a secretive left-of-center regulatory policy think tank created in 2019 to “prepare a new administration for transformative governance” by writing left-leaning regulatory recommendations for federal bureaucratic agencies.
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Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is a left-of-center criminal justice initiative associated with the Defund the Police movement that was launched in the fall of 2018 by the “Social Justice Institute” of the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), a feminist and social justice academic project of Barnard College.
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Makani Themba is a left-of-center political and social activist based in Jackson, Mississippi who currently operates a left-of-center consultancy called Higher Ground Change Strategies. Themba previously was the founding executive director of The Praxis Project, a left-of-center nonprofit focused on public health issues. She has worked with and received
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DefundPolice.org is a central hub for coordinating and sharing resources among organizations dedicated to defunding the police. DefundPolice.org is run by the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability, a project of the New Venture Fund, which received at least $4 million from George Soros’s Foundation
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Panorama Global is a left-of-center pass-through funder that bundles grants to a range of nonprofits involved in LGBT-interest causes, left-leaning Latino voter engagement, education, and other advocacy causes as well as human welfare issues like mental health. Panorama Global has close ties to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Stewart Paperin is a career investor and left-of-center philanthropy manager. He is the managing director of LionRock Partners and the Leopard Rock Property Group, which invests in a variety of ventures, most notably real estate. Paperin previously spent years working for and overseeing organizations within the Open Society Network,
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Stephen Gutmann is a career philanthropy manager and left-progressive activist. As of 2020, he held the position of first vice president on the board of Human Development Services of Westchester, a New York-based nonprofit.
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Sarah Knight is the former vice president of network advancement for the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), and former director of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) democracy program.
