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Non-profit
Black Mamas Matter Alliance is an Atlanta, Georgia-based feminist group focused on Black women. The group focuses on maternal healthcare-related issues and promoting abortion. The group supports expanding Medicaid to include 12 months of postpartum care and implementing Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.
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Non-profit
The Mellen Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation based in Connecticut. The foundation rewards grants to organizations that advocate for abortion access, 1 increased funding for public
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Non-profit
FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund (FRIDA) is a left-of-center feminist funding organization based out of Canada. FRIDA focuses on various projects through a feminist lens that include art activism, global warming, LGBT interests, and other ventures. FRIDA has funded pro-anarchy groups, queer art, groups fighting development, educational groups for
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Non-profit
Timap for Justice is a nonprofit organization based in Sierra Leone that employs paralegals to provide legal assistance to individuals dealing with disputes or awaiting trial.
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For-profit
Baron & Budd is a law firm specializing in class-action lawsuits, particularly those dealing with mesothelioma. It is also notable for its work with left-of-center nonprofits and ties to Democratic Party politicians. Background Founded in 1977, Baron & Budd (Formally Baron & Budd, P.C.) is a Texas-based law firm that
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Non-profit
Black Teacher Collaborative (BTC) seeks to recruit and train Black teachers for schools with majority Black populations. It aims to implement curricula based upon racial identity, systemic change, and Black liberation and self-determination. 1 It
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Non-profit
The Omidyar Network Fund is a grantmaking nonprofit founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar. Its sister group, the Omidyar Network, is an LLC that makes philanthropic “impact investments.” Omidyar Network Fund and the Omidyar Network are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
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Non-profit
The Pillars Fund is a left-of-center Muslim grantmaking organization that provides grants to political organizations that oppose voter integrity laws, establish activist incubators, advocate for race-focused social and economic policies, and seek to extend voting rights to ex-felons, in addition to general funding for the arts and sciences.
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Non-profit
The Rose Hills Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation located in Pasadena, California. The organization was formed in 1996 with proceeds from the sale of Rose Hills Cemetery, then the largest cemetery in North America, located in Whittier, California, to private equity-backed groups. The foundation was funded with over $240
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Person
Bryan Stevenson is a criminal justice lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a left-of-center nonprofit that provides legal defense to death-row inmates in Alabama. Stevenson is a member of the Open Society Foundations U.S. Programs board.
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Person
Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was a leading political activist and theorist, social critic, self-described “radical,” and an architect of the modern Left’s structure and approach to advocacy and electioneering. Alinsky pioneered “community organizing,” a form of coalition-building centered on aligning the common goals of multiple interest groups too small or electorally
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Justice. Nominations and Appointments Kristen Clarke is Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. Clarke was most recently the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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Political Party/527
The Black Panther Party was a communist Black militant organization founded in 1966 that allied with extremist New Left organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and communist regimes abroad.
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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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Non-profit
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE) is a left-of-center nonprofit based in Los Angeles that focuses on housing and development issues, in addition to promoting a broader left-of-center social agenda. Founded in 1996, SAJE primarily operates in the South Los Angeles Figueroa Corridor.
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Non-profit
Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) was a local affiliate of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s largest network of abortion providers and a left-of-center activist organization, that folded into Planned Parenthood of Greater New York in January 2020.
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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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Movement
The 1776 Project (also known simply as “1776,” the “1776 Initiative,” and “1776 Unites”) is a campaign started by civil rights organizer Bob Woodson to counteract the left-wing historical narrative expressed by the left-of-center 1619 Project.
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Non-profit
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide (stylized Project South) organizes left-of-center support for educational, social, political, and economic issues in the Southern United States.
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Person
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine who in 2019 created and directed of the magazine’s “1619 Project.” Her lead essay for the 100-page journalistic endeavor asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved
