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The Earhart Foundation was a private foundation that supported the research of conservative and libertarian scholars for over 60 years. Nine of the economists it supported went on to win Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economic Sciences. The foundation spent itself out of existence in 2016 because it felt that was
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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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Reed Hastings is the cofounder, chairman, and co-CEO of Netflix and a major Democratic political donor. During the 2016 Clinton presidential campaign, Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, raised over $100,000 on behalf of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a single-issue right-of-center advocacy organization that promotes responsible firearms ownership and use. It is involved in firearms-related education, training, and political activism, supporting policies that it sees as furthering the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment to the
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The Insight Center for Community Economic Development (Insight Center) is a left-progressive research center based in Oakland, California that promotes left-of-center racial and economic policies. The Insight Center has advocated for policies including a universal basic income, an increased minimum wage, and heavy regulation of private enterprise, especially in real
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Robert Edward “Ted” Turner III is a billionaire media proprietor best known as the founder of CNN and TBS and a major donor to left-progressive causes, especially environmentalist efforts. Turner retired from active media work in 2006 and is currently the chairman of Turner Enterprises, his investment holding company. Turner
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See Also: Larry Fink (Person) BlackRock is the world’s largest investment management company, with nearly $7.5 trillion in managed assets as of January 2020.
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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.” 636 The organization signed a petition
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Resource Impact is a fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that provides incubation services for other left-of-center organizations. Resource Impact contracts services from and shares staffing with the Raben Group, a for-profit public affairs firm servicing left-leaning clients such as the Center for American Progress and the League of Conservation
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Bard College is an American liberal-arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The college is active in promoting left-of-center issues such as increased access for underprivileged groups to higher education. The college is closely connected with liberal billionaire financier George Soros, often collaborating on projects with him.
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The Bezos Earth Fund is a left-of-center charitable project launched by billionaire Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in February 2020. Bezos endowed the Fund with $10 billion to be disbursed by 2030 to environmentalist projects aimed at combatting climate change.
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Trinity Health is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the nation. In collaboration with the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and Ceres, 745 Trinity Health’s Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)
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The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) is a left-of-center nonprofit which provides educational materials and pro-bono legal services to climate scientists facing legal action. The CSLDF has defended left-of-center climate scientists in some of the most high-profile climate lawsuits in the past decade, including the “Climategate” suit against
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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical-left student organization often credited as the main force that created the New Left. It existed from 1960 until its demise in 1969, when it split apart after a Maoist SDS group affiliated with the Progressive Labor Party was expelled by a
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The Tobin Project is a left-of-center economic think tank that organizes and funds academic research and policy proposals to advance liberal priorities in economic regulation and national security policy. Founded by a Harvard University professor of business administration and named for an economist best known for promoting robust government intervention
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MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Formerly known as MacKenzie Bezos, she is recognized as the third-wealthiest woman in the world after a divorce settlement left her with an estimated $37 billion.
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The Hispanic Federation (HF) is a left-of-center New York-based membership organization that works with Hispanic communities across the United States, with its member groups primarily on the East Coast. The HF works in areas of education, health, immigration, economic empowerment, civic engagement, and the environment, with advocacy targeted and specific
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Elizabeth Warren is a Democratic politician who has served as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 2012 and is a well-known leader of the left-progressive faction within the Democratic Party. Prior to her election to the Senate, Warren had a long career in academia and on government advisory panels related to
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The Deer Creek Foundation is a grantmaking organization which funds left-of-center causes, especially those related to the environment and legal issues. 937 While the Deer Creek Foundation does not limit its giving geographically, it is especially focused on issues
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The Voter Engagement Evaluation Project (VEEP) was a donor collaborative which funneled grants to left-wing voter registration and mobilization groups. VEEP was co-sponsored by the Proteus Fund and Funders Committee for Civic Participation, a donor affinity group for major center-left funders (itself a project of NEO Philanthropy).
