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Non-profit
The Mass Liberation Project is a far-left criminal justice advocacy organization formed in 2019 to advocate for “community liberation” for African-American families and other communities of color. 1 It is a project of Tides Advocacy, a 501(c)(4)
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Non-profit
Community Justice Action Fund (CJAF) is the lobbying arm of the gun-control advocacy and criminal justice reform group Community Justice Reform Coalition (CJRC). CJAF acts as a centralized funding organization1 for
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Non-profit
Families USA Foundation (Families USA) is a nonprofit organization that promotes left-of-center health care policy at the state and federal level. 1 Families USA also runs a lobbying and electoral advocacy organization, Families USA Action.
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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.” 1 The organization signed a petition
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Person
For more see: Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society, and Bill Ayers Bernardine Dohrn was an original co-founder and arguably the top leader of the Weather Underground, a radical-left violent extremist group that was active from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. Prior to this
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Non-profit
The Bail Project is a nonprofit organization that opposes cash bail and provides payment assistance to those accused of crimes who cannot afford bail. The Los Angeles area-based organization has 17 other offices across the United States. As of late 2019, the organization had posted bail for 7,800 people.
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Non-profit
Fix the System is an ostensibly cross-partisan coalition of eight advocacy groups dedicated to increasing democratic participation and enacting broadly left-progressive electoral administration changes. The coalition was launched on March 24, 2020, in response to the pandemic novel coronavirus and its effect on American election administration.
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Other Group
For more see: Students for a Democratic Society, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn The Weather Underground (also known as Weatherman or the Weathermen) was a radical-left violent extremist group that was active from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. What became known as the Weather Underground began
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Non-profit
The Groundwork Collaborative is a left-of-center activist group with a particular focus on economic issues. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) arm of the Arabella Advisors “dark money” network of liberal pass-through funding organizations.
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Non-profit
Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) is a left-of-center political advocacy organization, which mainly advocates and lobbies for increases to the Arizona minimum wage and legislation that restricts and regulates the flexibility of labor for Arizona employers. The group also campaigns for liberal expansionist immigration policy. LUCHA has also
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Non-profit
The Biden Foundation was a nonprofit organization established by former Vice President Joe Biden and former Second Lady Jill Biden in 2017 to support the left-of-center policies that Vice President Biden had worked to implement during his time in the Senate and the Obama administration.
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Other Group
The Soros Network (also called the Open Society Network) is a system of private grantmaking foundations and nonprofits that comprise one of the largest funders of center-left and far-left activism and advocacy in the world. At the center of the network is George Soros, a Hungarian-born financier and liberal
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Other Group
The Open Society University Network (OSUN) is an international membership group of educational institutions established to promote the ideals of “open society” expounded by Karl Popper and supported by left-progressive billionaire George Soros and to expand access to higher education for underprivileged groups. It was founded by Soros’
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Person
Rahna Epting has made a career as an activist for the left-leaning progressive movement. In the fall of 2019, she became the executive director of the liberal organizations MoveOn Political Action and MoveOn Civic Action after previous positions within the organization, first as leading strategic partnerships, then as
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Non-profit
Southerners on New Ground (SONG) is an LGBT advocacy group which has branched out into general progressive left-of-center advocacy. It was founded in 1993 at the annual national conference of the National LGBTQ Task Force to provide support to LGBT groups in the southeast United States. In 2017, SONG
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Political Party/527
The National Committee for an Effective Congress is a left-of-center electoral advocacy group created by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt on September 23, 1948 to support progressive candidates. In recent times, the organization has moved away from directly funding candidates’ campaigns to provide analysis and research for candidates to use.
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Non-profit
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, known by the name Undoing Racism, is a New Orleans-based collaboration of far-left activists that participate in grantmaking and lead workshops on topics, such as race, poverty, and activism. Programs Undoing Racism Workshop Undoing Racism is the signature workshop of the People’s Institute
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Labor Union
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1021 is a Northern California-based local union of the SEIU, representing service employees, nurses, other healthcare workers, and government workers. Like its parent organization, SEIU 1021 is very politically involved, particularly in left-of-center circles. It consistently supports and endorses Democratic, left-progressive, and outright-socialist candidates
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Non-profit
Operation HOPE is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that provides financial literacy and educational programs to low-income Americans. Operation HOPE also provides financial consulting services free of charge for individuals and small businesses. The organization was mentioned in a 2017 investigation into the handling of financial settlements during the Obama administration
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Person
Laurene Powell Jobs is a business executive and philanthropist, best known as the president of the left-leaning grantmaking enterprise Emerson Collective. Born Laurene Powell, she is the widow and heir of Apple Computer executive Steve Jobs, with a current estimated fortune of $21-24.4 billion, making her the fifth-richest woman
