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Person
Roger Waters is a British musician and former front-man of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Waters is known for his support for left-wing activism, and is a supporter of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Waters also supports Chelsea Manning, who controversially leaked classified data from
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Political Party/527
Justice Democrats is a Democratic Party-aligned 527 political action committee (PAC) that recruits and supports left-wing Democratic primary challengers to establishment Democratic members of Congress. In the 2018 election it targeted 12 incumbent Democrats and defeated ten-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY), who lost to socialist Alexandria
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Labor Union
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 2015 is a Los Angeles-based local union of the SEIU, representing long-term care workers. Representing over 400,000 home care and nursing home workers throughout California, it is the largest union in the state and the largest long-term care worker union in the United States.
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Labor Union
SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is a left-of center California-based health care workers union that is an affiliate of the Service Employees international Union (SEIU), a prominent and left-of-center national labor union. SEIU-UHW is also identified as SEIU Local 2005 and was formed in 2004 as a result
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Non-profit
The Google Foundation (also known by its internet address, Google.org) is the corporate charitable arm of Alphabet, Inc., and its subsidiary, Google. It is a major funder of left-wing advocacy, having contributed at least $70 million in the decade between 2007-2016 to organizations such as the Tides Foundation, a provider of
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Non-profit
For more information on Pueblo Sin Fronteras, see Centro Sin Fronteras and La Familia Latina Unida (Nonprofits) The Pueblo Sin Fronteras (“People Without Borders”) is a project of La Familia Latina Unida, a Chicago, Illinois-based 501(c)(4) illegal immigration advocacy organization formed in 2001 by Elvira Arellano, an
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Person
Richard Kirsch is a left-of-center advocacy operative and author currently directing the Proteus Fund’s Our Story Hub project. He is most notable for his prior service as national campaign manager and co-founder of the Health Care for America Now campaign, a liberal advocacy effort that is credited
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Person
Courtney Cuff is the executive director of the State Impact Project, a project of the Hopewell Fund which advocates for the implementation of left-of-center policy in ten states across the country. Prior to her position with the State Impact Project, Cuff worked with a variety of campaigns for left-of-center
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Non-profit
Americans Against Double Taxation (AADT) was a front group for local government interest groups, government worker labor unions, and other interest groups that opposed the restricting the state and local tax deduction, better known as the SALT deduction, in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. It was unsuccessful
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Non-profit
The Barr Foundation is a Boston-based private foundation created in 1987 by telecommunications billionaire1 Amos Barr Hostetter, Jr. and largely endowed from the proceeds of the $10.8 billion sale of Continental Cablevision to US
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Non-profit
Pesticide Watch is a left-leaning advocacy group that opposes the use of pesticides. In 2014, it argued against using pesticides to fight mosquitos carrying the West Nile Virus.
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Non-profit
March On is one of two major national left-wing advocacy organizations that were created from the January 21, 2017, Women’s March on Washington and related events that took place across the United States in response to the election of President Donald Trump the previous November (the other is the
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Non-profit
The Druckenmiller Foundation is a grantmaking foundation created by Stanley Druckenmiller, a retired billionaire hedge fund manager who worked as the lead portfolio manager for billionaire George Soros’s Quantum Fund during the 1990s. Druckenmiller left Soros Fund Management in 2000 to manage his own hedge fund, Duquesne Capital
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Non-profit
The Keystone Research Center (KRC) is a left-of-center public policy organization created to research economic and civic issues within the state of Pennsylvania.1 A number of members from the organization’s board
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Non-profit
The McKnight Foundation is a Minnesota-based foundation that funds many programs and organizations, including numerous left-of-center advocacy groups. Among the programs the foundation invests in are the arts, education, environmentalist programs, and international development. Most of the donations to domestic programs are towards programs and initiatives in the Midwest. Overview
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Non-profit
In operation since 1968, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a non-profit corporation funded by the U.S. government that is the main support for the nation’s network of public television and radio stations.
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Labor Union
SEIU Michigan State Council is the state level union federation of the Service Employees International Union in Michigan. The organization represents more than 30,000 workers in the state, and includes four local affiliates: SEIU 517M, SEIU Healthcare Michigan, SEIU Local 1, and Michigan Corrections Organization.
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Person
For more please see Ford Foundation. Since 2013 Darren Walker has been President of the Ford Foundation, one of the largest left-leaning granting foundations in the United States.
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Non-profit
The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is a labor-union-aligned and left-of-center-foundation-funded worker center which organizes and advocates for legislation concerning domestic employees such as child caregivers, household cleaners, elder caretakers, and similar workers.
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Non-profit
Tax March is a left-of-center group that lobbies for tax increases. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a philanthropy consulting firm in Washington, D.C.
