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Susan Packard Orr is the daughter of David and Lucile Packard and former chair of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Packard Foundation), having sat on the board since 1967 and still sitting in an honorary capacity since her retirement in early 2022. She also runs a software company
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Children’s Action Alliance (CAA) is an Arizona-focused left-of-center policy advocacy organization. CAA Is a member of the labor union-aligned Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a member of EPI’s Black Lives Matter and Anti-Racist Resources list, and a member of the Economic Analysis and Research Network, a coalition of liberal-left
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Critical Resistance (CR) is a radical-left agitation group which calls for an end to criminal justice policies it calls the “prison industrial complex.” 1 The group supports the defunding and abolition of police,
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Michael Quattrone is a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family who is a poet, singer-songwriter, and nonprofit consultant, board member, and founder. He has personally funded Democratic candidates and used his position in philanthropy to fund left-of-center organizations. He is a grandson to David Rockefeller and recently become more involved
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For more information on the 2020 election, see Center for Technology & Civic Life (Nonprofit) The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is a coalition of left-of-center election reform nonprofits created in 2022 as an initiative of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to bolster election security
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Leah Kaiser is a nonprofit consultant based in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of George Kaiser, a billionaire oilman and donor to left-of-center causes and the Democratic Party. Leah sits on the board of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, which is her father’s main charitable giving vehicle.
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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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Caitlin Heising is the daughter of Liz Simons and Mark Heising, left-progressive advocacy philanthropists and the founders of the Heising-Simons Foundation. As a vice chair of the foundation, she develops philanthropic programs focusing on human rights and left-of-center criminal justice policy.
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Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan (EJAM) is a Detroit-based left-of-center economic and racial issue advocacy organization. EJAM has focused advocacy on economic issues such as raising minimum wage and race-related issues. The organization and its leaders have close ties to the Democratic Party and its supported issues. Lacy Dawson, the
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The Meyer Memorial Trust is an Oregon-based left-of-center grantmaking organization founded by funds from the estate of Fred G. Meyer, the owner of the regional grocery store chain Fred Meyer. 1 Since its founding in
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Crankstart Foundation is the family foundation of Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz. It is a private grantmaking organization that gives to numerous left-of-center organizations. 1 In 2021, it reported distributing more than
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The James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy (Hunt Institute) is a left-of-center education advocacy organization based in Durham, North Carolina. 1
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The Just Trust is a left-of-center grantmaking organization established and funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). The group was spun off from the CZI to manage its criminal justice policy efforts. After receiving $350 million in starter funds, The Just Trust has been fiscally managed by the
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Klarman Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that is the private foundation of investor Seth Karman, the brother of left-of-center academic Michael Klarman. 1
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James O’Sullivan is a left-of-center activist and career nonprofit manager. While he works as a senior staffer of Stand Up To Cancer, an organization ostensibly dedicated to fighting cancer, he previously spent decades at organizations promoting left-of-center policies and social movements. He formerly worked as a program officer for the
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The Leadership Center for Attorney General (AG) Studies is a left-leaning think tank associated with the Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA) that provides research and educational materials supportive of left-leaning policies. The organization’s work focuses on powers held by state attorneys general and encourages action by attorneys general to
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Votebeat is an online media platform under the Civic News Company that reports on local elections across the United States from a left-of-center perspective. The platform publishes content by corporate sponsors and prominent donors in addition to its routine reporting. Votebeat also states that it times its reporting to match
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The Congressional Integrity Project (CIP) is a left-of-center activist group that opposes Republican members of Congress and exposes allegedly compromising information about them with the intent of damaging their public images and re-election prospects. In particular, the project targets lawmakers who allegedly hold further-right beliefs or were not sufficiently critical
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The Transnational Institute is a left-wing to far-left research and advocacy group located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a legal status equivalent that of a 501(c) nonprofit organization in the United States. Originally founded as an international branch of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) from 1973
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The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is a left-of-center early education advocacy and grantmaking organization influenced by critical race theory with approximately 60,000 members and 52 nationwide affiliates. 1
