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Crane Institute of Sustainability (Crane) is a left-of-center organization which promotes socially responsible investing (SRI) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activism. Its “flagship initiative” is the critical race theory-influenced 1
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Julie Fernandes is the associate director for institutional accountability and individual liberty at the left-of-center Rockefeller Family Fund 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 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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Melissa L. Bradley is an investor, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist. She is the founder of 1863 Ventures, a business development fund that invests in whom it calls “black and brown entrepreneurs” so that the “New Majority” can “build wealth.”
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Rajiv Shah is a former Democratic Party operative who currently works as president of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports environmentalist organizations and social policy advocacy through support for organizations such as New America, the Urban Institute, and the
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The Bridgespan Group is a charitable organization that provides consulting services to non-profits across the United States and around the globe. The Bridgespan Group was formed in 1998 by Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach, both of whom had experience in the management consulting firm, Bain and Company. Tierney and Bradach
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The Institute for Nonprofit News (formerly the Investigative News Network) is a left-of-center network of not-for-profit media organizations such as Mother Jones, ProPublica, and The Intercept. Background In 2009, journalists from 27 media organizations met at the Pocantico Center in New York, a historic home of the
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The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is a multilateral pooled fund focused on increasing the number of children being educated in the developing world. The organization is largely funded by sovereign states including the United States, and GPE allocates that funding to different grant agents, who in turn fund and
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Labor Innovations for the 21st Century (LIFT Fund) was founded under the direction of the late former AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka to support organized labor’s efforts to bring non-union-controlled worker groups across the country under the influence and eventual control of the AFL-CIO and its member unions.
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The Americans for Limited Government (ALG) Foundation is the research arm of Americans for Limited Government (ALG), a libertarian political advocacy group. The organization conducts policy research and publishes reports with the goal of reducing the size of the government.
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Skillful, previously known as the Skillful Fund Project, is a job training program which partners with major corporations and institutions such as leading retail store chain Walmart, software giant Microsoft, professional networking social media platform LinkedIn, and Purdue University in Indiana. As the Skillful Fund Project, the program
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ImpactAssets Inc. is a donor-advised fund focused on donating to nonprofits, for-profit companies, and other philanthropic funds to create positive philanthropic impacts. In 2010, ImpactAssets spun off from Calvert Impact Capital, another non-profit investment firm, under the leadership of Timothy Freundlich, Wayne Silby, and Ron Cordes. The founders worked with
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Gina Glantz is a Democratic political strategist who has been active for more than six decades. 1 Glantz further sits on the boards of directors for numerous left-of-center and liberal organizations
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California Voter Foundation (CVF) is an election policy and voter mobilization group. While CVF claims to be non-partisan for tax reasons, its leadership has associations with the Democratic Party, and it has taken funding from left-of-center foundations and organizations.
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The New Mexico Civic Engagement Table (NMCET) is a left-leaning voter mobilization group that aims to coordinate the efforts of other left-leaning activist groups in New Mexico. The organization is the Nebraska branch of State Voices, a nationwide coalition of left-leaning nonprofits that has created a voter mobilization infrastructure for
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The Zellerbach Family Foundation is a left-of-center non-profit grantmaking foundation that focuses on providing grants to left-of-center organizations that focus on the arts, left-wing approaches to immigration, and “promoting culture.” 1 It is
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Accountability Lab is a nonprofit organization that works to expose governmental and aid sector corruption in developing countries. Blair Glencorse, the founder and executive director of Accountability Lab, is associated with the left-of-center groups Echoing Green and Americans for Informed Democracy.
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The Arizona Community Foundation (ACF) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization and one of the largest community foundations in the state of Arizona. The ACF has approximately $903 million in assets as of March 2020 and has provided $853 million in grants since 1978.
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Seth Flaxman is a researcher, nonprofit manager, and self-described “social entrepreneur.” He is the co-founder and former chief executive director of Democracy Works, an organization which works to boost voter engagement among left-of-center constituencies and takes funding from leading left-of-center philanthropic organizations, such as the MacArthur Foundation and
