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The Emerson Collective is a left-of-center private grantmaking enterprise that advocates for a wide variety of left-of-center causes. The Collective was founded in 2004 by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow and heir of Apple Computer executive Steve Jobs. Utilizing an unusual non-profit LLC structure, the Collective supports opportunities
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United Working Families is a labor union-funded political advocacy organization in Chicago that supports left-wing candidates for Illinois state and Chicago local office. The SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana and the Chicago Teachers Union are both prominent supporters of United Working Families. Though United Working Families stylizes itself
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Ohio Immigrant Alliance (OIA) is a volunteer immigration reform project based in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. It is run by Lynn Tramonte, a former deputy director of America’s Voice, a DC-based left-leaning immigration reform group.
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Clean Elections Texas is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that advocates for policy that restricts campaign speech under the guise of campaign finance reform and government funding of political campaigns. 1 It is a member of
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The California Clean Money Campaign (CCMC) is an advocacy group that supports left-of-center campaign finance policies, including proposals to require advertisements to disclose major donors like the 2016 Voters’ Right to Know Act, a proposed state constitutional amendment that did not qualify for the ballot. CCMC is funded by
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Participant (formerly known as Participant Media) was a film production company founded by Jeffrey Skoll, a left-leaning billionaire who was formerly the president of eBay.
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Voter Rights Action is a nominal voter advocacy group created by the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit arm of the left-of-center “dark money” advocacy network associated with the for-profit consulting firm Arabella Advisors.
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Secure Elections for America Now (SEAN) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the left-progressive New Venture Fund
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Virginia Mercury is a left-leaning state-focused news website founded in 2018. While it claims to produce non-partisan news coverage, it selects topics of interest for a left-of-center readership and writes them from a left-of-center perspective.
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The JKW Foundation is a private foundation run by left-progressive commentator, and part-owner and former editor of the left-wing magazine The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel and her sister, actress and film producer Wendy vanden Heuvel.
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Voters Not Politicians (VNP) is a Michigan-based lobbying and political advocacy group affiliated with the nonprofit Count MI Vote that formed in 2016 for the purpose of changing the way political district boundaries are drawn for the Michigan state legislature and for congressional representation.
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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 Volcker Alliance was established in 2013 by former Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker to expand and empower government by attracting a larger and more skilled civil service workforce. 1 The Volcker Alliance advocates for
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Heather Podesta is a Democratic-aligned lobbyist and lawyer who runs Invariant Group, the largest female-owned lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. Podesta and her firm have worked for a range of organizations across the political spectrum. Though Podesta and her staff have worked in nearly every industry, her firm focuses primarily
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Take Back the Court (formal name: Take Back the Court Foundation) is a left-of-center advocacy group which aims to add seats to the United States Supreme Court once Democrats gain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in order to effectively nullify Republican Supreme Court appointments. Take
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 503 is an Oregon-based government worker union and local affiliate of the controversial SEIU labor union. SEIU 503 represents care-workers, nonprofit employees, and public workers throughout Oregon. SEIU 503 actively pushes for left-of-center economic policy and aggressive unionization in Oregon, leading the
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The Vulcan Inc. is a Seattle-based private investment company that conducts a wide-range of projects related to science, public policy, technology, art, and real estate. Vulcan also gives funds toward environmentalist research and climate change policy efforts. Background The company was created in 1986 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft
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The NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice is a left-of-center advocacy organization that advocates for legislation. It is the lobbying arm of NETWORK Advocates, which handles its direct activism and the training of local communities to organize for left-of-center causes. NETWORK is an outspoken critic of Republican policies. The
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Sean McElwee is an activist and political consultant who advocates for the Democratic Party to endorse more left-progressive policy platforms. He is the co-founder and executive director of Data for Progress, a left-of-center public research group and a project of Tides Advocacy. McElwee is also the director of
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Agnes Gund is an heiress and philanthropist known for her work as a patron of the arts and as a funder of left-of-center causes. She is the chair of the left-of-center organization Art for Justice Fund, which works to release inmates and works to reduce prison sentences. In addition
