Search results for ‘fight for $15’


  • Non-profit

    Demand Justice

    Demand Justice is a left-of-center advocacy group created in early 2018 that aims to influence the political leanings of America’s courts by supporting the appointment of liberal judicial nominees and opposing right-of-center nominees. The organization acts primarily through media campaigns against nominated and unconfirmed judicial nominees. Demand Justice was established
  • Non-profit

    Amalgamated Charitable Foundation

    The Amalgamated Charitable Foundation is a donor-advised fund that was spun off from the Service Employees International Union-owned Amalgamated Bank in 2017. 1 It funds a number of left-progressive advocacy organizations and sponsors a campaign targeting social-conservative and
  • Non-profit

    Civic Hall Labs

    Civic Hall Labs is the independent nonprofit1 research and development arm of Civic Hall, a left-leaning nonprofit incubator and networking forum.
  • Person

    Harry Reid

    Harry Reid was a former United States Senator who served as a Democratic politician from Nevada for over 40 years. Most notably, from 2005 through 2017, Reid served as the Senate Democratic Leader, with stints as both Senate Majority Leader and Senate Minority Leader.
  • Non-profit

    Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation

    The Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports race-based identity politics, stringent gun-control laws, organizations that seek to weaken voter integrity laws, and organizations that intervene in federal immigration proceedings. The foundation originally intended to support increased access to health care for lower-income individuals.
  • Non-profit

    National Redistricting Foundation (NRF)

    For more information, see National Democratic Redistricting Committee (PAC) The National Redistricting Foundation (NRF) is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit affiliate of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a Democratic Party-aligned PAC chaired by former Attorney General Eric Holder, and the 501(c)(4) advocacy group National Redistricting Action Fund. The nonprofit was
  • Non-profit

    Democracy Fund Voice

    Also see Democracy Fund (Non-profit) Democracy Fund Voice is a left-leaning lobbying and electoral advocacy group within the advocacy-philanthropy network of eBay chairman and founder Pierre Omidyar.
  • Political Party/527

    Swing Left

    Swing Left is a Democratic Party-aligned fundraising and voter mobilization PAC (political action committee). The PAC provides connections to Swing Left team members, information concerning specific districts, fundraising services, and canvassing opportunities within competitive districts.
  • Non-profit

    Roddenberry Foundation

    The left-of-center Roddenberry Foundation was created by Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, to honor his father’s politically progressive world view.
  • Non-profit

    Howard G. Buffett Foundation

    The Howard G. Buffett Foundation is a grantmaking organization founded by Howard G. Buffett, son of billionaire Warren Buffett. The IRS granted the Foundation tax exempt status in 1999 as a 501(c)(3) organization. The Foundation is headquartered in Decatur, IL. Howard G. Buffett has served as chairman of
  • Non-profit

    Los Angeles LGBT Center

    The Los Angeles LGBT Center is an LGBT advocacy organization located in Los Angeles, California. The organization operates nine facilities in the greater Los Angeles area. The organization has over 800 employees and an annual budget of nearly $150 million. The organization provides services and operates programs in categories including
  • Non-profit

    Casa Latina

    Casa Latina is a left-of-center advocacy group located in Seattle, Washington, that operates several community service and employment assistance programs and advocates for left-of-center labor and immigration policies. The group was founded by local organizers in 1994 and operates a worker center and employment program for the Seattle-area homeless population
  • Non-profit

    Prosperity Now

    Prosperity Now, formerly known as the Corporation for Enterprise Development, is a left-of-center think tank that promotes left-of-center economic and financial services policies. The organization was founded in 1979 and has advocated a variety of left-of-center policies including a $15 minimum wage, higher income taxes, expanded tax credit programs,
  • Non-profit

    Laura and John Arnold Foundation

    The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice, education issues, public pensions, dietary policy, and scientific research reform. The foundation
  • For-profit

    Waterfront Strategies

    Waterfront Strategies is an advertising purchasing firm formed in 2006 by principals of the powerhouse Democratic political consulting firm Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, and Burns (GMMB Consulting). Waterfront typically works in conjunction with GMMB, placing media buys for political action committees (PACs), while GMMB works directly for political candidates and
  • Non-profit

    Dream Defenders

    Dream Defenders is a Miami-based “revolutionary organization” 1 that seeks to end capitalism in the United States and replace it with a socialist system.
  • Person

    Alicia Garza

    Alicia Garza is a California-based activist and a co-founder of the #BlackLivesMatter online movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Garza’s activism began at an early age, but her rise to national prominence began with a Facebook post in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman
  • Non-profit

    R Street Institute

    The R Street Institute is a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was spun off from the right-of-center and Chicago-based Heartland Institute in 2012.
  • Non-profit

    Policy Matters Ohio

    Policy Matters Ohio is a left-of-center advocacy group and policy research organization founded in January 2000 focusing on the state of Ohio. The group advocates for left-of-center state-level policies in Ohio through research, media work, and policy papers.
  • Labor Union

    Amalgamated Transit Union

    Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) is an international labor union with more than 200,000 members across the transportation sector. Its members include bus drivers, light rail operators, maintenance workers, and baggage handlers. It operates 252 chapters in the U.S. and Canada, including operations in 44 states and Washington, D.C., and is