Search results for ‘fight for $15’


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    Richard Kirsch

    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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    Courtney Cuff

    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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    Americans Against Double Taxation

    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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    Barr Foundation

    The Barr Foundation is a Boston-based private foundation created in 1987 by telecommunications billionaire55 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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    Pesticide Watch

    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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    March On

    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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    Druckenmiller Foundation

    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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    Keystone Research Center (KRC)

    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.108 A number of members from the organization’s board
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    McKnight Foundation

    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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    Corporation for Public Broadcasting

    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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    SEIU Michigan State Council

    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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    Darren Walker

    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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    National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA)

    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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    Tax March

    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.
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    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
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    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. 358 It funds a number of left-progressive advocacy organizations and sponsors a campaign targeting social-conservative and
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    Civic Hall Labs

    Civic Hall Labs is the independent nonprofit374 research and development arm of Civic Hall, a left-leaning nonprofit incubator and networking forum.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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