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Other Group
National Sex Education Standards (also known as the National Sexuality Education Standards) is an initiative of the Future of Sex Education (sometimes styled as the Future of Sex Education Initiative and initialized as FoSE), which is itself in turn a joint initiative of Answer, Advocates for Youth, and the
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Non-profit
The Gender Spectrum Charitable Fund, commonly shortened to Gender Spectrum, was an organization that promoted transgender ideology among youth. It provided resources, conferences, and “social groups” for families of children experiencing gender dysphoria.
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Political Party/527
Way to Lead PAC is a left-progressive political action committee founded in 2018 to put progressive candidates in office. 1 A hybrid of federal and state political action committees, the organization targets battleground states in campaigns
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Person
Maria Teresa Kumar is the co-founder and CEO of Voto Latino and a long-time MSNBC contributor. Kumar is a member of the National Task Force on Election Crises.
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Other Group
The Latinx House is a left-of-center activist organization that primarily advocates for the inclusion of Hispanic Americans in film and entertainment. 1 The Latinx House supports the left-of-center Movement for Black Lives, has expressed
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Non-profit
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) is a worldwide association for police officers which provides research, events, awards, guides, and training for police. The IACP hosts an annual conference for police and gives out awards in various categories to notable police officers, both members and non-members.
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For-profit
TED Foundation Inc. (commonly known as TED or TED Conferences) hosts speeches and discussions on a wide array of topics. It is best known for its “TED Talks,” speeches of no more than 18 minutes given by prominent scientists, businesspeople, artists, and others which have been viewed billions of times
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Other Group
The Audacious Project is a project of the TED Foundation which funds organizations intended to catalyze positive large-scale social impacts. Many of the groups it funds have left-of-center policy goals, particularly related to environmentalism and social justice. From its founding in 2018 to 2020, the Audacious Project spent almost $2
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Non-profit
The Omidyar Network Fund is a grantmaking nonprofit founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar. Its sister group, the Omidyar Network, is an LLC that makes philanthropic “impact investments.” Omidyar Network Fund and the Omidyar Network are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
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Person
Julie Packard is an environmentalist activist and philanthropist whose father, David Packard was the co-founder of Hewlett Packard. Packard has been the executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium since it was founded by her family in the 1970s, and she is the vice-chair of the David and Lucile
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Non-profit
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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Person
Emily Kaiser is a left-leaning journalist currently working on initiatives to help fellow journalists. Through her position at the Aspen Institute and Global Press Institute, Kaiser oversees journalism education programs in media, advocacy, and editorial training. She is a trustee of her family’s nonprofit, the George Kaiser Family
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Non-profit
Engage Michigan (also known as Progress Michigan Education) is a left-of-center advocacy group that offers web development; spokesperson training; and media, public relations, and communications services for left-of center non-profits. 1 It is an arm of the
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Non-profit
Ragtag Volunteers Community and Education Fund is the sister-group of Ragtag, an consisting of tech and legal experts who volunteer to provide technical services to left-of-center advocacy groups. Structure Ragtag Volunteers Community and Education Fund has no website, and no public disclosures are available on the IRS website
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Non-profit
Hillman Family Foundations is a collection of 18 left-of-center grantmaking organizations that fund other organizations and causes predominantly in Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania. 1 Some of the foundations also operate in California, New York, and
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Other Group
Feminists in Action Los Angeles (FIA-LA) is a left-of-center activist network that supports female left-progressive political candidates, the elimination of the filibuster in the U.S. Senate,
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Person
Ken Zimmerman is the director of the mental health strategic impact initiative at the Jed Foundation, adjunct assistant professor of urban planning at New York University (NYU), and a fellow at the NYU Furman Center, NYU’s research center for urban policy. Zimmerman was previously the director of U.S. programs at
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Non-profit
The Harold K. Raisler Foundation Inc. (HKRF) is a left-of-center private grantmaker founded in 1958 from family wealth sourced from the Raisler Corporation of New York, a mechanical systems installation business. 1 HKRF
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Person
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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Non-profit
Violet World Foundations (VWF) is a grantmaking foundation run by investor and artist Robert Michael Scagliotti. 1 The VWF is registered in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, but most of its grants are directed toward local community support non-profits
