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Person
Anne-Marie Slaughter is a Democratic foreign policy scholar and the president of New America, a left-of-center think tank. Slaughter is the former director of policy planning at the U.S. Department of State under former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D). Slaughter has advocated for hawkish foreign policy
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Labor Union
The California Federation of Teachers (CFT) is the second-largest teachers union in California, representing 120,000 government-sector and private-sector educators. The organization is a regional chapter of the left-of-center American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the United States, and a chapter of the AFL-CIO, the
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Non-profit
Ohio Public Interest Research Group Citizen Lobby (Ohio PIRG) is the advocacy arm of the Ohio Public Interest Research Group Education Fund based in Columbus, Ohio. It is the Ohio state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG) and the successor organization to the Ohio Public Interest Research
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Non-profit
Political Research Associates (PRA) is a left-wing “social justice think tank” which seeks to advance left-progressive and critical race theory-aligned thinking and action.1 PRA opposes the political right,
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Non-profit
The Civic Participation Action Fund (CPAF) was a secretive left-of-center advocacy group created by the Atlantic Advocacy Fund in December 2014 with a multi-million dollar endowment. The Atlantic Advocacy fund is one of several 501(c)(4) nonprofits created by Atlantic Philanthropies, a principally offshore left-of-center grantmaking foundation associated with
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Non-profit
Mary Reynolds Babcock founded the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation (MRBF) as a grantmaking organization in 1953. Like the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, also co-founded by Babcock, MRBF supports left-of-center advocacy organizations in 11 states in the southeastern United States through various means, primarily through grantmaking.
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Non-profit
Democracy North Carolina (or Democracy NC) is a left-of-center group based in Durham, North Carolina that lobbies against voter integrity measures and for campaign speech restrictions. It is often portrayed as a neutral organization but it has received funding from the Reynolds-family-related left-wing foundations
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Non-profit
The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) New Voters Project is a left-of-center organization that focuses on increasing participation by left-leaning young voters. It is a part of the left-of-center Public Interest Network (PIN), a collection of over 100 left-leaning advocacy groups that includes the U.S. Public Interest Research
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Non-profit
Heartland Workers Center is an organization founded in 2010 in Omaha, Nebraska as an advocacy group for Latino immigrant workers. 1 The Heartland Workers Center serves as an advocacy organization for
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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
Hip Hop Caucus (HHC) is a left-of-center direct-action organization dedicated to left-of-center environmentalist mobilization and expansion of voter participation, including restoring voting rights to felons. The organization signed a petition supporting the Green New Deal. 1 Hip
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Person
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon and was estimated by Forbes to be the richest person in the world as of March, 2019, with an estimated net worth of $131 billion. 1
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Labor Union
The California Labor Federation (CLF) is a labor union in California associated with the American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). The Federation includes more than 1,200 member unions which claim to represent over 2.1 million California workers.
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Non-profit
The Climate Leadership Council (CLC) is an organization of former government officials, intellectuals, and businessmen who advocate for a carbon tax. The organization was founded in 2017 by the late Ted Halstead, an environmentalist activist and founder of the center-left think tank New America Foundation.
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Non-profit
Also see CREDO Mobile (Working Assets) CREDO Action is the left-wing advocacy arm of the San Francisco-based CREDO Mobile, which was originally formed in 1985 under the name Working Assets.
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Non-profit
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation) is the primary organizational outgrowth of the more decentralized Black Lives Matter movement. According to an Associated Press report from February 2021, BLM Global Network Foundation was granted tax-exempt status by the IRS in December 2020.
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Political Party/527
The Black Progressive Action Coalition (BPAC) is a left-leaning political action committee and advocacy group that supports Democratic Party candidates and left-leaning issues. The organization is affiliated with the Super PAC BlackPAC, sharing staff and the same executive director. The organization mobilizes African American voters to turn out and vote
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Non-profit
The Hub Project is a left-of-center advocacy and research organization established by former Obama administration officials in 2017 that works with other groups to promote left-of-center policy. The group acts as an “incubator for groups backing Democrats and their causes.”
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For-profit
Mothership Strategies is a Democratic Party-aligned digital strategy firm that was founded in 2014 by Greg Berlin, Jake Lipsett, and Charles Starnes. All three men worked for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
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Non-profit
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
