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Americans for Financial Reform is a left-of-center political alliance of 200 left-leaning organizations seeking stricter regulations on the financial industry. It is a project of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR).
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America Votes is a left-of-center lobbying and advocacy coalition that supports left-of-center issue advocacy and expanding voting access.1 America Votes bills itself as the “Coordination Hub of
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The Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is an organization that coordinates the distribution of grants to advance the left-of-center environmentalist movement.
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Warren Buffett is the chief executive of investment corporation Berkshire Hathaway and is credited as one of the most successful investors of all time.1 According to Forbes, Buffett was the second-richest person in the
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The Pritzker Innovation Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that makes grants to think tanks, academic organizations, and advocacy organizations that work in the areas of energy and the environment. 1 It is funded by the
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The Bauman Family Foundation is a foundation that has donated millions of dollars to left-of-center causes over the past decade.1 The foundation
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The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is a left-of-center legal activist group that aims to frame the United States Constitution as a document whose meaning shifts based on historical and political circumstances and that lawmakers should apply its articles and amendments accordingly. To advance this view, often
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The Wallace Global Fund is a major private foundation controlled by the family of former U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace that funds left-of-center “activities and movements that are global or national in scope.” 1 Areas in
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The Advancement Project (AP) was established in 1999 by a group of civil rights lawyers as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. While its stated objective is to address race and civil rights issues through the legal system and community activism, AP is in fact a key left-wing agitation group that
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The Susie Tompkins Buell Foundation is a left-leaning grantmaking foundation founded by Susie Tompkins Buell (nee Russell), a left-of-center mega-donor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist from San Francisco who is a close confidant of and major donor to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Susie Tompkins Buell and her husband
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Susie Tompkins Buell (nee Russell) is a Democratic Party mega-donor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist from San Francisco. She is a close confidant of and major donor to Hillary Clinton. Buell co-founded sportswear companies The North Face and Esprit with her first husband, Douglas Tompkins.
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The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (STBF) is one of the charitable entities associated with billionaire Berkshire Hathaway investor Warren Buffett, who funds the Foundation. Founded in 1964 as the Buffett Foundation, STBF was later renamed for Warren’s late first wife Susan, whose estate granted the Foundation over $2 billion.
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The Surdna Foundation is an advocacy and endowment management foundation1 funded by a contribution from capitalist businessman turned U.S. Representative John Andrus (R-N.Y.) in 1917. The Foundation has moved away from its
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The Scholars Strategy Network (SSN) is a nationwide collective of researchers, college professors, and other academic figures which aims to influence government legislation and media coverage of the causes it supports. SSN was founded in 2011 by Harvard University sociology professor Theda Skocpol and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Rock the Vote is a left-progressive-aligned organization in the United States whose stated mission is to engage and “build the political power of young people.” The group claims to be nonpartisan,1 but has produced videos
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The Proteus Fund is a center-left “pass-through” funder and donor-advised fund provider. Since the Fund’s creation in 1995, Proteus has routed hundreds of millions of dollars from major grantmaking foundations and anonymous donors on the Left to activist groups targeting issues including legalizing same-sex marriage, reducing religious freedom to dissent
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People for the American Way is a left-of-center advocacy group formed in 1981 by liberal Hollywood television producer Norman Lear, ostensibly to oppose the conservative principles espoused by Christian conservative televangelists.
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Faith in Action (formerly PICO National Network) is a national network of left-leaning faith-based community organizations in the United States. The organization is headquartered in Oakland, California, with additional offices in San Diego and Washington, D.C. It claims to be the largest organization of its kind in America. Its focus
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The NoVo Foundation is the private foundation controlled by Peter Buffett, son of investor and left-of-center philanthropist Warren Buffett, and Peter’s wife Jennifer. Warren provided the initial donation of 350,000 shares of Berkshire Hathaway valued at $1,000,000,000.
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Jay Halfon is an attorney who serves as legal counsel, board member, and strategist for several left-of-center non-profits, focusing mostly on environmentalist policy. As of 2019, Halfon is a board member at Earthworks, 350.org, the Sustainable Markets Foundation (where he is also general counsel
