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Rachel’s Network is a network of female funders of environmentalist projects that works as a fundraiser to advance advocacy on left-of-center immigration, environmental, and biological issues. Winsome McIntosh, the president of the McIntosh Foundation, founded Rachel’s Network. The organization signed a petition supporting the Green New Deal.
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The National Urban League is a civil rights organization founded in 1911 to combat racial discrimination against African Americans. It is the oldest and largest community-based anti-discrimination organization in America. The organization has 90 affiliates in 36 states and the District of Columbia. Although it is technically nonpartisan, in that
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The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) is a left-of-center group which advocates for policies and culture favorable to transgender people and other gender-non-conforming people. It currently has about 20 staff members. 1
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Family Values at Work (stylized Family Values @ Work or FV@W) is a left-of-center, labor union-funded advocacy organization that provides programming support for coalitions in various states pushing to expand government-mandated paid leave programs. 1
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Equality Now is a global organization focused on fighting sexual discrimination and supporting the rights of women and girls through legal advocacy. It was founded by three feminist attorneys in 1992.
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EMILY’s List was founded in 1985 by IBM heiress Ellen Malcolm and a small group of her politically-connected friends, including future U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) and future Texas Gov. Ann Richards (D).
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nearly 100-year-old left-leaning activism organization focused on issues related to civil liberties. During its history, the ACLU has aligned with the ideological Left, becoming a “hub of liberal activism” which declared its intent to spend $25 million attacking Republican candidates during the
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Randi Weingarten is a 30-year union executive who, aside from a brief one-semester stint as a full-time teacher, 1 has almost exclusively served as a union leader. Joining the
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Patricia “Pat” Stryker is a billionaire heiress from Colorado. 1 In recent years Stryker has been one of the nation’s top political donors, giving more than $11 million to Democratic political candidates
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John C. Stocks is the chairman of the board of Democracy Alliance (DA), a collective of wealthy left-of-center donors and donor organizations. Stocks was previously the executive director of the National Education Association (NEA), where he still works as a senior advisor to guide NEA political strategy. Stocks
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The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is a major private grantmaking foundation based in Milwaukee. The foundation’s reported net assets totaled approximately $893 million as of December 31, 2017, and it approved a net of about $33.5 million in grant contributions for charitable purposes that year.
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The Knight Foundation is a left-leaning private foundation that sets a primary emphasis on funding media-related projects. The foundation, which was seeded by the estate of economically conservative newspaper publisher John S. “Jack” Knight, began by endowing chairs in journalism at universities. In the past decade, the foundation has funded
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The Daniels Fund is a perpetual foundation created by Robert William “Bill” Daniels, an entrepreneur whose fortune came from commissions made creating and selling cable television systems. The fund primarily supports nonprofits in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming through scholarships and support for social service organizations. Approximately 10 percent
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Philip F. Anschutz, a conservative businessman and the president of the Anschutz Corporation, and his wife Nancy Anschutz created the Anschutz Foundation in 1984. The Anschutz Foundation’s primary grantee is the University of Colorado, whose medical school is named for Anschutz. Other beneficiaries include nonprofits in Colorado, the American
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The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal worker union with over 300,000 members.1 Affiliated with the AFL-CIO union federation since its founding, AFGE collectively bargains
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For the related superPAC, see Priorities USA (PAC) (Political Party/527) Priorities USA is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization affiliated with the liberal super PAC Priorities USA Action. Senior Obama administration staffers Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney created the organization in 2011 to advocate for liberal issues in conjunction with
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NEO Philanthropy Action Fund (formerly Public Interest Projects Action Fund) is the 501(c)(4) lobbying and election-related advocacy arm of left-of-center funding pass-through NEO Philanthropy (formerly Public Interest Projects). It provides financial support to a number of other left-of-center lobbying and election-related advocacy groups. Political Activities Americans for Financial Reform
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Care in Action, previously known as Domestic Workers Legacy Fund, is a labor-union-aligned left-of-center activist group that advocates for increased government regulations on the employment and pay of domestic worker. 1 Background Care in Action,
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For the 501(c)(4), see Color of Change (Nonprofit) The ColorOfChange.org Education Fund (CoCEF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Oakland, California. The CoCEF is a partner organization of ColorOfChange.org (Color of Change), a prominent, left-wing lobbying group for African-American interests. Since the Anthony “Van” Jones and James
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Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a center-left issue advocacy organization focused on healthcare issues. It is credited with playing a significant role in creating the blueprint for the law that became Obamacare,
