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Eric Kessler is the founder of Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropic consultant group, and previously served as the group’s principal and senior managing director. Arabella Advisors also manages a number of center-left funding and fiscal sponsorship organizations, including 501(c)(4) Sixteen Thirty Fund, 501(c)(3) New Venture Fund,
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William Hall Janeway is a left-of-center economist and policy advocate. He is the co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a think tank founded in 2010 with the financial backing of billionaire financier and left-of-center philanthropist George Soros that pushes for increased government involvement in the
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Funders for Reproductive Equity, formerly the Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health, and Rights, is a network of more than 50 center-left and left-of-center grantmaking organizations that support pro-abortion causes, with focuses on ethnic minorities and transgender people. Members include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the MacArthur
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For more information, see American Immigration Lawyers Association (Nonprofit) The American Immigration Council (AIC) is an advocacy group that promotes left-of-center immigration policies such as increasing immigration to the United States and granting legal status to cases of undocumented immigrants. It was founded by the American Immigration Lawyers
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Salon.com is a liberal blog known in recent years for sensational clickbait headlines, questionable content, and low journalistic standards.77 Salon has adopted an increasingly
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Other Group
The American Independent (TAI), formerly known as Shareblue, is a left-of-center and Democratic Party-aligned publication that covers politics and the progressive movement. It is part of True Blue Media and receives a significant portion of its funding from American Bridge 21st Century Foundation, both of which are within
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Bill Gates is the founder and former CEO of technology giant Microsoft. He is also the co-founder of the Gates Foundation along with his previous wife Melinda French Gates.
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The Instructional Telecommunications Foundation, doing business as Voqal, is a lobbying nonprofit which advocates for left-of-center policies, including increased government regulation of public broadcasting. Voqal provides substantial funding to groups involved with the Democracy Alliance, a donor collaborative for high-profile funding groups on the Left. Voqal generates revenue by
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The Niskanen Center is a nominally libertarian 501(c)(3) environmental think tank with ties to center-left environmental groups. The Center was created in January 2015 and was initially headed by Jerry Taylor, a global warming advocate and environmental activist who authored a 2015 report The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax.
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The American Center for International Labor Solidarity (commonly referred to as Solidarity Center) was founded in 1997 by the largest federation of labor unions in the United States, the AFL-CIO. Solidarity Center has offices all over the world and claims to be working with more than 400 labor unions
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The Foundation for the Carolinas (FFTC) is a donor-advised fund provider established in 1958 that manages funds for 2,700 separate charitable individuals, families and organizations. 301
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Barack Obama is a Democratic politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, as U.S. Senator from Illinois, and as an Illinois state legislator. After graduating from Columbia University, he worked and studied in Chicago, where he built his political career.
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PR Watch is a left-leaning website that is operated by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). The site offers left-leaning commentary and heavy criticism of right-leaning and Republican-affiliated organizations and politicians.
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SourceWatch is a wiki-style website run by the left-leaning Center for Media and Democracy.377 The website’s content has a liberal bias
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Lisa Graves is a left-of-center activist who previously served as executive director at the Center For Media and Democracy (CMD) from 2009-2017, where she continues as a senior research fellow.423 Graves
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as the ACA, Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare) is major health care legislation passed in 2010 by the 111th Congress and signed by President Barack Obama. Over 900 pages long, the ACA includes a bundle of statues and regulations intended
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Bill Clinton is a Democratic politician who served as President of the United States from January 20, 1993 until January 20, 2001. He is the husband of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the father of Chelsea Clinton. In December 1998 he was impeached by
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The Daily Kos is a news website and blog focusing on left-of-center policies and Democratic Party politics created by Markos Moulitsas. 586 Moulitsas created Daily Kos hoping to turn its readers into left-of-center activists to
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Share Our Strength is a national organization that funds a variety of anti-hunger and anti-poverty initiatives, with an emphasis on ending childhood hunger. The group is among the largest hunger-related advocacy organizations in the United States, raising $83 million in revenue in 2023. The group is best known for its
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The National League of Cities (NLC) is a left-leaning network of over 19,000 American communities that engages in federal policy advocacy and leads educational programming on behalf of city governments.
