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Melinda French Gates, born Melinda Ann French, is an American software developer and philanthropist who helped found the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a leading grantmaking organization for left-of-center causes. Gates met her longtime husband, computer software entrepreneur Bill Gates, in 1987, shortly after she started working for
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Andrew Bleeker is a digital marketing and communications strategist. He has led digital marketing teams for several prominent Democratic campaigns, including Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, his 2012 re-election campaign, the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign, and the campaigns of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Gov.
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Bill Gates is the founder and former CEO of technology giant Microsoft. He also founded the philanthropic Bill Gates Foundation, known since Gates’s marriage to Melinda Gates (nee French) as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Since founding Microsoft in the 1970s, Gates has become one of the world’s
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is an American think tank and research institution created to support American foreign policy and national security during the height of the Cold War.
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The division does business as North America’s Building Trades Unions; for more information on the connections of the BCTD, see the NABTU profile. North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), also known as the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD), is a department of the American Federation of
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The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) is a left-wing litigation and advocacy group focused on immigration, election procedure, and Census and demographic interest issues. Founded in the late 1960s with extensive financial support from the left-wing Ford Foundation which continues through the present day, MALDEF is
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The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) is a civil-rights-focused left-of-center organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as an umbrella organization for over 200 mostly left-wing organizations which lobby and advocate before Congress and other federal agencies on legislation and Presidential appointments to the executive departments and
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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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Leland Fikes Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation based In Dallas, Texas that funds a variety of left-of-center advocacy groups in Texas and nationally. The foundation was founded in 1954 by Leland Fikes, a wealthy Texas oilman who died in 1966, and has since been operated by his descendants. The
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The Shift Project is a nonprofit consulting group that advises corporations on how to abide by the United Nations‘ Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a set of guidelines intended to prevent businesses from harming human rights.
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Sightsavers is a charity that provides medical treatments mostly regarding blindness and visual impairment to poor individuals. Sightsavers operates in more than 30 countries in Africa and Asia and has conducted more than 8.8 million cataract surgeries since its founding in 1950.
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Texas Tribune Inc. is a Texas-based news organization that publishes news articles online and is the host of the annual Texas Tribune Festival. 1 Texas Tribune has a Climate Change series that reports on
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Darrick Hamilton is the Henry Cohen professor of economics and urban policy at The New School and the founding director of the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy. 1 Hamilton is an
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The Malala Fund is an international charity focused on improving access to education for girls around the world by advocating for increased government educational funding, training women activists, and working to affect cultural change concerning norms about women’s education and familial responsibilities.
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We Are All America (also known as We Are All U.S.) is the left-of-center pro-refugee and immigration advocacy campaign of the National Partnership for New Americans. Background We Are All America was founded in 2017 as a pro-refugee and immigration campaign of the National Partnership for New Americans,
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Postsecondary National Policy Institute (PNPI) is a left-of-center postsecondary education policy advocacy organization that targets policymakers, leaders, and influential thinkers. 1
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Foundation for Systemic Change (FSC) is a family foundation and grantmaking organization that supports comprehensive left-of-center systemic change in response to societal challenges.
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) is one of the oldest and most influential nonprofit organizations in American education. 1
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Black Philanthropic Alliance (BPA) is a network of Black philanthropists and nonprofit leaders that work to share knowledge, offer professional development, and increase Black philanthropy and Black representation in nonprofit organizations. It is part of the Black Philanthropic Network (BPN) organized and supported by the Black philanthropy advocacy organization
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The Bezos Family Foundation (BFF) is a nonprofit grantmaking foundation based in Seattle, Washington founded in 2000. 1
