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Young Global Leaders is a program of the World Economic Forum (WEF), a business league that primarily organizes annual meetings of international business and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland. It aims to create a network of potential leaders in business, technology, education, activism, journalism, and politics.
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U.S. Digital Response (“USDR”) formed during the COVID-19 pandemic to help state and local governments address immediate digital needs by providing volunteer technical expertise. In 2022, it received a grant as part of a controversial program funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that raised concerns about private funding
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Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein is a Democratic Party-aligned consultant and operative who was the Wisconsin lead for the left-of-center National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI) in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for the 2020 election. 1 In his role
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The Equity Lab (formerly the Fellowship for Race and Equity in Education) is a left-wing advisory firm that advises individuals and institutions to address the concepts of race, equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI) to create a critical race theory-inspired society filled with an “equitable, anti-racist citizenry.” Founded in 2014 to
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The Omidyar Network Fund is a grantmaking nonprofit founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar. Its sister group, the Omidyar Network, is an LLC that makes philanthropic “impact investments.” Omidyar Network Fund and the Omidyar Network are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
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ElectionMail.org is a website that collects reports of alleged problems affecting absentee and mail-in ballots during elections. The website also aims to be a resource for state and local election administrators, providing guidance on how to recognize issues with election mail. The website forwards the reports and data it collects
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Ballot Scout is a service that allows absentee or mail-in voters to track their ballot’s progress through the postal service and see whether it reached an election office. According to its website, Ballot Scout was developed with input from election officers and in partnership with the United States Postal Service
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For more information on the 2020 election, see Center for Technology & Civic Life (Nonprofit) The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is a coalition of left-of-center election reform nonprofits created in 2022 as an initiative of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to bolster election security
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Xan Tanner (also known as Alexander Tanner) is the co-founder of Panorama Education, an education analytics company. Tanner is the son-in-law of Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland. In 2021, the connection between the two came under scrutiny as Panorama’s curricula have been criticized by right-leaning journalists
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Emergent Ventures is a grant program created by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University to fund for-profit solutions to social issues. 1 It provides grants for projects that support the Mercatus
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Pam Anderson is a Republican election official from Colorado who previously served as the elected city clerk in the City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and as the elected clerk for Jefferson County, Colorado. She is a board member of the left-leaning election administration advocacy group Center for Tech and
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The Just Trust is a left-of-center grantmaking organization established and funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). The group was spun off from the CZI to manage its criminal justice policy efforts. After receiving $350 million in starter funds, The Just Trust has been fiscally managed by the
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The Elections Group is a consulting organization that works with election offices and other local, state, and federal entities. 1 It was founded in 2020 by former election officials Jennifer Morrell and Noah Praetz to
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Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a state-run voter monitoring system in which states periodically submit their voter rolls for review to identify incorrect and outdated voter information. Its membership consists of state-level election officials from 31 states and Washington, D.C.
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The Thomas More Society is a right-leaning public interest legal organization that has been involved in litigation over abortion, religious liberty and the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. 1 The organization was established
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Alper Strategies and Media is a Democratic consulting firm created in 2017 by longtime Democratic strategist Jill Alper, with headquarters in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. 1 Alper Strategies was involved in a 2020 election
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Jocelyn Benson is a Democratic politician serving as Secretary of State of Michigan as of 2021. Benson was elected in 2018 to a four-year term and oversaw the controversial 2020 election in Michigan. Prior to the election, Secretary Benson announced that the state would mail ballots to all registered voters,
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Parents Defending Education (PDE) is a right-leaning organization that opposes the teaching of critical race theory and related left-progressive ideology in K-12 public schools. 1 Founded in 2021, the group has filed racism complaints with
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Panorama Education is a Boston-based education service company that combines the use of data and surveys to help develop curriculum for than 1,500 school districts across 50 states. 1 The company’s curricula have been criticized
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The Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration (MCLEA), originally the Richard Austin Center for Election Law and Administration, was founded in 2008 by now-Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D). The MCLEA claims to be nonpartisan, but is run by Democratic operatives and hires Democratic consulting firms. MCELA did
