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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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The Common Cause Education Fund is the 501(c)(3) partner organization of Common Cause, an influential and controversial 501(c)(4) advocating for left-of-center causes headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Common Cause Education Fund exists to raise tax-deductible dollars from liberal donors and foundations that can be used to support the progressive
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Non-profit
The Piper Fund is a campaign finance reform donor collaborative hosted by the Proteus Fund, a center-left funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit. The Piper Action Fund is the advocacy arm of the Piper Fund and is hosted by the 501(c)(4) Proteus Action League. Both the Piper Fund and
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The Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ, sometimes styled AfGJ) is an organizing group that serves as a fiscal sponsor to numerous left-wing initiatives, among them Refuse Fascism,
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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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The New Venture Fund (NVF) is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that makes grants to left-of-center advocacy and organizing projects and provides incubation serves for other left-of-center organizations. The fund focuses primarily on social and environmental change, issuing grants for a variety of projects that include conservation, global
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Other Group
Youth vs. Apocalypse (YVA) is a left-of-center climate activist organization. It mobilizes young people to protest the conventional energy industry in the name of fighting climate change. It also focuses on the alleged impact of climate change on racial justice.
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Non-profit
All by April is a coalition of left-of-center foundations, nonprofit grantmakers, and individual donors that have committed to making “election-related gifts” early in the 2024 election cycle, in order to fund efforts to “help recruit poll workers, organize nonpartisan voter registration drives, support local election officials, and work to ensure
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Other Group
Environmental Defenders Collaborative is a left-of-center project of the Global Greengrants Fund designed to provide financial support to environmental activists. 1 The organization was founded in 2017 through pooled funding by the Cold Mountain Fund,
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Other Group
NetGain Partnership is a partnership of left-of-center philanthropies and foundations that hosts events, publishes research, and trains individuals to address challenges and opportunities associated with emerging digital and technology issues. As of October 2023, NetGain Partnership’s members include the Democracy Fund, Ford Foundation, John S. and James
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The Mozilla Foundation is a technology-focused nonprofit that wholly owns the Mozilla Corporation and the MZLA Technologies Corporation. 1
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Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC) is a left-of-center hub designed to respond to and oppose preemption laws, which allow higher levels of government to prevent lower levels of government from passing more restrictive legislation.
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Influence Map (sometimes written as InfluenceMap) is a New York-based advocacy group that monitors companies and organizations that attempt to influence global climate policy. It has been described as “an organisation that sees corporate lobbying as the primary obstacle to climate change legislation.”
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Person
Scott Fitzmorris is co-chair of the Wallace Global Fund, a prominent supporter of left-wing causes, particularly environmentalist groups. In January 2022, Fitzmorris was named one of the “most powerful heirs in philanthropy” by Inside Philanthropy.
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Non-profit
American Sustainable Business Institute (ASBI) is a policy advocacy organization that promotes left-of-center environmentalist and diversity, equity, and inclusion agendas in business. Founded in 2009, it is a distinct legal entity from its sister organization American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC).
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Intentional Endowments Network (IEN) is a membership organization of over 200 endowments, foundations, investment consultants and managers, and nonprofits involved in environmentalist initiatives, as well as racial justice and economic equality. 1 IEN is
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Person
Allison Barlow is a program director at the Wallace Global Fund, a left-of-center organization supporting environmentalist causes and working to reduce corporate influence in politics. She has been affiliated with organizations connected to left-of-center juggernauts including the Democracy Alliance and the Open Society Foundations. Barlow is a
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at independent agencies of the United States government. Nominations and Appointments AmeriCorps Michael D. Smith is Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service). He most recently served as Executive Director of the My Brother’s
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Other Group
The Tax Justice Network is a left-of-center network based in the United Kingdom that focuses on advocating for left-of-center tax-related policies and increases in corporate taxes worldwide. 1 It also
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Non-profit
The Accountability Counsel is a left-of-center environmentalist organization that uses litigation and media campaigns to oppose construction projects in developing countries. Natalie Bridgeman Fields founded Accountability Counsel with the support of the environmentalist group Echoing Green.
