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Non-profit
The Native Organizers Alliance (NOA) is a left-of-center Native American activist group fiscally sponsored by Alliance for a Just Society, a part of left-wing community organizing group People’s Action. 1 NOA is a participating
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Non-profit
GLAAD (formerly an acronym for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is a left-of-center media monitoring group which promotes the favorable representation of LGBT figures in media. The group aims to “shape the narrative” on LGBT issues in entertainment and in the news. GLAAD often pressures media creators and
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Other Group
Black Youth Vote! (BYV) is the organizing arm of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) conducting outreach to youth and young adults. Black Youth Vote! Encourages electoral participation among Black American youth, broader civic engagement, and organizing around left-of-center issues.
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Advocates for Youth (AFY) is a left-of-center advocacy group that focus on topics such as youth sexual health, youth reproductive health, sexual violence, racial issues, and LGBT issues in both the United States and the “Global South,” a term referring to less economically developed nations.
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Other Group
Also see Committee on States (Other Group) and Democracy Alliance Conferences (Other Group) The Democracy Alliance is a collective of left-of-center donors that has been active in orchestrating “the activities of a permanent ‘left infrastructure’” since 2004.
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The Loud Hound Foundation is a San Francisco-based left-of-center grantmaking foundation. 1 William Moritz is the president of the Loud Hound Foundation. His father, venture capital billionaire and Sequoia Capital director
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New Era Colorado Foundation Action Fund is a left-of-center abortion-advocacy and “youth voters” organizing group founded in 2006 in Boulder, Colorado. It is the advocacy counterpart for New Era Colorado Foundation, which encourages voter turnout among Democratic-leaning constituencies in Colorado.
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Non-profit
MOVE Texas is a left-of-center voter engagement and advocacy organization in Texas operating in ten cities and on the campuses of over 60 colleges and universities to register new voters and engage in voter mobilization. MOVE Texas has backed lowering criminal thresholds for arrests, banning no-knock warrants, deprioritizing enforcement of
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Other Group
Power the Polls is a poll worker recruitment project of Work Elections, which is in-turn a project of the Fair Elections Center, a left-of-center litigation and election policy advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. Background Power the Polls was launched in June 2020, by a group of businesses and
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Other Group
ElectionIntegrityCaucus.us is a left-of-center election activist group based in Petaluma, California. 1 It supports the proposed For the People Act, which would federalize U.S. election administration
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Non-profit
Forward Montana (FM) works to engage young people in support of left-of-center positions on weather-dependent energy production, eliminating carbon-based energy sources, LGBT interests, rent control and the elimination of single-family zoning, and a revisionist history of Thanksgiving. The organization endorses and promotes predominately progressive Democratic Party candidates.
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Non-profit
Mississippi Votes is a left-of-center, youth-focused get-out-the-vote organization based in Jackson, Mississippi. 1
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The Asian Community Development Council (ACDC) is a Las Vegas, Nevada-based organization that provides services to Asian and Pacific Islander residents of Nevada. 1 The organization conducts outreach
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The Edward W. Hazen Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation that supports and organizes youth activists on issues related to public education,1 race, and class.
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Other Group
Vote For Your Life is a get-out-the-vote campaign created by ViacomCBS and the Advertising Council (Ad Council). The Ad Council is an organization that creates center-left and left-of-center media campaigns by providing funding to execute expensive nationwide television and internet campaigns.
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Vote Early Day is a movement by a coalition of nonprofits and businesses which encourages voters to use early ballots and wants October 24 to become the official “Vote Early Day” holiday. Though Vote Early Day was initially spearheaded by the media company, MTV,
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Person
Rahna Epting has made a career as an activist for the left-leaning progressive movement. In the fall of 2019, she became the executive director of the liberal organizations MoveOn Political Action and MoveOn Civic Action after previous positions within the organization, first as leading strategic partnerships, then as
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Non-profit
Secure Elections for America Now (SEAN) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the left-progressive New Venture Fund
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Non-profit
The Civic Action Fund was a left-of-center voter mobilization group and a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center electoral advocacy nonprofit managed by the for-profit consulting firm Arabella Advisors. The Civic Action Fund operated in 12 separate battleground states with the stated goal of getting “low-propensity
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Person
For more please see Ford Foundation. Since 2013 Darren Walker has been President of the Ford Foundation, one of the largest left-leaning granting foundations in the United States.
