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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 AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. 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. 162
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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.238 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.284 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. 447 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.
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For more information, see Tides Nexus The Tides Two Rivers Fund is a supporting nonprofit to two other 501(c)(3) nonprofits in the Tides Nexus: the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center. The organization provides asset management and grantmaking services for its “sister” nonprofits, which directly control the
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Third Way Institute is the charitable arm of Third Way, a lobbying and advocacy organization that advocates for “modern center-left ideas.” 550 Third Way Institute was founded in 2005 and helps fund the tax-exempt work
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The AARP Foundation is the charitable, education, and litigation arm of the left-leaning special interest and lobbying group AARP. In 2017, the AARP Foundation received more than $90 million in federal grant money.
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Working Partnerships USA (WPUSA) is a left-of-center community and labor activist organization that works in San Jose, California and the broader Silicon Valley region. It supports left-of-center policies related to labor practices and development in the region. WPUSA cofounded the group Silicon Valley Rising, a coalition of left-of-center community
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Note: This profile will be updated regularly as more information emerges on Arabella Advisors‘ acquisition by Sunflower Services. The Windward Fund is an environmentalist fiscal sponsor organization in the network of “dark money” organizations controlled by philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Fund
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United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is a labor union that historically represented miners, though today it also counts health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers, and government employees among its members. UMWA is a member of the AFL-CIO labor federation. History Early Years United Mine Workers of America
