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The Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) was formed in 1984 to promote and protect health care for women and girls. BWHI’s founder, Byllye Avery, rose to prominence in the 1970s as a left-feminist scholar and founder of an abortion clinic.
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Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights (UAF) is a grantmaking nonprofit based in California that supports left-of-center women and transgender individuals with rapid-funding grants. UAF funds left-leaning groups and individuals on matters of abortion, transgender issues, sex workers, and the environment. UAF has written that “we proudly support activists
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The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund is a non-profit organization that focuses on funding initiatives that promote Latino political engagement. It also promotes left-of-center talking points on immigration, voting rights, the Census, and election administration. NALEO Educational Fund receives most of its revenue from
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Voterizer is a voter registration website run by Field Team 6, a Democratic get-out-the-vote group co-founded by former television writer Jason Berlin and Democratic California state senate aide Michael Tonetti. Website Voterizer.org registers new voters in two minutes and provides information for voting in particular states and counties.
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Phil Buchanan is a left-leaning philanthropic officer who works as the president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP). An executive at CEP since its founding in 2001, Buchanan is also the author of Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count. He also co-hosts a podcast,
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David Wallack is a former Democratic Party fundraiser who is the executive director of For The Long Term, a nonprofit on which promotes corporate governance practices in line with left-progressive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policy goals. In this role, he pressures corporations into adopting left-of-center climate change
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James K. Cummings is the grandson of Nathan Cummings, the founder of Sara Lee Corporation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF). Cummings has worked as the board chairman at NCF and was described as “instrumental in pushing NCF’s philosophy of giving ever-further toward the political left.”
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Valerie Rockefeller is a member of the Rockefeller political and philanthropic family who is the board chair of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She is also the co-chair of BankFWD, a network to encourage banks to divest from conventional energy sources. She is the
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Jaimie Mayer is the heiress to the Sara Lee estate and chair of the left-of-center Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF), which was funded by the estate of her great-grandfather. 1 Since Mayer took over the NCF,
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Hauwa Ahmed is a legislative affairs associate in the Biden White House. 1 The Office of Legislative Affairs serves as the President’s primary liaison to Congress, working to advance the President’s legislative agenda.
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Susan Packard Orr is the daughter of David and Lucile Packard and former chair of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Packard Foundation), having sat on the board since 1967 and still sitting in an honorary capacity since her retirement in early 2022. She also runs a software company
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Michael Quattrone is a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family who is a poet, singer-songwriter, and nonprofit consultant, board member, and founder. He has personally funded Democratic candidates and used his position in philanthropy to fund left-of-center organizations. He is a grandson to David Rockefeller and recently become more involved
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Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker is an American billionaire, Democratic politician, left-of-center philanthropist, co-founder of the Pritzker Group, and co-director of the Pritzker Family Foundation. In 2018, he was elected the 43rd governor of Illinois, taking office in January 2019. Background Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker is a member of the wealthy
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Rhodium Group is a think tank that focuses on environmentalism and the economy and politics of China. 1 It has received funding from multiple left-of-center private foundations including the Heising-Simons Foundation, William
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Sophie Schmidt is the daughter of billionaires Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt. Eric was CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and executive chairman of Alphabet until 2018. 1 His net worth
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Katherine Lorenz is the chair of the board of the left-of-center environmental activist Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation (CGMF). 1
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Nicholas (Nick) Pritzker is a member of the Pritzker family, one of America’s richest families. His net worth is $2.8 billion as of February 24, 2022. 1 Pritzker joined Hyatt Hotels, which was founded by
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David Rockefeller Jr. is a great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., the eldest son of David Rockefeller, Sr., and one of “the cousins” in the Rockefeller family. He has had major roles in the Rockefeller family’s organizations including the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Family Fund, Rockefeller Capital Management,
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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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Robin Beck is a left-of-center nonprofit organization operative currently working as the president of his family’s Max and Anna Levinson Foundation. As one of nine grandchildren of the group’s founders, Max and Anna Levinson, Robin took over the group in 2019.
