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The Texas Future Project (TFP) is a left-of-center political strategy organization that endeavors to shift the balance of governance in Texas from Republican-leaning to Democratic-leaning. Founded in 2013 by “top democratic donors” in connection with Texas AFL-CIO, TFP partners with left-leaning political committees and advocacy groups including Battleground
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The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice, education issues, public pensions, dietary policy, and scientific research reform. The foundation
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The New York Community Trust (Community Funds) (NYCT) is a left-of-center donor advised fund which makes grants to left-of-center and liberal groups in New York City, New York State, and in the United States. The organization makes grants primarily in the fields of LGBT-interest advocacy, environmentalism, liberal expansionist immigration policy,
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The Eugene McDermott Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation based in Dallas, Texas. The organization has given to left-leaning organizations, including affiliates of the abortion network Planned Parenthood and the left-of-center Texas state-level policy group Center for Public Policy Priorities. Texas Instruments industrialist and philanthropist Eugene McDermott created
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Non-profit
The Harold Simmons Foundation is the private grantmaking foundation of Harold C. Simmons (1931-2013), an investor whose holding company, Contran Corporation, owns 93 percent of Valhi, Inc., a publicly traded company whose divisions manufacture chemicals (most notably titanium oxide) and components for computers as well as buying and selling real
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The Bloomberg Family Foundation is the $7 billion foundation1 created by left-leaning Democratic billionaire and former Mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg. Bloomberg,
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National Priorities Project (NPP) is a project of the left-of-center Institute for Policy Studies
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The George Gund Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that financially supports organizations in the areas of education, human services, economic development, the arts, and the environment, primarily in the Cleveland, Ohio metropolitan area. The organization uses its grants to fuel a left-of-center political activism agenda.
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Waterfront Strategies is an advertising purchasing firm formed in 2006 by principals of the powerhouse Democratic political consulting firm Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, and Burns (GMMB Consulting). Waterfront typically works in conjunction with GMMB, placing media buys for political action committees (PACs), while GMMB works directly for political candidates and
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For-profit
Democracy Partners (DP) is a political consulting firm founded in 2011 by Robert Creamer, a longtime liberal campaign operative married to U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) who was convicted in 2005 of bank fraud; and Mike Lux, a former Clinton White House aide.
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Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (GQRR) is a Democratic polling firm established by Stanley Greenberg in 1980. The firm has worked for numerous top Democratic campaigns, including Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaign in 1992. It was instrumental in pushing a more centrist brand of Democrats in the 1990s. Background
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Person
Henry Helmut Arnhold (born Heinrich-Hartmut Richard Gustav Arnhold) was a survivor of the Holocaust who escaped Nazi Germany to become a successful American entrepreneur and philanthropist who sold his businesses for $100 million.
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Person
Alicia Garza is a California-based activist and a co-founder of the #BlackLivesMatter online movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Garza’s activism began at an early age, but her rise to national prominence began with a Facebook post in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman
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CASA in Action is a left-of-center immigrant advocacy organization, operating mainly in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in support of immigrants, regardless of their legal status in the United States. It is the political arm of CASA de Maryland and organizes for legislators and campaigns that support its objectives. It
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For-profit
The New Media Firm is a left-progressive Democratic Party-aligned for-profit public relations firm based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 2007 by Democratic public relations operatives Will Robinson and Tierney Hunt. 1
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Voto Latino (also known as the Voto Latino Action Fund) is a left-of-center voter mobilization group targeted at Latino voters. Co-founded by Maria Theresa Kumar and actress Rosario Dawson, Voto Latino has registered hundreds of thousands of voters since 2004. The organization also advocates for abortion through its advertising and
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URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity is a left-of-center pro-abortion and gender-activist organization. It has chapters at colleges and universities in Alabama, California, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, and Texas. 1
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Civic Nation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 2015, headed by President Jason Waskey (CEO of Blue Crab Strategies LLC) and Executive Director Jenn Brown. Touting itself as an organ of widespread positive social change, Civic Nation funds several large charitable initiatives: Erase the Hate, College Promise, It’s On Us,
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Non-profit
UltraViolet (formally UltraViolet Education Fund) is a social-progressive nonprofit that advocates for LGBT and expanded abortion access, usually using social media campaigns, petitions, and small protests, oftentimes alongside or in conjunction with other left-of-center groups. UltraViolet Action is the organization’s lobbying arm. High-profile figures against whom the organization has
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Non-profit
The R Street Institute is a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was spun off from the right-of-center and Chicago-based Heartland Institute in 2012.
