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Aryeh Neier is a left-of-center political activist, a co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society and Human Rights Watch, and the former president of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF). Early Life and Education Aryeh Neier was born in Berlin in 1937. His parents, both Jews,
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American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) is a left-of-center multi-issue advocacy group that claims to represent American business. It advocates for greater regulation of businesses on environmentalist grounds, as well as ending the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule in order to enact left-of-center election administration legislation. ASBC funds research, conducts polls, and
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The American Press Institute Inc. (API) is a nonprofit educational organization affiliated with News Media Alliance, an organization that advocates on behalf of the news media. API provides research, analytics tools, and other assistance to journalists and news organizations across the country.
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Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was a leading political activist and theorist, social critic, self-described “radical,” and an architect of the modern Left’s structure and approach to advocacy and electioneering. Alinsky pioneered “community organizing,” a form of coalition-building centered on aligning the common goals of multiple interest groups too small or electorally
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Build Back Fossil Free (BBFF) is a far-left coalition of more than 200 groups aiming to persuade President Joe Biden to eliminate conventional energy use and radically alter the U.S. energy industry through a series of executive orders. BBFF is a project of the Sustainable Markets Foundation.
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Isaiah Castilla is a left-leaning political operative with a history of working for Democratic campaigns, and works as a managing director for Arabella Advisors, a left-leaning consulting firm that manages one of America’s largest “dark money” funding networks.
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of State. Nominations and Appointments Yohannes Abraham is Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, having previously been Chief of Staff at the U.S. National Security Council.
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LeftNet is a digital activism organization that produces left-of-center petitions and letters. The organization circulates petitions for signatures with assistance from the Action Network, an online tool created by Brian Young, former digital director for U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry during his time as a U.S.
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The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a national organization comprised of government agencies, companies and associations that provides cyber-security consulting and information sharing services that is heavily funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. Among its many subject areas,
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ImpactAssets Inc. is a donor-advised fund focused on donating to nonprofits, for-profit companies, and other philanthropic funds to create positive philanthropic impacts. In 2010, ImpactAssets spun off from Calvert Impact Capital, another non-profit investment firm, under the leadership of Timothy Freundlich, Wayne Silby, and Ron Cordes. The founders worked with
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Massachusetts Voter Table (MVT) is a left-of-center advocacy group that works to increase civic engagement among racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, women, young people, and low-income communities in Massachusetts. MVT is the Massachusetts state affiliate of the left-of-center advocacy group State Voices, which is composed of state-based coalitions called
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Kentucky Civic Engagement Table (KCET) is a left-of-center advocacy group that supports and coordinates efforts of small, left-leaning activist groups in Kentucky. The group is part of the coalition State Voices, which organizes left-of-center state-based political advocacy groups.
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Engage San Diego is a coalition of left-of-center organizations focused on civic engagement and voter outreach. It is a member of the left-of-center coalition State Voices and is one of State Voices’ California affiliates.
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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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Be a Hero Fund is an organization that advances left-of-center health care and fiscal policy and opposes right-leaning Supreme Court nominations through media campaigns. The organization also fundraises for ActBlue, a Democratic Party-aligned political action committee (PAC).
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Seth Flaxman is a researcher, nonprofit manager, and self-described “social entrepreneur.” He is the co-founder and former chief executive director of Democracy Works, an organization which works to boost voter engagement among left-of-center constituencies and takes funding from leading left-of-center philanthropic organizations, such as the MacArthur Foundation and
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Gale Kaufman is the president and founder of Kaufman Campaign Consultants (KCC), a left-of-center political consulting group that caters to left-of-center and Democratic political candidates and organizations. Kaufman is closely aligned with a number of labor unions, most notably, the California Teachers Association (CTA), which she has represented for
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Alberto Olivas-Reyes has been involved in numerous community organizations, both nationally and in his state of Arizona, as well as held several different positions in the government of Arizona. He was formerly on the board of the get-out-the-vote organization Democracy Works, and currently is the executive director of the
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Adam Gross is a computer scientist, tech entrepreneur, and investor. He is currently on the board of the video hosting company Vimeo, and is the chairman of the board of the technology-focused left-of-center get-out-the-vote (GOTV) organization Democracy Works. Career Adam Gross studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in
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ProsperUS is a coalition of left-of-center groups that advocates for increased government spending and investment in entitlement programs. It is a project of the left-of-center New Venture Fund (NVF), a pass-through funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors in Washington, D.C.