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New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) Fund is one of many public interest research groups (PIRGs) originally founded by Ralph Nader and Donald Ross in the 1970s as a way to use left-of-center student groups as a hub for research and lobbying efforts towards policy change.
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Thousand Currents is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that provides financial assistance to left-leaning projects and organizations and activists in developing nations (i.e.: the so-called “global south”). 1 It is funded by many left-leaning institutional donors, which
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The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) is an abortion advocacy group which frequently sues to stop and/or overturn pro-life laws in the United States and internationally. Founded in 1992, CRR’s revenues totaled nearly $32,000,000 in 2016.
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The Indivisible Project (or Indivisible) is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., and created in late 2016 as a response to the election of President Donald Trump. The Indivisible Project was established to provide liberals a practical guide for “Resisting the Trump Agenda.”
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Glenn Simpson is an American journalist, corporate researcher, and political opposition researcher. He is a founding partner at Fusion GPS, the research firm which produced the controversial and unverified document commonly known as the “Steele dossier” containing allegations against then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign during
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Fusion GPS is an opposition research firm created by former Wall Street Journal reporters in 2011. The firm gained public notoriety after the 2016 election cycle. During the election, Fusion GPS controversially worked for persons associated with the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to
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Terry McAuliffe is a Democratic Party politician and fundraiser1 most notable for serving as the 72nd Governor of Virginia.
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Also see The Nation (for-profit) TYPE Media Center, until 2019 known as The Nation Institute, is a 501(c)(3) “nonprofit media center”1 that uses a variety of different programs to promote “progressive values across as
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SKDKnickerbocker (SKDK) is a political consulting and public affairs company whose clients include prominent Democratic Party politicians, particularly in the state of New York. SKDK has done consulting work for former President Barack Obama, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), and New York City Mayor and Democratic presidential
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Blue State (formerly Blue State Digital) is an advertising agency and strategic consulting firm that provides services to left-of-center nonprofits, left-progressive political causes, companies, and Democratic electoral campaigns. 1 It is headquartered in Brooklyn, New
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For more on population control, see John Holdren The Population Council is a nonprofit founded in 1952 by John D. Rockefeller III to address supposed world overpopulation. The council conducts demographic research and analysis to support and promote the global use of artificial birth control and abortion; biomedical research
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Our Oregon is a labor union-funded advocacy organization that aims to institute left-wing economic policy in the state of Oregon, specifically to promote the expansion of government education and government control of healthcare. The group is a major supporter of left-wing ballot initiative campaigns, providing over $1.4 million to ballot
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is a feminist author and the co-founder and executive director of MomsRising, a left-of-center activism group. Before she co-founded MomsRising, she was an environmental consultant and worked on other left-of-center causes, particularly environmentalist ones. Rowe-Finkbeiner is also an advocate for expansive access to abortion. She criticized the
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Anne Earhart is a California-based heiress and supporter of various left-leaning causes. She is one of the inheritors of the fortune of Getty Oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. Earhart is a supporter of Democratic Party and left-of-center political causes with her political and advocacy giving. She is also the principal
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William Hall Janeway is a left-of-center economist and policy advocate. He is the co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a think tank founded in 2010 with the financial backing of billionaire financier and left-of-center philanthropist George Soros that pushes for increased government involvement in the
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The John Merck Fund was a left-of-center grantmaking institution that supported left-leaning organizations and policies on subjects such as abortion, “climate justice,” human rights, and nuclear disarmament. 1 It provided substantial grants to organizations such
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Population Action International (PAI) is an international non-governmental organization that distributes aid to developing countries and provides them with access to contraception and abortion services. In addition to making contraception and abortion procedures more widely available in the developing world, PAI also has developed a global health-care system in the
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Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington came to America in 1980 and quickly made a name for herself as a Manhattan “It Girl” among New York’s powerful. 1 In the mid-1980s
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Not to be confused with Demand Progress Action (PAC) Demand Progress Action (DPA) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for policies relating to foreign policy and civil liberties.
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The George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) is a grantmaking organization associated with billionaire oilman George Kaiser the owner of BOK Financial Corporation. 1
