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America Achieves is an education-policy advocacy group supporting implementation of the Common Core educational standards that is funded by major left-of-center foundation funders. In July 2021, America Achieves partnered with left-of-center think tank New America to issue an open letter to members of Congress to add $100 billion in
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All Due Respect is a labor advocacy group that advocates for improving the treatment of activist workers employed by left-leaning groups. It is a fiscally sponsored project of the Hopewell Fund, a 501(c)(3) left-of-center funding nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors.
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Antha Williams is a left-of-center activist who directs the environment program at the Bloomberg Family Foundation (Bloomberg Philanthropies). In her role with the foundation, Williams has directed programs aimed at eliminating all U.S. coal plants, promoting policies that would reduce personal transportation options, and preventing fishing and exploration in
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Alan M. Parker is a British businessman and major support of left-of-center environmentalist projects and the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative. Parker made his fortune primarily through selling his shared in the DFS Group, a Hong Kong-based retailer that operates luxury duty-free shops in airports and resorts. He
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Ben Wyskida is a communications and media strategist who has worked for a variety of left-of-center advocacy groups and grantmaking organizations. He is currently the vice chairman of NEO Philanthropy, a New York-based nonprofit that acts as a fiscal sponsor and funding intermediary for left-of-center causes. Wyskida was previously
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The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) is a nonprofit organization that promotes left-of-center social policy through litigation and policy initiatives. The group supports, advocates for, and attempts to implement left-wing policy approaches, including a federally recognized “right” to an abortion with government-funded abortion access, government-funded birth control, the expansion of
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The Milken Institute is a center-left think tank founded and initially endowed by billionaire philanthropist and former securities trader Michael Milken. The Institute conducts policy research and organizes programs on a number of issues including public health, environmentalism, economic policy, and globalization. Outside of its research programs, the Milken Institute
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The Donner Canadian Foundation is a philanthropic institution founded by steel magnate William H. Donner (1864-1953) to support projects in Canada. It has funded public-policy projects related to arms control, free-market public policy at the provincial level in Canada, and international environmentalism. History Steel magnate William H. Donner (1864-1953) founded
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The We Are America Alliance (WAAA) was a national liberal expansionist immigration advocacy organization launched in 2006. WAAA was made up of more than a dozen local, state, and national organizations all pushing for liberal expansionist immigration reform.
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The Fund for Fair and Just Policing is a left-of-center criminal justice and policy advocacy group that is a project of Tides Advocacy, a major incubator of new left-of-center advocacy groups and the that is the electoral and lobbying arm of the Tides Nexus. The Fund’s primary focus is
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The National Latino Engagement Fund is a project of Tides Advocacy that supports increasing Latino voter registration and mobilization. 1 The organization engages in voter registration drives and other efforts.
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The Environment and Climate Action Fund is a project of Tides Advocacy that supports advocacy related to climate change and other environmentalist policy agendas. 1 The Environment and Climate Action Fund engages
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The Priests of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic clerical religious congregation, comprised of both priests and male religious. The order has 457 houses in 40 countries with over 2,000 members, about 1,590 of whom are priests.
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The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) is an advocacy group comprised of 35 largely left-progressive organizations including major labor unions like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the worker center Caring Across Generations, and advocacy groups like AARP
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Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) is a coalition of executives from more than 200 large corporations that advocates for expanding corporate philanthropic and left-leaning “social responsibility” programs and initiatives, especially relating to racial diversity and climate change. The group was founded by actor and philanthropist Paul Newman and a
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Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) is a left-of-center political advocacy organization, which mainly advocates and lobbies for increases to the Arizona minimum wage and legislation that restricts and regulates the flexibility of labor for Arizona employers. The group also campaigns for liberal expansionist immigration policy. LUCHA has also
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The Narrative Initiative is a project of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit in the Arabella Advisors network of left-progressive “dark money” organizations, that seeks to change and influence narratives surrounding issues of equity and social policy. It was founded in 2017. The Narrative Initiative was “conceived and funded”
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HR&A Advisors is a consulting firm that specializes in real estate planning and executing economic development plans in low-income urban communities. The firm’s clientele has included numerous prominent left-of-center nonprofits, including the Open Society Foundations, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the United Federation of Teachers. HR&A has 87
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The Emerson Collective is a left-of-center private grantmaking enterprise that advocates for a wide variety of left-of-center causes. The Collective was founded in 2004 by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow and heir of Apple Computer executive Steve Jobs. Utilizing an unusual non-profit LLC structure, the Collective supports opportunities
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The Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ) is a public interest law firm that focuses on racial and economic issues in the state of Mississippi. The center has also provided legal support for left-of-center causes such as challenging pro-life laws in the state
