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Non-profit
GirlTrek (GT) is a left-of-center foundation that promotes walking to improve the health of African American communities. GT actively supported left-of-center political and advocacy causes during the 2020 election cycle. GT led its one million members during the 2020 election cycle to activate voters from African American communities in support
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Government Agency
The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
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Non-profit
Hands Up United is a Missouri-based, left-of-center organization affiliated with Black Lives Matter that seeks “black liberation” through the systematic restructuring of police departments across the United States. Hands Up United does not have any public financial records and does not appear to have a formal nonprofit designation. Hands
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Non-profit
Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) is an electoral policy advocacy group which provides grants and conducts research ostensibly to increase voting security and increase voter turnout. The organization was created in the wake of the 2016 election in response to foreign interference and alleged low voter turnout; in
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Political Party/527
The Freedom Socialist Party is an American revolutionary Marxist-Leninist party established in Seattle. It was founded in 1966 by Clara Fraser and other members of the radical-left Socialist Workers Party who broke with the SWP insisting it was not radical enough. Background The Freedom Socialist Party is a political party
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Non-profit
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is one of the largest Christian denominations in the country, claiming 4 million members across 10,000 congregations within the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Non-profit
Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) is an American nonprofit progressive political advocacy organization. Founded in 1996, the organization bills itself as “the strategy center for the progressive movement.” 1 The organization signed a petition
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Person
For more see: Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society, and Bernardine Dohrn Bill Ayers was an original co-founder and one of the top leaders of the Weather Underground, a radical-left violent extremist group that was active from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. Prior to
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Other Group
For more see: Students for a Democratic Society, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn The Weather Underground (also known as Weatherman or the Weathermen) was a radical-left violent extremist group that was active from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. What became known as the Weather Underground began
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Non-profit
The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a Chicago, Illinois-based center-left election reform advocacy group formed in 2012. The organization pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration. It has a wide reach into local elections offices across the nation and is funded by many left-of-center funding organizations
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Non-profit
Not to be confused with the San Francisco, California-based organization of the same name. The Chinese Progressive Association (CPA; formerly Chinatown People’s Progressive Association) is a Boston-based left-of-center organization that engages in community organizing and activism among Chinese-Americans in Massachusetts. The organization has hosted events with consular officials of
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Person
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine who in 2019 created and directed of the magazine’s “1619 Project.” Her lead essay for the 100-page journalistic endeavor asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved
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Non-profit
The East Bay Community Foundation is a community foundation based in the Oakland, California area. The foundation works with local donors, companies and governments to direct funds to local community projects, many focusing on social justice and left-leaning political causes. Among the funding options for the foundation is the ability
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Movement
The 1619 Project is an artistic and journalistic project of the New York Times Magazine that asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619 and not the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or the drafting of
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Non-profit
Center for Global Policy Solutions is a left-of-center nonprofit founded by Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, a candidate for U.S. Representative in the special election to fill the seat for the 7th District, and widow of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD).
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For-profit
Participant (formerly known as Participant Media) was a film production company founded by Jeffrey Skoll, a left-leaning billionaire who was formerly the president of eBay.
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Person
Margaret Sanger was a prominent advocate for contraception, eugenics, population control, and abortion best known for founding the American Birth Control League, the immediate predecessor of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Sanger popularized the term “birth control” as central to her larger philosophy of Birth Control (later
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Non-profit
Chino Cienega Foundation (CCF) is a California-based private grantmaking foundation that funds environmentalist activism and advocacy related to the effects of the Vietnam War. Chino Cienega maintains no paid staff, but is completely run by its board of directors and advisory board.
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Person
Stokely Carmichael (later named Kwame Ture) was a radical socialist American civil rights activist who later became a black nationalist and separatist. In 1966-67 he was the national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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Person
MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Formerly known as MacKenzie Bezos, she is recognized as the third-wealthiest woman in the world after a divorce settlement left her with an estimated $37 billion.
