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Not to be confused with the Independent Institute, a California-based center-right think tank. The Independence Institute (II) is a non-partisan public policy think tank that promotes free enterprise, limited government, and individual liberty. II’s policy centers produce research and analysis supporting a free market, pro-freedom agenda in the areas
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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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For-profit
The Atlantic is a left-of-center literary, political, and ideas magazine that publishes ten issues per year. It was founded as The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 by several prominent American literary figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Person
Also see Sea Change Foundation (Nonprofit) Nathaniel “Nat” Simons is a billionaire, hedge fund manager, and major donor to left-of-center causes and organizations, much of it through the Sea Change Foundation, a San Francisco-based grantmaking foundation he co-founded in 2006 with his wife, Laura Baxter-Simons.
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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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Political Party/527
Flippable is a liberal electoral advocacy group founded by former campaigners for Hillary Clinton shortly after the 2016 election victory of President Donald Trump. Its targets Republican-held seats in state legislatures.
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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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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
The Overbrook Foundation is a New York City-based grantmaking foundation founded in 1948 by investor Frank Altschul and his wife Helen. Today, the Overbrook Foundation’s grants are focused on funding for left-of-center groups supporting social liberalism and environmentalism. Overbrook has an endowment of $150 million and has donated more than
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Non-profit
The RISE Together Fund (Rights, Inclusion, Solidarity, Equity) is a center-left donor collaborative founded in 2009 by ReThink Media and the Proteus Fund, the group’s fiscal sponsor. From 2009 to January 2019, the Fund was known as the Security & Rights Collaborative. The RISE Together Fund opposes national
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Person
Paco Fabian is director of campaigns at Our Revolution and the former communications director of Change to Win, a labor union coalition originally formed to rival the AFL-CIO. 1 He is also on the advisory committee
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Non-profit
The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) is a left-of-center taxpayer funded group and one of the seven chapters of the Northeast Organic Farming Association.
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Non-profit
The National Black Worker Center Project (“NBWCP”) is a left-of-center minimum wage advocacy group and a project of fiscal sponsor NEO Philanthropy. It sponsors workers’ centers in cities across the country that offer job training and partner with local businesses, labor unions, and government agencies to advocate for hiring unemployed
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Non-profit
Cloud Mountain Foundation (CMF) is a New York City-based environmentalist organization led by Benjamin Friedman. The Foundation has given large donations to left-leaning civic and environmentalist organizations such as the Center for Media and Democracy, Democracy Now!, and the Proteus Fund.
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Person
Guillermo Quinteros is a program director at the left-of-center Solidago Foundation. His father was a university professor in Peru until a Cold War-era coup by a Communist-aligned military dictatorship; Quinteros later moved to Honduras and Mexico, becoming a left-wing activist.
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Non-profit
Ohioans for Economic Opportunity is a left-of-center health care advocacy organization. It is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) funding and fiscal sponsorship organization managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. Background Ohioans for Economic Opportunity is a Democratic-leaning organization that uses digital outreach and local
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Non-profit
New Jersey for a Better Future is a left-of-center healthcare advocacy organization. It is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) funding and fiscal sponsorship group managed by the Washington, D.C.-based left-of-center consultancy Arabella Advisors. Background New Jersey for a Better Future is a left-of-center organization advocating for
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Non-profit
The Sunrise Movement, often referred to as “Sunrise,” is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) environmental advocacy organization founded in 2017. The group endorses liberal and far-left Democratic Party candidates for public office and organizes alongside other activist organizations to support expansive and radical environmentalist legislation it terms a “Green New Deal.” Sunrise
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Non-profit
Alabama Arise is the 501(c)(4) lobbying arm of Arise Citizens’ Policy Project (ACPP), a left-of-center think tank focusing on Alabama state policy.1 Alabama Arise commonly takes left-of-center stances on legislation that
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Non-profit
The Colorado Independent is a left-of-center political news website focused on Colorado. The site frames stories and publishes opinion pieces in ways that demonstrate support for liberal expansionist immigration policy including legal status for illegal immigrants, environmentalist initiatives, and gun control. The website was founded by the left-of-center American
