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Paul Rosenzweig is an American lawyer, academic, and former national security official. He held a senior position at the Department of Homeland Security under former President George W. Bush during his second term in office. Immediately after leaving federal government service, Rosenzweig founded Red Branch Consulting, a homeland
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CARE (an acronym for Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) is an international humanitarian relief organization. It was started in 1945 at the end of World War II as a temporary organization to provide food packages containing military rations to those in Europe who were suffering from starvation and famine.
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The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy is a conservative-leaning think tank founded in 1979 by students of Harry Jaffa, a professor at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University, based on Jaffa’s political philosophy.
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Laurie Tisch is the only daughter of Preston Robert Tisch, the co-founder of Loews Corporation. She is the founder of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, a grantmaking organization that funds social and civic programs in New York City. About Tisch studied education at the University of Michigan. After graduation,
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The Illumination Fund is a grantmaking organization founded in 2007 by philanthropist Laurie Tisch. 1 The Illumination Fund supports various social and
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Nebraskans for Responsible Lending was a coalition of left-of-center organizations and a registered lobbying organization that led the successful campaign in support of Nebraska Ballot Initiative 428, which lowered annual percentage yield interest rates on short-term “payday loans” in the 2020 election cycle.
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Stand for Children, Inc. is the advocacy arm of the left-of-center Stand For Children Leadership Center education advocacy nonprofit, which operates the critical race theory-inspired Center for Antiracist Education (CARE). 1
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The Johnny Carson Foundation is a Los Angeles-based private grantmaking nonprofit that was founded by the late television host and comedian Johnny Carson. Financed by Carson’s estate, nearly all of the foundation’s grants go to Los Angeles-area charities and nonprofits, as well as to Carson’s alma mater, the University of
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Truth in Accounting is a think tank based in Illinois that analyzes economic data about the federal government, all 50 states, and the 75 most-populous American cities. 1 Sheila Weinberg, a certified public accountant, founded
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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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InnerCity Struggle is a left-leaning advocacy and social services organization that promotes left-leaning policies surrounding housing, race, immigration and educational issues in the Eastside area of Los Angeles, which includes the neighborhoods of Boyle Heights, unincorporated East Los Angeles, El Sereno and Lincoln Heights. The group lobbies the Los Angeles
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The Nebraska Civic Engagement Table (NCET) is a left-of-center voter mobilization group that seeks to increase voting participation among what it calls the “rising electorate,” which includes minorities, LGBT people, new citizens, and young voters.
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The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) is a non-partisan, public policy think tank focused on expanding economic opportunity for those with incomes or wealth below the U.S. median. To achieve this, FREOPP advocates for equal opportunity through public policies that use the principles of individual liberty, free enterprise,
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Jim Bankoff is the chief executive officer of Vox Media, an American digital media company that operates left-leaning news and opinion websites and digital media channels. Background Bankoff grew up in Saddle River, New Jersey, and attended college at Emory University in Atlanta, and the Wharton School of Business.
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Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist best known for founding LinkedIn. Hoffman was relatively apolitical prior until 2016, when he became an outspoken critic of then-Republican candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Following the election, Hoffman called President Trump “worse than useless as
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The Free State Foundation (FSF) is a nonpartisan, right-of-center public policy think tank that advocates for laws and policies promoting free enterprise, limited government, and the rule of law. FSF’s primary focus is on eliminating what it deems to be unnecessary and counterproductive regulations affecting the technology and communications industries.
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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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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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Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest (Nebraska Appleseed) is a left-of-center advocacy and litigation organization that supports policies including expanding immigration, granting legal status to illegal immigrants, increasing government control of health care, and expanding entitlement programs within the state of Nebraska.
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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
