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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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Vote Early Day is a movement by a coalition of nonprofits and businesses which encourages voters to use early ballots and wants October 24 to become the official “Vote Early Day” holiday. Though Vote Early Day was initially spearheaded by the media company, MTV,
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The Winslow Foundation is a private foundation that funds primarily left-leaning nonprofit organizations, especially environmentalist groups. Wren Winslow Wirth, the wife of Democratic politician, longtime United Nations Foundation president, former U.S. Senator from Colorado, and Clinton administration State Department official Tim Wirth, heads the foundation.
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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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The Groundwork Collaborative is a left-of-center activist group with a particular focus on economic issues. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) arm of the Arabella Advisors “dark money” network of liberal pass-through funding organizations.
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Open Primaries is an advocacy political group which advocates for “open primaries” in which voters are not required to be a member of a political party to vote for a party’s nominee. The organization lobbies, organizes ballots, and runs voter mobilization campaigns to convert both states and cities to open-primary
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Next Century Cities (NCC) advocates for expanding high-speed broadband internet access within communities and for shrinking the “digital divide.” NCC is a project of New Venture Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by left-leaning consulting firm Arabella Advisors.
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Public Knowledge is a Washington, D.C.-based technology advocacy group focused on intellectual property law, competition, and choice in the digital marketplace and an open standards/end-to-end internet. Public Knowledge is a staunch supporter of expanded regulations on internet businesses and technology companies, backing so-called “net neutrality” regulations against internet service providers
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Rahna Epting has made a career as an activist for the left-leaning progressive movement. In the fall of 2019, she became the executive director of the liberal organizations MoveOn Political Action and MoveOn Civic Action after previous positions within the organization, first as leading strategic partnerships, then as
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Take Back Our Republic is a nominally right-leaning organization that supports campaign speech restriction. 1 Former Republican political operative John Pudner founded the organization.
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Washington Community Action Network, also referred to as Washington CAN, is a left-leaning nonprofit advocacy group that promotes a variety of left-progressive economic and social policy positions. 1 Washington Community Action
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Jon Liss is the co-founder of New Virginia Majority and a career labor-union and left-of-center activist. Liss works as the co-executive director and also sits on the board of New Virginia Majority. He is also an ideologist behind the State Power Caucus, a network of left-of-center mobilization groups
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The State Power Caucus is a radical left-influenced advocacy coalition, founded in 2017, made up of 22 organizations from 15 states, created with the purpose of enhancing state-level progressive organizing and voter mobilization through cooperation among its members.
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Participant (formerly known as Participant Media) is a film production company founded by Jeffrey Skoll, a left-leaning billionaire who was formerly the president of eBay.
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The Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the New Venture Fund, a leading “dark money” pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor, to promote sweeping changes to the elections process, including state laws that automatically register voters at state agencies.
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The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition is a left-of-center organization based in the Bronx, New York that engages in community organizing, political and civic engagement, and policy advocacy. The coalition is a strong supporter of rent control: to that end, it was one of the leaders of the Upstate/Downstate
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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical-left student organization often credited as the main force that created the New Left. It existed from 1960 until its demise in 1969, when it split apart after a Maoist SDS group affiliated with the Progressive Labor Party was expelled by a
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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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Flora Family Foundation (FFF) is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation focused on two main program areas, which it refers to as the “Climate Protection Program,” and the “Gap Program.” Between 2017 and 2019, the Foundation contributed over $3 million to organizations focused on climate change, especially in regards to limiting the
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Take Back the Court (formal name: Take Back the Court Foundation) is a left-of-center advocacy group which aims to add seats to the United States Supreme Court once Democrats gain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in order to effectively nullify Republican Supreme Court appointments. Take
