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Non-profit
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL) is a left-of-center organization of attorneys formed after a request from President John F. Kennedy to support federal civil rights initiatives following a federal integration order for the University of Alabama in 1963 and subsequent protest marches in Mississippi.
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Person
Jeffrey Katzenberg was born on December 21, 1950 in New York City. He is best known for producing Shrek, Shrek 2, and Chicken Run.1 Katzenberg is a donor to numerous center-left political candidates.
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Non-profit
J Street is a left-of-center lobbying organization focused on American-Israeli relations. The group was explicitly founded to provide an outlet for left-wing Jews who did not feel represented by other Jewish advocacy organizations. The group has generated a great deal of controversy and is routinely accused of undermining the state
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Person
Herbert “Herb” Sandler was a banker and left-of-center philanthropist. Together with his wife Marion, who was his co-chief executive officer and co-board chair of his two major ventures (the Golden West Financial Corporation and its subsidiary, the World Savings Bank), Sandler popularized a lending tool called the adjustable-rate mortgage. This
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Non-profit
The Gamaliel Foundation was originally founded in 1968 by left-wing activist Saul Alinsky, and re-oriented into a community organizing operation during the 1980s under the guidance of executive director Greg Galluzzo.
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Person
David desJardins is an American mathematician, software engineer, investor and philanthropist. He was the 20th employee of Google, joining in 1999. After leaving the company in 2005, he invested in a number of startup companies and philanthropic endeavors with his wife, Nancy Blachman. He is a top donor to
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Non-profit
As You Sow is a left-of-center advocacy organization that engages in shareholder action to force companies to adopt various left-of-center positions and practices known by the euphemism “corporate social responsibility.” The organization buys shares in the companies to force the companies to change their positions on issues through shareholder advocacy.
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Non-profit
Not to be confused with the Arcus Foundation. The Nancy Susan Reynolds Foundation, now called Arca Foundation, uses funds from the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco fortune to finance liberal agendas and organizations. It is one of numerous foundations created in whole or part with Reynolds trust funds, including the Mary
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Non-profit
William J. Brennan Center for Justice (Brennan Center) is a self-described “liberal” 1
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Non-profit
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is the seventh largest private foundation in the United States, and the largest nonprofit in Michigan.
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For-profit
The Nation is the oldest weekly magazine in the United States. It was initially founded as a classical liberal magazine but as the liberal movement has evolved, it steadily became a more left-progressive or social-democratic magazine. In the first half of 2016, it had 110,007 subscribers, more than 30,000 fewer
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Non-profit
The State Innovation Exchange (SiX) was founded in late 2014 to promote the progressive agenda at the state level amid substantial losses for progressives in state legislative elections. A merger of several progressive organizations, including the American Legislative Issue Campaign Exchange (ALICE), the Progressive States Network (PSN) and its affiliated
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Non-profit
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC or ROC-United) is one of the nation’s most prominent “worker centers,” labor-union-like organizations backed by union organizing know-how and left-of-center foundation funding. An outgrowth of a mutual-aid organization for the surviving unionized employees of the Windows on the World restaurant destroyed in the September 11th
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Political Party/527
For the related nonprofit, see Priorities USA Action (nonprofit) Priorities USA Action is a major Super PAC associated with supporting Democratic Party candidates and opposing Republican candidates. The organization was created in April 2011
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Non-profit
The Ploughshares Fund is an anti-nuclear proliferation organization pooling and directing donations from wealthy individuals and philanthropies. It is reportedly “the largest grant-making foundation in the United States focusing exclusively on peace and security issues.”
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Non-profit
NEO Philanthropy (formerly Public Interest Projects) is a New York-based nonprofit that serves as a fiscal clearinghouse for left-of-center causes. The group serves as a vehicle for center-left foundations to pool resources, hosts donor-advised funds, and sponsors various liberal projects.
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Non-profit
MoveOn Civic Action, also known by the name of its website MoveOn.org, describes itself as “the largest independent, progressive, digitally-connected organizing group in the United States.”1 MoveOn operates as a centralized forum for petitions written by
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Non-profit
Mother Jones, sometimes referred to colloquially as MoJo or MJ, is a left-of-center bimonthly general interest and politics magazine published out of San Francisco, California.1 The magazine is named for Mary Harris Jones, a
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Non-profit
Justice at Stake was an advocacy group promoting restrictions on judicial selection for state courts. The organization supported indirect selection of state judges by panels stacked by state bar associations and opposes judicial elections and federal-style judicial appointment processes.
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Non-profit
The Joyce Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Chicago that finances advocacy for gun control, environmental causes, and liberal education policy; opposition to right-of-center election reforms; and left-of-center nonprofit media outlets. Beatrice Joyce Kean established the organization in 1948. Before he was elected President of the United States, then-Illinois
