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The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) is a California-based non-profit corporation that funds California artists to support left-leaning political causes. Many of its grants focus on LGBT activism, immigrant advocacy, and left-of-center social policy. Grants in 2018 included support for a documentary film about the history of protests against police
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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
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Frontier Group is a left-of-center think tank that is a project of the left-of-center Center for Public Interest Research. 51 Frontier Group is affiliated
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Also see the similarly-named Women’s March Global, a project of the Tides Center Women’s March, Inc. is a national left-of-center activist organization that advocates on abortion rights and similar feminist-focused issues. It is one of the two major organizations (the other being March On) that were formed
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March On is one of two major national left-wing advocacy organizations that were created from the January 21, 2017, Women’s March on Washington and related events that took place across the United States in response to the election of President Donald Trump the previous November (the other is the
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The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation is a grantmaking organization with over $2 billion in assets as of year-end 2022 105 that funds left-of-center causes
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The Jerome L. Greene Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization. The foundation is based in New York City and focuses its grants in the area. Left-wing groups that have received funding from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation include the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Planned Parenthood, and
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Heartland Workers Center is an organization founded in 2010 in Omaha, Nebraska as an advocacy group for Latino immigrant workers. 152 The Heartland Workers Center serves as an advocacy organization for
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The Violence Policy Center (VPC) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for gun control policies. Josh Sugarmann, former communications director for the National Coalition to Ban Handguns (now the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence), formed the VPC in 1988. The organization makes most of its money from contributions and
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was a nonprofit corporation funded by the U.S. government which was the main support system for the nation’s network of public television and radio stations. 180
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Michael Keegan is a left-wing activist who serves as president of People for the American Way (PFAW) a left-wing organization founded by the producer and writer Norman Lear. Keegan is well-known for frequently accusing Republicans and conservatives of racism and violence. Keegan is also a businessman, investor, and
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Judith Lichtman is a lawyer who is known for her work on left-of-center women’s issues. She is best known for supporting the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), which mandated that employers provide workers 12 weeks’ unpaid leave to attend to a seriously ill family
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The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is the 501(c)(3) education arm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (commonly called “Brady Campaign”), which together are referred to as the Brady organizations. The groups engage in political advocacy, education, lawsuits and activism aimed at expanding regulations and restrictions
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Jodie Evans is the co-founder of the controversial far-left anti-war organization CODEPINK, a political activist, and an author. She has defended anti-U.S. insurgents during the Iraq War and claimed those that fought U.S. troops were “cool” as they didn’t “back down.”
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The Climate Leadership Council (CLC) is an organization of former government officials, intellectuals, and businessmen who advocate for a carbon tax. The organization was founded in 2017 by the late Ted Halstead, an environmentalist activist and founder of the center-left think tank New America Foundation.
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Darren Walker is as of 2025 the outgoing president of the Ford Foundation, one of the largest left-leaning grantmaking foundations in the United States.
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Farhad Ebrahimi is a left-wing political activist, supporter of the radical Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, advocacy donor, and founder of the Chorus Foundation. He is also a board member of the Democracy Alliance, a network of wealthy donors bankrolling Democratic campaigns and left-of-center advocacy organizations. Ebrahimi is
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Kim Anderson is the executive director of the National Education Association (“NEA”), the nation’s largest labor union, and the former executive vice president of the Democracy Alliance. Anderson was named Executive Director of the NEA—which represents nearly three million government workers, principally teachers—in June 2019, and began work the following September.
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Ralph Nader is an American environmentalist and consumers’-interests activist and left-of-center politician. Though he affiliates with neither major party, his views are generally considered left-wing and he focuses on promoting anti-free-market regulations. Nader became a household name in the 1960s with Unsafe at Any Speed, his investigative report on the
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For more information on Working Assets, see CREDO Mobile Working Assets is the holding company for and former brand name of the group of companies known as CREDO, which uses for-profit ventures in cellular and long-distance telephone service, branded credit cards, and renewable energy to support left-of-center causes.
