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The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) is an advocacy group comprised of 35 largely left-progressive organizations including major labor unions like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the worker center Caring Across Generations, and advocacy groups like AARP
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The Appeal is a left-of-center media outlet primarily reporting on criminal justice issues created by Tides Advocacy, an organization that incubates and financially supports left-of-center organizations. The group became independent in November 2021 after Tides and the group’s executive director shut down the group in June 2021 following a unionization
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Community Justice Action Fund (CJAF) is the lobbying arm of the gun-control advocacy and criminal justice reform group Community Justice Reform Coalition (CJRC). CJAF acts as a centralized funding organization48 for
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The Skoll Fund was founded by billionaire philanthropist Jeffrey Skoll,91 also the founder of Participant, a firm that produces films such as An Inconvenient Truth, the 2006 documentary featuring former Vice
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Jim Bildner is the CEO of the left-of-center Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK Foundation). Between 2014 and 2016, the Foundation provided up to $250,000 in grants towards the New Venture Fund, a “dark money” organization.
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The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) is an international, left-of-center project of the Tides network which pushes governments around the world to implement and enforce left-of-center business regulations. 121 ICAR launches initiatives to increase corporate regulation, specifically
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Sean McElwee is an activist and political consultant who advocates for the Democratic Party to endorse more left-progressive policy platforms. He is the co-founder and executive director of Data for Progress, a left-of-center public research group and a project of Tides Advocacy. McElwee is also the director of
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The Alaska Center (previously called The Alaska Center for the Environment) is a left-of-center environmental advocacy group based in Alaska. The group advocates for automatic voter registration, a carbon tax, mandating 50 percent “renewable” energy statewide by 2025, expanded taxes on oil and natural gas, and other environmentalist policies.
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Kathleen Welch is a principal at Corridor Partners, a left-of-center political advocacy and strategy investment firm that focuses on energy and environment issues. A 2013 HuffPost article described Welch as “a highly influential figure in Democratic fundraising circles, playing a central role in steering money to environmental and
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James C. Dozier is a Republican political operative, political consultant, and principal at Civitas Public Affairs leading the firm’s right-of-center work. 193 Dozier is the founding president and board chair
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The Piper Action Fund is a donor advocacy collaborative hosted by the 501(c)(4) advocacy nonprofit Proteus Action League. It is affiliated with the Piper Fund, a donor collaborative hosted by the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Proteus Fund. Both the Piper Action Fund and Piper Fund advocate for center-left campaign finance reform
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Not to be confused with The Registration Project The Voter Registration Project, also known as Everybody Votes, is a voter mobilization group which targets African-American, Latino, Native American, low-income, and other voter groups likely to lean left-of-center. The organization claims to be non-partisan, but is run by
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Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Facebook. Zuckerberg founded the company while at Harvard with classmates Andrew McCullum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are also active left-of-center advocacy philanthropists; in 2015, the couple founded the philanthropic limited liability
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Priscilla Chan is a philanthropist, a physician, and the wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In 2015, the couple founded the philanthropic limited liability company Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative; its charitable arm, the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation; and its political arm, Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy. Chan was born in Braintree,
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Public Assets Institute is a left-of-center non-profit advocacy organization based in Vermont that focuses on issues such as healthcare, education, and taxes in Vermont. 306 The organization receives funding from multiple foundations and groups including the
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The Civic Participation Action Fund (CPAF) was a secretive left-of-center advocacy group created by the Atlantic Advocacy Fund in December 2014 with a multi-million dollar endowment. The Atlantic Advocacy fund is one of several 501(c)(4) nonprofits created by Atlantic Philanthropies, a principally offshore left-of-center grantmaking foundation associated with
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Women’s March Global is a feminist advocacy organization. The Tides Center, the former fiscal sponsor of the group, called it the “global representation of all the sister marches around the world” that were born out of the January 21, 2017 “Women’s March” protest in the wake of the election
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Social Security Works Education Fund is the charitable affiliate of Social Security Works, an organization that advocates for left-of-center policy reforms related to Social Security. Activities Social Security Works Education Fund fiscally sponsors Masks for America, an initiative that funds, acquires, and delivers N95 masks to healthcare workers as
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The Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, formerly known as the Matan B’Seter Foundation, was created in 2001 as part of an elaborate and secretive network of grantmaking organizations funded by three hedge fund billionaires: Andrew Shechtel, David Gelbaum and C. Frederick Taylor.
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Video the Vote is a project that was formed by Ian Inaba of Guerilla News Network and James Rucker of Color of Change in 2006. The project is run by volunteer journalists who document alleged acts of voter suppression and election irregularities and post them on the
