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Person
Rachel Gelman is a member of the billionaire Strauss family, the heirs to the Levi Strauss & Co. clothing fortune.
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Other Group
A More Perfect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy is a coalition of left-of-center Jewish advocacy organizations that hopes to mobilize 10,000 American Jewish organizations during the 2024 election cycle. 15
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Non-profit
Unlocking America’s Future (UAF) is an advocacy group devoted to supporting left-of-center environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) corporate-activist standards against right-leaning opponents of those standards. UAF claims that ESG benefits businesses and consumers, helps fight climate change, and keeps the United States competitive with China.
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Person
Lisa Fithian is a radical-left professional activist and protest consultant who has organized and supported numerous left-of-center protest movements, including the Occupy Wall Street movement, and supporting pro-Palestinian protests during the 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas war.
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Non-profit
The Wellness Advocacy Fund is a left-of-center advocacy group that funds a variety of left-of-center political action committees, advocacy groups, and nonprofits focused on promoting left-of-center issues and Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts. The group is affiliated with the Bainum Family Foundation, a Maryland-based foundation funded by Stewart Bainum, Sr., the
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Non-profit
Note: This profile will be updated regularly as more information emerges on Arabella Advisors‘ acquisition by Sunflower Services. The Telescope Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking fund that is associated with the New Venture Fund (NVF), which is managed by Arabella Advisors.
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For-profit
Informing Change is a left-of-center consulting firm located in Oakland, California. Informing Change is guided by the left-of-center concepts of equity and social justice 87
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Non-profit
Mothering Justice is a left-of-center advocacy organization based out of Detroit, Michigan. It primarily focuses on issues related to mothers, such as childcare, abortion, paid family/maternal leave, and healthcare issues. 107 It is a member of
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Other Group
Barnacle Strategies is a left-of-center independent consulting group that advises environmentalist groups in Canada and the United States. Barnacle Strategies was founded and is managed by Dave Secord, an affiliate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, who was previously the president of strategic grantmaking for the
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Non-profit
The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) is an association of post-secondary educational institutions that represents the interests of land-grant colleges and universities that have been designated by their respective state legislatures or the U.S. Congress.
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Non-profit
The Opportunity Agenda is a left-of-center organization that advocates for left-of-center positions on issues including immigration, education, and racial policy. The organization is a former project of the Tides Center, a large left-progressive fiscal sponsorship organization. As of 2024, they have achieved non-profit status.
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Non-profit
All by April is a coalition of left-of-center foundations, nonprofit grantmakers, and individual donors that have committed to making “election-related gifts” early in the 2024 election cycle to fund efforts to “help recruit poll workers, organize nonpartisan voter registration drives, support local election officials, and work to ensure that the
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Non-profit
The Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP) is a left-of-center advocacy organization and think tank founded in 2019 by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams that is centered around promoting racial equity and “economic power” among minority populations in the American South. SEAP focuses its efforts on 12 southern states and
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Non-profit
Free and Fair Elections USA is a Democratic Party-aligned activist organization and independent expenditure committee. 187 Free and Fair Elections USA supports various voter registration efforts
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Person
Chuck Feeney was an Irish-American billionaire businessman and philanthropist who made his money in duty-free retail and formed the Bermuda-based grantmaking organization Atlantic Philanthropies. Throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, Feeney anonymously gave away much of his fortune to schools, hospitals, and other philanthropic ventures in the United
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Non-profit
The Center for Asian Pacific American Women is a nonprofit that advocates for the interests of Asian American and Pacific Islander women. The primary focus of the group is leadership development for Asian American and Pacific Islander women. The group also opposes racism targeted against Asian Americans. In March 2021,
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Non-profit
Biodiversity Funders Group (BFG) is a professional association of philanthropic trustees and private foundation leaders who fund environmentalist causes related to climate change and conservationism. It serves as a donor network for more than 70 formal member organizations. BFG was founded as Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD) in 1987
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Non-profit
Connect U.S. Fund was a policy advocacy and grantmaking organization funded by several large left-of-center foundations, including William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Open Society Institute, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Ford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, Ploughshares Fund, and Carnegie Corporation of
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Non-profit
Warehouse Worker Resource Center (WWRC) is a left-of-center labor organization that campaigns among warehouse workers at companies including Amazon and Walmart in Southern California and California’s Inland Empire region. Although not a labor union, WWRC works in alignment with labor unions and in partnership with the immigrant rights
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Other Group
Nebula Fund is a pooled fund founded in 2022 by seven left-of-center private foundations. It provides grants to LGBT-interests and gender-advocacy organizations internationally. 293 It is a project of left-of-center New Venture Fund (NVF).
