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    Sarah Knight

    Sarah Knight is the former vice president of network advancement for the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), and former director of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) democracy program.
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    Robert Soros

    Robert Soros is a philanthropist, investor, art collector, and the eldest son of billionaire financier George Soros. He is the founder and president of Soros Capital. Robert Soros is media-averse and quiet about political affairs compared to his father and most of his family, though he contributes extensively to
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    Hasan Davis

    Hasan Davis is an educational consultant who works with school districts on left-of-center racial and cultural messaging and speaks at racial-diversity conferences. 1 He has said that he encourages teachers to use more “diverse individuals” in
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    Intentional Endowments Network (IEN)

    Intentional Endowments Network (IEN) is a membership organization of over 200 endowments, foundations, investment consultants and managers, and nonprofits involved in environmentalist initiatives, as well as racial justice and economic equality. 1 IEN is
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    Education Elements Inc.

    Education Elements Inc. (Ed Elements) is a critical race theory-influenced education consulting firm. Members of the Ed Elements staff have said teachers must “acknowledge white supremacy culture” in schools
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    Proxy Impact

    Proxy Impact is a private firm that consults with left-leaning organizations on how to conduct shareholder proxy vote campaigns. 1 These campaigns seek to
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    WorkMoney Inc.

    WorkMoney Inc. is a left-of-center “dark money group” 1 with “prominent connections to the U.S. labor
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    Melissa L. Bradley

    Melissa L. Bradley is an investor, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist. She is the founder of 1863 Ventures, a business development fund that invests in whom it calls “black and brown entrepreneurs” so that the “New Majority” can “build wealth.”
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    Global Philanthropy Foundation

    Global Philanthropy Foundation (GPF) is the charitable arm of the Global Philanthropy Group (GPG), a for-profit charity consulting company co-founded in 2007 by Maggie and Trevor Neilson with clients including Facebook, Gucci, Clinique, and Task Rabbit.
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    Ronald Pritzker

    Roland Pritzker is the chairman of the Pritzker Innovation Fund, a grantmaker that funds mostly left-of-center organizations that work on climate change, poverty, and issues related to American democracy. He is the son of major left-of-center donor Linda Pritzker and an heir to the Pritzker family fortune, which
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    Kailee Scales

    Kailee Scales is a left-of-center activist and nonprofit executive who currently is the chief executive officer of Pencils of Promise, a New York-based education nonprofit advocacy group. She previously worked as the managing director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Scales also operates a consulting firm called
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    Crystal Hayling

    Crystal Hayling is a career nonprofit manager and political activist. She is the executive director of the Libra Foundation, a grantmaking organization which provides funding for initiatives that promote feminism, environmentalism, more permissive drug legislation, and other left-progressive policies. Hayling previously worked as the managing director of the
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    Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation

    The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation is a private grant making foundation that was created when Ralph C. Wilson Jr., former owner of the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills, decided to sell the football franchise.
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    Johnny Carson Foundation

    The Johnny Carson Foundation is a Los Angeles-based private grantmaking nonprofit that was founded by the late television host and comedian Johnny Carson. Financed by Carson’s estate, nearly all of the foundation’s grants go to Los Angeles-area charities and nonprofits, as well as to Carson’s alma mater, the University of
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    Unmasking Fidelity

    Unmasking Fidelity is a far-left advocacy campaign that opposes privacy and anonymity for donors to right-leaning nonprofits, a free speech provision protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Unmasking Fidelity is a coalition of multiple center- and far-left activist nonprofits, including
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    The Stratosphere

    The Stratosphere is a newsletter published by the left-of-center journalist Teddy Schleifer. The newsletter is focused on American billionaires, especially tech billionaires, and their influence in politics and philanthropy. The newsletter is a precursor to the media company Puck News (forthcoming as of July 2021), with which Schleifer is a
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    Deliver My Vote

    Deliver My Vote is a left-of-center political advocacy nonprofit that promotes at-home voting in collaboration with other left-leaning nonprofits such as Engage Michigan, ProgressNow, the Center for Voter Information, the Voter Participation Center and VoteAmerica.
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    Center for Equity and Inclusion

    The Center for Equity and Inclusion is a left-of-center for-profit management consulting organization created in 2015 and based in Portland, Oregon. It is involved in promoting critical race theory-aligned racial ideology. 1
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    VoteAmerica

    VoteAmerica is a left-of-center voter mobilization group. It hosts information on voter registration, rules for absentee ballots, dates, and other items pertaining to the voting process on its website, as well as tools for making voting by mail easier.
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    Abortion Care Network

    The Abortion Care Network (ACN) is a pro-abortion advocacy group that files amicus briefs in court cases and engages in public advocacy efforts related to preserving and extending legal protections for abortion in the United States.