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Netflix is a media production and distribution company headquartered in California founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. Netflix and its employees have become more openly left-leaning and politically active since the 2016 election cycle. In 2020, Netflix was the most Democratic-leaning major tech company in the United States
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Karen G. J. Lewis (born Karen Jennings) was a teachers union activist based in Chicago, Illinois, who worked as president of the Chicago Teachers Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union in the United States. In 2012, she organized a teachers’ strike
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GirlTrek (GT) is a left-of-center foundation that promotes walking to improve the health of African American communities. GT actively supported left-of-center political and advocacy causes during the 2020 election cycle. GT led its one million members during the 2020 election cycle to activate voters from African American communities in support
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Fast Grants is a grantmaking project of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University that provides rapid grant funding for COVID-19 research. Initially funded by a $1 million grant by the Thiel Foundation in April 2020, Fast Grants has since made nearly 200 grants to support COVID-19 research.
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The Center for Empowered Politics (CEP) is a lobbying and advocacy organization for the San Francisco-based Chinese Progressive Association (CPA). 1 It was created from a merger of the Chinese Progressive Association Action Fund
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The Bobolink Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation created by former Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO and George W. Bush administration Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and his wife, Wendy. It focuses on the conservation of landscapes and wildlife, especially in grasslands and coastal areas throughout the Americas. Overview
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Eli Broad made two fortunes in home building and insurance and used his wealth to create the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which supported education reform, funded medical research, and acquired art for the Los Angeles-based Broad Art Museum. Business Ventures Eli Broad was born in Detroit in 1933.
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Robert Muse Bass is a billionaire entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He inherited $2.8 billion from his oil tycoon uncle in 1959 and grew his fortune through investments and ventures. On the Forbes Billionaires 2021 list, he placed at number 550 with a net worth of $5.1 billion as of June
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The Laudes Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization with the stated goal of reducing inequality in fashion, construction, and other industries, associated with the European clothing store chain C&A. The foundation cites inequality in these industries and climate change as its motivation to reform and restructure these industries.
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Omidyar Network is an LLC created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar to make philanthropic “impact investments.” Its sister group, the Omidyar Network Fund is a 501(c)(3) grantmaking foundation. Omidyar Network and the Omidyar Network Fund are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
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The Goldhirsh Foundation is the Los Angeles, California-based private foundation of Upworthy and Good Ventures founder Ben Goldhirsh. It contributes to left-of-center advocacy projects, most notably the Hopewell Fund’s Economic Security Project. The Goldhirsh Foundation has in recent years begun to focus its giving towards projects in and around the Los
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The Equality Can’t Wait Challenge is an initiative launched by Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, that is designed to expand the power and influence of women in the United States. The challenge was launched in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. The goal
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Nicholas “Nick” Chedli Carter is a left-of-center activist and Democratic Party strategist. Carter is the managing director for Resilient Democracy Fund, a left-leaning voter engagement initiative. In 2016, Carter was the national political outreach director for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and went on to work for the
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The Initiative to Accelerate Charitable Giving (IACG) is a campaign to create a set of government regulations on donor-advised funds (DAF). The initiative is a project of Arnold Ventures, a left-of-center grantmaking fund run by billionaires John and Laura Arnold. The IACG’s proposals are based on the
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Reed Hastings is the cofounder, chairman, and co-CEO of Netflix and a major Democratic political donor. During the 2016 Clinton presidential campaign, Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, raised over $100,000 on behalf of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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TomKat Foundation is a major left-leaning foundation and the primary grantmaking philanthropy of Tom Steyer, a billionaire hedge fund manager and major Democratic Party donor who ran for the presidency in the 2020 election. TomKat Foundation succeeded the TomKat Charitable Trust in 2015, which was Steyer’s primary foundation
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Also see Sea Change Foundation (Nonprofit) Nathaniel “Nat” Simons is a billionaire, hedge fund manager, and major donor to left-of-center causes and organizations, much of it through the Sea Change Foundation, a San Francisco-based grantmaking foundation he co-founded in 2006 with his wife, Laura Baxter-Simons.
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The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a survey and advisory organization that analyzes nonprofit groups on behalf of major donors to analyze donation effectiveness and donor relationships. Founded in 2001, CEP conducts surveys and studies of nonprofits to gauge the recipient organizations’ perceptions of donor effectiveness, donor transparency, and
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All Our Kin is a left-of-center nonprofit organization based in Connecticut that supports and trains child care providers. Headquartered in New Haven, All Our Kin organizes programs in other Connecticut cities and has recently expanded operations to states across the country.
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The American Council on Education (ACE) is the coordinating body for primary and secondary education institutions and associations. ACE represents institutions teaching two-thirds of the students in all accredited schools in the United States and was founded at the end of World War I to aid in increasing enrollment in
