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Youth Mentoring Action Network (YMAN) is a left-of-center youth mentoring activism organization focused on young people, primarily LGBT, Black, Latino, first-generation college students, and low-income youth located in California. As of 2021, it was attempting to expand its reach nationally. Critical Mentoring Youth Mentoring Action Network follows the method of
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The Dewey Square Group is a Democratic consulting firm 1 that represents Fortune 500 companies 2
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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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World Vision is a Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization that focuses on children, families, and communities and aims to end poverty. The organization was founded in the United Kingdom in 1950, 1 but
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The Jack Kemp Foundation is an operating foundation devoted to preserving the memory of Jack Kemp, a professional football quarterback; a long-time U.S. Representative from Buffalo, New York; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the George H.W. Bush administration; and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1996. The
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The Citizens United Foundation is the education and research arm of the Citizens United, a right-of-center advocacy organization. The Citizens United Foundation includes a traditional American values program, a legal and judicial action program, and a documentary film production division.
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Morton Halperin is an activist and political advisor who has worked for the Nixon, Johnson, and Clinton administrations. He sits on the board of directors for ONE Action, is the chair emeritus for J Street, was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and
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The Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO is the Detroit local affiliate branch of the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. The organization is made up of smaller affiliate unions operating in the Detroit area.
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This profile contains Biden Administration judicial nominations to federal courts. Supreme Court of the United States Ketanji Brown Jackson is a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. She had previously been serving as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
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The Betty R Sheffer Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation based in Palm Springs, California. Previously, the foundation was based in Westport, Connecticut, where the foundation’s namesake once lived. While most of the foundation’s donations and grants are to noncontroversial cultural and education causes, the foundation does contribute to left-of-center
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America Achieves is an education-policy advocacy group supporting implementation of the Common Core educational standards that is funded by major left-of-center foundation funders. In July 2021, America Achieves partnered with left-of-center think tank New America to issue an open letter to members of Congress to add $100 billion in
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Alper Strategies and Media is a Democratic consulting firm created in 2017 by longtime Democratic strategist Jill Alper, with headquarters in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. 1 Alper Strategies was involved in a 2020 election
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Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was a leading political activist and theorist, social critic, self-described “radical,” and an architect of the modern Left’s structure and approach to advocacy and electioneering. Alinsky pioneered “community organizing,” a form of coalition-building centered on aligning the common goals of multiple interest groups too small or electorally
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The National School Boards Association (NSBA) is a federation of state education organizations that claims to represent local public school board members across the United States. The NSBA pressures elected officials to implement left-of-center education policies and supports school boards which adopt such policies.
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the Executive Office of the President. Nominations and Appointments Jen O’Malley Dillon is White House Deputy Chief of Staff. She was Campaign Manger for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, and prior to that for Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign. She was a
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of State. Nominations and Appointments Yohannes Abraham is Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, having previously been Chief of Staff at the U.S. National Security Council.
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Gina Glantz is a Democratic political strategist who has been active for more than six decades. 1 Glantz further sits on the boards of directors for numerous left-of-center and liberal organizations
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The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) is a left-of-center Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) advocacy fund and grantmaking organization that conducts outreach campaigns to generate support for left-leaning causes among AAPI communities. 1
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Walter E. Hussman, Jr. is the publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and was chairman of WEHCO Media, a privately owned communications company that owns 10 daily newspapers, including the Democrat-Gazette and the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times-Free Press, seven weekly newspapers, and seven cable TV systems, from 1981 until 2016.
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Wren Winslow Wirth is the wife of former U.S. Senator Tim Wirth (D-CO) and a Democratic political activist that advocated for left-of-center environmental policies like population control, the elimination of fossil fuels,1 and the
