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Vote At Home, a trade name for the National Vote at Home Institute and its affiliated National Vote at Home Coalition, is an advocacy organization that pushes for a nationwide vote-by-mail electoral system. 1 The
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Alexis McGill Johnson is the acting President and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She entered the role on July 16, 2019 following the departure of Leana Wen.
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The Funding Exchange was a left-of-center grant making membership organization that funded community activist-led organizations. The national organization also administered donor-advised funds and had its own grant making program, which eventually led to concerns about the national organization competing with its own local member foundations and contributed to the decision
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Cornel West is a left-wing academic, philosopher, and public intellectual noted for working as one of the honorary chairs of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). 1 Over the past
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Zack Exley is a former senior adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and co-founder of the left-wing political committees Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress.
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Truthout is a left-of-center online news organization. The watchdog organization Media Bias Fact Check classifies Truthout as “strongly Left Biased” with a “mixed” record for factual reporting. 1 The website’s editor-in-chief is
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Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an environmentalist think tank based in Colorado. It was established in 1982 by activist Amory Lovins. Lovins has been an opponent of zero carbon nuclear energy and, along with other RMI researchers, has repeatedly criticized nuclear power.
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Tamika D. Mallory is the co-president of Women’s March, Inc., one of two major national left-wing advocacy organizations that were created from the January 21, 2017 “Women’s March on Washington” and related demonstrations against the election and inauguration of President Donald Trump. From 2009 to 2013 she was executive
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Not to be confused with the Boston, Massachusetts-based organization of the same name. The Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) is a San Francisco-based left-wing community organizing group focusing on the Chinese-American communities in the city. The group grew out of radical-left and pro-People’s Republic of China cadres; academic research has
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Ai-jen Poo is a left-of-center labor organizer and executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). Poo is closely aligned with a range of left-of-center foundations and organizing groups, sitting on the advisory boards of MoveOn.org, MomsRising, and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
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Demand Justice is a left-of-center advocacy group created in early 2018 that aims to influence the political leanings of America’s courts by supporting the appointment of liberal judicial nominees and opposing right-of-center nominees. The organization acts primarily through media campaigns against nominated and unconfirmed judicial nominees. Demand Justice was established
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The Benjamin Fund is a private foundation associated with Code Pink (styled CODE PINK) founder Medea Benjamin and her family that funds far-left organizations including Code Pink, Global Exchange, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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Cari Tuna is a left-of-center political donor and philanthropist. Tuna married Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz in 2013, and the couple have since co-founded four philanthropic organizations after signing the Giving Pledge to give away their entire fortune before their deaths. The couple founded the Good Ventures Foundation,
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The Texas Future Project (TFP) is a left-of-center political strategy organization that endeavors to shift the balance of governance in Texas from Republican-leaning to Democratic-leaning. Founded in 2013 by “top democratic donors” in connection with Texas AFL-CIO, TFP partners with left-leaning political committees and advocacy groups including Battleground
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The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice, education issues, public pensions, dietary policy, and scientific research reform. The foundation
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The National Geographic Society is a research and exploration nonprofit best known for publishing National Geographic magazine. Founded in 1888, the Society rose to prominence due to the quality of its research, travel stories, and photography, amassing millions of subscribers for its magazine and eventually branching into other commercial interests.
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Borealis Philanthropy is a left-of-center philanthropic intermediary that has supported the creation, provided operational expertise, and staffed 299 groups since its founding in 2014. Borealis is deeply involved in identity-interest advocacy and organizing; it is perhaps most notable for partnering with the Black Lives Matter movement since 2016.
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Alicia Garza is a California-based activist and a co-founder of the #BlackLivesMatter online movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Garza’s activism began at an early age, but her rise to national prominence began with a Facebook post in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman
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The Council for a Strong America (CSA) is a left-leaning advocacy organization that works to promote left-of-center policy on education and child-care programs. CSA works as an umbrella group for five organizations, which each bring together a given professional community in the United States in support of CSA policies.
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Howard Zinn was a professor of history at Boston University and a left-wing political activist who described himself as “something of an anarchist, something of a socialist” and “maybe a democratic socialist.”
