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Non-profit
Democracy Labs is a group that provides polling data and voter file information to liberal and progressive politicians running for office and to support left-of-center activists. Democracy Labs is a project of Tides Advocacy, a fiscal sponsorship nonprofit for lobbying organizations associated with the Tides Nexus network of liberal nonprofits. According
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Non-profit
Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) is an American nonprofit progressive political advocacy organization. Founded in 1996, the organization bills itself as “the strategy center for the progressive movement.” 10 The organization signed a petition
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Person
Tuti Scott is a philanthropic officer whom previously served as the interim CEO of the Tides Foundation, a left-of-center pass-through funding nonprofit. 62 She held the interim position from September 2019 through 2020 when
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Non-profit
The Environmental Voter Project is a lobbying organization that seeks to increase voter turnout among American environmentalists. Billionaire Jeremy Grantham, a British financier who pushes environmentalist causes, has primarily bankrolled the organization. The group raised $475,00 in 2017 which rose to $1.5 million in 2018.
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Non-profit
GenderAvenger is a left-of-center feminist advocacy group that uses social pressure tactics to gain equal levels of participation for women in every public activity. 81
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AgroEcology Fund is a left-of-center environmentalist-aligned project that advocates for issues regarding small farms and other agricultural issues. The organization supports small farmers and opposes industrial agriculture primarily through grantmaking. 103 The organization is a fiscally
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Political Party/527
Unite America (UA) is a political organization based in Denver, Colorado that supports moderate-left candidates for elective office and advocates for changes in laws affecting the election process that UA claims will benefit centrist candidates but that are also supported by left-of-center and radical-left interests. Unite America is a “hybrid
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Person
Andrea Batista Schlesinger is a liberal activist, consultant, and advocacy nonprofit executive, and has been a partner at left-leaning urban policy consultancy HR&A Advisors since 2017. 197 She was formerly executive director of the
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Participant (formerly known as Participant Media) was a film production company founded by Jeffrey Skoll, a left-leaning billionaire who was formerly the president of eBay.
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Person
Arlene Blum is a mountaineer, scientist, author, and environmentalist activist. She is the founder and executive director of the Green Science Policy Institute, an advocacy group that opposes the use of certain chemicals, and a research associate in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Non-profit
The Climate Investigations Center (CIC) is a center-left environmental journalism group critical of oil and natural gas producers. It is a project of Our Next Economy, a limited liability company (LLC). CIC has received substantial funding from the Sustainable Markets Foundation, a left-of-center environmentalist pass-through grantmaker funded by
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Non-profit
The Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees is a nonprofit umbrella organization that financially supports a variety of controversial foreign policy advocacy groups, including many that promote anti-Israel views or support dictatorial Middle East regimes.
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Non-profit
The Emgage Foundation, Inc. (formerly Emgage USA) is a left-of-center Muslim-American advocacy and voter mobilization group. It is associated with Emgage PAC, a political action committee that raises money for and endorses candidates for Congress and state legislative seats. Emgage Foundation also has a 501(c)(4) affiliated organization
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Non-profit
Not to be confused with the Bermuda-based Atlantic Philanthropies (Nonprofit) The Atlantic Foundation is a New Jersey-based philanthropic organization founded by J. Seward Johnson, Sr. in 1963. Primarily providing artistic and other apolitical grants and donations, it has provided many left-leaning grants since receiving funds from the Pacific Foundation
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Non-profit
Pisces Foundation is the private foundation of environmentalist activist and Gap, Inc. heir Robert J. Fischer and his wife Randi. It is a funder of a number of prominent environmentalist organizations. Background The Pisces Foundation is a liberal environmental group that provides grants to other environmental nonprofits. The organization was
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-described “democratic socialist,” unsuccessfully contested the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Person
Howard Wolfson is a Democratic political strategist and the former New York City Deputy Mayor for Government Affairs and Communications. Wolfson is best known as a close advisor to Hillary Clinton (D-NY) on her 2000 Senate run and 2008 presidential campaign, and then to New York City Mayor
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Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign began when former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared her candidacy for U.S. president on April 12, 2015. Clinton became the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee on July 26, 2016 after defeating rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) in the party’s primary. On July 22,
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Other Group
Sludge is an online investigative journalism outlet that attempts to expose special interest spending in politics, particularly targeting entities that oppose left-of-center environmentalist, defense, and social policies. Sludge launched in 2018 using the controversial and struggling blockchain-based journalism platform Civil.
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Person
Mark Riddle is a Democratic political strategist who serves as the executive director of the left-of-center Future Majority advocacy group and was previously president of the liberal activist incubator New Leaders Council.
