-
Person
Laura Quinn is the president and co-founder of Catalist, a data firm that services both left-of-center nonprofits and Democratic candidates and officeholders. She has held numerous positions for Democratic candidates and officeholders, most prominently as Deputy Chief of Staff for former Vice President Al Gore. Quinn has also
-
Person
David Plouffe is a Democratic political strategist who currently is a board member and strategist for ACRONYM, a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit specializing in voter mobilization through digital outreach. He also works as the president of policy and advocacy at the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, an LLC which provides seed funding
-
Non-profit
The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a Chicago, Illinois-based center-left election reform advocacy group formed in 2012. The organization pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration. It has a wide reach into local elections offices across the nation and is funded by many left-of-center funding organizations
-
Non-profit
Coding it Forward is a student-led nonprofit organization that provides “Civic Digital Fellowships” for college students with technology expertise to work with government agencies and nonprofits. Background Coding it Forward was co-founded by a group of technology and data science students at Harvard University in 2017. Under the mentorship of
-
Non-profit
Code for America is a nonprofit organization that works to develop digital and technological solutions for the expansion and more efficient delivery of federal, state, and local government benefits and services. Background and Founder Code for America was founded by Jennifer Pahlka, who served as the deputy chief technology officer
-
For-profit
Trillium Asset Management, LLC is a Boston-based investment management firm that directs investments to support a left-leaning environmental and social agenda. Trillium is an activist investor that regularly buys stakes in companies it disagrees with, such as energy companies, so that it can exert pressure to change their behavior. Founded
-
For-profit
Domini Impact Investments (formerly Domini Social Investments) is a for-profit investment advisory group that engages in impact investing and shareholder activism in favor of left-leaning causes such as gun control and environmentalism. It has $2.4 billion in assets under management and offers two equity funds and a bond fund.
-
Non-profit
The Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the New Venture Fund, a leading “dark money” pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor, to promote sweeping changes to the elections process, including state laws that automatically register voters at state agencies.
-
Non-profit
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
-
Non-profit
The South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center (SCALJC) is a left-of-center advocacy organization that advocates for policies including Obamacare, LGBT adoption,1 and illegal immigration.
-
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.
-
Person
Priscilla Chan is a philanthropist, a physician, and the wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In 2015, the couple founded the philanthropic limited liability company Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative; its charitable arm, the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation; and its political arm, Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy. Chan was born in Braintree,
-
Person
Eddie Vale is a political communications consultant who works on a variety of left-of-center causes. While currently a partner at the New Paradigm Strategy communications and consulting firm, Vale was previously the vice-president at the American Bridge 21st Century Foundation and a member of its board.
-
Non-profit
The AASA, the School Superintendents Association is a non-profit organization that focuses on providing leadership training for educators, developing programs that promote left-of-center talking points on “educational equity,” and holds an annual education conference.
-
Person
Vanita Gupta is a civil rights attorney, government official, and nonprofit executive. She served as associate attorney general in the Biden Administration from 2021 to 2024, and before that was president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR).
-
For-profit
Good Ventures LLC is a for-profit investment subsidiary of the Good Ventures Foundation. Created in 2012, it donates its net earnings to the Good Ventures Foundation to support grantmaking in the areas of left-of-center criminal justice reform, farm animal welfare, pandemic preparation, and scientific research.
-
Non-profit
Also see Good Ventures Foundation (Nonprofit) Good Ventures was a nonprofit organization created by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna in 2011. Good Ventures closed near the end of 2018, but the organization’s philanthropic endeavors continue through affiliate organizations including the Good
-
Non-profit
Also see Good Ventures (Nonprofit) The Good Ventures Foundation was created by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna in 2012. It was originally set up as a fund for Good Ventures, a related public charity that closed at the end of 2018.
-
Person
Divesh Makan is an investment advisor who has worked with many Silicon Valley billionaires, most prominently Mark Zuckerberg.
-
Person
Sean Parker is a technology entrepreneur who founded the file sharing network Napster and served as the first president of Facebook. Parker met Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin in 2004; he later became the company’s president in summer 2004.
