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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
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BallotReady is an online election-education resource that aggregates information from candidates’ websites, social media profiles, and news media outlets. It was launched as a project of the Social New Venture Challenge, a competition for graduate students at the University of Chicago. As of 2016, BallotReady was operational in a dozen
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Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) is an electoral policy advocacy group which provides grants and conducts research ostensibly to increase voting security and increase voter turnout. The organization was created in the wake of the 2016 election in response to foreign interference and alleged low voter turnout; in
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The Chan Zuckerberg Foundation is the formally charitable arm of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the nonprofit foundation of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. The Advocacy has a political sister group, Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy. All three groups receive 100% of their funding from
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The Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy is the political arm of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the nonprofit foundation of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. The Advocacy has an educational sister group, the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation. Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy primarily supports left-of-center political causes
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The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology and psychologists in the United States. 1 APA is active in left-of-center policy advocacy and grantmaking activities
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) is a cross-party think tank focusing on federal fiscal policy and the budget deficit. Former U.S. Rep. Robert Giaimo (D-CT) and former U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon (R-OK) started the CRFB in June 1981.
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Sonen Capital is a left-of-center investment management firm that advises its clients to invest in companies that adhere to a left-of-center environmental, social, and governance (ESG) agenda. Sonen Capital also provides portfolio management services and assists companies and foundations in transitioning to entirely ESG-aligned portfolios.
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Mark A. Stevens is a billionaire venture capitalist and left-of-center philanthropist based in Menlo Park, California. Stevens currently works as managing partner at S-Cubed Capital, a venture capital firm he founded with his personal fortune that invests in startups. Prior to founding S-Cubed Capital, Stevens worked as a partner at
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The Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego is a major donor-advised fund based in San Diego, California. Since its founding in 1967, it has given over $1.6 billion in grants, and as of the end of 2019 managed $500 million in assets.
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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
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Local Progress (officially Local Progress Policy Action) is an advocacy group advancing left-of-center policies and ideologies at the municipal level across America. 1 Together with its charitable arm Local Progress Policy Institute and with
