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Non-profit
TakeAction MN (TakeAction Minnesota) advocates for left-leaning causes and candidates in Minnesota. TakeAction MN advocates for raising taxes,
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Non-profit
The Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) is a left-of-center advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C., that promotes funding of domestic welfare programs by the federal government and opposes Republican-backed proposals to cut or reform entitlement programs. The group was founded in 1981 in opposition to President Ronald Reagan’s proposal
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Non-profit
Jobs with Justice Education Fund (JWJEF) is a project of Jobs with Justice (JWJ), a left-of-center labor group primarily funded by labor unions
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Non-profit
Young Invincibles (YI) is a left-of-center youth advocacy, research, grantmaking, and lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C. 51 Co-founded in 2009 by Ari Matsuiak, a special assistant to the President during
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Non-profit
The Windward Fund is an environmentalist fiscal sponsor organization in the network of “dark money” organizations controlled by philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Fund was created in February 2015 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with startup funding of $5.25 million provided by an unknown source. According to its bylaws, Windward
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Vote Solar is a solar-energy advocacy organization that uses public engagement and coalition building to promote pro-solar-energy state-level regulatory and legislative agendas. 164 It focuses on addressing perceived inequities for “historically marginalized groups,”
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Labor Union
The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union representing agricultural workers, mostly in the state of California. Cesar Chavez, a Mexican-American organizer and leader of the Chicano movement, founded the union; Chavez would become one of the best-known leaders of labor unionism in the 20th century through
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Labor Union
Unite Here (sometimes styled UNITE HERE or Unite HERE) is a major labor union principally organizing employees in the hotel, restaurant, and gaming industries. Unite Here was formed in 2004 from a merger between the Hotel Employees-Restaurant Employees (HERE) union and Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) and
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Non-profit
The Trilateral Commission is an invitation-only, international non-governmental organization that was founded by David Rockefeller, Sr., in July 1973, to foster closer cooperation among nations in North America, Western Europe, and Japan.
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Third Way is a left-of-center think tank 319 based in Washington, D.C., that believes the center-left is the “only real path” for the future in the United States.
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Non-profit
Also see Tides Nexus Tides Advocacy (formerly The Tsunami Fund, The Advocacy Fund, and the Tides Advocacy Fund) is a left-of-center advocacy organization associated with the Tides Nexus, a collection of center-left pass-through funders and fiscal sponsorship nonprofits grouped around the Tides Foundation. While Tides Advocacy has
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Non-profit
Also see the similarly named Foundation to Promote Open Society (Nonprofit) The Open Society Foundations (OSF; formally Open Society Institute) is a private grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros. OSF was founded in 1993 as the Open Society Institute (OSI), which remains the foundation’s
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Non-profit
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) is an Ohio-based group that advocates for left-of-center policies. 431 The group’s sister nonprofit, the Ohio Organizing Campaign, is an advocacy and civic engagement group focused on voter registration
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Non-profit
National Popular Vote (NPV) was founded in 2006 by lottery scratch-card inventor John Koza and election lawyer Barry Fadem to lobby for an “interstate compact” for states to deliver their electoral votes for President to the “winner” of the national popular vote. While Koza and Fadem are both Democratic donors,
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Non-profit
The National Lawyers Guild is a radical-left association of attorneys, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers. Founded from late 1936 to early 1937, the Guild has consistently been identified with radical-left groups and political orientations throughout its history. In its early years the National Lawyers Guild was significantly influenced
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Non-profit
Move to Amend (MTA) is a coalition of hundreds of left-of-center organizations that advocates for wealth redistributionist policies, social and racial justice initiatives, and the restriction of political donations. It opposes the landmark 2011 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, contending that political contributions are not speech and
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Non-profit
The Marguerite Casey Foundation is the smaller of the two major left-of-center private foundations created from the legacy of United Parcel Service founder James E. Casey, the other being the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The Marguerite Casey Foundation emerged nearly two decades after James E. Casey’s death from Casey
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Non-profit
The Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund is a private foundation making grants to left-of-center organizations associated with health, education, and Jewish philanthropy. 685 Alan Davis, the fund’s president, is
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Non-profit
The League of Women Voters Minnesota (LWVMN) is the Minnesota affiliate of the national League of Women Voters. While the group does not directly support or oppose candidates, the LWVMN has taken left-of-center policy positions.
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Non-profit
The JPB Foundation is a private foundation created by Barbara Picower in 2011. It is one of the largest grant-making foundations in the United States. 710 Focused on medical, environmental, and poverty issues, the
