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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. 1 She held the interim position from September 2019 through 2020 when
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Kriss Deiglmeier is a career nonprofit executive and the former CEO of Tides, a center-left pass-through funding nonprofit and part of the larger Tides Nexus, a position she held from February 2014 to late 2019. In addition to her work with Tides, Deiglmeier has supported left-of-center activism as a
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Not to be confused with Tides Network, a related nonprofit in the nexus The Tides Nexus is a collection of related left-of-center grantmaking, fiscal sponsorship, and advocacy nonprofits headquartered in San Francisco, California. The system originated in 1976 when liberal political activist Drummond Pike joined with Jane Lehman, heiress
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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
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Bridge Alliance is a left-leaning coalition of over one hundred member organizations. These organizations are expected to adhere to Bridge Alliance’s membership principles,1 which focus on bridging the divide in partisan politics in order to
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The Center for Civic Design (CCD) is an election-administration policy organization that frequently partners with left-of-center organizations like Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund.
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Ms. Foundation for Women (Ms. Foundation) is a left-of-center nonprofit that supports feminist policies, including expanded contraception and abortion access. The group was formed in 1972 by liberal journalist Gloria Steinem, feminist journalist Patricia Carbine, political activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and actress Marlo Thomas.
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The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation funded by Jay Schottenstein, an Ohio retail magnate and member of the one of the wealthiest retailing families in the United States. The foundation gives almost exclusively to Jewish cultural and religious organizations. Schottenstein Family Business Ventures Jay Schottenstein
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Operation HOPE is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that provides financial literacy and educational programs to low-income Americans. Operation HOPE also provides financial consulting services free of charge for individuals and small businesses. The organization was mentioned in a 2017 investigation into the handling of financial settlements during the Obama administration
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Laurene Powell Jobs is a business executive and philanthropist, best known as the president of the left-leaning grantmaking enterprise Emerson Collective. Born Laurene Powell, she is the widow and heir of Apple Computer executive Steve Jobs, with a current estimated fortune of $21-24.4 billion, making her the fifth-richest woman
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The Emerson Collective is a left-of-center private grantmaking enterprise that advocates for a wide variety of left-of-center causes. The Collective was founded in 2004 by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow and heir of Apple Computer executive Steve Jobs. Utilizing an unusual non-profit LLC structure, the Collective supports opportunities
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The Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) is a left-of-center environmentalist organization that advocates in support of left-of-center policy aimed at addressing climate change. CCI has claimed that the world has less than 15 years before facing consequences of “existential proportions” related to climate change and has estimated that the United
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Jane Goodall is an English primatologist and far-left environmentalist. Though Goodall is best known for her chimpanzee research, she has spent much of her career as an environmentalist activist, supporting left-of-center environmental projects in both climate change and radical animal rights activism. To provide a platform for her environmentalism, Goodall
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The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is an animal liberation organization that works to give some animals the status of “legal personhood” in order to grant them legal rights similar to those of human beings.
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A Better Chicago (ABC) is a venture philanthropy group, organized as a charitable non-profit, that currently maintains a portfolio of eleven Chicago area youth and education organizations. According to its 2017 disclosures, ABC had an annual budget of over $3.5 million.
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Margaret Sanger was a prominent advocate for contraception, eugenics, population control, and abortion best known for founding the American Birth Control League, the immediate predecessor of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Sanger popularized the term “birth control” as central to her larger philosophy of Birth Control (later
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Blue Meridian Partners is a nonprofit funding collaborative headed by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) in partnership with several other left-leaning grantmaking organizations. The organization was founded in 2016 with the intent of making large investments in organizations that promote youth anti-poverty and social assistance programs, with the
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The Mulago Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that financially supports organizations focused on global poverty alleviation in underdeveloped countries. Founded in 1993 by investment banker and philanthropist Henry Arnhold, the foundation was originally envisioned by his brother Rainer Arnhold, who died before it could be officially established.
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The Craig and Susan McCaw Foundation is a private grantmaking organization founded by Craig McCaw and his then-wife Susan McCaw. The foundation provides grants to organizations that carry out projects primarily relating to education and health but also some environmentalist and international relations-focused projects from organizations
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The Overbrook Foundation is a New York City-based grantmaking foundation founded in 1948 by investor Frank Altschul and his wife Helen. Today, the Overbrook Foundation’s grants are focused on funding for left-of-center groups supporting social liberalism and environmentalism. Overbrook has an endowment of $150 million and has donated more than
