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Karla Jurvetson is a physician, philanthropist, and the wife of businessman and investor Steve Jurvetson. 1 Jurvetson is a
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The Tobin Project is a left-of-center economic think tank that organizes and funds academic research and policy proposals to advance liberal priorities in economic regulation and national security policy. Founded by a Harvard University professor of business administration and named for an economist best known for promoting robust government intervention
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MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Formerly known as MacKenzie Bezos, she is recognized as the third-wealthiest woman in the world after a divorce settlement left her with an estimated $37 billion.
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The 11th Hour Project is the main grant-making vehicle of the left-of-center Schmidt Family Foundation of former Alphabet (Google) CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy Schmidt. It chiefly supports nonprofit organizations that focus on environmentalist advocacy and international development issues. Background Founded in 2006, the
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Leslie Hanauer is an American liberal political activist and philanthropist known for her association with her husband Nick Hanauer and as the codirector of their foundation, the Nick and Leslie Hanauer Foundation. Background Leslie Hanauer is the wife of Nicholas “Nick” Hanauer, a liberal donor, venture capital investor,
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Honor the Earth is an advocacy group that campaigns for Native American and environmental issues. It has supported environmentalist protests against oil pipelines and promoted divestment campaigns against conventional fuel interests. The group’s co-founder and executive director, Winona LaDuke, is a former Green Party candidate for Vice President of
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Elizabeth Warren is a Democratic politician who has served as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 2012 and is a well-known leader of the left-progressive faction within the Democratic Party. Prior to her election to the Senate, Warren had a long career in academia and on government advisory panels related to
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as “AOC,” is a Democratic politician and leader of the radical left of the Party. In 2018, she was elected U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th District located in the Bronx and Queens. First elected at 28 years old, Ocasio-Cortez is as of mid-2020 the youngest
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The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation is a Mississippi advocacy group that creates training programs on how to improve racial tolerance. Though its programs are nonpartisan, its social media posts frequently share left-of-center perspectives, such as support for slavery reparations and legal status for illegal immigrants.
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The Guerrilla Foundation is a German-based grantmaker that finances radical left-of-center activists throughout Europe. Antonis Schwarz, heir to a pharmaceutical fortune, started the foundation in 2016. Guerrilla Foundation reportedly supports the radical environmentalist pressure campaign Extinction Rebellion (XR).
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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.
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The Kevin J. Mossier Foundation was a Minnesota-based left-of-center foundation that donated towards LGBT-interest advocacy and other related nonprofits. The foundation was founded by and named after Kevin J. Mossier, who was an entrepreneur. The foundation ceased operations in 2014, but the organization morphed into the Mossier Social Action and
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Archana Sahgal is a left-of-center political consultant and former Obama administration staffer who currently runs Hyphen, a funding collaborative she founded in 2021. Hyphen is a funding collective that works with left-leaning organizations and foundations to fund campaigns supporting priorities of the Biden administration.
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The Morningstar Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation based in Bethesda, Maryland that supports left-of-center organizations, including left-wing Jewish advocacy group Bend the Arc, the Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society, and Keshet, a group that advocates for LGBT Jews.
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The Libra Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that supports left-of-center advocacy organizations in the United States and around the world. Its funding priorities include left-of-center social policy, immigration, abortion, and the environment. Notable recipients of large Libra Foundation grants include the ACLU Foundation, the National Economic and Social
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The Hutchins Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization founded by private equity billionaire Glenn H. Hutchins and his wife, Debbie. The foundation has ties to far-left organizations such as the Democratic Party establishment-aligned think tank Center for American Progress and the Barack Obama Foundation. The
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Ted Halstead was an environmentalist activist and an advocate for left-leaning environmental policies. He was co-founder and president of the Climate Leadership Council, a co-founder of the left-leaning think tank New America, and founder of the now-defunct Redefining Progress. He was a TED Talk speaker and co-author of
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Julie Kohler is a senior advisor to and former senior vice president of Democracy Alliance. She is also the president of BMK Consulting, a nonprofit consulting firm. Kohler is on the advisory boards of New Media Ventures, Pipeline Initiative, PL-US Action, and Family Story, a think tank which
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The Sall Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports environmentalist and conservationist organizations within the United States and the United Kingdom. 1 The Foundation has made contributions to organizations that seek to prevent the commercial development of
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Panta Rhea Foundation is a grantmaking foundation located in La Jolla, California. It makes grants primarily to left-leaning organizations that focus on racial and economic issues, food systems, democracy, and climate change. It has aligned itself with left-of-center organizations to oppose conventional energy infrastructure.
