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The Abelard Foundation is a left-of-center family foundation created by Albert B. Wells and funded with profits from the American Optical Company in 1958. 1 The Foundation makes grants to left-of-center nonprofit start-up organizations that seek to build
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Communities for a New California Education Fund (CNC Education Fund) is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that promotes voter turnout initiatives in California. CNC Education Fund is affiliated with Communities for a New California Action Fund (CNC Action), its sister political advocacy organization.
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PICO California is a left-of-center advocacy coalition comprised of local religious groups in California that advocates for left-of-center policies on racial policy, economic issues, and education. In July of 2020, the Sandler Foundation announced that it would be donating $200 million to so-called “racial justice” organizations in response to
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EdChoice (formerly the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice) is an advocacy organization that promotes an American education system based on school choice43 and supports the use of educational savings accounts (ESAs) and public funding for
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Trita Parsi is the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, a think tank promoting a non-interventionist U.S. foreign policy. 63 The Quincy Institute was founded with the joint support of left-wing billionaire George
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The Legal Aid Justice Center is a Virginia-based nonprofit that provides legal services for low-income defendants and advocates for left-of-center legal policies. The Center’s headquarters is in Charlottesville with offices in Falls Church, Richmond, and Petersburg.
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Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania (GWPA) is a professional membership association that works with grantmakers to maximize the impact of their donations. 108 GWPA counts left-of-center organizations among its members including the Pittsburgh Foundation, Jewish Women’s
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See also: For a more complete list of public figures who promoted collusion claims, please see this resource from the Capital Research Center. Starting at least by July 2016 and continuing through March 2019, the FBI and then the office of Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert
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The Democracy Alliance (DA), a collective of wealthy Democratic and left-progressive individual and institutional donors, hosts semi-annual conferences for its members and guests. Described as a “major gathering of the institutional left,” the conferences primarily serve to connect prospective left-leaning donors with similarly minded activist groups, and to provide
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William J. Barber II is the former pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Greensboro, North Carolina and a left-of-center political activist. 368 Barber is founder and president of Repairers of
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The Poor People’s Campaign (PPC): A National Call for Moral Revival is a left-of-center anti-poverty campaign founded in 2018 by William J. Barber II. 399 PPC was founded to build a “new electorate” of low-income
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Rising Majority is a coalition of left-of-center activist groups that organize collectively across multiple issues including economics and labor, climate change, feminism, and immigration. It is a project of the Movement for Black Lives, which itself is a fiscally sponsored project of the radical-left fiscal sponsorship organization Alliance for Global
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The We Are America Alliance (WAAA) was a national liberal expansionist immigration advocacy organization launched in 2006. WAAA was made up of more than a dozen local, state, and national organizations all pushing for liberal expansionist immigration reform.
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The Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations was founded in 1945 as one of four statutory, or “contract,” colleges created by the New York Legislature at New York’s land grant college, Cornell University.
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The Walmart Foundation is the charitable arm of Walmart. While the Walton Family Foundation is run directly and funded by members of the family of Walmart founder Sam Walton, the Walmart Foundation is controlled and funded by the corporation. The Foundation disbursed over $120 million
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The Action Center on Race and The Economy (ACRE) is an advocacy organization that promotes left-wing economic policies. Recent campaigns have advocated for cancellation of rent payments and mortgages,
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Arnold Ventures is a philanthropic LLC. For more information, see the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (Nonprofit) Arnold Ventures is a limited liability company (LLC) founded in 2019 by Laura and John Arnold to administer their philanthropic efforts. The left-of-center philanthropy is focused on the areas of criminal justice, health,
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Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sisters of Charity BVM) is a religious order of Catholic nuns that advocates for left-of-center social policy in both the public and private sector. Originally founded in the United States to provide education, the order has expanded in recent years to pursue
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Women’s March Network is a feminist activist group that purports to represent the global “women’s march” movement. 622 It was a project of NEO Philanthropy before becoming a standalone organization.
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See Also: BlackRock, Inc. (For-Profit) Larry Fink is the co-founder, CEO, and Board Chairman of BlackRock, the world’s largest money management firm, where he has worked since 1988. 631 Fink is known for left-leaning politics,
