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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.
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Morris Dees is the co-founder and former chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Dees was involved with the SPLC for 48 years and grew the organization into one of the largest civil rights organizations in the United States. The SPLC bankrupted numerous prominent extremist organizations
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Crooked Media is a left-of-center political media company founded by Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, all former senior aides to President Barack Obama. The company was founded in early 2017 after the election of President Donald Trump.
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Stacey Abrams is a Democratic Party politician and activist. She is best known for losing the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election as the Democratic Party candidate; since her loss, she has alleged election improprieties, many think without clear evidence.
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Anna Fink is the executive director of the Amalgamated Foundation, the charitable arm of Amalgamated Bank. Amalgamated Bank is majority-owned and controlled by Workers United, a division of the SEIU labor union. Fink previously served as a senior advisor on philanthropic issues to Richard Trumka,
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James Gollin is a former investment fund executive and current Democratic donor who is active in a number of left-of-center political causes. Gollin is involved in activist nonprofits focused on environmentalism, Democratic Party politics, and political causes in South and Central America. He is married to fellow donor and activist
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Bipartisan Policy Center Action (BPC Action) is a nonprofit federal political advocacy organization that advocates for solutions to public policy issues that include health, security, and economic growth. In addition to its advocacy, BPC Action uses strategic education and outreach plans to bring Republicans and Democrats together on major policy
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Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Facebook. Zuckerberg founded the company while at Harvard with classmates Andrew McCullum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are also active left-of-center advocacy philanthropists; in 2015, the couple founded the philanthropic limited liability
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Priscilla Chan is a philanthropist, a physician, and the wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In 2015, the couple founded the philanthropic limited liability company Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative; its charitable arm, the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation; and its political arm, Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy. Chan was born in Braintree,
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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is the grantmaking brand of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. Though the Initiative has broadly nonpartisan goals, it donates to many left-of-center foundations and a substantial fund to Zuckerberg’s pro-Democrat PAC, FWD.us. The Initiative is organized as an
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Equity Forward (sometimes spelled “Equity Fwd”) is a left-of-center abortion advocacy organization and a project of the Hopewell Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. Because it is sponsored as a project of Hopewell, the funders for Equity Forward are
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Benjamin Rahn is a technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and former president of ActBlue, a pass-through outlet for Democratic politicians and organizations which, as of March 2021, has facilitated $8.4 billion in donations to left-of-center candidates and causes since its creation.
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Matthew (Matt) DeBergalis is the co-founder, president, and chairman of the board of directors of ActBlue PAC, ActBlue LLC, ActBlue Charities, and ActBlue Civics. DeBergalis and Ben Rahn launched the ActBlue website in 2004 as a fundraising platform for left-of-center organizations and political candidates. The ActBlue website is a way for
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Navigator Research is a left-of-center polling and public opinion research organization. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship organization managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. Democratic-aligned pollsters Jeffrey Pollock and Nick Gourevitch of Global Strategy Group and
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Investing in US is a for-profit investment fund founded by billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and former Progressive Policy Institute senior fellow Dmitri Mehlhorn. The organization invests in advocacy organizations, voter outreach groups, media outlets, electoral strategy groups, and other organizations devoted to opposing former President Donald Trump and the
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Project Include is a left-of-center Silicon Valley-based advocacy group that promotes changing employment practices and company culture in the technology industry. The group was founded by Ellen Pao, an activist that promotes diversity in the industry. Project Include pushes for implementing its recommendations across fourteen aspects of technology companies.
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Unite Here Local 11 is a labor union that represents hospitality workers in Southern California and Arizona. The hotel industry employs most workers represented by Local 11, but the union also represents workers in the gaming, food service, manufacturing, textile, laundry, and airport industries. Local 11 is a part of
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Google is a Mountain View, California-based multinational technology company and subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc. Google is considered one of the Big Four technology companies which includes Facebook, Apple, and Amazon.
