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K. Sabeel Rahman is a left-of-center attorney, academic, and former nonprofit executive who was senior counselor and later associate administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Biden Administration from 2021 to 2023.
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Amy Hanauer is a left-of-center tax and economic policy analyst. As of April 2022, she works as the executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). She is also the executive director of Citizens for Tax Justice, its affiliated organization. She is also the founder
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Al Otro Lado (“To the Other Side”) is a center-left immigration advocacy organization based in Los Angeles, California. The group provides low cost or pro bono legal representation and healthcare services to individuals living illegally in the United States or seeking entry into the United States, primarily in Tijuana, Mexico. The
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The Colorado Trust is a private grantmaking foundation based in Denver, Colorado, that was created as a result of the sale of PSL Healthcare Corporation in 1985. 39 It makes grants to philanthropic causes in Colorado including
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Sarita Gupta is a left-of-center activist who currently serves as the director of the Ford Foundation’s Future of Work(ers) program. Gupta’s radical associations include greeting the 7th National Convention of the Young Communist League.
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Alexander Soros is the son of finance billionaire and political mega-donor George Soros and deputy chair of the Open Society Foundations, his father’s left-of-center private grantmaking foundation. 70
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Michael Dorsey is an environmentalist activist and writer, former board member for of the environmentalist group Sierra Club, and co-founder of the far-left advocacy group Sunrise Movement. Sunrise Movement is the lead organization behind the “Green New Deal,” a policy program critics have called a “radical, top-down, socialist makeover
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Democracy Forward Foundation (DFF) is a left-of-center litigation and advocacy nonprofit created in early 2017 by high-level Democratic Party operatives. The organization was aggressive in targeting the first Trump administration.143 Examples include
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Democracy Forward (DF) is a left-of-center litigation and advocacy nonprofit created in early 2017 by high-level Democratic Party operatives. The organization has been aggressive in targeting the Trump administration.143 Examples include an ethics complaint against
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The Colcom Foundation is a grantmaking organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that provides funding to advocacy groups that deal with causes related to immigration restriction, family policy, and environmental conservation. The foundation frames these issues as part of a larger global crisis which it describes as a “sixth mass extinction”
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The Chestnut Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation founded by Jane Stein, daughter of Sidney and Miriam Stoneman; her husband; and her children from the division of the Stoneman Family Foundation into two separate organizations (the Limestone Foundation being the other) to resolve conflicts surrounding its grantmaking decisions. History
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Florida International University is a public research university in University Park, Florida. It hosts a left-of-center economic policy network, the Center for Labor Research and Studies, which also hosts the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy.
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Robert A. Johnson is the executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a left-of-center economic policy think tank founded by investor George Soros. Prior to joining INET, Johnson worked for Soros Fund Management and served on the United Nations Commission of Experts on International Monetary Reform. Background
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The Chang K. Park Foundation (CKPF) is a left-of-center organization that funds multiple left-wing and left-of-center groups. It was founded and is led by Chang K. Park, CEO of Universal Remote Control and an immigrant from South Korea who came to the United States as a teenager to gain
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The Campaign for Accountability (CfA) is an ostensibly nonpartisan left-wing advocacy organization founded to expose supposed misconduct and corruption in the government and private sector. CfA typically targets conservative government officials or organizations in its investigations and has two Democratic operatives serving on its board of directors. CfA was formed
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The Google Foundation (also known by its internet address, Google.org) is the corporate charitable arm of Alphabet, Inc., and its subsidiary, Google. It is a major funder of left-wing advocacy, having contributed at least $70 million in the decade between 2007-2016 to organizations such as the Tides Foundation, a provider of
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Political Research Associates (PRA) is a left-wing “social justice think tank” which seeks to advance left-progressive and critical race theory-aligned thinking and action.321 PRA opposes the political right,
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The Merle Chambers Fund is a private foundation funded and directed by former oil and natural gas company CEO, lawyer, investor, and Democratic Party fundraiser Merle Chambers. 368 It was called “Chambers Family Fund” from its founding
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Merle Chambers is a former oil and natural gas CEO, lawyer, investor, and Democratic Party fundraiser and donor. She is also a left-leaning philanthropist whose funding organization, the Merle Chambers Fund, donates to abortion and left-leaning advocacy causes, as well as non-political arts and other entities.
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The Piton Foundation, part of Gary Community Investments, is a grantmaking organization which contributes to left-of-center organizations with a focus on Colorado, in addition to other projects. Piton Foundation’s work in recent years, has become increasingly focused on policy research and advocacy. The organization’s CEO is former Colorado State Senator
