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Alphabet is an American multinational technology conglomerate best known as the parent company of Google. It began as a search engine start-up in 1998 and has since expanded into email, video, computer hardware products, and numerous other technology endeavors. As of 2018, Alphabet was one of the largest and
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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 Tara Health Foundation is a grantmaking foundation that funds pro-abortion groups and abortion-rights-related causes. It was founded in 2014 by former Kaiser Permanente researcher Ruth Shaber, who is executive director and board chair.
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Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an environmentalist think tank based in Colorado. It was established in 1982 by activist Amory Lovins. Lovins has been an opponent of zero carbon nuclear energy and, along with other RMI researchers, has repeatedly criticized nuclear power.
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The Dobkin Family Foundation is the private grantmaking foundation of Goldman Sachs investment banker Eric Dobkin, considered the father of the modern-day initial public offering, and his wife, Barbara.
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Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE pronounced “bahl-ee”) is a left-wing advocacy and organizing group promoting collectivist and localist visions of business and production. BALLE supports three main programs, Local Economy Fellowship, Local Economy Foundation Circle, and Local Economy Investors Circle. History Founding Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
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The Simons Foundation is a private foundation founded by left-leaning Renaissance Technologies hedge fund founder James Simons and his wife, Marilyn. The Foundation funds research in four broad areas: mathematics and physical sciences, life sciences, autism research, and “Outreach & Education.” The Foundation conducts its own research through the Flatiron
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In operation since 1968, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a non-profit corporation funded by the U.S. government that is the main support for the nation’s network of public television and radio stations.
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Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon and was estimated by Forbes to be the richest person in the world as of March, 2019, with an estimated net worth of $131 billion. 1
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Melinda French Gates, born Melinda Ann French, is an American software developer and philanthropist who helped found the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a leading grantmaking organization for left-of-center causes. Gates met her longtime husband, computer software entrepreneur Bill Gates, in 1987, shortly after she started working for
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The Climate Leadership Council (CLC) is an organization of former government officials, intellectuals, and businessmen who advocate for a carbon tax. The organization was founded in 2017 by the late Ted Halstead, an environmentalist activist and founder of the center-left think tank New America Foundation.
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Also see Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (Nonprofit) Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum (CRES) is a right-leaning environmental nonprofit founded in 2015 as the fundraising and research arm of Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES), a 501(c)(4) advocacy group formed in 2013 to advocate that Republicans increase
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Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) is a right-leaning environmental advocacy organization funded by and connected to left-wing environmentalist organizations. 1 The
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For more information on Working Assets, see CREDO Mobile Working Assets is the holding company for and former brand name of the group of companies known as CREDO, which uses for-profit ventures in cellular and long-distance telephone service, branded credit cards, and renewable energy to support left-of-center causes.
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Tax March is a left-of-center group that lobbies for tax increases. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a philanthropy consulting firm in Washington, D.C.
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Blue Haven Initiative is an environmentalist-aligned “impact investing” firm associated with members of the wealthy and politically involved Pritzker family. Founded in 2012, the Initiative is one of the largest U.S.-based investment funds dedicated to generating financial returns and left-of-center social
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The Amalgamated Charitable Foundation is a donor-advised fund that was spun off from the Service Employees International Union-owned Amalgamated Bank in 2017. 1 It funds a number of left-progressive advocacy organizations and sponsors a campaign targeting social-conservative and
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Upworthy (legal name Cloud Tiger Media) is a left-of-center news aggregation site. Founded by left-of-center activists Eli Pariser and Peter Koechley, Upworthy attempts to manipulate “emotional data” in order to influence readers’ “decision making” on social issues.
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Cari Tuna is a left-of-center political donor and philanthropist. Tuna married Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz in 2013, and the couple have since co-founded four philanthropic organizations after signing the Giving Pledge to give away their entire fortune before their deaths. The couple founded the Good Ventures Foundation,
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Sean Eldridge is a left-of-center political activist, focusing primarily on LGBT issues and anti-Trump administration organizing. Eldridge is a former congressional candidate and the founder and president of Stand Up America, a progressive advocacy community designed to support the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Eldridge is the spouse
