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Non-profit
The Economic Security Project (ESP) is a left-of-center initiative that advocates for the federal government to distribute “unconditional cash for Americans” through a universal basic income program. 1 It is housed within the Hopewell Fund, a 501(c)(3)
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Political Party/527
Arena.run (the Arena 527 and the Arena Political Action Committee (PAC)) was founded in 2017 to provide training and support to Democratic Party campaign staff. Arena 527 raises funding, and Arena PAC provides a set of pre-planned campaign tutorials and templates to help Democratic campaigns with left-of-center messaging, voter targeting,
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Other Group
Reboot Democracy is a fiscally sponsored project of Harmony Labs, an organization focused on contemporary media. The organization is focused on the intersection of democracy and technological innovation and hosts informational and networking events around the country. It also hosts an accelerator program that provides funding and mentorship to
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Person
Harry Reid was a former United States Senator who served as a Democratic politician from Nevada for over 40 years. Most notably, from 2005 through 2017, Reid served as the Senate Democratic Leader, with stints as both Senate Majority Leader and Senate Minority Leader.
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Person
Jill Alper is a top Democratic strategist 1 who has worked on seven presidential campaigns 2 including as the
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Non-profit
Citizens Climate Education (CCE) is an environmentalist advocacy organization affiliated with the lobbying group Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL). CCE promotes a carbon tax scheme as its primary solution to climate change, which it refers to as a “carbon fee and dividend.”
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Non-profit
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is a left-of-center consortium of journalists that aims to support journalists and publish stories it claims are suppressed. ICIJ also financially supports smaller media companies to give them the ability to take on larger projects without solely bearing the costs.
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For-profit
Union Labor Life Insurance Company, Inc. (“Ullico”) is a union-owned company that provides health and life insurance and other insurance and investment products to members of more than 13 labor unions, including the Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and the Laborers International Union of North
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Non-profit
OneAmerica lobbies and organizes for left-of-center causes, focusing on immigrant rights, including illegal immigrants in the United States. OneAmerica has shaped national policy on racial profiling and opposes deportation while it supports the acquisition of college financial aid,
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Non-profit
First Look Media is a research and media organization founded by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar in partnership with controversial left-of-center activist journalist Glenn Greenwald, perhaps best known for collaborating in the mass disclosure of classified national security documents by Edward Snowden, a former U.S. government contractor residing in Russia
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Non-profit
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice, education issues, public pensions, dietary policy, and scientific research reform. The foundation
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Non-profit
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (CFSE) is a community foundation that supports education, economic, entrepreneurship, health, social welfare, art, and other causes in a seven-county area roughly correlating to the greater Detroit metropolitan region in Michigan.
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Other Group
The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (Tax Policy Center, TPC) 1 2 is a left-leaning economic
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Non-profit
The National Geographic Society is a research and exploration nonprofit best known for publishing National Geographic magazine. Founded in 1888, the Society rose to prominence due to the quality of its research, travel stories, and photography, amassing millions of subscribers for its magazine and eventually branching into other commercial interests.
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Other Group
National Priorities Project (NPP) is a project of the left-of-center Institute for Policy Studies
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Non-profit
National Public Radio (NPR) is a national nonprofit media outlet created and funded by the federal government. Though the organization claims to strive for objectivity, many media watchdogs consider NPR to have a left-of-center bias.
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Non-profit
The George Gund Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that financially supports organizations in the areas of education, human services, economic development, the arts, and the environment, primarily in the Cleveland, Ohio metropolitan area. The organization uses its grants to fuel a left-of-center political activism agenda.
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Person
Henry Helmut Arnhold (born Heinrich-Hartmut Richard Gustav Arnhold) was a survivor of the Holocaust who escaped Nazi Germany to become a successful American entrepreneur and philanthropist who sold his businesses for $100 million.
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Person
John D. Arnold is an American philanthropist and businessman. Arnold and his wife, Laura Munoz, together run the John and Laura Arnold Foundation, a major private grantmaking foundation. In early 2019 he and his wife Laura started Arnold Ventures, a for-profit limited liability company (LLC) and grantmaking organization.
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Non-profit
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE), formerly known as the Grantmakers Forum for Community and National Service, serves as a “philanthropic laboratory” that engages in research and activism experiments to derive best practices for civil engagement advocacy. As of April 2020, PACE has 58 members, many of which are left-of-center
