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Ben Wessel is a left-wing political activist who currently serves as the Millennial vote director and deputy political director for NextGen Rising, the youth mobilization arm of NextGen Climate, a left-wing advocacy group that supposedly focuses on climate change proposals that is funded by billionaire investor Tom
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Earth Guardians is a left-leaning nonprofit that provides instruction to children and teens on how to engage in environmentalist activism. Earth Guardians was originally founded in 1992 as the Earth Guardian Community Resource Center, an experimental private high school in Maui, Hawaii with “environmental awareness and action” as part of
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Also see CREDO Mobile (Working Assets) CREDO Action is the left-wing advocacy arm of the San Francisco-based CREDO Mobile, which was originally formed in 1985 under the name Working Assets.
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George Gresham is president of the New York-based 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, a position he has held since 2007. It is the largest union in the city with over 300,000 members. He also serves as an executive vice president for the national Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
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Charlotte Pera is the vice president for strategy and programs of the Bezos Earth Fund. She is the former president and CEO of the ClimateWorks Foundation and held multiple high-level positions at the Energy Foundation, including director of United States programs, U.S. transportation program director, and senior
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Hal Harvey is the CEO of Energy Innovation, an energy and environmental policy firm. He has also worked in various capacities for environmentalist grantmaking foundations, including the Energy Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and ClimateWorks Foundation. Background Harvey earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from
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Karl Frisch is a Democratic politician and political operative who has worked with several left-progressive political campaigns and organizations as a communications director, press secretary, and field director at the federal level. He is member of the Fairfax County School Board in Virginia and sits as chair of the board’s
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Elon Musk is a South African-born American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known for his role as a founder or co-founder of a number of high-profile technology firms. Musk is the chief executive officer, chairman, or a board member of a number of prominent firms across various industries, including
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The We Mean Business coalition is a European-American coalition of advocacy groups that aims to get private business to take action on climate change and achieve net zero carbon emissions and to push governments to adopt environmentalist policies. It is a project of the New Venture Fund, a grantmaking 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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The Open Philanthropy Action Fund (OPAF) is the political arm of the Open Philanthropy Project (OPP), a grantmaking foundation that gives to numerous left-of-center organizations concerned with criminal justice policy. The OPP began as a project of GiveWell, a group which seeks to improve philanthropy, and Good
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Not to be confused with Open Philanthropy Project (Nonprofit) The Open Philanthropy Project Fund (OPPF) is a donor-advised fund based in Silicon Valley that disburses most of the donations for the Open Philanthropy Project (OPP), a grantmaking foundation established along “effective altruism” principles which gives to many left-of-center
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The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment (TGF) provides funding for environmental organizations. TGF is funded by Jeremy Grantham his wife Hannelore and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Jeremy Grantham is a British investment manager known for funding a number of environmentalist organizations.
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Adessium Foundation is a Dutch grantmaking organization founded by commodities trader Gerard van Vliet that provides grants to left-leaning organizations across the world. Adessium means “to bring into being.” 1 In 2007, Adessium
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Boston Trust Walden, formerly known as Walden Asset Management, is a $3.6 billion left-of-center activist investment fund, operated by the larger Boston Trust and Investment Management Company.1 The fund was founded in
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Bruce Boyd is the senior managing director of Arabella Advisors, and he oversees the company’s strategic planning, program implementation, and social impact evaluations. Boyd’s investment portfolio largely focuses on environmentalist issues including climate change and water and land conservation.
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Connor Gibson is an investigative researcher for the radical environmentalist group Greenpeace. Gibson is also the co-founder of UnKoch My Campus, a far-left attack group critical of libertarian entrepreneur and philanthropist Charles Koch and his late brother David.
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Goodby, Silverstein, & Partners (GS&P) is a major California-based advertising agency. The company has created advertisements for some of America’s largest companies including Hewlett-Packard Company, Nike, EBay, and Budweiser.
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The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock (UUCSR) is a Unitarian Universalist church known for its active funding of left-wing activist groups.1
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Good Jobs Nation is a union-backed left-of-center organization that advocates for a $15 minimum wage1 and higher pay for federal contractors.
