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The Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy (SCAA) is a left-of-center think tank focused on government funding for poverty programs in New York. It advocates for legislation on government provided health insurance, mostly through Medicaid funding in New York. It also focuses on New York tax allocations for foster care,
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AFSCME Council 75 is the Oregon division of the left-of-center American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union. The group represents over 25,000 government workers in Oregon and has been one of the leaders on left-of-center labor advocacy in the state.
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Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (also known as A.N.S.W.E.R., ANSWER Coalition, or International ANSWER) is a coalition of radical-left activists that leads campaigns against American foreign policy and the State of Israel. As of September 2022, the organization was not technically a stand-alone entity with its own
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Nicholas Gregory “Greg” Mankiw is an American economist and the former Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw was appointed as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in 2003 by President George W. Bush and worked as an economic adviser to Mitt Romney during his presidential
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Elizabeth Warren is a Democratic politician who has served as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 2012 and is a well-known leader of the left-progressive faction within the Democratic Party. Prior to her election to the Senate, Warren had a long career in academia and on government advisory panels related to
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as “AOC,” is a Democratic politician and a leader of the left wing of the House Democratic Caucus. In 2018, she was elected U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th District located in the Bronx and Queens. First elected at 28 years old, Ocasio-Cortez is as of
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The Strengthening Accountability in the Global Economy (SAGE) Fund is a collaborative group for left-of-center foundations. The SAGE Fund is a project of the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit created and managed by the for-profit consultancy Arabella Advisors.
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Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation is a right-leaning environmentalist lobbying and advocacy group based in Austin, Texas and founded in January 2019. It is the lobbying arm of Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation Foundation, a 501(c)(3) educational advocacy nonprofit. Background On January 18, 2019, Matt Welch, a Texas-based public affairs
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The Kohlberg Foundation is a private family foundation founded by private equity billionaire Jerome Kohlberg and his wife Nancy in 1989, based in Mt. Kisco, New York. The foundation provides grants to numerous left-of-center organizations, focused on legal policy related to health programs, the environment, and education.
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Ben de Guzman is a left-wing activist that works to promote Asian American-Pacific Islander and LGBT interests. Guzman currently serves as the director of Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs. Guzman previously served as the Community Outreach Specialist in the Mayor’s
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The Foundation for Civic Leadership is an incubator for left-leaning voter engagement programs. Its founder and president is Ian Simmons, a longtime Democratic donor and a co-founder of Blue Haven Initiative, an investment firm which uses returns to fund left-leaning social policy.
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Alexandria Bratton is a liberal political activist in the state of Virginia focusing on ethnic representation and Census issues. She is presently a program manager for the Virginia Civic Engagement Table. Career Alexandria Bratton is currently the program manager of the Virginia Civic Engagement Table (VCET), a non-profit organization
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The Abell Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking organization operating in the state of Maryland with a focus on the city of Baltimore. The Foundation focuses on “concentrated poverty” distributing grants on issues ranging from education to environmentalism. Its president, Robert C. Embry, Jr., is a former liberal elected official
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Jocelyn Bissonnette is the director of the Funders Census Initiative, a “working group” of the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation, which is a project of NEO Philanthropy, a fiscal clearinghouse for left-of-center causes. Bissonnette has spoken at conferences about the census across the country, including Philanthropy Southwest,
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The Bridge Initiative researches allegations of anti-Muslim sentiment in America and provides commentary, reports, and other materials related to its mission. 229 It is an initiative of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
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Arjuna Capital LLC is a left-of-center investment firm based in Durham, North Carolina that specializes in activist investment strategies in environmentalist and social justice causes. The firm encourages shareholder activism and leads in the development of financial portfolios that promote left-of-center initiatives including gender pay equity, support for environmentalist energy
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The Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock is a grantmaking organization that provides support to left-of-center initiatives covering purpose areas such as social policy, environmentalism, and economic inequality. It is a part of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, which is a church that participates in various
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Amanda Ballantyne is a labor union activist who works as the director of the Technology Institute at the AFL-CIO, where she has worked since January 2021. 278 Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, she worked
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West Virginia Citizen Action Group (WV CAG) is a political advocacy group associated with West Virginia Citizen Action Education Fund (WV CAEF). WV CAG supports the Green New Deal and replacing conventional fuels with weather-dependent energy.
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West Virginia Citizen Action Education Fund (WV CAEF) is a charitable advocacy organization associated with West Virginia Citizen Action Group (WV CAG). WV CAEF signed a June 6, 2022, letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris requesting the use of executive action to
