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Working Washington is a labor-union-aligned worker center which advocates for strict labor and employment regulations in the state of Washington and across the United States. 1 Working Washington is closely tied to the controversial
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Neighborhood Funders Group is a left-of-center philanthropic membership organization and grant maker. Its members and funding partners include some of the most powerful groups in left-of-center philanthropy. Its funding areas and strategies are influenced by concepts like critical race theory, decoloniality, organized labor, wealth redistribution, LGBTQ advocacy, and climate justice.
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Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, also known simply as Convergence, is a think tank established in 2009 that hosts a variety of projects centered around finding consensus on public policy matters. The group has worked on issues including health care, civil service reform, modernization of Congress, and incarceration and reentry
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Voto Latino (also known as the Voto Latino Action Fund) is a left-of-center voter mobilization group targeted at Latino voters and aimed at assisting Democratic candidates. Co-founded by Maria Theresa Kumar and actress Rosario Dawson, Voto Latino has registered hundreds of thousands of voters since 2004. The organization also advocates
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Labor Union
The California Teachers Association (CTA) is the largest state affiliate of the left-of-center National Education Association (NEA) and the largest teachers’ union in California. 104
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Policy Matters Ohio is a left-of-center advocacy group and policy research organization founded in January 2000 focusing on the state of Ohio. The group advocates for left-of-center state-level policies in Ohio through research, media work, and policy papers.
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The Strong Economy for All Coalition is a labor-union-backed coalition of left-of-center interest groups active in New York politics. Organizations that are members of the coalition include 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, Citizen Action of New York, Communications Workers of America (CWA), Make the Road
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Not to be confused with DC Fiscal Policy Institute, a division of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities focusing on the District of Columbia. The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) is a labor union-supported think tank based near Albany, New York that advocates pro-labor union and other left-of-center policies
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Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) is a left-of-center activist organization that is at the “forefront” of the left-progressive and labor union movements in Los Angeles, California.
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One Pennsylvania (or OnePA) is a left-of-center activist group associated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Its president, Gabe Morgan, is a vice president of 32BJ, an SEIU local union active throughout the northeastern United States; its executive director, Erin Kramer, is also a career SEIU organizer.
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Fe Y Justicia Workers Center (FYJWC) is a left-of-center worker center that provides a gathering place and organizing network for low-wage workers in Houston, Texas. 336 The organization provides low-wage workers with
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Person
For more information, see BerlinRosen (For-Profit) Valerie Berlin is a Democratic political strategist and operative based in New York City. She is a principal and co-founder of the for-profit consulting firm BerlinRosen, which she founded with business partner Jonathan Rosen.
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Janet Murguia is the president and CEO of UnidosUS, a left-of-center Hispanic activist group formerly known as National Council of La Raza (NCLR), or simply “La Raza.” Murguia worked as a deputy assistant to the President in the Clinton administration before becoming deputy director of legislative affairs and
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The “Fight for $15” is a corporate campaign principally orchestrated and funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which seeks to unionize the quick-service franchise restaurant industry and raise the federal minimum wage by more than double to $15 per hour, using the slogan “$15 and a union.”
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Also see Democracy Fund Voice (Non-profit) The Democracy Fund is a left-of-center public policy-oriented foundation chaired and solely funded by eBay founder and former chairman Pierre Omidyar.459
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The Council for a Strong America (CSA) is a left-leaning advocacy organization that works to promote left-of-center policy on education and child-care programs. CSA works as an umbrella group for five organizations, which each bring together a given professional community in the United States in support of CSA policies.
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The Florida Consumer Action Network (FCAN) was a consumer advocacy organization in Florida that focused on environmentalist and consumer issues, ostensibly supporting lower income and minority residents in the Tampa Bay area. 529
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Person
Patrick Gaspard is a distinguished senior fellow and the former president and CEO of the Center for American Progress (CAP) from 2021 through 2024. Gaspard previously worked as president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the principal philanthropic entities of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, from 2017 until late
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a left-of-center digital rights advocacy organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. EFF activities include policy analysis and education, technology development, activism, and litigation. Much of EFF’s attention focuses on fighting government’s and law enforcement’s interference in individual digital activities through surveillance, censorship, and invasion of
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The National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA) is a left-of-center pressure group which aims to increase the rate at which immigrants to the United States, including those present in the country illegally, are granted citizenship, government benefits, and the ability to vote. NPNA also aims to increase the political influence
