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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the public charity component of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBT activism organization and a prominent force in Democratic Party politics and left-of-center advocacy. Together with its affiliated HRC Political Action Committee PAC, and Human Rights Campaign Equality Votes super
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Cut50 is an initiative to “cut the prison population and crime in[sic] 50 percent in the next 10 years” by advancing left-leaning criminal justice policies.56 It
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Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a center-left issue advocacy organization focused on healthcare issues. It is credited with playing a significant role in creating the blueprint for the law that became Obamacare,
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New York Communities for Change (NYCC) is a New York City-based labor and community organizing group. NYCC is a key agitation force behind the Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) “Fight for $15” union organizing efforts, and has received over $7 million from SEIU and its local unions alone
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Nicholas “Nick” Hanauer is a progressive donor, venture capital investor, and political commentator. Hanauer is an activist for extreme increases in the minimum wage, a fervent financial supporter of gun control, and a multimillionaire jet-setter.
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The Common Cause Education Fund is the 501(c)(3) partner organization of Common Cause, an influential and controversial 501(c)(4) advocating for left-of-center causes headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Common Cause Education Fund exists to raise tax-deductible dollars from liberal donors and foundations that can be used to support the progressive
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The Working Families Organization, founded in 2006, is the 501(c)(4) affiliate of the Working Families Party, a union-funded and union-aligned far-left political party152 with power centers in traditionally hard-left localities and states, such as
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Note: USAction Education Fund merged to form People’s Action Institute in 2016 USAction Education Fund was the 501(c)(3) fundraising arm of USAction, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy umbrella for 22 state community organizing affiliates. In 2016, the two groups merged with allied center-left organizations to form People’s Action
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For the 501(c)(3), see UnidosUS (nonprofit) UnidosUS Action Fund (UnidosUS Action Fund) is a left-of-center advocacy group that seeks to expand the influence and political power of Hispanic communities in the United States through direct lobbying, field advocacy, media messaging, polling, and coalition building.
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The People’s Action Institute is a community organizing group formed from the merger of several advocacy organizations in 2016 including the National People’s Action, Alliance for a Just Society, and USAction Education Fund, three left-of-center community organizing groups.
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Also see Center for American Progress (Nonprofit) The Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action), established in July 2003 by longtime Clinton family confidant John Podesta, liberal billionaire George Soros, and a handful of other former Washington, D.C. Democrats and Clinton administration officials, is a leading force
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Rahm Emanuel is an American politician who served as the 55th mayor of Chicago from 2011 through 2019.322 Emanuel has served in several senior positions in government, including Senior Advisor to President Bill Clinton,
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Arabella Advisors (commonly called “Arabella”) is a philanthropic consulting company that guides the strategy, advocacy, impact investing, and management for high-dollar left-leaning nonprofits and individuals. 361 Arabella provides these clients with a number of services that ease
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RePower (sometimes written Re:Power), formerly Wellstone Action, is a radical political training organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Formed in 2003 as tribute to the life and legacy of late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN), RePower is one of the biggest left-wing training organizations in the United States.
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The Piper Fund is a campaign finance reform donor collaborative hosted by the Proteus Fund, a center-left funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit. The Piper Action Fund is the advocacy arm of the Piper Fund and is hosted by the 501(c)(4) Proteus Action League. Both the Piper Fund and
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America Votes is a left-of-center lobbying and advocacy coalition that supports left-of-center issue advocacy and expanding voting access.517 America Votes bills itself as the “Coordination Hub of
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The Democracy Initiative Education Fund (DIEF) is the nonprofit arm of the Democracy Initiative, a major left-progressive advocacy group coalition. DIEF has received grants and contributions from major left-of-center foundations including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Proteus Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
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Equal Justice Works is a Washington, DC-based organization that focuses on left-progressive advocacy careers for lawyers. Law students founded the organization in 1986586 as the National Association of Public Interest Law.
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American Lung Association is an advocacy organization whose primary mission since its founding in 1904 is advocacy for improving lung health, reducing the burden of lung cancer on patients, and running anti-tobacco campaigns.
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2030 Inc. is a left-of-center environmentalist group that focuses on the relationship between urban planning and carbon dioxide emissions. The group actively advocates for restrictive environmentalist legislation and government regulation at the municipal, state, federal, and supranational levels. Organizational Overview The three programs offered by 2030 Inc. include 2030 Palette,