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Clare Melford is a British business executive and consultant who is the co-founder and CEO of the Global Disinformation Index, a London-based think tank focused on combatting alleged disinformation on online news sites. Melford was formerly CEO of the International Business Leaders Forum, managing director of MTV Networks, and
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The Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC), which became Defending Rights and Dissent in 2015, was a civil liberties activist organization focused on defending the right to protest and limiting the government’s right to monitor individuals or groups. It was originally formed to fight the Patriot Act, claiming that its
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Amistad Movement Power (AMP) is a left-of-center activist organization focused on eliminating what the group identifies as “mass incarceration.” It aims to de-fund the police and redistribute wealth to support Black, brown, and poor white communities in the Philadelphia area. Amistad Movement Power is the sister organization of Amistad Law
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Global Witness is an environmentalist advocacy and investigative organization that conducts research and produces reports on numerous industries in the attempt to expose corruption. It is heavily funded by left-leaning nonprofits such as George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and Pierre Omidyar’s Luminate.
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Transparency International (TI) is an international anti-corruption coalition of over 100 chapters worldwide that practices research, advocacy, and campaigning to expose corruption, push for greater government transparency, and lobby for anti-corruption legislation and processes. 1 It
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FairVote Action is the advocacy arm of FairVote. The organization supports ranked-choice voting, universal voter registration, and abolition of the Electoral College, and lowering the legal age to vote to 16 years old.
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TSD Communications is a public-relations firm that serves numerous left-of-center organizations. It was founded and is staffed by numerous alumni of the Clinton administration and Clinton-era Democratic National Committee. Clients TSD Communications has had numerous clients in the left-of-center advocacy sphere, including George Soros’s Open Society
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The Black Collective is a left-of-center activist organization based in southern Florida that is connected to the larger Black Lives Matter movement. It has staunchly opposed several policies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), particularly his support of a state law passed in 2021 designed to prevent public
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Public Housing Authorities Directors Association (PHADA) is a nonprofit association representing public housing authority directors before Congress and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). PHADA provides input on legislation and federal regulations to increase funding for public housing and seeks to change laws and regulations to
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The Council of State Community Development Agencies (COSCDA) is a nonprofit association comprised of community development agencies from U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia.
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Free the Ballot! Incarcerated Voter Family Network (referred to simply as Free the Ballot) is a left-of-center activist organization that seeks to end what the group identifies as “mass incarceration” in Pennsylvania.
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Council for Global Equality is a Washington, D.C.-based LGBT advocacy group comprised of a variety of left-of-center and LGBT organizations, including Human Rights Campaign and Open Society Foundations. 1 The Council
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First Draft News was a collective of left-wing media organizations that pushed for news publications to implement guidelines for sourcing and presenting information to combat so-called “misinformation.” Founded in 2015, the collective included tech giant Google and the foreign-affairs publication Bellingcat. First Draft shut down in 2022 and handed
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The Information Futures Lab (IFL) is a left-of-center research and advocacy organization that advocates for news outlets, social media platforms, and government institutions to adopt strategies to combat so-called “misinformation.” The organization was launched in June 2022 and is housed at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Of By For is a consulting firm operated by the executive director of the left-of-center Pro-Democracy Center, David Donnelly. 1 Donnelly launched the Princeton, New Jersey-based consultancy in 2020 to advance the
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David Donnelly is a left-of-center “political operative who is the executive director of the Pro-Democracy Center and Campaign and the director of the Democratic-aligned consultancy Of By For.
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My Brother’s Keeper (MBK), also known as the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, is a networking organization for teenage and young adult men of Black and other ethnic minority backgrounds. It also pushes for policies which it perceives to be beneficial to minority groups. MBK was founded in February 2014 by
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International Step by Step Association (ISSA) is a Netherlands-based 1 international membership association of early childhood-focused professionals primarily located in Europe and Central Asia.
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Harlem Children’s Zone – COVID-19 Relief and Recovery is a program of Harlem Children’s Zone, an educational organization based in Harlem, New York. In July 2020, MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, listed Harlem Children’s Zone – COVID-19 Relief and Recovery as one of 116
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Fair Representation in Redistricting (FRR) is a coalition of left-of-center donors and foundations that aims to influence how states draw legislative and congressional maps in order to favor likely Democratic voters. It is a project of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit in Arabella Advisors’ multi-billion-dollar network.
