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Facebook is a Menlo Park, California-based social media and social networking service. Along with current chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founders include Andrew McCullum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin. The company is colloquially considered among the “Big Four” technology firms which include Google,
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Jill Alper is a top Democratic strategist 1 who has worked on seven presidential campaigns 2 including as the
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FWD.us (also styled Forward US) is a liberal expansionist immigration reform advocacy group based in the United States. It lobbies and advocate for its version of immigration reform, changes to the US education system to improve science and technology education, and the facilitation of scientific breakthroughs with broad public benefits.
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The Economic Innovation Group is a research organization that focuses on economic advancement for entrepreneurs and economically challenged demographics. In the wake of the 2008-2009 recession, a group of entrepreneurs including Napster co-founder Sean Parker and angel investor Ron Conway launched the group to promote alternative methods of economic
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Salon.com is a liberal blog known in recent years for sensational clickbait headlines, questionable content, and low journalistic standards.1 Salon has adopted an increasingly
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John Doerr is an American venture capitalist and philanthropist best known for investing in top tech firms like Amazon, Google, and Twitter through the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. As of September 2023, Doerr has an estimated net worth of $10.1 billion.
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NOI is defunct. For its successor, see Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) New Organizing Institute Education Fund (NOIEF) was the charitable arm of New Organizing Institute (NOI), a progressive nonprofit that trained digital organizers and campaigners for the Democratic Party. The organization, described by a Washington
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Also see National Organization for Women (nonprofit) National Organization for Women Foundation (NOW Foundation) is a left-of-center feminist advocacy group founded associated with the National Organization for Women (NOW) as the group’s public-charity arm. NOW was founded as part of the second-wave feminist movement, which pushed for a greater
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NOI is defunct. For its successor, see Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) New Organizing Institute (NOI) was a left-progressive group that trained digital organizers and campaigners for the Democratic Party and liberal political causes. The organization, described by a Washington Post reporter as “the Democratic Party’s Hogwarts
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Climate Majority Project (formerly 50/50 Climate Project) is a left-of-center environmentalist organization that focuses on influencing corporation’s decisions and direction towards adopting the environmentalist agenda. The group seeks to add one or more select climate activists for environmental oversight to boards of directors in companies like Exxon and Chevron. Climate
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The Ed Foundation is the creation of Jeff Sandefer, founder of Sandefer Offshore, an oil exploration company. Sandefer has also created the Acton School of Business, a graduate business school in Austin, Texas, and with his wife, Laura Sandefer, the Acton Academy, a national network of private schools. A recent
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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. 1 Arabella provides these clients with a number of services that ease
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The Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization with over $11 billion in assets. The Foundation conducts most of its grantmaking through donor-advised fund (DAF) accounts established with oversight from individual donors who can advise how their gifts are distributed for charitable purposes. SVCF has drawn criticism
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Also see Blanche and Julian Robertson Family Foundation (nonprofit) The Robertson Foundation is a foundation created by hedge fund investor Julian H. Robertson, Jr. and his wife, Josie Robertson. It is not to be confused with the Robertson Foundation for Government, a nonprofit that is the successor to the Robertson Foundation,
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Dustin Aaron Moskovitz is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes. In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana with Justin Rosenstein. Moskovitz and his wife, former Wall Street Journal reporter Cari Tuna, are the founders
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The Center for Just Journalism is a left-of-center news analysis and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. The Center claims that the mainstream media has, since the 19th century, sensationalized crime, cherry-picked data and information it shares about crime, and prioritized the perspective of law enforcement while using dehumanizing language
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Results for America is a policy advocacy group that aims to influence government workers and politicians to adopt programs it asserts will lead to more equitable outcomes. It subscribes to the left-of-center doctrine of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory-influenced concepts, such as systemic racism.
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CarbonPlan is a nonprofit that uses computational analysis to study the efficaciousness of carbon capture companies and schemes. The group is a public benefit corporation registered in California that is also recognized as tax-exempt by the federal government.
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FUSE Corps (FUSE) is a left-of-center equity-based nonprofit that embeds fellows in local governments to promote a left-leaning agenda. FUSE Corps seeks to promote racial equity due to perceived systemic and institutionalized racism. FUSE seeks to raise the minimum wage, enact carbon neutral housing mandates that in Boston would require
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TechEquity Collaborative (TechEquity) is a left-leaning organization that attempts to bring left-of-center racial policies to technology companies. TechEquity focuses heavily on racial matters, claiming that anti-Blackness is embedded in everyone. TechEquity sees an anti-Black bias in law enforcement systems, voting, the economy, and hiring. Tech Equity has stated that employee
