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Non-profit
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center is the research and educational arm of the National Student Clearinghouse, an organization that maintains and sells data on high school and college students in the United States. The research center provides data on student enrollment to left-of-center voter advocacy and registration organizations and
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For-profit
The Bullpen Strategy Group is a public relations and campaign strategy firm that works for politicians, corporations, and advocacy groups around the world. The firm has offices in Washington, D.C.; Dallas, Texas; and London, England.
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For-profit
Endeavor Group Holdings is a major talent agency based in Beverly Hills, California. It was formed in 2007 by a merger of Endeavor, co-founded by Ari Emanuel, and the William Morris Agency. After a failed initial public offering in 2019, Endeavor made an initial public offering in 2021.
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Non-profit
Campaign to Unload was a gun control advocacy coalition of over 50 left-of-center organizations focused on changing gun law policies and encouraging organizations and individuals to divest of all investments in gunmakers.
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Other Group
Tenure Facility is an international grant and technical assistance agency seeking to help indigenous people and locals gain tenure of land, fight global warming, and advance gender equity. It seeks to gain documentation and registration of land rights through funding projects, provides issue papers and research, and provides “learning exchanges.”
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Non-profit
The Woodwell Climate Research Center is a left-of-center organization that uses data and commentary to advocate for environmentalist positions with the stated goal of “[t]urning climate research into urgent action.” 1 Background The Woodwell Climate Research Center was
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Movement
In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
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Non-profit
The Colorado Freedom Fund is a left-of-center organization that posts bail for incarcerated persons awaiting trial or in immigrant detention. 1 It supports ending incarcerating individuals who have been charged with what it considers “low-level”
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Person
Joanna Francescut is the Assistant County Clerk and Registrar of Voters for Shasta County, California. 1 Francescut
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Non-profit
MediaJustice (formerly Center for Media Justice) is a left-of-center activist group that opposes corporate media mergers and advocates for control of the media by minority racial, gender, and socioeconomic groups. The organization was formally founded in 2009 by Malkia Devich-Cyril, Amy Sonnie, and Jen Soriano.
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Non-profit
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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Government Agency
Sustainable Communities Initiative was an Obama administration policy that provided urban development and housing grants using federal tax dollars to subsidize the production of residential housing and increased investment in public transportation within communities of color. Background Sustainable Communities Initiative was a joint initiative of the Obama administration’s
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Non-profit
Asset Builders of America is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes financial literacy to low- and moderate-income students, young adults, and families throughout Wisconsin. 1 Activities Asset Builders of America produces programs geared towards a
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Non-profit
American Securities Association (ASA) is a trade association representing small and regional financial services companies. 1 Advocacy American Securities Association advocates for business, market, regulatory, and legislative policies that support the interest of its members.
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Non-profit
State Financial Officers Foundation is an organization made up of state auditors, controllers, or treasurers that promotes free markets and fiscally responsible public policy while opposing the use of Environmental, Social, and Corporate governance (ESG) principles in investment decision for public pensions. As of late 2022, the organization has
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Person
Gabe Bankman-Fried is a former Democratic congressional staffer and the founder and former head of left-of-center advocacy organization Guarding Against Pandemics (GAP). Notably, he is the brother of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed in 2022.
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Non-profit
United States Heartland China Association (USHCA) is an organization that builds relationships between government officials, business leaders, and educational institutions in the United States and China. 1
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Other Group
The International Drug Policy Consortium is a global network of 193 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academic institutions, professional networks, and think tanks including the Drug Policy Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, and Global Exchange, that supports broad liberalization of drug policies.
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Non-profit
The United States Impact Investing Alliance is a left-of-center coalition that advocates for environmental, social, governance activism (ESG) with funding from major left-leaning foundations. The alliance is a project of the New Venture Fund (NVF), a major pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor in the multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network
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Non-profit
The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) is a nonpartisan membership organization that is concerned with “dangers to civilized society,” as outlined in its statement of aims. To this end, MPS supports classical economic and political liberalism, and opposes government expansion, trade unions, business monopolies, and inflation.