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Rational 360 is a lobbying firm led and staffed by numerous former federal employees, most notably former Clinton White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart. Rational 360 formed in 2009 from a merger of Rational PR and Stevens and Schriefer Group.
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Schmidt Futures is a scientific research firm and social philanthropy founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy Schmidt in 2017. It dedicates its funds to scientists, researchers, and programs that work on artificial intelligence (AI), synthetic biology, and other STEM-related projects. Schmidt Futures
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Semafor is a for-profit news website that debuted in October 2022. The company views itself as a “global” news service presenting news stories from around the world. The company’s target audience is English-speaking college graduates. Its goal is to simplify and “declutter” the news. The website is also notable for
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Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) is a think tank that works with cities and companies across the globe to advocate for data-collection and management policies that may lead to increased tracking of civilians.
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The Hasso Platner Institute of Design at Stanford University, also known as the d.School, is an academic school within Stanford University centered around “design thinking” that conducts engineering and design projects in technology, consumer goods, business processes, and more. The school was founded in 2004 by mechanical engineering professors at
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Alameda Research was an investment firm focused on cryptocurrency founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. It went bankrupt in 2022 after revelations that Alameda and its sister company, crypto exchange FTX, engaged in dubious business practices that led to criminal charges against Bankman-Fried and co-CEO Caroline Ellison. Leadership Sam Bankman-Fried
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Yvon Chouinard is the socialist billionaire founder and former owner of Patagonia, a sportswear apparel company known for its environmentalist activism, including donating 1 percent of annual revenue to philanthropic causes. In 2022, Chouinard and his family relinquished control of the company to a trust and a nonprofit that are
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Ken Griffin is the billionaire founder of Citadel and a right-of-center political donor. In the 2022 election cycle, Griffin donated $60 million to political candidates and PACs, making him the third-largest overall donor behind Richard Uihlein and George Soros.
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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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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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Women of Color for Biden is a campaign that endorsed Joe Biden for president during the 2020 general election. It also advocates for women and ethnic minorities to be politically active so that they can utilize the identity politics of intersectionality to influence political processes in their favor. Background
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Women for Biden-Harris (formerly Women for Biden) is a left-of-center digital outreach advocacy organization that supported efforts to elect Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. In 2020, the organization shifted its purpose to support the policies of the Biden administration and other Democratic politicians. Background Women for
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Not to be confused with InfluenceWatch.org Monitoring Influence is a left-of-center website that curates profiles of conservative and right-leaning activists, organizations, and funders in imitation of InfluenceWatch.org. These profiles accuse mainstream conservative groups of trying to “stack the courts” with “like-minded ideologues” expressing “ultraconservative . . . legal theories”
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The Stolte Family Foundation (SFF) is a grantmaking organization which funds left-of-center education and environmental policy advocacy, as well as other activist causes. 1 The Foundation, which primarily backs projects in the Seattle, Washington
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Mission Investors Exchange is an “impact investing” network for foundations that try to use their investment dollars to push corporations to make social and environmental change. 1 The organization has more than 200
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South Asians for America is a left-of-center political advocacy organization that engages in get out the vote (GOTV), community advocacy, and issue-oriented messaging targeted at South Asian communities to elect Democratic Party candidates to office. Background South Asians for America was formed in May 2021 through a merger of an
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Paul Tudor Jones is an American billionaire investor and philanthropist. He is the founder of the Tudor Investment Company and conducts his philanthropic work through the Robin Hood Foundation and Everglades Foundation. Tudor Jones has historically supported both Republican and Democratic politicians, and has praised both President Donald
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Pivotal Ventures is a private company created and led by philanthropist Melinda French Gates oriented around investing in organizations that support women’s issues. Background The company’s investment activity is divided into six initiatives, all related to women’s issues: Women in Technology and Innovation, which seeks to increase the number
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Jeff T. Green is a billionaire businessman and philanthropist for left-of-center causes. In addition, he is the founder of the Jeff T. Green Family Foundation. A former member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
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The CERGE-EI Foundation is an American supporting organization for CERGE-EI, a graduate school in the Czech Republic that is a joint venture between Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Besides supporting CERGE-EI, the foundation also has teaching fellowships in economics at universities in Central
