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The Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy (CAELP) is a left-of-center climate policy organization seeking more severe climate regulations on energy and businesses. 1 It was funded in 2017 with a
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Matt Cutts is the administrator of the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), a subordinate government agency of the Executive Office of the President that is tasked with improving federal website products. An Obama appointee (and, according to reports, a registered Independent
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Laurene Powell Jobs is a business executive and philanthropist, best known as the president of the left-leaning grantmaking enterprise Emerson Collective. Born Laurene Powell, she is the widow and heir of Apple Computer executive Steve Jobs, with a current estimated fortune of $21-24.4 billion, making her the fifth-richest woman
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Sisters of St. Francis of Dubuque is a Catholic ministry based in Dubuque, Iowa. The group is involved in assisting the re-entry to society of women released from prison and in anti-immigration-enforcement, environmentalist, and other left-of-center activism. The organization sponsors Briar Cliff University, a Catholic university in Sioux City, Iowa.
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Revolving Door Project is a project of the left-of-center Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) 1 that monitors political appointments to 39 different federal government agencies.
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Trillium Asset Management, LLC is a Boston-based investment management firm that directs investments to support a left-leaning environmental and social agenda. Trillium is an activist investor that regularly buys stakes in companies it disagrees with, such as energy companies, so that it can exert pressure to change their behavior. Founded
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SEIU Local 99 is a California-based government-worker local union of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a union that represents service workers in both the private and public sectors. SEIU Local 99 operates in Los Angeles, Ventura, and San Bernardino counties in southern California. The union claims to represent
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MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Formerly known as MacKenzie Bezos, she is recognized as the third-wealthiest woman in the world after a divorce settlement left her with an estimated $37 billion.
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Steven Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who served as U.S. Secretary of Energy in the Barack Obama administration. Chu is a leading advocate for aggressive left-leaning environmentalist legislation to combat climate change. Chu is famous for some of his unconventional ideas for combating climate change; most notable,
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The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit organization which provides consulting services to government agencies with the aim to make them more efficient.1 Its seeks to encourage more young
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Elizabeth Warren is a Democratic politician who has served as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 2012 and is a well-known leader of the left-progressive faction within the Democratic Party. Prior to her election to the Senate, Warren had a long career in academia and on government advisory panels related to
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Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is a shareholder advisory firm that assists shareholders with research in asset management, proxy voting, and corporate governance. In recent years, the firm has gained a reputation in the business sector for supporting the appointment of board members with activist agendas and for advocating in favor
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The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia is an order of Catholic nuns that follow the examples of Saint Francis and Saint Clare. 1 The order engages in politically left-of-center shareholder advocacy, supporting campaigns to restrict food and lifestyle
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David Bookbinder is an attorney and chief counsel to the Niskanen Center, a center-left and nominally libertarian think tank. Prior to that, Bookbinder was chief climate counsel to the Sierra Club, where he managed the group’s involvement in the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA, which established the
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Orin Kramer is a hedge fund manager and a Democratic Party fundraiser. He also served in the Carter administration on the White House domestic policy staff. He has also served on various commissions for Democratic governors across the country. Kramer is also on the board of directors for the
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Anna Lefer Kuhn is the executive director of the Arca Foundation, which funds left-wing causes in the U.S. and abroad. Previously, she worked for the Open Society Foundations, the advocacy philanthropy of left-of-center billionaire George Soros, as a program officer. Kuhn also previously served on the boards
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The Sunrise Movement, often referred to as “Sunrise,” is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) environmental advocacy organization founded in 2017. The group endorses liberal and far-left Democratic Party candidates for public office and organizes alongside other activist organizations to support expansive and radical environmentalist legislation it terms a “Green New Deal.” Sunrise
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For more information on the 2018 migrant caravans from Central America, see Pueblo Sin Fronteras and Centro Sin Fronteras Emma Lozano is a left-wing activist, founder and president of the illegal immigration advocacy group Centro Sin Fronteras (“Center Without Borders”), executive director of migrant caravan organizing group Pueblo Sin
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For additional information, see the Campion Foundation. The Campion Advocacy Fund the political lobbying and activism arm of the Campion Foundation, a private foundation created in 2005 and funded by Tom and Sonya Campion. 1
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The California Federation of Teachers (CFT) is the second-largest teachers union in California, representing 120,000 government-sector and private-sector educators. The organization is a regional chapter of the left-of-center American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the United States, and a chapter of the AFL-CIO, the
