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Also see Democracy Fund Voice (Non-profit) The Democracy Fund is a left-of-center public policy-oriented foundation chaired and solely funded by eBay founder and former chairman Pierre Omidyar.1
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Valerie Jarrett is a Democratic Party operative who served as a senior advisor to President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017 and as co-chair of the Obama-Biden Presential Transition Team following the 2008 presidential election.
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Not to be confused with the similarly titled Teneo Network, which is a right-of-center organization tied to Federalist Society co-founder Leonard Leo.
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Living Cities is a grantmaking and advocacy organization that consists of business and nonprofit organizations. It promotes economic, infrastructure, and development policies that align with left-wing societal objectives. Founded in 2001, Living Cities started out supporting mostly neighborhood-level projects before adopting a broader and more activist approach beginning in 2007.
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Our Oregon is a labor union-funded advocacy organization that aims to institute left-wing economic policy in the state of Oregon, specifically to promote the expansion of government education and government control of healthcare. The group is a major supporter of left-wing ballot initiative campaigns, providing over $1.4 million to ballot
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William Hall Janeway is a left-of-center economist and policy advocate. He is the co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a think tank founded in 2010 with the financial backing of billionaire financier and left-of-center philanthropist George Soros that pushes for increased government involvement in the
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The Oak Foundation (and its U.S. affiliate Oak Foundation USA) is a left-leaning environmentalist grantmaking foundation. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Oak Foundation was formed in 1983 and maintains offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Bulgaria, India, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania.
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Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington came to America in 1980 and quickly made a name for herself as a Manhattan “It Girl” among New York’s powerful. 214 In the mid-1980s
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Stephen Heintz is the long-time president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) as well as the co-founder and ex-president of Demos. Heintz played key roles in numerous high-profile diplomatic affairs through RBF, including the Obama administration’s Iran Nuclear Deal, the independence of Kosovo, and the Paris Climate
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Not to be confused with Demand Progress Action (PAC) Demand Progress Action (DPA) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for policies relating to foreign policy and civil liberties.
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The State Priorities Partnership (SPP), originally known as the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, 301 is a network of left-of-center think tanks organized under the Center on Budget and
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Morris Pearl is a left-of-center financier and activist. He is the board chair of The Patriotic Millionaires, an organization of wealthy individuals who advocate for higher taxes on high-income Americans. The group also pushes for other left-leaning economic and social policies such as an increased minimum wage. Pearl also
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The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is the teachers’ union for 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, and other public school employees in the Chicago, Illinois public school system, the third-largest school system in the United States. The CTU represents its members through collective bargaining for compensation, benefits, employee work conditions, and school governance.
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Vox is a digital media brand of Vox Media that operates the left-leaning Vox.com news and opinion website as well as an expanding network of branded podcasts, videos, and other online content. Vox was founded by left-wing journalists and activists Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Melissa Bell in 2014.
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Erica Payne is a left-of-center political operative who started a number of organizations aimed at influencing the news and public policy through media campaigns featuring influential liberal donors and activists and publicity stunts. She began her career in politics working for former U.S. Senator Terry Sanford (D-NC) and later worked
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Neera Tanden is a long-time confidante of the Clinton political family and a former Obama administration aide who served as president and CEO of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a left-of-center think tank cofounded by Democratic Party fixer John Podesta, from 2011 t0 2021, before being rehired
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John Podesta is a Democratic political operative who has served as White House Chief of Staff in the Clinton administration, Counselor to the President in the Obama administration, and chair of the Hillary Clinton 2016 Presidential campaign. He is also the co-founder and former president of the Center
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The Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) is a left-of-center political research and activist organization which was founded in 2002 and is based in Washington, D.C. The center conducts studies which support its advocacy for its favored economic and social policies, including wealth redistribution, fossil-fuel usage restrictions, and preferential treatment of
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Sandor Straus is a California-based mathematician and financial investment consultant who is a major donor to Democratic Party candidates and affiliated organizations in the United States.
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The Niskanen Center is a nominally libertarian 501(c)(3) environmental think tank with ties to center-left environmental groups. The Center was created in January 2015 and was initially headed by Jerry Taylor, a global warming advocate and environmental activist who authored a 2015 report The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax.
