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Non-profit
FCCP is a “fiscally sponsored” project. For more information about FCCP’s parent group, see NEO Philanthropy (Nonprofit) The Funders Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) is a donors’ affinity group for left-wing voter engagement advocacy that steers millions of dollars from left-wing funding entities to left-of-center nonprofits that use the
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Person
Jane Mayer is a left-of-center investigative reporter and contributor the New Yorker. Prior to joining that publication, Mayer worked as a White House correspondent and as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Mayer has covered issues including U.S. military policy, the Trump administration, and campaign finance.
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Non-profit
MSI Reproductive Choices, formerly Marie Stopes International (MSI), is a leading British-American abortion and birth control advocacy group founded in 1976 and active in 37 countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. The group is named for Marie Stopes (1880-1958), a British activist for women’s suffrage, birth control, abortion, eugenics, anti-Semitism,
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Non-profit
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice, education issues, public pensions, dietary policy, and scientific research reform. The foundation
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For-profit
Waterfront Strategies is an advertising purchasing firm formed in 2006 by principals of the powerhouse Democratic political consulting firm Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, and Burns (GMMB Consulting). Waterfront typically works in conjunction with GMMB, placing media buys for political action committees (PACs), while GMMB works directly for political candidates and
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Political Party/527
VoteVets PAC was founded in 2006 with the goal of electing to Congress Afghanistan or Iraq war veterans who were critical of the execution of the war in Iraq.1 VoteVets PAC has given nearly
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Movement
The “Fight for $15” is a corporate campaign principally orchestrated and funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which seeks to unionize the quick-service franchise restaurant industry and raise the federal minimum wage by more than double to $15 per hour, using the slogan “$15 and a union.”
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Non-profit
Also see Democracy Fund Voice (Non-profit) The Democracy Fund is a left-of-center public policy-oriented foundation chaired and soely funded by eBay founder and former chairman Pierre Omidyar.1
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Person
Christopher Stone was the president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the principal philanthropic vehicle for liberal billionaire George Soros, from 2011 to 2017. An academic with a focus on liberalizing criminal justice before joining OSF, he returned to academia as the “Professor of Practice of Public Integrity”
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Non-profit
The California Budget and Policy Center (formerly California Budget Project) 1 is a labor union- and left-of-center-foundation-funded policy advocacy group focusing on the state of California.
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Non-profit
The Instructional Telecommunications Foundation, doing business as Voqal, is a lobbying nonprofit which advocates for left-of-center policies, including increased government regulation of public broadcasting. Voqal provides substantial funding to groups involved with the Democracy Alliance, a donor collaborative for high-profile funding groups on the Left. Voqal generates revenue by
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For-profit
CREDO Mobile (formerly Working Assets) is a cell-phone company that explicitly uses its profits to support left-wing causes. Through doing business with CREDO its customers “fund progressive causes and power social activism.” 1 Left-of-center groups
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Person
Bill Clinton is a Democratic politician who served as President of the United States from January 20, 1993 until January 20, 2001. He is the husband of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the father of Chelsea Clinton. In December 1998 he was impeached by
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Non-profit
Workers Center for Racial Justice (WCRJ) is a Chicago-based advocacy organization that promotes a left-of-center, pro-labor-union, and anti-police “Black Liberation” policy agenda on criminal justice, economic, social services, and election access issues.
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Non-profit
The Windward Fund is an environmentalist fiscal sponsor organization in the network of “dark money” organizations controlled by philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Fund was created in February 2015 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with startup funding of $5.25 million provided by an unknown source. According to its bylaws, Windward
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Non-profit
Teach for America (TFA) is a teacher placement and training organization founded in 1990 by Wendy Kopp. TFA trains highly ranked undergraduate students in universities to teach in schools for a two-year period. TFA strategically places its teaching staff, known as “corps members,” in poorly funded schools for two-year periods.
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Non-profit
The Open Society Policy Center (OSPC) is a lobbying group associated with the Open Society Network and the Open Society Foundations, the principal advocacy philanthropic efforts of left-of-center financial billionaire George Soros. From May 2002 to April 2023, OSPC has reported spending over $161 million on lobbying.
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Non-profit
National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans (NCCMP) is a labor advocacy group that aims to protect multiemployer plans, or pension plans created by an agreement between multiple employers and a labor union to provide recipients with healthcare, retirement, and welfare benefits.
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Non-profit
The Institute for Southern Studies is a media and research center based in Durham, North Carolina, that advocates for liberal political and social causes in the Southern United States. The Institute conducts research, especially investigative journalism, with a left-of-center viewpoint on issues such as economics, labor unionism, environmentalism, racial identity,
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Non-profit
The Hopewell Fund is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm. The Hopewell Fund manages a number of left-of-center single-issue advocacy groups, including the Economic Security Project and pro-Obamacare Get America Covered. The Hopewell Fund often operates alongside its “sister” nonprofits, primarily
