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Non-profit
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical-left student organization often credited as the main force that created the New Left. It existed from 1960 until its demise in 1969, when it split apart after a Maoist SDS group affiliated with the Progressive Labor Party was expelled by a
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Labor Union
SEIU Local 521 is a chapter of the left-of-center Service Employees International Union (SEIU) that represents approximately 40,000 primarily government workers in collective bargaining in the Bay Area of California. 1 SEIU Local 521 is also one of
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Labor Union
Child Care Providers United (CCPU) is a coalition of several labor unions in California that claims to represent the interest of childcare workers. It was to promote AB 378 – a California assembly bill aimed allowing the unionization of 40,000 childcare workers. Members in the coalition include SEIU Local 99,
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Non-profit
Movement Net Lab (MNL) is a project of the Alliance for Global Justice, a fiscal sponsor of far-to-radical-left advocacy groups. MNL provides support services to groups that consist of training, network mapping, communications, speakers, content, materials, consultation, and designs to further left-of-center social and advocacy movements. The group provides
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Political Party/527
Courage Campaign Super PAC (CCSP) is the political action committee (PAC) branch of the progressive advocacy organization Courage Campaign and its fundraising and education arm, Courage Campaign Institute. Background The Courage Campaign Super PAC was formed in California in 2011 with the goal of reelecting President Barack
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Non-profit
The Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI) is a left-leaning advocacy and labor union activist organization focusing on the San Diego, California, metropolitan area. 1 CPI
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Non-profit
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation) is the primary organizational outgrowth of the more decentralized Black Lives Matter movement. According to an Associated Press report from February 2021, BLM Global Network Foundation was granted tax-exempt status by the IRS in December 2020.
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Non-profit
The Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, formerly known as the Matan B’Seter Foundation, was created in 2001 as part of an elaborate and secretive network of grantmaking organizations funded by three hedge fund billionaires: Andrew Shechtel, David Gelbaum and C. Frederick Taylor.
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Non-profit
Casa Latina is a left-of-center advocacy group located in Seattle, Washington, that operates several community service and employment assistance programs and advocates for left-of-center labor and immigration policies. The group was founded by local organizers in 1994 and operates a worker center and employment program for the Seattle-area homeless population
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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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Non-profit
Working Washington is a labor-union-aligned worker center which advocates for strict labor and employment regulations in the state of Washington and across the United States. 1 Working Washington is closely tied to the controversial
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Person
Howard Zinn was a professor of history at Boston University and a left-wing political activist who described himself as “something of an anarchist, something of a socialist” and “maybe a democratic socialist.”
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Person
Kim Glas is the president and CEO of the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), a labor union-aligned organization that works to advance the interests of the American textile industry. Glas has worked in a number of capacities for various labor and environmentalist organizations, most notably as the executive
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Person
Keith Ellison is a Democratic politician and lawyer who currently serves as Attorney General of Minnesota. 1 He is a former U.S. Representative and Minnesota state
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Labor Union
Unite Here (sometimes styled UNITE HERE or Unite HERE) is a major labor union principally organizing employees in the hotel, restaurant, and gaming industries. Unite Here was formed in 2004 from a merger between the Hotel Employees-Restaurant Employees (HERE) union and Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) and
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Non-profit
The Texas Freedom Network is a left-of-center lobbying organization that opposes religious conservatives on issues such as sex education, legal abortion, and Bible study in public schools. The group was founded by former Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards, the daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards (D).
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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. Since 2002, OSPC has spent more than $152 million on grantmaking and lobbying activities. More
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Non-profit
Also see the similarly named Foundation to Promote Open Society (Nonprofit) The Open Society Foundations (OSF; formally Open Society Institute) is a private grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros. OSF was founded in 1993 as the Open Society Institute (OSI), which remains the foundation’s
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Non-profit
The JPB Foundation is a private foundation created by Barbara Picower in 2011. It is one of the largest grant-making foundations in the United States. 1 Focused on medical, environmental, and poverty issues, the
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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
