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Adam Gross is a computer scientist, tech entrepreneur, and investor. He is currently on the board of the video hosting company Vimeo, and is the chairman of the board of the technology-focused left-of-center get-out-the-vote (GOTV) organization Democracy Works. Career Adam Gross studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in
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Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist best known for founding LinkedIn. Hoffman was relatively apolitical prior until 2016, when he became an outspoken critic of then-Republican candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Following the election, Hoffman called President Trump “worse than useless as
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Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania (CVP) is a left-of-center environmentalist advocacy organization that endorses and supports state and local candidates in the state of Pennsylvania. CVP is affiliated with the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), a national environmentalist organization that has been accused of being a “dark money heavyweight” by
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Tom Donohue was the longtime president and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and the first individual to hold both titles concurrently. In 2019, he was succeeded by Suzanne Clark as president, and in 2021, Clark succeeded him as CEO. Donohue was
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Omidyar Network is an LLC created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar to make philanthropic “impact investments.” Its sister group, the Omidyar Network Fund is a 501(c)(3) grantmaking foundation. Omidyar Network and the Omidyar Network Fund are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
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Twitter (known officially since a 2023 rebranding as “X”1) is a social networking website founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams.
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The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
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Wallis Annenberg is the president of the Annenberg Foundation, a multibillion-dollar private foundation which funds various left-of-center political groups and causes in the Greater Los Angeles area and throughout the nation. According to the Annenberg Foundation’s 2018 tax return, the foundation has over $1.4 billion in assets, putting it
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Woodtiger Fund is a Pennsylvania-based foundation that primarily funds environmentalist projects, especially opposition to natural gas exploration. The organization also funds environmentalist journalism and wildlife conservation projects. The fund is an offshoot of the Wallace Global Fund, which traces its roots to a foundation created by former U.S. Vice
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The Democracy Alliance (DA), a collective of wealthy Democratic and left-progressive individual and institutional donors, hosts semi-annual conferences for its members and guests. Described as a “major gathering of the institutional left,” the conferences primarily serve to connect prospective left-leaning donors with similarly minded activist groups, and to provide
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All Americans Vote is a nominal voter mobilization group which seeks to increase voter turnout for young and racial-minority voters expected to support the Democratic Party. 1 The group was founded in 2018 by Tamer Mokhtar, a
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The Praxis Project is a left-of-center organization that provides seed money, strategic support, and fiscal sponsorship to community-based advocacy groups, especially those focused on health care policy and racial minority communities. It has been funded by several large left-of-center donors including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Tides
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Yuen-Ying Chan is a writer and founder of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at Hong Kong University. She has additionally worked as a journalist for the New York Daily News and NBC News. She has worked as an advisor to The GroundTruth Project, a left-of-center news organization that runs Report for
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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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PennFuture (formerly Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future) is a center-left state environmental advocacy group created in 1998 and headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The group is closely related to another environmental group, Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania, and the two groups share staffers.
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The Hispanic Federation (HF) is a left-of-center New York-based membership organization that works with Hispanic communities across the United States, with its member groups primarily on the East Coast. The HF works in areas of education, health, immigration, economic empowerment, civic engagement, and the environment, with advocacy targeted and specific
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Ian Simmons is a Democratic political donor, liberal activist investor, and youth voter engagement activist. He has founded or is otherwise involved in a number of left-leaning organizations such as the Foundation for Civic Leadership and Organizing for Action.
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Joy Vermillion Heinsohn is a political activist and assistant director at the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, a major financial supporter for left-of-center organizations based in North Carolina. Early Life and Career Heinsohn received a bachelor’s degree in Politics from Wake Forest University, as well as a Master’s in Public
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Zack Exley is a former senior adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and co-founder of the left-wing political committees Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress.
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Matthew (Matt) DeBergalis is the co-founder, president, and chairman of the board of directors of ActBlue PAC, ActBlue LLC, ActBlue Charities, and ActBlue Civics. DeBergalis and Ben Rahn launched the ActBlue website in 2004 as a fundraising platform for left-of-center organizations and political candidates. The ActBlue website is a way for
