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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. 48 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. 143
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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
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The Campaign for Accountability (CfA) is an ostensibly nonpartisan left-wing advocacy organization founded to expose supposed misconduct and corruption in the government and private sector. CfA typically targets conservative government officials or organizations in its investigations and has two Democratic operatives serving on its board of directors. CfA was formed
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The Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group (PennPIRG) is the advocacy arm of the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group Education Fund and the Pennsylvania state-level affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG). It is a multi-issue left-of-center advocacy organization. Background Established in 1986, PennPIRG is a state
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Bell Policy Center is a left-of-center state-level think tank based in Colorado. It is known for its support of efforts to raise state taxes and increase state spending; the group opposes the state’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR). It also focuses on other economic issues with a self-described emphasis on
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Laurie Zeller, sometimes written as Laurie Hirschfeld Zeller, is currently a Denver-based non-profit consultant. She has served as an executive at several left-wing organizations in Colorado. Zeller has been involved in left-wing causes since the 1980s. She was executive director of the Colorado Democracy Alliance. As of early 2019,
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The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) is a California-based non-profit corporation that funds California artists to support left-leaning political causes. Many of its grants focus on LGBT activism, immigrant advocacy, and left-of-center social policy. Grants in 2018 included support for a documentary film about the history of protests against police
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The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) is a self-claimed nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded with the intention of tracking money in politics. 286 The CRP was founded in 1983 by former U.S. Senators Frank Church
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The European Commission is the main executive arm of the European Union (EU). It conducts the majority of the management of the European Union’s budget,311 and it is the only institution within
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The California Labor Federation (CLF) is a labor union in California associated with the American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). The Federation includes more than 1,200 member unions which claim to represent over 2.1 million California workers.
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The American Conservation Coalition (ACC) is a right-of-center environmental advocacy group with financial and advisory board ties to left-of-center environmentalist groups. The group was founded by Benjamin “Benji” Backer, then-a student at the University of Washington, who led the group until 2023 when Danielle Butcher Franz became CEO and Chris
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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.
