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Non-profit
Andrew Goodman Foundation (AGF) is a left-of-center nonprofit that advocates for student voting through lawsuits, supporting legislation, and on-campus get-out-the-vote campaigns. AGF is named for Andrew Goodman, a college student who joined Freedom Summer, a 1964 civil rights voter registration drive in Mississippi who was murdered along with two other
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Non-profit
The CAA Foundation is the left-of-center grantmaking arm of Creative Artists Agency LLC, a leading talent agency for the sports and entertainment industry. The CAA Foundation supports organizations that engage in climate change activism, organizations that seek to weaken voter integrity laws, organizations that advocate for soft-on-crime policies, organizations that
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Other Group
State Wide Indivisible Michigan (SWIM) is a coalition of roughly 26 local affiliates of the left-of-center organizing and activism Indivisible Project network. 1
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Non-profit
Voters’ Right to Know (VRTK) is a social welfare advocacy group that promotes transparency in elections and the disclosure of political spending. 1 It is led by and has partnered with left-of-center individuals and
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Other Group
Bay Rising Action (BRA) is a project of the left-of-center Movement Strategy Center (MSC) that advocates for equal outcomes for minorities and conducts voter mobilization, including providing a search tool for left-of-center voter guides.
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Other Group
The Election Integrity Network is a project of the Conservative Partnership Institute led by right-of-center election lawyer Cleta Mitchell. 1 It is a coalition of right-of-center leaders, organizations, public officials, and citizens dedicated to
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Other Group
The Civic Responsibility Project (CRP) is a project of the New Venture Fund, one of the funds managed by Arabella Advisors, a left-of-center consultancy that is considered one of the largest “dark money” networks in the United States. Its status as a project ensures that no separate public
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Non-profit
The Election Center, also known as the National Association of Election Officials, is a nonprofit organization comprised of state, local, and federal election-administration workers as well as academics and voting software and equipment companies. The group is headquartered in Texas and its members are primarily government employees who oversee or
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Labor Union
The International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) was a left-of-center labor union chartered by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). It negotiated labor protections for electrical and radio workers and organized several strikes, most notably the Westinghouse strikes of 1955-56 and the General Electric (GE) strikes of 1960
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Non-profit
Detroit Action is the advocacy arm of the Detroit Action network, a left-of-center community organizing and activist group that pushes for left-of-center economic policy through education, activism, and voting drives in the Detroit area through three different legal entities. It is not an independent nonprofit, but rather exists as a
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Non-profit
Detroit Action Education Fund is the educational arm of the Detroit Action organization, a left-of-center community organizing and activist group that pushes for left-of-center economic policy through education, activism, and voter drives in the Detroit area. It is not an independent nonprofit but rather exists as a fiscally sponsored project
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Person
Michael T. Morley is a law professor who has written extensively on election and constitutional law. He has contributed to both the conservative-leaning Federalist Society and the National Task Force on Election Crises, an ostensibly nonpartisan commission on election security that criticized President Donald Trump. Morley is
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Other Group
Code Blue Washington is a left-of-center get-out-the-vote-organization based in Seattle, Washington. It is a chapter of the organization Code Blue. The organization was founded in 2017 in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The organization works to elect Democrats across
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Other Group
Promote the Vote is the voter mobilization initiative of the left-of-center advocacy group National Council of Jewish Women. 1 Parent Organization National Council of
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Other Group
TurboVote is a software program that assists various communities, particularly colleges and corporations, with voter registration. TurboVote is a project of left-leaning advocacy group Democracy Works and has been contracted by major colleges and universities across the United States to conduct school-sponsored voter registration drives. It has also partnered
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For-profit
Sojourn Strategies is a political consulting firm that works with left-of-center social policy campaigns, left-progressive nonprofits, and research groups. It was founded by criminal justice activist and former professor Katrina L. Gamble. 1 The firm
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Other Group
Institute for Responsive Government (IRG) is a policy think tank that purports to seek to improve government effectiveness and correct bureaucratic inefficiency. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit managed by consulting company Arabella Advisors that makes grants to left-of-center organizations.
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Person
Theodore M. Shaw is a left-of-center American law professor who has criticized voting ID laws, efforts to protect election integrity, and state bans on teaching critical race theory. Shaw previously worked at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education
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Person
Loida Tapia is the director of public engagement for the office of the Michigan Secretary of State, where she started in February 2019. 1 Tapia started in politics working for Barack Obama’s 2008
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Non-profit
The John Pritzker Family Fund, based in Redwood City, California, is a private grantmaking foundation focused on Jewish causes, civic projects in the San Francisco Bay area, the arts, and support of left-of-center projects targeting American voters and elections.
