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Manpower Development Corps (MDC) Inc. is a left-of-center think tank based in Durham, North Carolina. Created in 1967 to address issues of poverty and racial inequality in the rural South, MDC is an offshoot of the North Carolina Fund, an anti-poverty initiative developed in 1963 by then-North Carolina Gov. Terry
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National Education Equity Lab (Education Equity Lab) is a left-of-center education-focused organization that operates a pilot program for high school juniors and seniors
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The NewSchools Venture Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization which funds projects intended to support the American public school system. While the fund claims that it is committed to “every young person,” it devotes particular attention to initiatives involving minority groups, and two of its four investment areas are explicitly
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Jeffrey L. Bradach is a co-founder and managing partner of the Bridgespan Group, a charitable organization which provides consultation to nonprofit groups. 1 Before forming Bridgespan with Tom Tierney, both founders worked at managing consulting
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John Seitz, a former investment manager, is the founder and CEO of Foundation Financial Research LLC, a foundation-focused financial analytics firm with three divisions: FoundationMark, FoundationIQ, and FoundationAdvocate. Background Prior to founding Foundation Financial Research, Seitz worked for various nonprofit organizations through an Outsourced Chief Investment Office and also
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FoundationMark is a division of Foundation Financial Research LLC, a grantmaker-focused financial analytics firm founded and operated by John Seitz, a former investment manager and consultant. Background FoundationMark’s parent company is Foundation Financial Research, a limited liability company founded on February 5, 2015 by John Seitz, a former investment
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Alliance for Educational Justice (AEJ) is a left-wing collaborative of 30 youth-led education activist groups 1
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Leading Educators (LE) is a critical race theory-aligned educational nonprofit that purports to create better educational outcomes for minority students by teaching left-of-center concepts about racial equity through mentoring. 1 In April 2021, LE released
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Carra Cote-Ackah is chair of the Surdna Foundation, a senior fellow at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, and executive director of community stewardship for Vanguard, a major commercial investment firm. The Surdna Foundation is one of the oldest and largest family foundations in the United States, established
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Caitlin Heising is the daughter of Liz Simons and Mark Heising, left-progressive advocacy philanthropists and the founders of the Heising-Simons Foundation. As a vice chair of the foundation, she develops philanthropic programs focusing on human rights and left-of-center criminal justice policy.
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The National Center for Family Philanthropy is an organization that acts as a network for families engaged in left-of-center philanthropic giving guided by a shared goal to make the world more “resilient” and “equitable.” The Center works to provide its members with information on prospective organizations to support and to
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Panorama Global is a left-of-center pass-through funder that bundles grants to a range of nonprofits involved in LGBT-interest causes, left-leaning Latino voter engagement, education, and other advocacy causes as well as human welfare issues like mental health. Panorama Global has close ties to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy (Hunt Institute) is a left-of-center education advocacy organization based in Durham, North Carolina. 1
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The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation is a conservative-leaning education-policy think tank that advocates for school choice and public charter schools. The organization, with roots going back to 1959, also advocates for higher academic standards for students and greater accountability for educators.
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CORE Districts is a consortium of eight urban school districts in California. CORE Districts develops procedures, practices, and research and provides data on school and student progress. While member districts do pay for part of the expenses, left-of-center foundations provide much of the funding to CORE Districts. History CORE Districts
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Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium (MAEC) is a nonprofit consulting group that provides critical race theory-aligned diversity and “antiracist” training and seminars to schools. MAEC has been called “one of the country’s most prominent antiracist auditing nonprofits.” The group provides “technical training” to schools across the country, often in the form of
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The Philanthropy Roundtable is a non-profit organization that supports and advises philanthropists to strengthen a free American society. The Roundtable aims to protect philanthropic freedom and advance liberty, opportunity, and personal responsibility. 1
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Rajiv Shah is a former Democratic Party operative who currently works as president of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports environmentalist organizations and social policy advocacy through support for organizations such as New America, the Urban Institute, and the
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The Bridgespan Group is a charitable organization that provides consulting services to non-profits across the United States and around the globe. The Bridgespan Group was formed in 1998 by Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach, both of whom had experience in the management consulting firm, Bain and Company. Tierney and Bradach
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Jubilee USA Network (JUN) is a coalition of 75 organizations, 700 faith communities, and 50 “Jubilee global partners” devoted to reforming international debt. JUN and many similar organizations arose in the 1990s as part of the “Jubilee 2000” movement, which advocated for the universal forgiveness of national debt in developing
