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The States United Democracy Center is a left-leaning election law organization that was founded in 2020 as the Voter Protection Program (not to be confused the Voter Protection Project, another left-leaning election advocacy organization). The organization was founded as one of many organizing coalitions and left-leaning strategy groups
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LeftNet is a digital activism organization that produces left-of-center petitions and letters. The organization circulates petitions for signatures with assistance from the Action Network, an online tool created by Brian Young, former digital director for U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry during his time as a U.S.
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Chalkbeat is a left-of-center nonprofit media organization that is focused on local reporting on education issues in the United States. Since 2020, the organization has embraced critical race theory-inspired “antiracist” activism and regularly reports on the use of critical race theory in teaching and efforts to bar it from public
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Florida Civic Engagement Table, also known as State Voices Florida, is a voter outreach and civic engagement organization working to increase voter turnout among historically left-of-center populations in the state. 1 It is
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The Coca-Cola Company is a multinational corporation that produces and sells various soft drinks. Its flagship product, Coca-Cola, was first invented in 1886 by pharmacist and Confederate Civil War veteran John Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Democracy is Good for Business is a left-of-center group that advocates for changes to the U.S. electoral system, including automatic voter registration, mail-in voting, and widespread early voting. It is a project of the left-of-center New Venture Fund, a Washington, D.C.-based pass-through funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit. The fund is
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The American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) is a conservative legal group founded in 1998 as the American Civil Rights Union. 1 Former Reagan administration adviser Robert Carleson started the organization to advocate for
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The American Cornerstone Institute is a right-leaning nonprofit organization created by former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and neurosurgeon Ben Carson. The organization promotes conservative political beliefs and perspectives on history. Background The American Cornerstone Institute asserts that it advocates for faith, liberty, community and life.
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Craig Newmark is a billionaire businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune as the founder of the online marketplace Craigslist. 1 He conducts most of his philanthropic activities through the Craig Newmark Foundation, which he
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Charles G. Koch is an American businessman, political and charitable donor, and the current chairman and CEO of Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States. Koch, along with his late brother David, is a prolific donor to and founder of many right- and libertarian-leaning
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The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute is a nonprofit organization affiliated with Yale University that acts as a training and professional development organization for business leaders in America. The organization provides training programs to CEOs of many of the largest corporations in America such as American Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, Starbucks,
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is a professor at the Yale School of Management. He previously taught at Harvard Business School and Emory University and has written several books on corporate leadership. 1
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Daniella Ballou-Aares is a left-leaning political activist and former Obama administration official who leads the Leadership Now Project as its founder and CEO. Ballou-Aares started the organization in 2017 in collaboration with several other graduates of Harvard Business School. Leadership Now acts as a membership organization for left-leaning
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Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism (CIC) is a left-of-center advocacy group which promotes “inclusive capitalism,” a business and political policy movement based on aligning capitalism with left-progressive priorities. CIC was founded by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild financial dynasty and personal friend of the Clinton family.
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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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The Craig Newmark Foundation, also known as Craig Newmark Philanthropies, is a grantmaking organization launched by Craig Newmark, a billionaire businessman and the founder of the online marketplace Craigslist. 1
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Jen Psaki is Democratic Party communications strategist best known for having served as White House Press Secretary in the Biden Administration. Psaki stepped down from her position as White House Press Secretary in May 2022, following a controversy the previous month involving her abrasive statements about a reporter whom she
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For more information, see Sixteen Thirty Fund (Nonprofit) Fix Our Senate is a left-of-center advocacy campaign which lobbies for changes to the procedures of the United States Senate in order to make it easier for Democratic lawmakers to pass legislation, most notably the “nuclear option” to remove the longstanding
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The Heritage Foundation is a right-of-center policy think tank founded in 1973 that researches and recommends policies such as free markets, limited government, a strong national defense, and courts that adhere to the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution.
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The Institute for Free Speech (IFS; formerly the Center for Competitive Politics) is an activist organization that works to stop perceived threats to freedom of expression and assembly. The institute provides education and training, conducts research, engages in advocacy, and files lawsuits in order to achieve its objectives. IFS claims
