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For-profit
For more information on Working Assets, see CREDO Mobile Working Assets is the holding company for and former brand name of the group of companies known as CREDO, which uses for-profit ventures in cellular and long-distance telephone service, branded credit cards, and renewable energy to support left-of-center causes.
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Non-profit
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation) is the primary organizational outgrowth of the more decentralized Black Lives Matter movement. According to an Associated Press report from February 2021, BLM Global Network Foundation was granted tax-exempt status by the IRS in December 2020.
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Non-profit
For the 501(c)(4) affiliate, see All Above All Action Fund (Nonprofit) All Above All is a project of the 501(c)(3) left-leaning funding entity New Venture Fund and is the sister organization to the All Above All Action Fund, a project of the 501(c)(4) left-leaning funder Sixteen Thirty Fund. Critics
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Person
Heather Booth is a career left-of-center activist and organizer. Her political involvement began in the Civil Rights Movements. She was involved with a number of radical left causes in the 1960s and 1970s, but entered mainstream Democratic Party politics in the 1980s. In the 1960s, Booth started an underground network
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Person
For more information, see Code Pink (Nonprofit) Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin) is a left-wing political activist born in 1952 in Long Island, New York. She is the co-founder of the radical anti-war group Code Pink (styled CODEPINK), co-founder of Global Exchange, and president of the Benjamin Fund.
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Political Party/527
The National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC) is a 527 political action committee which trains Democratic candidates to run for public office.169 To this end, the NDTC provides candidates with online fundraising services,
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Person
Mike Lux is a Democratic political strategist affiliated with Democracy Partners, and his own firm, Progressive Strategies LLC. His client list has included the League of Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood, and Democracy Alliance. He is a board member at the Arca Foundation and was
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Non-profit
The March for Our Lives Action Fund emerged from the March for Our Lives gun control rally held in Washington on March 24, 2018 in the wake of a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 of that year. National gun control organizations
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Person
Meghan Maury is a LBGT rights activist and operative who serves as the Policy Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force (formerly the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, also known simply as The Task Force). Maury’s policy work for the task force promotes a wide array of left-leaning
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Government Agency
The National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations (NAC) is a census advisory committee of the U.S. Census Bureau which consults with local community leaders on what questions to ask and how to collect data on particular demographic groups. A number of the members of the NAC
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Person
Deepak Bhargava is a career left-of-center activist and community organizer who worked for 16 years as executive director and president of the Center for Community Change (CCC), a left-of-center national organization that coordinates local community organizers. Bhargava led the organization to focus on liberal expansionist immigration policy and ethnic
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Person
Doug Phelps is the president and executive director of the controversial left-wing organizing entity known as the Public Interest Network. Phelps holds a number of additional roles inside the left-progressive movement in addition to his position with Public Interest Network, a collection of over 15 national groups that work
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Political Party/527
New Democrat Network Political Action Committee (NDNPAC) was formed in 1996 as a left-of-center committee to advocate and elect Democrats to office. After reorganizing in 2003, the political action committee and its parent organization, New Democrat Network, were involved in funding controversies and the PAC ceased operations after the
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Non-profit
New Democrat Network (NDN) is a left-of-center think tank and advocacy group. Originally associated the moderate “New Democrat” wing of the party, it has shifted toward supporting more-liberal candidates and policy positions. History and Work New Democrat Network is a self-described liberal think tank and advocacy organization.
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Person
Stuart Appelbaum is president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). He is also an executive vice president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), the parent union of RWDSU. Appelbaum is a vice-president of the national AFL-CIO and serves on the
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Person
Paul Franklin Watson is a Canadian marine wildlife conservation and environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine conservation and marine conservation activism. Controversies Canadian Seal Hunt Protest Sea Shepherd Conservation Society leader Paul Watson has had frequent run-ins
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Non-profit
ThinkProgress is a left-of-center online media outlet published by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. It began as a blog in 2005, but later began covering news from a liberal perspective with a staff of reporters and editors. In September 2019, its publisher laid off staff and closed
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Non-profit
National Public Radio (NPR) is a national nonprofit media outlet created and funded by the federal government. Though the organization claims to strive for objectivity, many media watchdogs consider NPR to have a left-of-center bias.
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For-profit
Waterfront Strategies is an advertising purchasing firm formed in 2006 by principals of the powerhouse Democratic political consulting firm Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, and Burns (GMMB Consulting). Waterfront typically works in conjunction with GMMB, placing media buys for political action committees (PACs), while GMMB works directly for political candidates and
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Non-profit
The New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice is a left-of-center advocacy and political organizing group based in New Orleans, Louisiana that works on ethnic interest issues and labor-union-aligned employment policy. The organization was formed in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina strike in 2005 which flooded and depopulated New
