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Non-profit
Pro Bono Net Inc. is a legal advocacy group that connects its users to legal assistance and resources through the internet and digital applications. Founded in 1999 through a grant from the Open Society Foundations, it also receives funding from Microsoft, left-of-center advocacy group Restaurant Worker’s Community Foundation,
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Person
Jessica McKellar is a San Francisco-based technology executive who is the founder and chief technology officer of Pilot.com. 1 In 2022, McKellar donated $100,000 to oppose the recall of controversial San Francisco District Attorney
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Non-profit
Solidarity Giving is a left-of-center grantmaking and advocacy donor-advised fund located in Palo Alto, California. The fund was created in 2016 immediately after the election of President Donald Trump to change government systems, laws, and policies nationwide.
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Non-profit
El Pueblo Inc. advocates for left-of-center policies to increase the economic and political power of Latinos, whom it refers to as “LatinX.” 1 El Pueblo provides leadership training for community organizers and organizes voter registration
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Person
Sophia Lin Lakin is deputy director of the Voting Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in New York City. 1 She’s an attorney registered with the state of New York.
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Non-profit
Lillian’s List Action Fund (Lillian’s List) is an activist organization modeled after the pro-abortion group EMILY’s List that identifies, recruits, and supports left-progressive and pro-abortion candidates running for office in North Carolina. 1
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Non-profit
Catholic Charities USA (CCU) is an umbrella group for local charities throughout the United States affiliated with the Catholic Church. It is the largest social safety net provider in the United States after the federal government.
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Non-profit
Worth Rises, formerly the Corrections Accountability Project at the Urban Justice Center, is a research and advocacy organization focused on dismantling the prison system. 1
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Non-profit
The Jewish Communal Fund is a community foundation and administrator of donor-advised funds that promotes and facilitates charitable giving within the Jewish community in the greater New York City area. The organization was founded in 1972 and since has grown to serve donor-advised fund holders across the United States and
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Person
Pamela Smith is a left-of-center election law activist known for her opposition to electronic voting. 1 She works as president and CEO of
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Non-profit
Justice for Migrant Women (J4MW) is a left-of-center organization that was originally designed to advocate for migrant women and other illegal immigrants in the United States. 1 The group is fiscally
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Non-profit
Einhorn Collaborative (formerly Einhorn Family Charitable Trust) is a private foundation created by Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn and his wife Cheryl Einhorn. It makes grants to colleges and left-leaning nonprofit organizations. 1
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Person
Marielena Hincapie is a left-of-center immigration activist and the longtime executive director of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC). She has advocated for lax immigration enforcement, criticizing even Obama administration immigration policy as too harsh, and has called former President Donald Trump a racist, a white supremacist,
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Other Group
#NoDAPL (No Dakota Access Pipeline) is a Twitter hashtag and social media campaign that supported protests and encampments attempting to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argued that the 1,172-mile-long pipeline’s construction would threaten the tribe’s drinking water and sacred sites due
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Person
Jennifer Pritzker is a member of the Pritzker family of billionaires and Democratic politicians. Pritzker was born in 1950 as James Pritzker, a nephew of the founders of the Hyatt Hotel chain. In 2013, Pritzker changed his name from James to Jennifer,
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Non-profit
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund is a non-profit organization that focuses on funding initiatives that promote Latino political engagement. It also promotes left-of-center talking points on immigration, voting rights, the Census, and election administration. NALEO Educational Fund receives most of its revenue from
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Person
Kristen Lee, a former Democratic Congressional staffer, is a policy analyst at the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She has authored material on behalf of ACLU on matters related to election administration and District of Columbia statehood. Capitol Hill Career Starting on March 9, 2015, Kristen Lee worked
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Person
Dale Ho is a left-of-center attorney who specializes in voting rights cases. As of March 2022, he is a nominee for a U.S. district judgeship. As director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Voting Rights Project, Ho has argued against requiring proof of citizenship in order to register
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Person
Dana Paikowsky is a left-of-center lawyer who focuses on voting issues. She is most notable for her work in trying to allow felons and the incarcerated the right to vote in elections. In 2021, she joined the U.S. Department of Justice in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights
