Search results for ‘google news initiative’


  • Non-profit

    Open Markets Institute

    The Open Markets Institute is a left-leaning think tank that focuses on monopolies and how to break them up. The organization sees monopolization and corporate concentration as a threat to “democracy, individual liberties, and national security.” The organization was officially launched in September 2017 as an independent organization. Previously, most
  • For-profit

    Omidyar Network

    Omidyar Network is an LLC created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar to make philanthropic “impact investments.” Its sister group, the Omidyar Network Fund is a 501(c)(3) grantmaking foundation. Omidyar Network and the Omidyar Network Fund are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
  • Person

    Kamala Harris

    Kamala Harris is Democratic politician from California. Before her election to the Vice Presidency of the United States in the Biden administration, she was a United States Senator, California Attorney General, a former district attorney, and a former prosecutor. Harris started her career as a prosecutor in California. She
  • Government Agency

    Biden-Harris Transition

    The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
  • Non-profit

    Silicon Valley Rising

    Silicon Valley Rising (SVR) is a project of Working Partnerships USA, a left-wing community organizing organization, and the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council, a regional labor union federation under the AFL-CIO. SVR organizes campaigns to support the implementation of left-of-center labor policy in Silicon Valley, California. SVR
  • Non-profit

    European Climate Foundation

    The European Climate Foundation is a left-of-center non-profit that funds climate change-orientated advocacy organizations in Europe. Its governing body contains high-ranking members of large foundations and organizations including the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (also known as the Hewlett Foundation), the Bloomberg Family Foundation (Bloomberg Philanthropies), the
  • Non-profit

    San Francisco Rising

    San Francisco Rising (SFR) is a project of the left-wing Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) that operates under the umbrella of Bay Rising (BR). BR is fiscally sponsored by the left-wing Movement Strategy Center (MSC).
  • Political Party/527

    Victory 2020 (PAC)

    Victory 2020 is a Democratic Party-aligned political action committee (PAC) created in May of 2020. Victory 2020 is closely associated with American Bridge 21st Century, a left-of-center PAC that typically funds media criticism of Republican politicians, and Unite the Country, a PAC created in 2019 to support the
  • Movement

    Trump-Russia Collusion Claims

    See also: For a more complete list of public figures who promoted collusion claims, please see this resource  from the Capital Research Center. Starting at least by July 2016 and continuing through March 2019, the FBI and then the office of Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert
  • Non-profit

    Walmart Foundation

    The Walmart Foundation is the charitable arm of Walmart. While the Walton Family Foundation is run directly and funded by members of the family of Walmart founder Sam Walton, the Walmart Foundation is controlled and funded by the corporation. The Foundation disbursed over $120 million
  • Non-profit

    Candid

    Candid is an organization that collects data, conducts research, and publishes news on nonprofit organizations. It was established in February 2019 by a merger of GuideStar and Foundation Center. Candid has offices in New York City, Williamsburg, Washington, San Francisco, Cleveland, and Atlanta. With a budget of $40 million, Candid
  • Non-profit

    The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sisters of Charity BVM) is a religious order of Catholic nuns that advocates for left-of-center social policy in both the public and private sector. Originally founded in the United States to provide education, the order has expanded in recent years to pursue
  • Person

    Mark Stevens

    Mark A. Stevens is a billionaire venture capitalist and left-of-center philanthropist based in Menlo Park, California. Stevens currently works as managing partner at S-Cubed Capital, a venture capital firm he founded with his personal fortune that invests in startups. Prior to founding S-Cubed Capital, Stevens worked as a partner at
  • For-profit

    BlackRock, Inc.

    See Also: Larry Fink (Person) BlackRock is the world’s largest investment management company, with nearly $7.5 trillion in managed assets as of January 2020.
  • Non-profit

    Community Justice Action Fund

    Community Justice Action Fund (CJAF) is the lobbying arm of the gun-control advocacy and criminal justice reform group Community Justice Reform Coalition (CJRC). CJAF acts as a centralized funding organization1 for
  • Non-profit

    Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL)

    The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a Chicago, Illinois-based center-left election reform advocacy group formed in 2012. The organization pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration. It has a wide reach into local elections offices across the nation and is funded by many left-of-center funding organizations
  • Non-profit

    Code for America

    Code for America is a nonprofit organization that works to develop digital and technological solutions for the expansion and more efficient delivery of federal, state, and local government benefits and services. Background and Founder Code for America was founded by Jennifer Pahlka, who served as the deputy chief technology officer
  • Person

    Robert Raben

    Robert Raben is a left-progressive lobbyist and political operative who has served Democratic politicians and left-of-center issues for decades. 1 He donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats and their causes ranging from
  • Non-profit

    Resource Impact

    Resource Impact is a fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that provides incubation services for other left-of-center organizations. Resource Impact contracts services from and shares staffing with the Raben Group, a for-profit public affairs firm servicing left-leaning clients such as the Center for American Progress and the League of Conservation
  • Political Party/527

    Flippable

    Flippable is a liberal electoral advocacy group founded by former campaigners for Hillary Clinton shortly after the 2016 election victory of President Donald Trump. Its targets Republican-held seats in state legislatures.